5/6 have had a busy few weeks at St Joseph's with lots of learning and fun activities. 

In Maths, we completed an exciting lesson where the students had to find the secret location of a sign that listed the distances from it's place to other major cities. To solve this, they were given a compass, rulers and an atlas. They then worked with a partner to try and find the location of the sign. It was wonderful to see the student's different strategies; some students used the compass to measure the radius of where the location could be and some students used their rulers and the scale of the maps to work out the distances.  In the end, we worked out the location was somewhere in New Zealand. 

In English, we are working on writing a factual text based on Jandamarra, an Aboriginal warrior. This links nicely with our novel study, Black Cockatoo, which follows the story of an Indigenous girl living in the Kimberley's who is trying to live up to her spirit animal, the Black Cockatoo. 5/6 have been working on improving their simple sentences by adding subordinating conjunctions and appositives and the results have been amazing. 

In Geography, 5/6 have been learning about environmental biomes. They have chosen a biome and a country and are embarking on a research project that will eventuate in the students creating a diorama of their chosen biome, which they are very excited about.