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Halloween Booklet Upper Years
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Halloween Booklet Upper Years

Get ready for a spook-tacular learning adventure! This Years 5–6 Halloween booklet combines English, Mathematics, HPE and creative activities, with challenging mysteries, problem-solving investigations, data analysis, writing tasks, geometry challenges, fitness activities and hands-on Halloween fun. Perfect for keeping upper primary students engaged, thinking creatively and learning while celebrating the spooky season!

Learning goals

  • We are learning to create and edit texts by experimenting with figurative language, story lines, characters and settings.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and evaluate texts.
  • We are learning to plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative, persuasive and multimodal texts with correct text structure, grammar, punctuation, language features, images and sound appropriate for the purpose and the audience.
  • We are learning to create and edit texts by adapting storylines, characters and settings and experimenting with figurative language.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources.
  • We are learning to plan, create, edit and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts with correct text structure, tense, language features, vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and images.
  • We are learning to check and explain the reasonableness of solutions to problems including money using appropriate estimation strategies.
  • We are learning to solve practical problems involving addition and multiplication and choosing operations and efficient calculation strategies to solve the problem.
  • We are learning to solve practical problems involving the perimeter and area of regular and irregular shapes using appropriate metric units.
  • We are learning to compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and convert between them using hours, minutes and seconds.
  • We are learning to acquire data and construct displays including column graphs, dot plots and tables appropriate for the type of data, determining the highest frequency (mode) of the data set.
  • We are learning to apply knowledge of place value to add and subtract decimals and to use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of our answers.
  • We are learning to solve problems that require finding a familiar fraction, decimal or percentage of a quantity, including percentage discounts, choosing the best strategies.
  • We are learning to solve practical problems involving natural and rational numbers and percentages in financial contexts.
  • We are learning to use the formula for the area of a rectangle and use it to solve practical problems.
  • We are learning to interpret and use timetables and itineraries to plan activities and calculate the duration of events and journeys.
  • We are learning to interpret and compare the four types of data sets (ordinal, nominal, discrete, continuous) using comparative displays and determining the range, mode (frequency) and shape of data in graphs, dot plots and bar charts.
  • We are learning to pose questions, collect and interpret categorical or numerical data by observation or survey.
  • We are learning to create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on our own experiences.
  • We are learning to create texts by experimenting with structures, ideas and stylistic features of authors, e.g. narrative view point, structure of stanzas and juxtaposition.
  • We are learning to understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources.
  • We are learning to plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative, persuasive and multimodal texts with correct text structure, language features, images and sound appropriate for the purpose and the audience.
  • We are learning to re-read and edit work using knowledge of text structures and language features.
  • We are learning to use software, e.g. MS Word or PowerPoint proficiently to construct, edit and publish multimodal texts featuring visual, print and audio elements.
  • We are learning to use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers to calculations.
  • We are learning to use efficient mental and written strategies and calculators to solve problems.
  • We are learning to create simple financial plans, e.g. a simple budget or identifying the GST on invoices and receipts.
  • We are learning to calculate perimeter and area of rectangles using familiar metric units.
  • We are learning to compare 12 and 24-hour time systems and convert between them using hours, minutes and seconds.
  • We are learning to construct displays, including column graphs, dot plots and tables, appropriate for the type of data.
  • We are learning to plan, create and adapt narratives in written, spoken or multimodal formats in innovative ways for a variety of audiences and purposes.
  • We are learning to experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating texts, for example using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice.
  • We are learning to use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information, comparing content from a variety of print and digital sources.
  • We are learning to plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts with correct text structure, language features and images for purpose and the audience.
  • We are learning to re-read and edit work using agreed criteria and to explain our editing choices.
  • We are learning to use software, e.g. MS Word or PowerPoint, learning new functions as required to create texts.
  • We are learning to add and subtract decimals and use estimation and rounding to check answers.
  • We are learning to find a simple fraction of a quantity where the result is a whole number, e.g. 1/3 of a number is the same as dividing by 3.
  • We are learning to investigate and calculate percentage discounts of 10%, 25% and 50% on sale items, with and without digital technologies.
  • We are learning to select and apply efficient mental and written strategies and digital technologies to solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with whole numbers.
  • We are learning to solve problems involving the comparison of lengths and areas using appropriate units.
  • We are learning to interpret and use timetables, e.g. developing a timetable of daily activities or planning a trip involving public transport.
  • We are learning to interpret and compare data displays, including side-by-side column graphs, tables and diagrams for two categories (e.g. age, height) and compare the usefulness of each display for data interpretation.

