Happy 2025! It was an amazing week getting back into the groove of learning. We have enjoyed hearing about everyone’s holiday adventures, which all sounded fantastic and relaxing!
Upcoming Dates:
Sunday 19 January – Swimming starts again for boysÂ
Monday 20 January – Swimming starts again for girls
Tuesday 21 January – School Photos wearing ABIS tops please. (Does anyone need a haircut???)
Thursday 23 January – Semester 1 reports sent out on Managebac
Thursday 23 January – Full payment for the Muscat Field Trip Due
This week in UOI, we continued looking into space. Students started their personal inquiries by identifying an area of space that they are interested in and created a Form and Change question relating to this topic. They will be using a Frayer Model graphic organiser to create a definition of their topic, facts and characteristics and translation to help support their understanding. In Literacy, students are becoming familiar with elements of fiction stories using the story mountain to help plan their science fiction story. We looked at several science fiction space stories to get our imaginations flowing before starting the brainstorming process. In maths we focused on multiplication fact families, identifying that multiplication and division are inverse operations and that within any problem, there will be 3 numbers that are related. We also did some problem solving using the standard algorithm with multi digit numbers.
Looking forward to next week, students will continue their research for their personal Space inquiries. In Literacy, students will delve deeper into their stories, carefully crafting each part being sure to add details to engage their reader. In Maths, students will be reviewing the different strategies we have been using for multiplication and division, and taking a very brief look at the link between the exponents we have been using to denote the power of 10, and how this relates to working with square roots of numbers.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend! Best Regards, Grade 5 Team!
