5 Oct 2018

Year 5 Update Week 7


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

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

Friday 12th October – Dress Casual Day for community chest….please 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 20th-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

 

5D – Monday and Friday

5F – Wednesday and Thursday

5C – Monday and Friday

5D’s Assembly – what a great assembly this morning!  Well done 5D on your performances and your presentation about gratitude.  Here are some snaps…sorry the quality is not so great.

ISA Testing – This week was jam-packed with lots of testing.  On Tuesday and Wednesday, the children worked so hard on their ISA tests and the children completed two Maths tests, they had to compose two written pieces and complete a reading test.  It was pretty gruelling but they all did really well to operate under test conditions.

Number Maths – due to ISA testing no Number Maths Groups took place this week.

English (Writing) – due to ISA testing no extra English writing took place this week.

Technology wit.h Mr. Lowe – this week all classes worked with Mr. Lowe on some traditional technology skills. We headed up to the art room and worked with a buddy to do some woodworking skills.  Sawing, sanding, measuring, glue-gunning, hammering, drilling were all skills we needed to learn and practice.  And what fun we had!  Each child made a small wooden easel which can be used to display a book or something similar.  We will use these to display our work or price lists or items for sale at our Big Business Market.

   

UOI – Unscramble the Central Idea.  5F took some time out of their busy testing schedule to get familiar with their new Central Idea for the upcoming water unit.

UOI : I Am Water – we watched a very thought-provoking short video called ‘I Am Water’.  The children were then required to dig deep and reflect on what they saw.  They may well have some good questions for you or some discussion points to talk about.  Here’s the link for you to check it out.

Transdisiplinary Theme  – Sharing the Planet

Central Idea – Peoples actions can impact our water resources.

An inquiry into…
  • how water changes (change)
  • distribution, availability and access to usable water (connection)
  • the way humans can impact water use (responsibility)
Concepts : change, connection, responsibility
Related Concepts : access, consumption evaporation, condensation
Learner Profile : principled and inquirer
Attitudes : appreciation, commitment

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

For this unit of inquiry, our new writing focus will be explanation texts.  Over the next few weeks, we will be thinking about and discussing we make a good explanation text and we will be deconstructing some good examples of explanations. We then will move on to writing our own and self-monitoring as we go along…fixing up mistakes and improving the first drafts of our writing.  At the same time, we will be learning how to take notes using a very of formats and we will be learning about academic honesty and how to correctly cite our sources.

Reading Focus – Summarising and Synthesising

The next Reading Comprehension strategies that we will be focussing on are Summarising and Synthesising so we would love for you to help your child with these ones over this new UOI.

Summarising……Summarising teaches students how to discern the most important ideas in a text, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas in a meaningful way. Teaching students to summarise improves their memory for what is read. Summarisation strategies can be used in almost every content area.

Why Use Summarising?

  • It helps students learn to determine essential ideas and consolidate important details that support them.
  • It enables students to focus on keywords and phrases of an assigned text that are worth noting and remembering.
  • It teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for more concise understanding.

Synthesising.……..Synthesising is the development of what we’re reading…as we read it!  As we read, an original thought takes shape, and then it expands or changes as we read new information.  Essentially it is “Combining new ideas with what I already read to get something new and different.”  As students read, their thinking should change depending on new information.

Due to the Public Holiday for National Day, there was no Golden Book Assembly or Certificates given out this week.

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 –  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…