Year 5 Update Wk 13
PLEASE NOT DATE CHANGE: Tuesday 28th November – Mandarin Parent Consultations. Booking is closed on the Gateway and we are fully booked from 3pm to 8pm.
Thursday 30th November – Year 5 trip to Crossroads – You will be receiving an eNotice about this trip early next week
Thursday 14th December – Christmas Concert 7pm
Friday 15th December – Last day of Term 1, 12pm finish
Friday 15th December – Mid-year reports go live on The Gateway. We will we reporting on our second unit of inquiry and on the children’s progress in Maths and English, so don’t forget to have a look to see how your child is developing.
Monday 8th January – back to school for Term 2
Tuesday 16th January – Year 5 bake sale
BIG BUSINESS CRAFTS – This week Miss Fearn organised a baking group to work with Miss Kannis and Mrs. J to make Conflake Treats. The purpose of these lessons is to expose the children to a variety of different crafts and business stall ideas so that we can have a wide variety of home-made items for our Big Business Market in April.
Parent Helper We were also lucky enough to have Mrs Ma come in and help the children bake some delicious cookies!
Helping set up the new butterfly garden Some of our children have been helping to fill the new flower boxes that have just arrived in the butterfly garden. They were a big help for such a huge amount of soil!
Scott Darlow – Musician and Beacon Hill Alumni Scott Darlow came to visit us this week. He shared some of his songs, taught us about aborigine culture and even gave a couple of CDs to a couple of lucky winners! Thanks for coming Scott! He will be available next Thursday to sell and sign copies of his CD.
Central Idea:
Lines of Inquiry:
- The reasons why people migrate
- The challenges, risks and opportunities of migration
- Distribution, availability of and access to usable water
| Change | Connection | Responsibility |
| We will understand that water is part of a continuous cycle and can be influenced by humans (water cycle and water treatment). | We will understand that different uses of water are connected to different water issues around the globe. (Water footprint) | We will understand that humans have a responsibility towards the use and conservation of water(water cycle and water treatment). |
An inquiry into…
- efficient mental strategies that can be used to solve multiplication and division
- efficient written strategies that can be used to solve multiplication and division
This week Number Maths has been about moving onto multiplication and division methods and how best to use them in equations, word problems and open ended questions.
- How tools and procedures can be used to measure accurately
- How tools and procedures can be used to solve measurement problems
- The connection between measurements and other units of maths (conversion)
This week we looked at making shapes that had different measurements but the same volume. We talked about the difference between volume (how much space is taken up) and capacity (an objects ability to hold a substance like gases or liquids).
Here are some photos of us experimenting with cubes.
5F – Sophie Huang
5C – Kyle Lau
5D – Hena Yang
- Read the Weekly Update
- Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
- Reading – keep up with their reading every night. Don’t forget to get Reading Journals signed every night and children should be reading every night.
- Spelling – each Monday the children are sent home their 10 personal words that they need to learn for the week. Please, can a parent (or responsible adult) support the children by...testing them (written or oral), getting them to put their words into interesting sentences (written or oral), discussing the meanings of the words, thinking about synonyms and antonyms of that word, discussing words with a similar meaning etc.
Mandarin Home Learning – All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.
Ms Lynn (Home learning #7) – Please check your google classroom for details.
Ms Xu：Practise singing clothes and weather song.
Mr Thompson is very pleased to announce, thanks to your generosity and the hard work of our students, we raised $150000. This is a tremendous sum and I think it shows what a special community we belong to. We can now start to purchase the food so on 8th December our students can work with Sunshine Action at school to make the food parcels for the different charities. To help our students with the food parcels we need parent volunteers, approximately 30. These parents will be working with groups of students to help them make the food parcels. If you are interested please click here.
Wednesday 22nd November – 6:30 p.m. in the school hall
Professor Peter Sullivan
Peter Sullivan is Professor of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, at Monash University in Australia. He is the immediate past President of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers and was the lead writer of the Australian Mathematics curriculum.
Professor Sullivan is one of the world’s leading authorities in Mathematics and will be making his a visit to Beacon Hill School this November. During his visit, Professor Sullivan will work alongside the teachers to challenge all our students to reach their full potential in Mathematics through the use of open-ended, rich learning tasks and problems.
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Sullivan will run a workshop for parents in order to enhance your understanding of how you may help your children in the development of Mathematical thinking. This is for parents only, there is no need for children to attend.
An e-notice has been sent to all parents, please let us know if you are attending.
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.
Big Business Crafts – soon enough our Big Business UOI will be upon us and in preparation for this Miss Fearn will be running some lunchtime activities on Big Business crafts. This year we are having a push for the children to make and sell handmade items at their stall or provide a service….rather than just buying bit and pieces from Shan Shui Po and re-selling these on the day. Children can volunteer to join Miss Fearn at some lunchtimes throughout the weeks to learn to make some items that they then might make and sell on their stall. If you have a simple craft idea and would like to come into school and teach a small group (15 children) how to do it please contact your class teacher and we will arrange for you to take a group.
