It was such a positive experience to meet with so many of you at the Parent Teacher Conferences and to celebrate the growth and development our students have made this year so far. Thank you for taking the time to come and meet with me, and remember you can contact me any time.
Upcoming Dates:
Thursday 6th February – Grades 3-6 Assembly 12:20-1:00
Monday 10th – Wednesday 12th February – Grade 5 Muscat Trip
Thursday 20th February – ABIS International Food Festival
As we come to the end of our Where We Are In Place and Time unit of inquiry, we talked about the alignment of the planets which are now visible to the naked eye. We also looked at some images that were captured on the ‘Night Sky” App, which were amazing. You can find them in this week’s photos.
We are wrapping up on our personal space inquiries by finishing research and summaries. We are also starting to generalise what we have learnt by brainstorming all the important words for the unit and creating an eight word headline of the big idea. Through our end of unit reflection, students reflected on their research and inquiry skills as well as thinking about challenges that they faced during their research.
In maths we are also wrapping up this unit and this week focused on learning about prime and composite numbers as well as understanding the order of operations using GEMS (groupings, exponents, multiply/divide, and subtract/add), we also learned how to write real world word problems to match equations. Students then had a quick review to ‘show us what you’ve learnt’ in order to see their progress before moving onto our next unit.
In literacy, students were concentrating on paraphrasing and summarising information for their personal inquiries, and the final drafts of their Space stories are now proudly displayed in our classroom. Some students also extended their learning by transferring their stories to Book Creator. Great work everyone! Please find the link to this week’s photos: HERE
Looking Forward:
In Maths we will be moving onto our next unit, Shape and Space, which will focus on 2D & 3D shapes, properties of circles, and geometric concepts. In literacy we will be starting our next literacy unit which will focus on poetry. Our new unit of inquiry will kick off, Sharing The Planet, which will focus on the central idea; sustainable biodiversity relies on maintaining the balance within ecosystems.
Have a great long weekend everyone. Best wishes, Grade 5 Team.
