Level 5: Weekly Curriculum Outline
Week 7: Week beginning Monday, 23rd May
Teachers: 5AB: Jess & Candy, 5CD: Sasha & Lucas
Reading
Writing
Comprehension Strategy – Summarising
Week 3 of a 4 week unit of work
Text Type: Poetry
Reading for details
Reasoning through text to determine importance
 Finding important information rather than just one
main idea
 Sifting the topic from the details
This week, students will focus on the structure
and language features associated with Limericks
and Quatrains. The language features explored in
Week 7 include:
 Alliteration
 Onomatopoeia
 Metaphors
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Spelling
Café Parent Pipeline:
Please refer to ‘Summarising Text; Main Events’ Café
Parent Pipeline sent last week, as we work through a 4 week
unit on Summarising.
Each week the students will have 10 weekly spelling words that they will
continue to practise during the week. The phoneme we will be investigating
this week is ‘ai’ (snail). The main graphemes include ai (straight), ay (day),
a_e (cake), a (waste), ey (they) and eigh (eight). The spelling program is
differentiated according to your child’s needs.
Mathematics
Inquiry - History
The Gold Rush
What was the impact of the Eureka Stockade on the
goldfields?
Number & Algebra:
Multiplication & Division
VOCABULARY: equation, equals,
groups of, product, problem
solving strategies, fluency,
multiply, divide, arrays.
Research Project
In the area of Multiplication and Division,
students may:
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practise using inverse operations to solve problems
solve problems involving multiplication of large numbers
by one- or two-digit numbers using efficient mental,
written strategies and appropriate digital technologies
solve problems that involve triangular numbers
use multiplication to solve open-ended worded problems
practise automatic recall of number facts.
Measurement & Geometry:
Probability
In the area of Probability,
students may:
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Reach Out For Respect:
In Week 7, students and teachers will continue to participate in the
wellbeing program ‘Reach Out for Respect’. We are focusing on stereotypes
and representations of gender in the community.
Following the analysis and discussion of wellbeing data, along with student
input related to ways of promoting social and emotional skills across the
year level, the Year 5 Team has decided to run small workshops.
certain, impossible, likelihood,
percentage, graphing, results,
interpretation.
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Wellbeing
Wellbeing Activities:
VOCABULARY: equally likely,
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From Week 7 – Week 10, students will engage in a research project related
to our unit of inquiry. They will be asked to self-select an area of interest
and further investigate aspects of this using a range of resources. The
students will also have the opportunity to present their findings in a format
of their choice.
conduct chance experiments using dice, playing cards and
coins
list outcomes of chance experiments
gather data with or without the use of digital technology
compare, graph and interpret data sets
create probability tree diagrams to represent possible
outcomes
represent outcomes as a fraction, decimal or percentage.
Students will be given the opportunity to
sign up to a session of their choice, they
will integrate with other students and
teachers across the year level, and also
further develop their social
relationships. The sessions include:
 Arts & Craft with Candy
 Song Writing with Jess
 Sport with Lucas
 Drawing with Sasha
We are also continuing our Smiling Minds Meditation Program every day 
Reminders & News
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May 23rd – May 27th: Port Melbourne Primary School Book Fair
Friday, 27th May: Sushi Day
Friday, 3rd June: Sovereign Hill excursion permission and payment is due by 4:15pm.
Tuesday, 7th June: Sibling and whole school photo day.
31st August -2nd September: Level 5 Waratah Bay Camp near Wilsons Promontory. Please return note and payments to the office.