In Numeracy, we have been learning about some awesome things! Right now, we are focusing on fractions, decimals and percentages and how they are all connected.

We have also been learning about probability, and how likely something is to happen. To do this, we have been able to test out a whole range of online resources, which has been really cool!

Reminder to all students and parents! It’s really important to spend at least 10 minutes a day on My Numeracy. It’s a great way to practice what we’ve learned and keep improving.

In Literacy, we have been learning all about biographies, how to write them, what we need to include in them and how to make sure our writing is both factual and engaging. 

We have also been continuing with our morphology work, focusing on pre-fixes that mean to or towards. 

Our literature circle groups have been going really well, with most groups reading a novel and completing their literature circle roles each week! We have been enjoying reading our new books but sometimes its hard to stop!

For the first few weeks of this term, year 6 sport has been taken over by our swimming lessons at Splash! We have been focusing on improving our skills in the water and, if we are not swimming, our knowledge of how to be safe around the water. 

It has been lots of fun to be able to swim with our friends!

We will be swimming every friday from week 2 to week 6 so please make sure we have packed our towels and extra snacks!

We have kick started our new CBL topic all about science and the environment by doing some science experiments!

This experiment helped us to create a tornado in a bottle! Follow these steps to try it out at home:

MATERIALS:

• (2) 2-litre clear plastic pop bottles (empty and clean)

• Water

• duct tape that will connect the (2) 2-liter bottles together

• Food colouring

• Glitter or other sequins

PROCESS:
Fill one of the bottles two-thirds full of water. Include food colouring and glitter or sequins.

Use duct tape to fasten the two bottles together at the top. Make sure to tape tightly to make sure that no water will leak out when you turn the bottle over.

Turn the bottles over, so that the bottle with the water is on top. Swirl the bottle in a circular motion.

In Numeracy, we wrapped up our learning around fractions, decimals and percentages as well as chance and have moved on to patterns, algebra and rules!

We were given the opportunity to make our own patterns using lots of different resources to get us ready for using rules to create patterns. We are really excited to explore this topic more throughout this term

This week at ACPS, the whole school completed a narrative cold write! A cold write is a writing task where we are given a prompt and get to create a text based on the prompt in a give time. The prompt grade 6 was given this time was the image you can see above!

It was fun to challenge ourselves to write a creative piece in a short time!

For year 6 sport, we have continued with our swimming program at Splash. We only have a few weeks left to go but it has been super fun swimming with our friends. 

We have all learned so much about swimming and how to be safe around water

Thanks Splash!

In CBL, we have been learning about how to Wurundjeri people organise their seasons and how they manage their land. It has been really interesting to see how the seasons we know line up with the seasons used my a different culture!

We have also been focusing on how Indigenous people handle natural disasters in each season and comparing them to methods we use today. 

In year 6 over the next 2 weeks, we’ll be doing some essential assessment testing for maths. The reason for these assessments is to see what areas we need to work on to improve on our maths skills.

Reminder to all students and parents! It’s really important to spend at least 10 minutes a day on My Numeracy. It’s a great way to practice what we’ve learned and keep improving.

In literacy, we have been focusing on drafting and publishing our biographies. We each chose a person that we were interested in, researched their life and was able to write a biography about their life. 

It's been really cool to learn more about the people we admire and explore new ways to publish our work

Now that our swimming program is completed, year 6 sport is back in full swing! For the rest of this term, we will be exploring 5 different sports, including netball, dodgeball, AFL, gaga ball and soccer. 

Each class will have an opportunity to play a few of these sports before the term is over. 

In CBL we have been learning about the indigenous seasons and students have been researching about all eight different seasons and creating a poster about the season that they chose in a group of three. Student have been able to research the animal for that season the flower for that season and what the indigenous people believed for that season. Everyone’s having a blast!!!😝 People have been drawing and being creative for what season they’ve chosen and what they’re gonna do with their poster!

We will also be starting to develop ideas for our challenge, including exploring natural disasters and their effects to the environment and people

In year 6 for maths we have been learning to use the power of ten to multiply and divide decimal numbers. We have also been doing our essential assessments, which are tests for the teachers to know what level you are in maths.

In the grade 6 team, the students have been working on community impact/ natural disasters like global warming and bushfires etc. they have been researching about their chosen topic.our students are now starting their poster or iPad presentation in groups of 3 to 4! We are excited to share some learning in assembly!