Room 14 - Mrs Marian Conder
 

Welcome back to Room 14 for Term 4

After an amazing production, an exciting EOTC trip and of course the RWC 2011, I hope everyone found time for a rest in the holidays! With only eight weeks we have a lot of learning to pack into term 4.  We have planned enjoyable ‘hands on’ projects that should be a fun way to end a successful year.

We will begin with explanation writing and will practise our ICT skills on PowerPoint to present our final copies in an imaginative and exciting way to the class.  To end the term the students will continue with poetry, experimenting with a variety of styles and literary devices.

This terms reading focus is reorganisation.  This will help children practise taking key ideas from texts and grouping them together to answer comprehension questions.  This is a higher level thinking skill, important for understanding advanced texts and to help with research skills.

After a brief introduction to calligraphy Room 14 are ready to practise their styles and experiment with presentation skills.  They will begin a mini project to create items such as invitation cards, name tags, fancy lettering and much more.

Students will complete ratios and proportions for mathematics in the first few weeks then move onto geometry and measurement to complete the year.  They will be tested on these areas and their basic facts!

Athletics, cycle safety and life education will keep us busy for P.E. and health this term.  The children will be learning about the four major systems of the human body including the respiratory, digestive, circulatory and nervous system.  We will also continue with Kelly Sports.

Our major topic for this term is Recycling which moves into Wearable Arts.  A relevant unit with a fun, ‘hands on’ activity to make a recycled wearable art garment.  We will be having a wearable arts parade in Week 7.

For Citizenship for Excellence, Room 14 will be discussing their roles as a classroom members and possible school leaders within the virtue of responsibility.  Moving onto identifying how their ability to co-operate impacts on their success as a person in a family and community.

Art this term will integrate with our geometry unit looking at tessellations by Escher and three dimensional drawing of shapes.

To complete the year the Year 5 and 6 Syndicate will have a Big Day In with lots of fun activities planned and treats to celebrate the successes of all our students.

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