Term 2 is off to a flying start as the 5/6 neighbourhood begins its dive into our inquiry for the year, exploring the big ideas of legacy and leadership. As we are now in the connect and then expand phase of our inquiry students have been exploring and sharing what they already understand about these very important big ideas!
Students have been working as researchers, collaborators, historians and sociologists as they document their knowledge about the places, situations and people who have shaped the world as we know it. We have been thinking about how we as people are ever changing, and so is the world. We all have the power to influence our community and will be looking at how our values and actions impact the wider community.
A particularly important aspect of our learning over the last two weeks has been the importance of commemorating ANZAC day. This is a important day for Australians and the children in ⅚ have been reading, learning, and researching about the ANZAC legacy. Some children have also developed pieces of writing, building on our reading of the poem “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae.
Looking ahead, the 5/6 neighbourhood will be focusing on the following elements of the curriculum, through our big ideas presented in our inquiry.
- In literacy we will be focusing on analysing and comparing setting, character and theme. Students will be learning to analyse and explain how language features, images and vocabulary are used by different authors to represent ideas, characters and events through our reading, in particular through literature circles. We are also working on developing understanding of different narrative structures, understanding how language features and language patterns can be used for emphasis.
- In numeracy we are exploring how to choose and use appropriate metric units to measure the attributes of length, mass and capacity, and to solve problems involving perimeter and area and to use the formula for the area of a rectangle and angle properties to solve problems. We will also be learning how to solve mathematical problems using the properties of prime, composite, square and triangular numbers.
