Grades+5+and+6+2015

Welcome to the 2015 DBCPS  Year 5/6 Wiki!

= ‘Bizarre Bazaar’ inquiry unit Term 4 through Mappen (getmappen.com) = During this unit students will be able to analyse the ways that things they consume and use have been mass produced. They will be more discerning about ways in which products are marketed. They will apply creative thinking to anything they design and/or produce.

Essential Questions Why is market research important? What makes a good advertisement and why? How do I face the challenges of producing more than one of the same item?

5/6 students are currently creating advertisement and products to sell in our market.

GRAND SLAM POETRY COMPETITION TERM 3

Grade 5/6 students have started Term 4, 2015 with a great attitude towards school and learning. We have completed our inquiry topic for:
===[|SOCIAL JUSTICE - 'Care For The Kids']. As the final project for this unit, students were asked to create a social justice poem. Three students from each of the five grades were voted through to compete in our GRAND SLAM POETRY COMPETITION. The students recited their poems in front of all their peers and a large audience of parents and teachers.===

Below are some of the poems created by our 5/6 finalists. REFUGEES Take a look around you what do you see, luxuries that satisfy you and me

Fast cars big homes, all the wealth that brings a smile,

Chasing all this wealth only to add to our pile

Take a look around you what do you see, millions of people in need of you and me

Their homes are a battlefield running from bullets of torture

Shall we not be their supporter?

On a road to success they ask a criminal for access

They sail on boats, with escape as their only choice

In silence they sail without a voice.

Poverty and sickness a life full of trauma.

So I ask is this the new world order?

They arrive on our seas begging us please Only to be labelled as refugees

Caught by the navy then taken away

Anger, screams and helpless tears fills the bay

Placed in prisons behind metal bars

Not able to see the night stars

Oh politicians look at your positions

Not compatible with their weak conditions

Look around you what do you see

I see millions of people in need of their freedom just like you and me

By Yusuf Sahin

The Vulture and the little girl NOTE: This Poem has been composed from a famous image. I am crouching, unable to stand up, I am weak. I am alone, at least I think so. I sense someone watching me. It’s a Vulture. What does it want with me? I’m just a little girl who can’t find what she needs. Looking for food and clean water is hopeless. From the start, I have always been homeless. I can’t learn I’ve no energy. Why don’t I have these things? There is quite a lot of drought in Zimbabwe. Rain, would that wash my problems away? I realise that the Vulture is a scavenger just like me. It feels the way I feel. I am now worried. With every inch I crawl onwards, The Vulture moves 1 inch forwards. Maybe this is what happens to unsupported children. Who have been abandoned and can’t reach their needs. Now I will perish because no one was there to help me.

Written By Sadf Gul 5/6E The students have completed their speeches for our student leadership positions for 2015 and captains have been announced. Congratulations to our 2015 Captains


 * School Captains || Halit – 6 || Zeynep - 6 ||
 * School Vice Captain || Yusuf - 6 || Beyza– 6 ||
 * Red house || Bassam – 5 || Breanna– 6 ||
 * Blue House || Lalit - 06 || Ayla 5 ||
 * Green House || Mohammed- 06 || Elif – 5 ||
 * Yellow House || Mohammed - 6 || Sihaam - 5 ||
 * Art || Salih – 6 || Kevser - 6 ||
 * Elearning || Taqi – 6 || Christian - 5 ||
 * Sport || Bhanu - 6 || Emily– 6 ||
 * chess || Rashid 6 || Sadf- 6 ||
 * Welfare || Atikah - 6 || Tala -6 ||
 * Environment || Tina-06 ||  ||

= Sport = Interschool sports has begun and students will be competing against other schools in the summer sports of cricket, basketball, softball and volleyball. Students selected for the teams will travel to other schools every second week. ** DISTRICT ATHLETICS - Meadowglen Athletics Track ** The students participated in the District athletics carnival. We competed in events such as high jump, long jump, shot put, discus and running events. Well done to those students who competed! Homework 5/6 homework has been given to students for the first time this year. Students will receive homework weekly and need to return it the following week.

Numeracy Students have begun investigating the properties of prisms using hands on materials to construct. Once they had made the prism they had to identify the features of their shape and the name of their shape. As a fantastic hands on lesson students learnt about lines and then constructed them using icy pole sticks.

