This collection of Easter activities is a great way of engaging students before the Easter break. This workbook covers a variety of topics for Year 5 and 6, including Maths, English and Religion (optional) . Print the whole thing or customise a book for your students.
Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions by taking account of differing ideas or opinions and authoritative sources
Solve problems involving division, choosing efficient strategies and using digital tools where appropriate; interpret any remainder according to the context and express results as a whole number, decimal or fraction
Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving additive and multiplicative situations including financial contexts; formulate the problems, choosing operations and efficient calculation strategies, using digital tools where appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation
Solve problems involving multiplication of larger numbers by one- or two-digit numbers, choosing efficient calculation strategies and using digital tools where appropriate; check the reasonableness of answers
Check and explain the reasonableness of solutions to problems including financial contexts using estimation strategies appropriate to the context
Choose and use estimation and rounding to check and explain the reasonableness of calculations including the results of financial transactions
Estimate the quantity of objects in collections and make estimates when solving problems to determine the reasonableness of calculations
Use appropriate interaction skills including paraphrasing and questioning to clarify meaning, make connections to own experience, and present and justify an opinion or idea
Identify aspects of literary texts that represent details or information about historical, social and cultural contexts in literature by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors
Understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea
Solve problems involving division by a one digit number, including those that result in a remainder
Use efficient mental and written strategies and apply appropriate digital technologies to solve problems
Use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers to calculations
Clarify understanding of content as it unfolds in formal and informal situations, connecting ideas to students’ own experiences and present and justify a point of view
Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts
Understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person, place, thing or idea
Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view
Solve problems involving multiplication of large numbers by one- or two-digit numbers using efficient mental, written strategies and appropriate digital technologies
Identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts
Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
Communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features
Describes and represents mathematical situations in a variety of ways using mathematical terminology and some conventions
Selects and applies appropriate problem- solving strategies, including the use of digital technologies, in undertaking investigations
Gives a valid reason for supporting one possible solution over another
Selects and applies appropriate strategies for addition and subtraction with counting numbers of any size
Selects and applies appropriate strategies for multiplication and division, and applies the order of operations to calculations involving more than one operation
Determines 1/2, 1/4, 1/5 and 1/10 of measures and quantities
Compares and orders fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10
Constructs and completes number sentences involving multiplicative relations, applying the order of operations to calculations
Selects and applies appropriate strategies to solve multiplication and division problems
Selects and applies appropriate strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems
Determines percentages of quantities, and finds equivalent fractions and decimals for benchmark percentage values
Compares and orders decimals up to 3 decimal places
Applies an understanding of place value and the role of zero to represent the properties of numbers
Completes number sentences involving multiplication and division by finding missing values
Represents and uses the structure of multiplicative relations to 10 × 10 to solve problems
Completes number sentences involving addition and subtraction by finding missing values
Selects and uses mental and written strategies for addition and subtraction involving 2- and 3-digit numbers
Represents and compares decimals up to 2 decimal places using place value
Applies an understanding of place value and the role of zero to represent numbers to at least tens of thousands
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
Solve problems involving division by a one digit number, including those that result in a remainder
Use efficient mental and written strategies and apply appropriate digital technologies to solve problems
Create simple financial plans
Solve problems involving multiplication of large numbers by one- or two-digit numbers using efficient mental, written strategies and appropriate digital technologies
Use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers to calculations
Clarify understanding of content as it unfolds in formal and informal situations, connecting ideas to students’ own experiences, and present and justify a point of view or recount an experience using interaction skills
Identify aspects of literary texts that convey details or information about particular social, cultural and historical contexts
Understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person, place, thing or idea
Understand how to move beyond making bare assertions and take account of differing perspectives and points of view
Customise your worksheets for the ability levels of your students, and what you would like to include in your classroom.
You can mix in worksheets from our lower primary pack for students who might otherwise struggle with some of these activities