5L Class News Term 1 – 2020

Aim High

Teacher: Miss Kayse Lawson Email: klaws49@eq.edu.au

Specialist Lessons to remember

Homework is handed out every Monday and

due back in on the Friday that week.

Library is Monday at 12:30pm. Please bring a

library bag to take home a book.

Assembly Alternate Mondays at 1:30pm in the

hall. Everyone is welcome. Please check weekly

update for dates.

Music is Tuesday at 8:30am.

P.E is Tuesday at 9:00am.

Japanese is Monday at 9:30am and Thursday

at 11:45am.

Points of interest

The first bell rings at 8:20am. School begins at

8:30am. Please ensure students are on time.

11 February – Parent Information Night

19 February – P&C Meeting

6 March – Gala Day 1

13 March – Cross Country and Fun Run

16 March – Harmony Day Parade

18 March – P&C AGM

20 March – National Day of Action Against

Bullying

27 March – Gala Day 2

31 March – Parent Teacher Interviews

Curriculum focus – what we will be working on in class this term

Content Assessment

English In the first unit, students will examine narrative texts, using the fictional novels as a stimulus. They will develop their ability to write engaging, entertaining narrative texts. They will develop their ability to

understand, interpret and experiment with sound

devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives.

The second unit focuses on persuasive texts and the language good writers use to persuade others. In this

unit, students will listen to, read, view and interpret a range of news articles and reports from journals and newspapers to respond to viewpoints portrayed in media texts. Students will apply comprehension strategies, focusing on particular viewpoints portrayed in a range of media texts.

Students will write an adventure or fantasy themed narrative text. Create literary texts using realistic, adventure and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented

in texts students have experienced.

Students will also write their own persuasive text using persuasive strategies and language features. Students will present a point of view

about particular literary texts using appropriate metalanguage, and reflecting on the viewpoints of others. They will understand that the starting point of a sentence gives prominence to the message in the text and allows for prediction of how the text will unfold.

Maths Students will learn to classify and interpret data and pose questions to gather data. They will build an

understanding of data, developing the skill of defining numerical & categorical data, generating sample questions, explaining why data is either numerical or categorical.

Students will learn to solve multiplication and division problems by efficiently and accurately applying a range of strategies, checking the reasonableness of answers using estimation and

rounding. They will locate, represent, compare and order fractions and add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.

Students will develop their ability to use simple strategies to reason and solve a chance inquiry

question.

Students will complete two short answer assessments. They will interpret data and pose

questions to gather data. Students will solve problems involving multiplication and division by one- digit numbers

and compare and order common unit fractions.

Content Assessment

Science Matter Matters In this unit, students will broaden their

classification of matter to include gases and begin to see how matter structures the world

around them. They will build upon their understanding that solids, liquids and gases have some shared and some distinct observable properties and can

behave in different ways.

Students will conduct an investigation to explore what happens to the amount of evaporation

when a container of water is placed in the sun.

Students will develop a scientific question and prediction, and create a scientific method. Students will identify safety considerations, record observations, make a graph of the results, identify patterns in their data and

compare patterns with predictions when suggesting explanations. Students will also describe ways to improve the fairness of their investigation.

HASS

(Humanities and Social

Sciences)

This unit focuses on how people manage

communities. Students will explore the people who are important in creating and managing laws and regulations and how they interact with the community. They will investigate how communities respond to natural hazards, such as floods and fires and how they plan for these

events.

Students will learn to explore data to evaluate how communities deal with extreme natural hazards and then use data to propose a plan to deal with a specific extreme natural event.

The assessment is organised into three parts:

students describe the role of different people in the Australian legal system;

sort and record data, including large scale maps according to the simple conventions;

propose an action plan using a timeline

for a community to respond to an

extreme natural event.

The Arts Students will learn to make and respond to

dance by exploring ways that dance can be used to express adventure stories drawing on stimulus from movement contexts including martial arts, acrobatics, sport, exercise and other cultural forms.

Students will perform a celebratory dance which

tells a story, undertaken in groups. Appropriate costumes can be worn and music may be chosen by the student group.

Technology Digital technologies will include learning the component parts of computers and how they work together to transmit data. Students will

learn to use simple block coding software with Sphero balls in order to create a maze game.

Students will be assessed on their ability to identify component parts of computers and how they work together.

Students will also be assessed on their ability to use simple block coding software.

Health Students will learn about establishing and maintaining friends and relationships. They will also explore how feeling, emotions and mood

can affect their own and other’s behaviour.

Students will work individually and in group situations to recognise the influence of emotion on behaviours.

P.E Unit: Netball Students will perform the specialised netball skills of catching, throwing and goal shooting. Students will combine movement concepts and

strategies during games to move the ball down the court while in attack and to develop skills of defence. Students demonstrate fair play and

skills to work collaboratively during netball activities and games.

Students will be assessed on their proficiency to perform the following: chest and shoulder pass, goal shooting, attacking strategies to move the

ball down the court and defence. Students will also be assessed on their ability to play fairly and work as a team.

Music This term students are learning about how

music is used in movie making to create atmosphere, emotion and how it is used to represent characters.

Students will create their own music to

accompany a silent movie in order to represent characters, set the scene and add emotion.

LOTE During Term 1, students will learn how to introduce themselves using formulaic grammar, and listen to and comprehend simple ‘jikoshokai’

in Japanese. They will also participate in a variety of cultural activities aligned with the Japanese calendar.

Formative: 1. Everyday simple Japanese language used within the classroom.

2. Listening comprehension test on stationary items. Summative: 1. Self-introduction paired role-play or individual speech about self.

2. Teacher 1:1 interview Q and A