Historical Recounts

Historical recounts have been our writing focus for the past few weeks. Students have researched events from the 1800’s such as the Eureka Stockade, Colonisation, First Fleet and Goldrush. By using their knowledge of first person, they have selected a significant person from the event and constructed recounts as if they were that person. Throughout the writing process students have used their research skills and demonstrated knowledge of structure and descriptive language.   

Decimals

Over the past five weeks students have been learning about decimals. They have learned about the place value language of tenths, hundredths, thousandths and ten thousandths and applied this language when they read decimals such as 0.15 (zero and fifteen hundredths) and 7.257 (seven and two hundred and fifty seven thousandths). Using their knowledge of number lines, students have compared and ordered decimals by identifying smallest to largest and accurately placed them on the number line.

Inquiry Rotations

This term students in year 5 will be engaging in different learning experiences with all the year 5 teachers. Nat is teaching civic and citizenship, Billy is teaching coding and Tricia is teaching Science.

Civics and Citizenship

Australia’s democracy and the roles of different people in the legal system.

Students in 5NG have been exploring democracy, representatives and civic engagement. Using technology they created posters for a state, federal or local government responsibility and selected a civic engagement role, researched and presented their findings as a google slide. 

Coding

5BD have begun their inquiry rotations with coding. The students have explored the coding program ‘Scratch’. Students have used coding blocks to begin making simple animations and games. They have included a range of different code to animate their names and create a chase game. Some of the code students have included are motion, sound, and variables. 

Science- States of Matter

5TB have begun their inquiry rotations with Science. They have participated in a range of hands-on and shared experiences to identify the different observable properties of liquids, solids and gases. As a class, they engaged in two experiments, beginning with hypothesising what they thought would happen and writing up their findings. Students used their knowledge gained during the unit to classify a range of substances according to their observable properties and the way they behave.