Connect with Year 5/6 Term 3, Week 7

CONNECT WITH YEAR 5/6

Learning and Teaching 

In Year 5/6 We Are Learning To....

READING: The next reading strategy we are focusing on is Connecting. The students will connect what they read to their lives, to other texts and to the world around them. Within reading lessons, the Year 5/6 students have been learning about Colonial Australia and the Gold Rush.


WRITING: The students will look at the text type 'narrative'. We will be investigating a range of narratives, where we find them, why we have them and how to construct them. We will be looking at how to create an interesting introduction, complication and resolution. It is exciting to facilitate the creativity in the writing of the students to allow them to construct their own narrative and to publish a piece of writing.

Spelling:
We are so excited to introduce our new spelling approach called "SMART Spelling". This new approach was introduced to the school by our English Professional Learning Team and was our focus at our last Professional Development day. Students will have daily spelling activities as well as homework to support and improve their spelling skills.
SMART Spelling is based around whole words with an emphasis on meaning and vocabulary development. The SMART Spelling process uses pattern and regularity to explicitly and systematically teach spelling.

MATHS: We will be be concluding our maths unit on Fractions and Decimals. Students will be extending their knowledge on this topic and working at their point of need to improve their understanding on how and where we use Fractions and Decimals in our world.

INQUIRY: The students have been working on their projects researching the 'big questions' of our unit on Colonial History. They are:
1. What do we know about the lives of people in Australia's colonial past and how do we know?
2. How did an Australian colony develop over time and why?
3. How did colonial settlement change the environment?
4. What were the significant events and who were the significant people that shaped Australian colonies?

Students have been involved in building their own project. We have worked on what we would like to research, how we will gather and how we will present our information. We have included the students in the design process, giving them some ownership over how and what they would like to study about Colonial Australia. These projects will be undertaken at school and at home. They will be completed by the end of Term 3.

 
eLEARNING: The Year 5/6 students are continuing to use iPads to investigate the range of software available. They will continue to work with iMovie and Garage Band throughout Term 3. 

We will be introducing Movie Maker to the students and teaching them how to attach their Garage Band music to the footage or slideshows.

Calendar Dates

• 25/8 - 2/9 Somers Camp
• 3/9   Fathers' Day Breakfast
• 4/9   District Athletics
• 9/9   Big Green Schools Conference
• 9/9   Maths Olympiad 5
• 15/9 Marine Ambassador Workshop 4
• 18/9 End of Term 3, 2:30pm finish

 Making News

Excursion to Sovereign Hill

On Thursday 13th August the year 5 & 6 students visited Sovereign Hill, Ballarat as part of their Colonial Australia unit of study From Past To Present. The students stepped back in time to experience life in the 1800s. They investigated life on the goldfields, learnt about multiculturalism during this period and examined the effects of the Gold Rush on Victoria's development. The research conducted on the day will help the students complete their projects in class.

District Athletics
The Mordialloc District Athletics Carnival will be held next Friday 4th September at Dolomore Oval in Mentone. Students from years 4-6 will be representing Mentone Park in a range of track and field events. Parents are more than welcome to come down to Dolomore to support our students. See you there!

Achievement Awards
Congratulations to the following students who received achievement awards:
Jake 5D
Monty 5/6S
Jessica 6W

Connect With Year 5/6 - Term 3, Week 1

CONNECT WITH YEAR 5/6

Learning and Teaching

 

In Year 5/6 We Are Learning To....

READING: The next reading strategy we are focusing on is 'synthesizing'. The students will combine ideas from the texts they read with what they already know (prior knowledge) to create new ideas.


WRITING: The students are examining a range of information reports related to their current unit of inquiry on Colonial Australian History. They will learn about the key features of an information report and how factual information can presented to the reader.

MATHS: Our current Mathematics unit explores the concept of time. The students will work with analogue and digital representations of time, reading and interpreting timetables, converting between 12 and 24 hour time and problem solving.

INQUIRY: The Year 5/6 students have just begun their exciting unit of inquiry which investigates Colonial Australian History called "From The Past To The Present". These key questions will be explored:

- What do we know about the lives of people in Australia’s colonial past and how do we know? - How did an Australian colony develop over time and why? - How did colonial settlement change the environment?

 - What were the significant events and who were the  significant people that shaped Australian colonies? 

eLEARNING: The Year 5/6 students are continuing to use iPads to investigate the range of software available. They will continue to work with iMovie and Garage Band throughout Term 3.

Calendar Dates

• 20-24/6 Year 6 Camp
• 29/6 Maths Olympiad 3
• 30/6 Curriculum Day
• 19/7 Maths Olympiad 4
• 16/8 Working Bee
• 24/8 Book Week Book Parade
• 4/9 District Athletics
• 18/9 End of Term 3

Making News

 

Year 6 Camp

The Year 6 educational camp is being held from Monday July 20th to Friday July 24th at Coolamatong, located on the shore of Lake Victoria, 16 kilometres south of Bairnsdale.

