Kaya Families and Welcome to Week 2 of Term 3

Kaya Families of 5R and Welcome to Week 2 of Term 3

I hope you had a refreshing break over the holidays. We have had a wonderful and busy start to the term with lots of new and exciting things happening. 

Here is a bit of a run down for the coming weeks: 

Important Dates: 

1. Interschool Cross Country - 28th July
2. OLC Feast Day and Markets - 12th August
3. Culture, Nature, Challenge Days - 18th / 19th August
4. Book Week - Week 6
5. Pupil Free Day - 26th August

Reminder

Diaries: Please encourage your child to use their diaries weekly to write in homework and any important events. 

Homework: Has started up again this week (same as last term). Students to complete 20-30 minutes of Reading per night which is logged into the Reading log and times tables which they rule up four squares in their books for and complete each night. Monday and Tuesday is a choice of one set of tables, Wednesday and Thursday is choice of mixed tables (you can check their book from last term). I will also be adding Diaries to homework being due each week on a Friday as I would like to sign off on the students' ability to stay organised. This means the diary must come in with their homework book each Friday morning. 

Inside the Classroom

Reading: Beginning in Week 4 and running for 5 weeks, the Year Five classes will be participating in a Book Club. Each student will be placed into a reading group and will be assigned a particular novel to
read. Each week, the members of the group will have to perform a different role and contribute to a Book Club meeting every Friday.

Over the five weeks and on a rotation system, each student will have been responsible for being the director, illustrator, word finder, summariser and connector. 

Over the first three weeks of this term, the students will be given the opportunity to practice how to perform each role, to get them ready for the Book Club.

Writing: We will be focusing on information report writing, specifically explanations, this term. After the initial teaching and modelling of how to write an explanation, the children will be choosing a topic of their choice to explain how something works, how something is made or how something occurs.

Speak Out: To begin to prepare the students for potential Leadership Speeches next term, we will be running a 'Speak Out' challenge. During this challenge, the children will explore different speaking and listening techniques to help them prepare and present their written explanation. 

 

Numeracy: LAUNCH, TEACH, EXPLORE

Exciting times within the Numeracy Learning Area! 

There will be two investigations launched this term. The skills that are required to explore the investigation are taught and consolidated within the classroom. Once all of the skills have been taught, the students will be placed into smaller groups to explore the investigation. 

Each student in Year Five has been placed into a numeracy rotations group. The groups will get together across both classes twice a week to consolidate their learning of the main concept covered the day prior. 

The first investigation is titled 'Fair Weather' and the estimated completion time of the Launch, Teach, Explore process will Be Friday of Week 5.

Class Banqer

We have started a new rewards system in the classroom which is all linked with financial Mathematics and learning to manage a hypothetical bank account. 

The students have each received their own account which I am sure they would love to show you. On our banqer dash board we can access different modules which teach us about income, expenses and savings. The students can pay donations and buy rewards with their money in class by transferring to the bank (the teacher). This week in our Banqer lesson we will be learning to write a CV and apply for class jobs. Each week the students will be taxed through the expenses section for things such as, wifi, lights/electricity and heating. 

Culture, Nature and Challenge Days:

Students will placed into groups and over the two days will participate in four different activities in the Margaret River region. Some of the activities include a session with Josh Whiteland, exploring one of the many caves in the South West region, walking a section of the Cape to Cape track and a team building challenge set in the Prevelley area.

Please note that the students will be picked up by bus in the morning of each day and dropped off at school ready for collection at the end of each day. 

Thank you so much and have a wonderful evening.

Kindest regards, 

Miss Rees