Year 5/6 Term 4 Overview
Year 5/6 Term Four
Welcome back to the start of Term Four! We are looking forward to another busy term of learning and activities. We all have our fingers crossed that we can finish off the year back at school with no further interruptions. We have lots of interactive and engaging tasks planned throughout the term for both our time at school and learning remotely. Provided all goes well with returning to school. We also have many extra curricular activities to look forward to such as filming our school production, Year 6 Confirmation, Funfields excursion and graduation. Here are our key learning outcomes and descriptions for the term.
Religious Education
In RE this term, we will be exploring the sacrament of Confirmation, along with investigating how each of us can be Stewards of Creation. This will be closely linked with our term four Inquiry unit. Students will also examine different perspectives of the Christmas story.
English
This term, the senior students will look to develop their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through a variety of activities. Our literacy rotation activities will continue this term to develop student reading, comprehension and reflection skills. This will include focus groups with reciprocal reading roles (predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarising) and a mix of independent activities focused around both comprehension and vocabulary building.
In Writing, students will be exploring information reports. This includes developing a greater understanding of the structure and purpose behind an information report such as subheadings, labelled diagrams, glossaries and indices. We will begin the unit with writing information reports on different animals including their adaptations, diet and habitats. We will then be moving onto information reports focused around food production and the impact this has on the environment. This will be closely linked with our Inquiry science focus for the term.
Mathematics
The following curriculum topics will be taught this term:
Measurement and Geometry: Volume, Capacity and Mass
- Students will choose appropriate units of measurement for volume, capacity and mass.
- Students will convert between common metric units of mass and capacity and connect volume and capacity and their units of measurement
Number and Algebra: Division, Pattern and Algebra, Fractions, Decimals, Percentages
- Students will solve problems involving division by a 1 digit number, including those that result in a remainder.
- Students will describe, continue and create patterns with fractions and decimals.
- They will use equivalent number sentences to find unknown quantities, explore the use of brackets and order of operations to write number sentences.
- Students will also follow and design a mathematical algorithm involving repetition.
- Students will make connections with the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages and how to convert between the three.
Inquiry
Our fourth term Inquiry unit will have a strong sustainability
focus where students will be investigating agricultural systems and the impacts they have on the environment. They will research aspects of agriculture that have negative effects on the ocean and ways that we could potentially minimise these impacts.
Social Emotional Learning
This term in SEL our Year 5/6 students will suggest and identify coping strategies in stressful events and the associated stress management strategies that they can use to help cope with these stressors. Following this, we will be exploring gender and identity and how social influences affect how we interpret gender differences, within a Catholic context.
Communication
We will continue to maintain effective communication between family and the school as it is an important factor in your child's learning. Please make contact with us if you have any questions, comments or concerns. Below are our email addresses:
abrown@sjmitcham.catholic.edu.au
epattison@sjmitcham.catholic.edu.au
Many thanks,
Andrew Brown and Emma Pattison