Writing

=== Students have started planning and writing narratives. We will shortly begin to creating rubrics which will allow students to understand what is needed in their writing. In 5/6 we construct the rubrics with the students so that they feel ownership of their own progress. ===

Goal Setting After completing our initial assessments we have had conversations with our students to create goals for the remainder of the term. 2014 DBCPS Year 5/6 Wiki! = Term 4 in Grade 5/6 =

Stop Motion Animations Created by 5/6 students this term media type="file" key="IMG_0375[1].mov" align="center" width="300" height="300"

Produced by Emily and Breanna

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Produced by Lalit and Bhanu media type="file" key="agnes tina nada.mp4" width="300" height="300" align="center"

Prod uced by Agnes, Tina and Nad a

Using the students own computers they took many photos and moved plasticine to create a story. They then placed these photos in Movie Maker to create the stop motion video.

We have had a very busy term in Grade 5/6 at Dallas Brooks Community PS.

= School Concert =

Students and teachers are begining the fun process of selecting the songs they will dance to for the 2014 school concert. As a class students need to think of song that will relate to the theme of MOVE. Once the songs have been selected the class will begin learning and practising dance moves. This is a very exciting and special evening and we hope to make it a very fun night.



= Graduation =

The grade 6 students are fast approaching the end of the year. We have begun to prepare students by selecting the songs they will sing and dance to on the night.



= Inquiry =

The grade 5/6 students have begun a new topic for term 4 on Chemical Science. During this unit students will be able to classify substances according to their observable properties and behaviours. They will also discuss how scientific developments have affected people’s lives and how science knowledge develops from many people’s contributions.

=Writing=

In writing we are looking at the different types of writing within a newspaper. By the end of the year each class will have created a class newspaper.

Advertisement
Students have used Microsoft Publisher and Word to create advertisements



News Report
Students have use the website FODEY http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp to create news reports



Comics
Students have used comic life to create comics after looking at the different elements you would find within a comic.

Fun Friday Students have been working on Pivot to create animations of aquatic animals. Students created their own figure and then animated this. Below are a few of their completed animations. (You will just need to download each file to view)



A student from 56B's animation





Student's from 56A animations Education Week May 19th 2014

On May 19th – 23rd the students participated in a variety of activities for Education week. The theme this year was “Scientists do amazing things.” Scientific innovation is the key to facing critical challenges like food and water security, delivering improved health and wellbeing, and ensuring Victoria's success and development.

During this week, we provided opportunities for students to explore what scientists do and participate and investigate a variety of exciting scientific activities.

__ Balloon Race __



__ Seed Planting __





Inquiry Term 2 2014

‘Claws, coats and camouflage'

=This term the grade 5/6 students have started to engage, research and explore the concept of how animals adapt to suit different and evolving environments. We are using Office 365 and a number of digital resources to research and represent our thinking []=

We are also using Fuse to discover and find more information about the topic.

= CROSS COUNTRY 2014 =

= On Friday the 21st March, the majority of the students from Grades 3-6 participated in a cross country event. It was a delight to see all the students so enthusiastic about their health and fitness! = = = = Well done to those students that made it through to compete against other schools! =

Term 2


 * Numeracy: **

Our big focus in numeracy this year, has been on fractions and also strategies to improve student maths skills. Students are now learning about Measurement and Geometry, with individual classes focusing on the specific 'number' needs for that class.

Students also have opportunities to apply their understanding in problem solving activities which is an excellent way to hone those maths skills. Great mathematicians know how to look for and recognise patterns when solving problems.

created by Sedef using Pivot to demonstrate her knowledge of tessellations.

Reading:
=The focus in literacy is on the John Munro High Reliability Literacy Tools which encourage the development of good reading skills. =

The strategies include:

·  GETTING KNOWLEDGE READY ·  VOCABULARY

·  READING ALOUD

·  PARAPHRASING / VISUALISING

· <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> MAKING QUESTIONS THE TEXT ANSWERS

· <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> SUMMARISING

· <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> REVIEWING

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You can read more about John Munro's tools at:

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We use a variety of reading programs during our reading lessons to support and engage our students in their learning.

These include: SRA- Reading Laboratory [] Reading Eggs []

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=**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18pt;">Writing: **=

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">This term, the year 5/6 students are looking at narrative writing. We have deconstructed various narrative texts to demonstrate how to construct interesting and entertaining stories. Students are using story hooks to begin their narratives and planning using a 'story mountain'.

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<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 28pt;">2014 Quality Start Up

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">We began this year with our Quality Start Up program. In this program students and teachers work together to develop our mission and vision statements for the year.



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt;">We also develop a shared understanding of what we want a good teacher and a good student to demonstrate while they are at school.



<span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 28pt;">Our Values and Responsibilities

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt;">We discussed and explored our school values through plays and synonym activities so that each student had a shared understanding of all three. We also discussed our responsibilities while at school which fit in with our two school tenants ‘Students and teachers have the right to feel safe and comfortable’ and Students and teachers have the right to do as much work as they are able.’