Knowing your Times Tables are really important!

PRACTICE TIMES TABLES

Aim to answer 30 multiplication questions in under one minute!

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Welcome to our 5JWS Webpage!

Welcome 2012 Year 5 Students and Parents.

Please use this website to access any of our class material. You will be able to view content of most of the Core Subjects we learn in Year 5. I will be updating content regularly.

Either click on the categories on the navigation bar above or
Enter what you are looking for in ‘search’.

Have a look around!

Feel free to make any suggestions of what we can do to improve our page!

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Interactives Geometry 3D shapes

Check out this great interactive Geometry 3D Shapes website

 
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RIBIT 2012

When preparing for your RIBIT, oral book report:

1.   Read your book

2.  Read RIBIT speech guidelines to know what to include in your speech

3.  Write your RIBIT speech

4. Have you included answers to each of the Sample RIBIT Question Categories: setting; characters; plot; theme; point of view; style; illustration, author, genre and personal connection.

5. Re-read your RIBIT Rubric. Can you improve your speech?

6. Print your speech

7.  Edit your RIBIT speech in red pen for spelling and grammar

8.Check your RIBIT Draft Check-list. Is there something you have not checked off on your list?

9.  Submit your RIBIT Draft speech one week before your speech is due to Mrs Williames to also edit. Make sure your blue RIBIT Draft checklist is completed and stapled to the top left hand corner of your speech.

10. Make sure you apply the edits / suggestions Mrs Williames makes.

11. Print your speech onto Cue Cards and practice, practice, practice.

12. Prepare your RIBIT PROJECT to present to the class – remember to tell the class how it links with your speech

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When do we use apostrophes?

It’s easy to use an APOSTROPHE in its place

Click here for YouTube Clip on Apostrophes

When do we use apostrophes?
1. Contractions (missing letters)
2. Possession/ ownership

  • Can you remember what we talked about in class?
  • Can you remember the mini poster you stuck in your ‘Literacy Rules’ book?
  • Click the link below to refresh your mind, then take the quiz
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Maths Study Jams!


Do music, songs and videos help you remember Maths Concepts?

Then click on the link below and the Scholastic Study Jam crew will help your learning!

  • Click here for Study Jam link
  • Just remember this website is American, so be careful in the measurement topics. America uses an Imperial Measurement System, which means they talk in yards and feet, unlike our Metric System in Australia. The rest of the topics are fantastic and very useful to us! Let me know what you think…

 

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EPIC

Keep working on your EPIC points!

Core Requirements

  • Work hard at your CORE REQUIREMENTS on page 15.
  • These requirements cover 13 lifelong learning experiences. You must complete ALL of the Core Requirements before you are eligible to receive a bronze, silver, gold or platinum medal.
  • Remember if you can get your CORE REQUIREMENTS completed soon you can double your 70 points and make them 140!
  • If you would like to remind yourself what the Core Requirements cover click on the link below and go to the last page of the pdf which lists all the CORE REQUIREMENTS and appropriate points.

 

Global Awareness Quiz

  • We will work on the Global Awareness Quiz as a whole Class. If you would like to look at the quiz before hand click the link below:

EPIC Background and further information

  • If you or your parents would like to read more information about EPIC click on the link below.

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Term 2 2012 Calendar

5JWS TERM 2 PLANNER 2012

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Polygons

Polygons are:

  • Closed shapes
  • 3 or more straight sides and
  • 3 or more angles
  • youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTrbT_SSD0U
  • Click here for The Polygon Song
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Triorama Environment Project

It All Depends!

Your task is to create a Triorama of one of the following Australian environments:

  • · Aquatic: Coral Reef, Freshwater, Marine or Swamp
  • · Deserts: Hot and dry desert, Semi-arid desert
  • · Forests:  Temperate forest or Rainforest
  • · Grassland: Savanna or Temperate grassland
  • · Tundra: Alpine or Antarctic

Click here for Triorama project outline 2012

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Gold – We found it!

Click here for gold weblinks

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Environment and Ecosystem Weblinks

Click here for web links to help with your Triorama Environment Project

 

 

 

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