The trained staff at Coolamatong and the staff from our school will be running and supervising all activities. Facilities include recreation and dining rooms, table tennis, volleyball, billiards table and basketball rings.

Activities include hiking, canoeing, orienteering, bush cooking, initiatives course, ropes course, climbing and a Gippsland Lakes cruise.

Year 3-6 Sport - Athletics

Throughout this term, the Year 3-6 students will participate in various track and field events in preparation for the upcoming District Athletics on the 4th of September. The students will spend Friday mornings developing their skills in each of these events, from sprinting to long distance running, high jump, long jump and discus, just to name a few. 

Maths Olympiad

Mentone Park’s Maths Olympians are continuing to participate in this year’s Maths Olympiads. The students have enjoyed the challenges that are set out for them in each session. Mr Wilton and Mrs Drummond have been impressed with the students across all grades and how they are extending themselves by completing the tasks at school and at home. Maths Olympiads will continue in term 3.

Level 4 Newsletter Term 2 Week 10

CONNECT WITH YEAR 5/6

Learning and Teaching

 

In Year 5/6 We Are Learning To....

READING: The next reading strategy we are focusing on is 'predicting and inferring'. Students will make inferences while they read and recognise cause and effect relationships in their reading.

WRITING: We are completing our work on Explanation text types. We are investigating the structure and features of how to compose explanatory texts.

MATHS: Our Mathematics work will be around summarising our term of work by exploring the different units we have been focussing on. We will work across the level 4 team and celebrate our learning.

INQUIRY: Our Science Celebration day will be on Monday. We would love to see as many families as possible come along to our assembly and then visit our building to look at the range of science experiments we have done this term.

eLEARNING: The Year 5/6 students are using iPads to investigate the range of software available. We will commence our work with iMovie and Garage Band and carry into Term 3. 

Calendar Dates

• 22/6 Reports go home
• 22/6 Science celebration day
• 24/6 Student led conferences
• 25/6 Local excursion to Parkdale SC for Michael             Jackson concert
• 26/6 Last day of Term 2 - early finish 2:30pm

Marine Ambassadors

Our Marine Ambassadors Taite, Bella, Aaron and James attended their third Workshop on Tuesday. We went to Banyan Reserve at Carrum Downs to see a litter trap being emptied from the wetlands. A representative from South East Water told us that up to 500kg of rubbish is collected from each litter trap. We then made our way to Mordialloc Beach and walked along the canal to see where the water flows out to our bays. We were able to see that no matter where the litter is dropped, it will always make it’s way into our bay. Our take home message - if we do not take action to reduce our litter, we will drown in our rubbish in the next 20 years! Please dispose of your rubbish correctly and put it in the bin and remind others to do the same.

Interschool Sport

Unfortunately none of our sporting teams made it through to finals. 
Netball A finished 2nd
Netball B finished 4th
Football finished 2nd
Volleystars finished 2nd 
Soccer finished 2nd
T-Ball finished 2nd, which is an amazing result. 
Congratulations to those students who tried a new sport for the first time.

Making News

Scientists In Schools

We have been so lucky to have Ivan visit us over the last three weeks taking science lessons in our grades. Its been fantastic for the students to have a real scientist visit us and show us some amazing experiments. We will celebrate this learning by demonstrating some of the experiments we did at our celebration day on Monday.

Maths Olympiad

Mentone Park’s Maths Olympians are continuing to participate in this year’s Maths Olympiads. The students have enjoyed the challenges that are set out for them in each session. Mr Wilton and Mrs Dummond have been impressed with the students across all grades and how they are extending themselves by completing the tasks at school and at home. Maths Olympiads will continue in term 3.

Achievement Awards

Congratulations on our Achievement Award recipients:
Alex S 5-6S
Aaron 6W
Natalia 5D

Level 4 Term 2 Week 5

Wednesday, 12th May 2015

Level 4 Term 2 Week 5

CONNECT WITH YEAR 5/6

Learning and Teaching

Welcome to a busy and exciting Term 2. We have plenty of fun learning and extra curricular activities coming up that students are already looking forward to. 


In year 5/6 We Are Learning To....

READING: Our reading focus for the following week is Summarising.

We are looking to combine ideas from the text with what the reader already knows. The strategy also summarises ideas and put pieces together to see text in a different way.

WRITING: Understanding the structure and features of a procedural text. Students have been set a task of finding a recipe and following the procedure on how to make the recipe and present their findings to the class.

MATHS:We are studying Measurement, Geometry, Chance and Data as our units of focus. Emphasis will be placed on gathering and representing data.  

 

INQUIRY:Students and staff are excited to attend Scienceworks on 18th May to continue our investigations into how change occurs. We will be visiting the sound and light show as well as taking the opportunity to look at the general exhibition.

eLEARNING:We are investigating a range of software for publishing at present. We have looked at programs such as Tagxedo and will continue to explore other publishing tools such as Wordle. We are excited to be using the iPads to aid our learning.

