Welcome
It has been a busy few weeks in the senior team, we have been involved in Lightening Premiership where we represented our school in Football, Netball, Volley Catch and T-Ball. We competed in our annual Athletics Day Carnival, NAPLAN and we showcased our masterpieces in our Science Expo!

Maths
It has been a big few weeks, the year 5’s have completed their NAPLAN tests and showed perseverance and excellence throughout! The students used their class time effectively to be well prepared for the tests, this was even noted by Mr McCredden. We have now moved on and are working on fractions. The students have shown an excellent initial understanding of the concept.

Reading
During our Reader's Workshop sessions, we have been applying our skills of summarising to create short paragraphs that describe what we have read. Focusing on the main points, main events, characters, settings and the key words in the text. This has allowed us to create well informed summaries.

Writing
In writing we have begun to study historical fiction. We have developed our understanding that we need to know it’s a made up story based on facts and events, understand the facts and events are true but the characters and settings are made up and finally to do effective research of the historical event that we would like to turn into a fiction story. We have begun to develop ideas that we will turn into entries. We will complete this unit of work with a published piece of Historical Fiction.

Inquiry
WHAT A SHOW!! Our Science Expo was incredible, we had dioramas, movies, posters and so much more to demonstrate our learning of Sustainability. Thank you to the families and friends that came to our Science Expo and if you couldn’t make it be sure to check out our new app SeeSaw so you can keep up to date with all the work and accomplishments that are being made in the 5/6 team!
The 5/6 students worked hard to produce some high quality pieces that represented positive effects of the natural environment.

Reminders
Important dates to remember:
School photos: Tuesday 24th May
Homework due: Monday 30th May
 
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Welcome
Hi and welcome to the 5/6 team blog for Term 2, 2016. Over the course of the year, we will be posting on here fortnightly, to keep you up to date with the happenings within our team.  We are very excited about our new blog and hope that you, the families, enjoy seeing what your child is up to at Clifton Springs Primary School. 

Maths
All of the 5/6 classes have been studying measurement. We have developed our understanding on perimeter and area this week and next week we will be focusing on volume and capacity.
Reading
During our Reader's Workshop, we have been looking at Text Structures and Features. We have been developing our knowledge particularly on the structures and features of poetry, picture storybooks, procedural texts and information reports. Next week we will extend our understanding by identifying clues in text structures to help us with recognising what type of text we are reading. We will also be focusing on the structures and features in a big book, an atlas, a dictionary and a magazine.
Writing
Our Writers Workshop sessions have been busy! We have been extending our understanding of Persuasive Writing with a strong focus on the structure of persuasive texts and the word choice. With ANZAC Day this week we decided to write persuasive pieces on a statement in relation to ANZAC Day. Our Writer’s Notebooks have been filled with Ideas, which has then progressed to Entries, flowing into Drafting and finishing with a convincing Published piece. 
Inquiry
Have you heard about our Science Expo? The 5/6 Team have been extremely busy with their Sustainability Assessment, focusing on our Big Idea; People interact with, use and value the natural environment in different ways. We have a whole range of exciting displays for our Science Expo, from Dioramas, Short Films, Posters, Role Play and Stop Motions. The Science Expo will be on Friday the 6th of May from 12pm-1pm, we hope to see you there!
Reminders
Important dates to remember:
No hats required from Monday 2nd May
Science Expo – Friday 6th May
Bike Ed (for those who signed up) – Friday 6th May
NAPLAN for Year 5 – Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th May
Lightning Premiership – Friday 13th May
Athletics Day – Tuesday 17th May
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