14 Sep 2018

Year 5 Update Week 4


Friday 14th September – PTA Bowling event

Thursday 20th September – Mid-Autumn Festival Market….please can the children bring some money to shop in our market?

Friday 21st September – 5D Class Assembly….9am start in the hall, all 5D parents welcome

Monday 24th September – BHS CPD….no school

Tuesday 25th September – Public Holiday….no school

Wednesday 26th September – Camp Info Evening 6pm….in the hall

Monday 1st October – Public Holiday….no school

Tuesday 9th October – 3-Way Conferences 3pm-7pm….please sign up soon via The Gateway (all children need to attend)

Thursday 11th October –  3-Way Conferences 3pm-7pm….please sign up soon via The Gateway (all children need to attend)

Friday 12th October – Dress Casual Day for community chest….plese bring in a donation

Friday 12th October – last day before October half-term break

Monday 22nd October – back to school after October half-term break

Wednesday 24th October – PTA AGM

Friday 26th October – Year 5 Trip to Crossroads….you will need to please grant permission via The Gateway soon

Tuesday 30th October – Year 6 Bake Sale….please bring in some coins to buy some treats to support our PTA

Friday 2nd November – 5C Class Assembly…..9am start in the hall, all 5C parents welcome

Monday 5th November – school photos

Tuesday 6th November – school photos

Friday 9th November – sibling photos

Monday 12th November – Mandarin Parent/Teacher Consultations….please sign up via The Gateway soon

Wednesday 14th November – Mandarin Parent/Teacher Consultations….please sign up via The Gateway soon

Tuesday 19th-23rd November – Year 5 Camp Week

Wednesday 21st November – Mandarin Parent/Teacher Consultations….please sign up via The Gateway soon

Friday 23rd November – Mandarin Parent/Teacher Consultations….please sign up via The Gateway soon

Tuesday 27th November – Mandarin Parent/Teacher Consultations….please sign up via The Gateway soon

Friday 7th December – PTA Christmas Disco Year 4-6

Wednesday 12th December – Christmas Concert 7pm

Friday 14th December – last day before Christmas break….12pm finish

English: Reading – this week we have continued on with our comprehension strategy of self-monitoring.  5F spent some time updating their book stacks so that they could have access to some more challenging texts to practice their self-monitoring strategy.  We will be working on an electronic book stack using Big Universe in the coming weeks.

English: Self-Monitoring –  this week 5F worked on constructing their own symbols that they can use whilst they are reading to help them self-monitor to help them with their comprehension.

         

English: Word and Sentence – this week we investigated better words and tried to find alternatives to using ‘nice’.  We certainly honed our thesaurus sills at the same time.  And, we did find some spectacular alternatives.  Let’s hope we can all use them in our independent writing.

English: Descriptive Writing – here’s us working on writing a really well constructed descriptive paragraph…..now to editing and improving next week!

Number Maths – we continued on with all our number work dealing with Place Value.  Renaming, recording in expanded notation, rounding to various numbers and working with larger number and decimals were all on our agenda this week.  We’ve also been learning to evaluate our maths strategies and reflect on our learning after each learnring engagement.

UOI 2 Water Pre-assessment – in preparation for our next UOI we all completed a Water Pre-assessment.  An electronic Drawing was sent to all the children to complete so we can see what they already know!  We then use these to plan our series of learning engagements in the next unit.

Artist Study: Romero Britto – We’ve been working on our very own artwork inspired on Brazillian artist Romero Britto.  Bright colours, black lines and simple pictures all featured in our work!  So much or our amazing artwork is up and around the school…we’ve produced so much this unit that it just won’t fit in the room.  Next time you’re in, have a nosey about!

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Well done to Anna in 5D and Alena in 5F for posting on our playground Student Noticeboard in their break times!  Well done girls.

Central Idea – Artists can use a process to express messages and ideas.

An inquiry into…
  • the tools and techniques artists use (form)
  • how messages are interpreted and conveyed (perspective)
  • how can I improve my work (responsibility)
Concepts : form, perspective, responsibility
Related Concepts : style, influence, expression, choice (techniques)
Learner Profile : reflective, communicator
Attitudes : appreciation, creativity
Number Maths – Place Value
Central Idea –
An inquiry into…
  • patterns and relationships of tenths and hundredths
  • the patterns of 6+ digit numbers and how they are represented
Strand Maths – Shape and Space
Central Idea –

An inquiry into…
  • creating, describing and visualising 2D and 3D shapes
  • transforming shapes
  • locating points on a grid

 

 

 

Writing Focus – In writing this week, we have continued to look at sentence formation, in particular, the placement of words and the impact this has on the focus of sentences. We have looked at the identifying features of clauses and understanding their application. Students have been encouraged to work on building good quality sentences to improve the flow and flair of their writing.

Reading Focus – Self-Monitoring and Visualising
In reading the students have continued to develop their self-monitoring skills, with a focus on taking responsibility for recognising when they lose their way. We continue to build up and apply our use of fix-up strategies and children are being encouraged to do this using texts of their own choice.
Well done to this week’s lucky Golden Book Certificate achievers….
5F – Christine Chiu

5C – Garrett Cheung

Music – Jafar Wong (5C)

5D – Charlotte Cheung

homelearning

  • Read the Weekly Update

  • Mathletics – continue with the set tasks
  • Spelling –  The children are sent home their 10 personal words that they need to learn for the week. The will happen on a Monday for 5F, Wednesday for 5D and Friday for 5C. 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. 
  • Reading – levelled home readers will be starting to come home soon.  The children will be choosing levelled readers based on their own ability and are expected to read each night for at least 20mins at home with a parent.  The children need to record their reading in their Reading Journals and parents can you please sign your child’s journal each night.  Journals need to be returned to school each morning to be checked and will come home each evening (except Friday).  Children may use Big Universe twice a week (only) as their choice of home reading.
  • Mandarin Home Learning – All children are encouraged to take a reading book home on the days when they have Mandarin lessons.

WELLNESS THOUGHT OF THE WEEK…