English

We are planning, writing a draft and publishing an imaginative text demonstrating our increasing control over text structures and language features.

1. Students brainstorm ideas of the important elements that are needed in a narrative.
   1. Setting 
   2. Characters
   3. Problem 
   4. Resolution
   5. Beginning, middle and end
2. Students write a plan for their narrative. Write down story ideas 
3. Students choose an idea.
4. Make a list of the main characters and their personality traits.
5. Describe the setting / settings
6. What problem do the main characters face in the story? How is the problem resolved by the end of the story?
7. Students to complete their story plan
8. Write a draft.

Maths

In order to learn more about who we are as a neighbourhood community, students are developing a question to ask the neighbourhood in a survey, collecting data relating to their question, and creating graphs to display what they have found. 

Start by answering the following questions:

What do you know about graphs? 

Why do people make them? 

What can they tell us?

What different types of graphs do you know about?

We are trying to think of questions that will help us learn more about one another. Here are some example questions:

How many hours per week do you spend using the internet at home?

How could we improve our neighbourhood?

Can your family speak another language than English?

Create your own question that you would like to ask students in the neighbourhood and collect data for. 

Can you think of another question that you could ask and collect data to respond to at home? For example: 

What colour car is most popular in my street?  

Which room in my house has the most windows? 

Use a table to record information with tally marks, and then create either a bar graph, line graph, pie chart or other type of graph to show your findings on paper. Can you use a computer to help you make a graph as well?

 Term 1: Data and Statistics Date: T1 W6

Goal	Tick	Goal	Tick
I can create a question for data collection		I can choose a graph to show my data
I can create a recording sheet		I can create a graph on paper
I can collect data		I can create a graph with a computer
I can interpret different types of graphs		I can describe my findings

Inquiry / Projects and Provocations

Students are continuing their investigations into Lunar New Year and other cultural celebrations, and recording their findings. We are also responding to the provocation ‘Which cultural celebrations do I take part in, and how does my family celebrate these occasions?’ 

Additionally, students are looking at World Maps, and the Indigenous map of Australia and recording any questions that they have after looking at those maps. Following that, we are using the internet to research and record answers to those questions. Students can use Google Slides or another application to share their findings.