In Year 5 in Mathematics we have been working with financial plans.  We have combined this with fractions and area and perimeter for a maths investigation in which we are creating a mini golf hole.  We are also work hard to improve our times table skills.

We have been looking at Poetry in English and read The Ballad of the Drover by Henry Lawson.  The imagery the words brought was discussed at length.  Spelling Mastery continues each week and we have been writing using a stimulus.  This week our stimulus was, “Bleary-eyed, I went downstairs for breakfast, the house was empty, even the furniture had gone…”.

As well we have begun a short mindfulness session when we come in from the second break.  Students are given five to ten minutes just to moderate their breathing to release any tension and then centre themselves to enable them to be in the present for the last session of school. 

Students have enjoyed the Naidoc activities this week with many budding weavers emerging.  We also did an art activity where we depicted our interpretation of lightning and a few examples are shown below: