In Maths at the moment, we are learning all about angles.
One of our extension tasks included creating our own angles with tape. We categorised them, measured them with our protectors and then added the internal angles of shapes that we had formed. We used our whiteboard tables which we love for hands on tasks like this one.
We are having a busy end to the term in Year Five!
Excitingly, we have finished our much-loved novel study The One and Only Ivan, written by Katherine Applegate.
Underneath our masks are giant smiles, because the main character Ivan was finally freed in the happy ending to the text.
The main setting of The One and Only Ivan is The Big Top Mall and we imagined we had visited here. We wrote postcards to our loved ones from our ‘holiday’. Check out some below.
Here is one OUTSTANDING book cover redesign. We think it should be the actual cover of The One and Only Ivan!
We love maths in Year Five!
We are getting stuck into some challenging new concepts in our maths sessions this term.
Some of us have created board games which aim to teach students a maths concept of our choosing. We chose concepts from Year 1-6 including fractions, place value and the four operations. Some students chose to create a digital game while others chose to to create a hardcopy. We will share these as part of our Virtual Open Night experience later in the term.
We also enjoy the challenge of playing Numero! Numero helps us to improve our confidence and mental maths skills while improving our overall mathematical ability. It’s a fun game that always makes us smile and laugh with our friends as we unleash tactical surprises!
This week we took advantage of the lovely morning breeze and headed outside for our novel study session. We found a patch of shade and enjoyed reading aloud the chapters of our focus text, The One and Only Ivan. We are hoping to get outside more and more as the weather cools down.
Mrs Armistead, Mr Naden and the Year Fives
It has been a busy first week in Year Five! The students have settled in remarkably well and are already working hard.
Here are a few of the things we have been up to:
– We have started reading our Term 1 novel study, The One and Only Ivan.
– We have created class agreements that we strive to work towards each day.
– We have started our Religion unit which teaches us about the importance of community.
– We have taken lots of photos!
– We have set our Term 1 goals, covering both academic and personal.
– We have laughed, smiled and shared stories from our holidays.
All this and more in just one week! Check out some photos from the beginning of a fabulous year in Year Five.
Mrs Armistead, Mr Naden & The Year Fives
This term, our whole school integrated focus is Social Justice.
The text Dreams of Freedom is a text that we have explored as a year level. This text was published by Amnesty International and features poems and illustrations from various authors.
We chose to focus on one of the poems in the text by Harriet Tubman, with an amazing illustration by Mordicai Gerstein, that explored the juxtaposition of slavery and freedom.
We discussed how thoughts and emotions were conveyed by the illustrator through careful choice of images, colours and symbols.
We were all inspired to create our own artwork that tackled one of the social justice topics we have covered this term, freedom to have peace, freedom to have a home and freedom to express yourself.
Check out some of our masterpieces below. You can see the rest of them at Open Night in Week Nine. We definitely recommend you read this book!
Mrs Armistead, Mr Naden and the Year Fives.
This term we have been learning about fractions in our Number and Algebra sessions.
One of the warm up games we play is called ‘Bump it Up’. This game uses a large dice with fractions on it. Players need to find fractions on the playing board which are greater than, less than or equal to fraction on the die. We will have this one out for Open Night!
We are beginning to add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and then we will see if we can add fractions with different denominators!
Speaking of different denominators, we have found it challenging to place fractions on a number line when the denominators are not the same. We are becoming more confident when simplifying fractions to an easier form to work with.
Some of us are working through some differentiated challenges which require us to problem solve in teams.
Many of us had said that fractions and decimals were our biggest challenge in maths, before we started this unit. We have still got a lot to learn, but we are feeling more confident with our skills than ever before!
This post was written by Ninkea, Nate and Mrs Armistead.
This term in Year Five, our novel study focus is Boy Overboard. This text was written by Morris Gleitzman in 2002. We are only a few chapters in so far, but so far we have had some interesting discussions about the difference between life for a child in Australia compared to Afghanistan, where the main character Jamal is from.
This text ties in nicely with our whole school focus of Social Justice, where in Year Five we are exploring the rights of children and what equality really means. Many of us have shared stories and facts in our conversations about social justice, which helps us to link this topic to real life and the real world around us. We are excited to learn more about this important topic! Can you believe that this ties in with our poetry unit too? Stay tuned for some awesome social justice themed poems that will feature in our Open Night display in Week Nine!
Each week we will read a number of chapters from Boy Overboard and then answer comprehension questions to check our understanding. In the front office we have displayed some of our work, showcasing what we know from this text so far.
As you can probably tell, we have hit the ground running in Year Five this term. Mrs Armistead, Mr Naden and our 5G prac teacher Mrs Martinez have a lot of interesting tasks in store for us and we can’t wait to share them with you throughout the term.
Year Five 🙂
In Year Five we have been learning all about angles!
We have explored angle classification and angle measuring through some cool activities like poster making and taping tables. Check out our fun below!
Last Friday we celebrated ANZAC Day as a school community.
In Year Five we read a special text called ‘In Flanders Fields’ by Norman Jorgensen & Brian Harrison-Lever.
The text tells the story of a soldier who, on Chirstmas Day saw a red robin tangled in wire struggling to get free in No Man’s Land. He risked his life to free the bird as the enemy watched on.
This text was the centre of a literature focus afternoon where we answered lots of questions about this great story. It also inspired us to create an ANZAC war medal in teams.
Check out some of our responses below!
