Year 5 – 8 Term Plan Term 2 2009

Strategy Focus
Curriculum Area Topic Assessment
Student Objectives

Comprehension
 Connections to prior learning
 Predicting & re-predicting
 Self questioning  Oral survey to establish
 Wk 1 – 5 features of recounts including
 Summarising & identifying the main individual needs.
biographies & autobiographies.
Reading idea
 ARB’s identifying main
 Wk 6 – 10: features of non-fiction texts including
Vocabulary Development idea & summarizing
scientific reports.
 Developed within the context of the texts.
English

comprehension lesson & mini-lesson

(Refer Teaching Reading
Comprehension: Alison Davis)

 Wk 1 – 5 writing autobiographical incidents  Extending ideas

 Self/peer assessment
Writing  Wk 6 – 10 writing scientific reports and scripts for  Vocabulary development
 Rubric – teacher.
digital stories – Meet a Metre project.  Personal voice

 Related to current topic & other

 Wk 1 -10 oral retelling to develop vocabulary in
Oral events involving students
small groups and class.

 Numeracy strategies related to

 Wk 1 – 4 multiplication & division
Mathematics

Numeracy stages 2 – 7: Refer numeracy  GLOSS

 Wk 5 – 7 addition & subtraction planners.
 Wk 8 – 10 fractions & decimals
 http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/node/1917

Other  Wk 1 – 5 Measurement
 Geometry – ARB’s
Strands  Wk 6 – 10 Geometry

Science  Weeks 1 – 10 Meet a Metre Project – focus on  Learning Journal

Technology Living World strand. Students will:  Rubric assessment of
Social Studies  http://www.scifest.org.nz/meet_a_metre  Audit life forms (flora, fauna, fungi) plan
 within a metre section of the school
grounds
 Collate and present findings
 Formulate a plan to enhance the
area
 Create a new plan in response to
feedback given by DOC experts
 Monitor results

Arts Weeks 1 – 10 Drama

 Developing endurance with regular

running.
 Develop knowledge of the importance
 Weeks 1 -10 Cross Country & effect on the body of exercise.
 http://www.sparc.org.nz/education/fundamental-  Assess own fitness including running
Health & P.E.  Self- assessment
skills test/taking own pulse accurately.
 Take part in designing own fitness
programme.
 Re-assess fitness at end of the
programme.

 Wk 1 – 5 Kiwidex games  Understand the importance of regular

 Wk 6 – 10 Kiwidex relays exercise.
Daily fitness  http://www.sparc.org.nz/education/active-  Leadership – senior students begin to
schools/kiwidex take responsibility for choosing and
organizing sessions.

ICT  Digital story  Meet a Metre  Presentation