Year 5 Update Week 14
Tuesday 27th November – Mandarin Parent/Teacher Consultations….Gateway bookings are now closed. Contact your child’s Mandarin teacher to make a booking if you haven’t done so already
Wednesday 27th November – Visiting author Ritu Hemnani in the BHS to present to Year 5
Friday 30th November – Lunchtime orchestra performance
Monday 4th December – BHS Choir Concert at Pacific Place at 6 pm
Thursday 6th December – BHS Choir concert at Pacific Place
Thursday 6th December – PTA Christmas Disco Year 4-6
Friday 7th December – Wellbeing Day at BHS….more info to follow
Monday 20th December – Secret Friend Presents in TODAY, please!
Wednesday 20th December – Charlie Walker in to present to Year 5 and Year 6
Wednesday 12th December – Christmas Concert 7 pm
Thursday 13th December – UOI 2 Reports open on The Gateway
Friday 14th December – last day before Christmas break…. 12 pm finish
Monday 7th January – back to school for Term 2
Thursday 10th January – Wellbeing Workshop for parents 8:30 am and 6 pm
Tuesday 15th January – Year 5 Bake Sale….please bake some goodies for our bake sale to support our PTA (no nuts please!)
Thursday 24th January – Friendship Workshop for parents
Parents, you will be able to see photos on our Y5 facebook page facebook.com/BHSYear5Camp. We can’t promise to include pictures of every child, but we will do our best to give as wide a presentation as possible.
Help For Our Next Unit
As we move forward onto our next unit of inquiry, we would like to ask any parents to share their own migration stories with us. If you have an experience you would be willing to share, we would like to ask you to write a short recount of the experiences, challenges and risks you faced when moving countries. Any accounts would be gratefully received.
Learning Centre– On days where the children visit the Learning Centre with their class, they will need to bring their book bags if they wish to borrow books. These days are as follows. The children also have access to our Learning Centre before school – so if they happen to forget their LC book on their specific day they can always pop up there and exchange it in the mornings after they unpack their school bag.
5D – Monday
5F – Tuesday
5C – Thursday
PE – please note that some PE lessons might have changed days. Can you please take a look at when your child’s PE days will be for this new UOI? Full PE kit must be worn on these days…thank you.
5D – Monday and Friday
5F – Wednesday and Thursday
5C – Wednesday and Friday
Number Maths – Fractions Decimals and Percentages
Strand Maths – Measure : Angles and Time
English (Writing)
English (Reading)
Transdisiplinary Theme – Where We Are In Place and Time
Central Idea – Migration has an impact on people and society.
- the reasons why people migrate
- the challenges and opportunities of migration
- the impact of migration on people and communities
An inquiry into.
- the relationship between common fractions and decimal fractions.
- relationships between fractions, decimals, percentages.
- problems involving ratios and proportion.
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)
Writing Focus – Narrative
Narratives are a popular genre for students as it provides the writer with an opportunity to share their imagination, creativity, skill and understanding of nearly all elements of writing. On occasion, we refer to a narrative as ‘creative writing’ or story writing.
The purpose of a narrative is simple, to tell the audience a story. It can be written to motivate, educate or most commonly entertain. Narratives can be both fact or fiction.
The challenge in writing a good narrative is to captivate the audience and keep them engaged as the story is told.
Reading Focus – Connecting and Inferring
Connecting – We want our learners to be actively engaged while they are reading. This means they are interacting with what they read, not just saying words on a page. One effective way we can do this is making connections to the text. There are three kinds of connections readers make before, during, or after reading:
1. text to self, which could sound like:
This reminds me of my own life…
I can relate to this character because…
If it was me, I would…
2. text to text, which could sound like:
This reminds me of another book I’ve read/movie I’ve watched…
This is different from the other book because…
This is the same as the other book because…
3. text to world, which could sound like:
This reminds me of _______ in history…
This reminds me of ________ going on in the world right now…
This is similar to _________ that’s happening in the news…
This is different to _______ that’s happening in the news…
Inferring – Observations occur when we can see something happening. In contrast, inferences are what we figure out based on an experience. Helping students understand when information is implied, or not directly stated, will improve their skill in drawing conclusions and making inferences. These skills will be needed for all sorts of school assignments, including reading, science and social studies. Inferential thinking is a complex skill that will develop over time and with experience.
CAMP WEEK5C Tammy Zhou
5D Rakin Khan
5F Ethan Lo
THIS WEEK
5C
5D
5F
- Read the Weekly Update
- Mathletics – continue with the set tasks or feel free to try any others that you feel you want to practice.
- Prodigy – please continue on with your Prodigy online games.
- 5F – please continue to use Quizlet to help you learn your spelling words and meanings.
- 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 –