 

Calendar Dates

• 13/5 JMSS Little Scientists Workshop 3
• 17/5 Whole School Working Bee 
• 18/5 Super Science Excursion to Scienceworks
• 19/5 Italian Day
• 20/5 Maths Olympiad
• 21/5 Jump Rope for Heart 
• 22/5 District X Country
• 25/5 Curriculum Day
• 27/5 JMSS Little Scientists Workshop 4 
• 28/5 St Kilda Football Club In Visit 2pm
• 8/6 Queen's Birthday Public Holiday
• 16/6 Marine Ambassador Workshop 3
• 22/6 Reports go home
• 24/6 Student led Conferences
• 26/6 Last day of Term 2 - early finish 2:30pm

Current notices

Edmodo

We will continue to use Edmodo to communicate with students and parents. We encourage you to access Edmodo, using your parent code, to stay up to date with Year 5 and 6 communication including homework, newsletters, reminders and important announcements. Please check on both your IPad or a PC if some of the files are not downloading properly.

Jump Rope for Heart 

Please continue to collect sponsors, ready for Jump Off on the 21st of May.

 



Interschool Sport

Our Winter Interschool Sport Competition is going well with all teams showing good sportsmanship. The next team we play is St Brigid's followed by a week off due the District Cross Country. Parents are welcome to come along an watch your child participate in their chosen sport.

 

Making News

 


The students represented our school at the 'Big Green Schools' conference at Carrum Primary School. They learnt about Carrum Primary becoming a 5 Star sustainability school. Our students have now brainstormed a range of ideas that we can look at for MPPS.

Passionate Pursuits:

Students are well into their passionate pursuits. These sessions are on Friday afternoons and allow the students to take part in an activity that teachers have an interest in. Some of the pursuits are chess club, yoga, chook shed, pull apart zone, walking club, singing and guitar hero, construction and yarn club.

 

 

Level 4 Term 2 Week 2

CONNECT WITH YEAR 5/6

Learning and Teaching

Welcome to a busy and exciting Term 2. We have plenty of fun learning and extra curricular activities coming up that students are already looking forward to. 


In year 5/6 We Are Learning To....

READING:summarise ideas and put pieces together to see them in a different way. We are also focusing on grammar and language conventions while reading this week.

WRITING:understand the structure and features of a procedural text.


MATHS:build our knowledge and skills around multiplication so we can use efficient strategies to multiply numbers correctly.

 

 

INQUIRY:investigate how the appearance and properties of different substances change when exposed to different temperatures. 

eLEARNING:develop and build research skills when using search engines. We have also been transferring our eLearning skills to the iPads!

 

Calendar Dates

• 24/4 ANZAC Ceremony 3pm
• 24/4 Interschool Sport v. Parkdale at home ground
• 24/4 X Country trials
• 29/4 JMSS Little Scientists Workshop 2
• 1/5 Passionate Pursuits begins 2pm
• 8/5 Big Green School Conference
• 12/5 13/5 14/5 NAPLAN
• 13/5 JMSS Little Scientists Workshop 3
• 17/5 Whole School Working Bee
• 18/5 Super Science Excursion
• 19/5 Italian Day
• 20/5 Maths Olympiad
• 21/5 Jump Rope for Heart 
• 22/5 District X Country
• 25/5 Curriculum Day
• 27/5 JMSS Little Scientists Workshop 4 
• 28/5 St Kilda Football Club In Visit 2pm
• 8/6 Queen's Birthday Public Holiday
• 16/6 Marine Ambassador Workshop 3
• 22/6 Reports go home
• 24/6 Student led Conferences
• 26/6 Last day of Term 2 - early finish 2:30pm

Current notices

Edmodo

After a successful introduction last term, we will continue to use Edmodo to communicate with students and parents. We encourage you to access Edmodo, using your parent code, to stay up to date with Year 5 and 6 communication including homework, newsletters, reminders and important announcements.

Jump Rope for Heart

Please continue to collect sponsors, ready for Jump Off on the 21st of May.

Qkr

A booklet outlining frequently asked questions was sent home this week for your reference.



Interschool Sport

Our Winter Interschool Sport Competition begins this week with our first match against Parkdale, at home. Please remember to bring an orange when we have a home game - starting this week!

Making News


Congratulations again to Dan, Danielle, Bella and Tristan who represented MPPS at Kingston Junior Mayor. What a wonderful job they did too! You may have heard Dan's catchy tune at Assembly...Kingston Kids' Healthy Carnival!

Daisy, Natalia, Julian and Adam have attended their first Workshop at John Monash Science school as our MPPS Little Scientists. They investigated Nano Technology by examining magic sand, sugar granules and the rate at which aspirin tablets dissolve. They are already looking forward to their next Workshop on April 29th. 

 

 

Well done to Julian, Cody and Kiera who worked hard to earn achievement Awards this week.