Grade+5SWE

=**Teacher: Mrs Susan White ** = Term 2. Lots happening. We had camp at Mill Valley Ranch. We have also completed Naplan tests. Students are currently presenting RIBIT oral presentations. Coming up in June is a special Middle School seminar with guest presenters Values for Life. They will be addressing "Acceptance of one another and our differences". Check out the Term calendar attached below. If you have read this page, can you send me an email so I know if anyone is using this page. Thanks.
 * Welcome to 5/6 SWE **

This term we will be studying: Devotion: Character qualities of Love & Honesty Literacy - RIBIT- Oral presentation- Week 4-7. Integrated Studies - Growing Up with God. This unit focussed n God creating us each as a unique individual. In this unit, there is a project task which focusses on practising planning, reviewing and developing independence as a learner. Project due Week 7 Mathematics - Multiplication, patterns & algebra, & fractions.
 * __Term 2 Overview__ **


 * __IN CLASS - WEEK 5 (May 20th) __**

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__DEVOTIONS__ Theme: Love. ====== __LITERACY__: Lots of reading, spelling & grammar activities. Students have varied Wort Sorts for spelling, according to particular spelling patterns they need to learn. Students are encouraged to bring a book from home, or borrow from the library. __WRITING__: Narrative writing- writing a story. ===__RIBIT __ : Reading a book to be used for next RIBIT and completing activity; presentation Week 4 onwards. === __MATHEMATICS:__ Finishing off multiplication, and patterns & algebra. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I__NTEGRATED STUDIES -__ Federation, government & Democracy.

<span style="color: #0960aa; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Spelling: Nightly- 40 points of Spelling <span style="color: #0960aa; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Maths: Mathsmate 4 <span style="color: #0960aa; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">RIBIT - Nightly Reading, activity <span style="color: #0960aa; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> __Reading__. Please encourage your child to read every night, even for just 10 mins. The comment box is for the student to write one sentence about what they read - such as what happened, or to describe a character, information learned (if non-fiction), or what they liked/didnt like. <span style="color: #0960aa; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Indonesian - Weekly 10 word vocab lists to revise?? If you are concerned at how much homework your child has- please record how long they spend in his/her diary each night so I can see what they are doing. We may need to modify their work, or maybe they need to use class time work better.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 20px;">Hom ____<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 20px;">ework : 30 mins plus reading per night __ **

<span style="color: #0960aa; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">__DIARY signing-__ When signing your child's diary, please check what they wrote in and ask them about it. If they wrote nothing, ask them why? Monday afternoons last period, we take a bit of time to fill in the diary for the week.