Grade 5 Term 2 Curriculum News 2023

This Term Newsletter will provide you with information about your child’s upcoming teaching and learning experiences in the new term. There is also plenty of additional information provided via Compass throughout the school year, so please make a point of touching base regularly.

GENERAL

Welcome back to Term 2! We hope you’ve had a wonderful and relaxing time over the school holidays and are feeling very refreshed and prepared for what is going to be a short but busy Term 2.

This term will see our Grade 5 students continuing some of the great work they started in Term 1 as well being introduced to new content across the curriculum. We have been incredibly proud of how committed our Grade 5 students are in their learning and are expecting this positivity to continue through Term 2. We are looking forward to sharing what’s in store for your child this term.

LITERACY

In Term 2, students will continue to focus on strengthening their use of comprehension strategies to interpret and understand texts. They will continue to set personal reading goals and be supported through independent conferencing and focus groups. Students will be guided to read and interpret a range of fiction and non fiction texts, describing the effects of ideas, text structures and language features on a particular audience.

This term in writing, students have an overall focus on the writing traits of ‘Sentence Fluency’ and ‘Word Choice’. Within this skill students are also focusing on extending and applying their use of figurative language through metaphors and similes. To broaden students' figurative language we will also be looking at adjectives, verbs and adverbs. This will be a great opportunity to create some exciting and descriptive writing pieces! Students will continue to participate in daily Writing Workshops, ensuring they are challenging themselves to write across the different genres. They will continue to celebrate their writing through classroom Author’s Chair and read alouds, as well as give and receive quality feedback. Reading and Writing content will also be explored through our Inquiry topic, Our Place in the World and students will explore and create their own travel guide and itinerary of an Asian country of their choice.

NUMERACY

In Mathematics, students will be continuing to build their understanding in solving a variety of multiplication and division problems. They will explore and use a range of efficient strategies to solve these problems. To assist with this, students will be given the opportunity to work on their Maths fluency (eg: times tables and related number facts) through games and other activities. They will then explore length, perimeter, area and volume, with a focus on choosing the appropriate unit of measurement, and use directional language with a specific scale (eg: 1 cm = 1 km). Students will learn efficient ways to solve measurement problems by engaging in open ended activities and through project based learning. In all Mathematics lessons, students are encouraged to use reasoning to explain their thinking to a peer or teacher.

INQUIRY

In Inquiry, students will research a country within the continent of Asia and explore the many unique aspects of the country that make it unique as well as the influence these Asian countries have had in shaping Australia as we know it today. Their research will go towards an exciting Asian Travel Expo where the Grade 5 students will showcase their research and classwork to students, parents and carers. Keep an eye out for an invitation!

Each year level team has provided their families with a detailed newsletter such as this. If you are interested in reading about all the exciting things happening across the rest of the school, these can be accessed online at our school website from early next week.

Wednesday 24th May 2023 Curriculum Day - no students on site