8 Dec 2017

Year 5 Update Wk 16

Thursday 14th December – Year 5 trip to Teaching and Learning Technology Expo with Mr Lowe (invited children only)  These children will not need to bring a shared lunch but bring their own lunch which will be eaten earlier before heading off to the Expo

Golden Book Assembly – this week we celebrated our Golden Book winner and had many announcements and enjoyed updates of sports teacher and tournaments.

Action Day

On Friday we helped out at the BHS action day. We packed food parcels ready for collection. As a school we made 1600! Fantastic!

 

Christmas decorations
5D created some Christmas decorations to decorate our classroom. We are going to extra effort for our Year 1 buddy party next week where we will be teaching them how to make reindeer popcorn cones!

UOI

Central Idea : People’s actions can impact our water resources.

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).
Students have been developing their understanding of the water cycle and where water comes from. We have started to consider how much water we use and we will continue to explore the use of water in the production of clothing, food, electronics, and energy over the next week. We will then begin to think about our responsibility towards the way we use water.
Water Equity
This week we have been taking a look at the different water usages of different countries. We used cubes to represent each gallon used and researched our different countries. We presented, reflected and thought about some action these countries could take!
Taking Action : Personal Inquiry –  Ms. Jeves has been working with us on a personal inquiry into taking action. This week we were breaking down the thinking skills that we use during our learning.
Christmas decorations
5D created some Christmas decorations to decorate our classroom. We are going to extra effort for our Year 1 buddy party next week where we will be teaching them how to make reindeer popcorn cones!
Number Maths
Central Idea – Strategies for whole number computation can apply to fractional and decimal computation.

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.  
Our Number Maths class lesson and group lessons have continued this week.  We have been working on division word problems and using multiplication to check your answers.  In 5D we had fun discussing this problem….
Although this had a closed answer, it was an open-middled question. The children calculated in a range of different ways!
Strand Maths
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Central Idea – Accuracy of measurements depends on the situation and the precision of the tool.
An inquiry into….
  • 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)

We used a range of skills to make some Christmas boxes to decorate our room, don’t they look great!

 

Explanation Writing – we have continued working on our Explanation write genre again this week.  Proofreading and editing was a particular focus and we worked on trying to make improvements to our first drafts. Lots of us have started on our own explanations and we have tried to use a variety of sources to help us!
Summarising and Synthesizing – This is our current our comprehension strategy and we have been working on various activities surround ing these.  We are also lucky enough to have Ms. Jeves work with us during this UOI so she has been working with us on our summarising and synthesising techniques also.

 

Well done to all our Golden Book winners this week in Year 5…

5F – Stella and Margherita

5C – Lianna

5D – Yvaine

PE – Madelyn

Music – Jeremy and Natalie M

SLT – Samuel

homelearning

  • 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.
  • UOI – some children still, unfortunately, have not returned their Water Usage Chart back to school.  Can this piece of HOme Learning be returned as soon as possible so we can have our discussions back here?

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 #10) – Please check your google classroom for details.

Ms Xu – Review on topics of ” weather, clothes and feelings”. Practise singing Christmas songs.

Entrepreneurs Club – A new entrepreneurship and business club is being started in the new year. Here is a little more information as it may be useful for our big business unit coming up! There will be an information presentation for the children next Tuesday (13th Dec) at lunchtime in the hall.

 “BizWorld, are from Silicon Valley, San Francisco. The experiential programs:

  • Equip students with the entrepreneurship, financial and business literacy they would need to be successful in the 21st century
  • Develop students with the entrepreneurial spirit, growth mindset and leadership skills
  • Teach students comprehensive business knowledge such as fundraising, marketing, sales, product design, manufacturing and accounting
  • Teach students how to create positive social values and responsibilities and to give back to the communities

More information is available on our program brochure and website: www.KidsBizAcademy.com.”

SUNSHINE ACTION FUNDRAISING – 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 held our action day on the 8th and it was a big success so thank you all!

Stationery – some of the children are fast running out stationery they need for school.  Can you please take some time whilst Christmas shopping to maybe grab some stationery items that your child needs for school?  The holidays hit and the kids tend to forget what they need so getting topped up before the break is a great idea.

Here’s a refresher of the items that we need for school each day…

  • black, red, blue pens
  • HB pencils
  • pencil sharpener
  • erasers
  • 30cm transparent ruler
  • coloured pencils
  • felt tip pens/coloured markers
  • highlighters (various colours)
  • glue sticks (lots!)
  • scissors
  • whiteboard markers (various colours)
  • whiteboard eraser
  • calculator
  • geometry set
  • headphones (in-ear is preferable)

School Uniforms and Winter Clothing – some children are coming to school dressed for a trip to Antartica!  Can we please urge you to check the weather forecast before the children get themselves dressed in the morning?

If they are a little chilly in the morning can they please pop on their purple/blue/red school uniform jumpers/jackets rather than wearing layer upon layer of warm weather gear under their school shirts.  Our classrooms are very warm and we will remind the children to put on their jacket at break time if needed.

Leaving Early – if you are planning on taking your child out of school for an early Christmas holiday could you please mind just shooting off a quick email to the class teacher, please?  It just helps us to plan out our activities for the last week of school.  Thanks so much