Year 5 Newsletter
Friday 29th April 2016
Welcome to the Year 5 newsletter!
Dear Parents,
The children have settled into Term 3 and are in the midst of the very exciting enterprise unit of inquiry (for them and for us!)
Just a reminder that school will be closed on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd May. We hope you enjoy the long weekend!
The Year 5 Team
Unit of Inquiry
How We Organise Ourselves.
Central Idea: Economic activity relies on systems of production, exchange and
consumption of goods and services.
Lines of Inquiry:
● The role of supply and demand (function, supply and demand)
● The distribution of goods and services (connection, interdependence)
● How economic activity affects our lives (connection, needs and want)
The children have had an exciting few weeks planning for their big Market Day on Tuesday 17th May. They have formed groups, sent out market research surveys to the Kennedy student body, analysed their data and decided on a final product to sell. They have all been working very hard to keep their finances in order and get their production lines started. They will also be drawing on their knowledge of persuasive language to create an effective advertising campaign for their product.
Thank you for your $50 investments and to all the parents who were able to sign up for our Business Panels.
5K surveying their Year 1 buddy class
5A bowl production
5S team posters
3Doodler guest talk
'The Other Hundred' Exhibition
For more information about the exhibition, please click here.
Maths
We have started our unit on Pattern and Function. The unit conceptual understandings are:
· Functions are relationships or rules that uniquely associate members of one set with members of another set.
· By analysing patterns and identifying rules for patterns it is possible to make predictions.
· Patterns can often be generalised using algebraic expressions, equations or functions.
· Exponential notation is a powerful way to express repeated products of the same number.
The 'I Can' statements for the children are:
· Investigate and represent patterns using words, symbols, numbers, tables and graphs.
· Identify rules for patterns to predict future terms.
· Identify and describe factors and multiples of whole numbers.
· Solve equivalent number sentences involving multiplication and division to find unknown quantities.
A reminder that children can support their learning in the classroom by completing the Mathletics activities online. Well done to all the children who have already collected awards for their participation so far!
5S Class assembly
Swimming
Swimming begins in the week of the 4th May. Please note the date in bold which is swimming safety week. This is a big safety component to our swimming programme where we introduce the students to what it feels like to be fully clothed when swimming. The children will also experience basic life saving techniques should they fall into a body of water.
The students need to bring in the following clothes IN ADDITION to their usual swim kit:
- light coloured tracksuit/pyjama bottoms
- a white long sleeved t-shirt
The children will be under strict supervision at all times by the experienced and fully accredited Platypus teachers.
5A - 10/05 17/05 24/05* 31/05 07/06 14/06 21/06
5B - 10/05 17/05 24/05* 31/05 07/06 14/06 21/06
5D - 09/05 16/05 23/05* 30/05 06/06 13/06 20/06
5K - 06/05 13/05 20/05 27/05* 03/06 14/06 17/06
5S - 09/05 16/05 23/05* 30/05 06/06 13/06 20/06
Important Dates:
- 17th May Year 5 Market Day
- 26th May Year 5 trip to Crossroads
- 27th May Dress Casual Day