Curriculum alignment

AC9E5LE05 9 Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced AC9E5LY05 9 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas AC9E5LY06 9 Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation AC9E6LE05 9 Create and edit literary texts that adapt plot structure, characters, settings and/or ideas from texts students have experienced, and experiment with literary devices AC9E6LY05 9 Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, and to connect and compare content from a variety of sources AC9E6LY06 9 Plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features AC9M5N08 9 Check and explain the reasonableness of solutions to problems including financial contexts using estimation strategies appropriate to the context AC9M5N09 9 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 AC9M5M02 9 Solve practical problems involving the perimeter and area of regular and irregular shapes using appropriate metric units AC9M5M03 9 Compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and solve practical problems involving the conversion between them AC9M5ST01 9 Acquire, validate and represent data for nominal and ordinal categorical and discrete numerical variables to address a question of interest or purpose using software including spreadsheets; discuss and report on data distributions in terms of highest frequency (mode) and shape, in the context of the data AC9M6N04 9 Apply knowledge of place value to add and subtract decimals, using digital tools where appropriate; use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers AC9M6N07 9 Solve problems that require finding a familiar fraction, decimal or percentage of a quantity, including percentage discounts, choosing efficient calculation strategies and using digital tools where appropriate AC9M6N09 9 Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems, involving rational numbers and percentages, including in financial contexts; formulate the problems, choosing operations and efficient calculation strategies, and using digital tools where appropriate; interpret and communicate solutions in terms of the situation, justifying the choices made AC9M6M02 9 Establish the formula for the area of a rectangle and use it to solve practical problems AC9M6M03 9 Interpret and use timetables and itineraries to plan activities and determine the duration of events and journeys AC9M6ST01 9 Interpret and compare data sets for ordinal and nominal categorical, discrete and continuous numerical variables using comparative displays or visualisations and digital tools; compare distributions in terms of mode, range and shape AC9M6ST03 9 Plan and conduct statistical investigations by posing and refining questions or identifying a problem and collecting relevant data; analyse and interpret the data and communicate findings within the context of the investigation AC9HP6M04 9 Participate in physical activities to investigate the body’s reaction to different levels of intensity AC9HP6M06 9 Propose and explain strategies to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour levels in their lives ACELT1612 8.4 Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced ACELT1798 8.4 Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors ACELT1611 8.4 Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes ACELY1703 8.4 Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources ACELY1704 8.4 Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience ACELY1705 8.4 Re-read and edit student’s own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features ACELY1707 8.4 Use a range of software including word processing programs with fluency to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements ACMNA099 8.4 Use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers to calculations ACMNA291 8.4 Use efficient mental and written strategies and apply appropriate digital technologies to solve problems ACMNA106 8.4 Create simple financial plans ACMMG109 8.4 Calculate perimeter and area of rectangles using familiar metric units ACMMG110 8.4 Compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and convert between them ACMSP119 8.4 Construct displays, including column graphs, dot plots and tables, appropriate for data type, with and without the use of digital technologies ACELT1618 8.4 Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways ACELT1800 8.4 Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts, for example, using imagery, sentence variation, metaphor and word choice ACELY1713 8.4 Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts ACELY1714 8.4 Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience ACELY1715 8.4 Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices ACELY1717 8.4 Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts ACMNA128 8.4 Add and subtract decimals, with and without digital technologies, and use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers ACMNA127 8.4 Find a simple fraction of a quantity where the result is a whole number, with and without digital technologies ACMNA132 8.4 Investigate and calculate percentage discounts of 10%, 25% and 50% on sale items, with and without digital technologies ACMNA123 8.4 Select and apply efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies to solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers ACMMG137 8.4 Solve problems involving the comparison of lengths and areas using appropriate units ACMMG139 8.4 Interpret and use timetables ACMSP147 8.4 Interpret and compare a range of data displays, including side-by-side column graphs for two categorical variables
EN3-7C old Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts EN3-2A old Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts EN3-3A old Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies MA3-1WM old Describes and represents mathematical situations in a variety of ways using mathematical terminology and some conventions MA3-2WM old Selects and applies appropriate problem- solving strategies, including the use of digital technologies, in undertaking investigations MA3-3WM old Gives a valid reason for supporting one possible solution over another MA3-5NA old Selects and applies appropriate strategies for addition and subtraction with counting numbers of any size MA3-6NA old Selects and applies appropriate strategies for multiplication and division, and applies the order of operations to calculations involving more than one operation MA3-9MG old Selects and uses the appropriate unit and device to measure lengths and distances, calculates perimeters, and converts between units of length MA3-10MG old Selects and uses the appropriate unit to calculate areas, including areas of squares, rectangles and triangles MA3-13MG old Uses 24-hour time and am and pm notation in real-life situations, and constructs timelines MA3-18SP old Uses appropriate methods to collect data and constructs, interprets and evaluates data displays, including dot plots, line graphs and two-way tables MA3-7NA old Compares, orders and calculates with fractions, decimals and percentages EN3-VOCAB-01 new Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts EN3-CWT-01 new Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language EN3-SPELL-01 new Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words EN3-HANDW-01 new Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style EN3-HANDW-02 new Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts EN3-UARL-01 new Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts EN3-UARL-02 new 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 EN3-OLC-01 new Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding EN3-RECOM-01 new Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension MA3-AR-01 new Selects and applies appropriate strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems MA3-MR-01 new Selects and applies appropriate strategies to solve multiplication and division problems MA3-MR-02 new Constructs and completes number sentences involving multiplicative relations, applying the order of operations to calculations MA3-GM-02 new Selects and uses the appropriate unit and device to measure lengths and distances including perimeters MA3-2DS-02 new Selects and uses the appropriate unit to calculate areas, including areas of rectangles MA3-2DS-03 new Combines, splits and rearranges shapes to determine the area of parallelograms and triangles MA3-NSM-02 new Measures and compares duration, using 12- and 24-hour time and am and pm notation MA3-DATA-01 new Constructs graphs using many-to-one scales MA3-DATA-02 new Interprets data displays, including timelines and line graphs MA3-RN-01 new Applies an understanding of place value and the role of zero to represent the properties of numbers MA3-RN-02 new Compares and orders decimals up to 3 decimal places MA3-RN-03 new Determines percentages of quantities, and finds equivalent fractions and decimals for benchmark percentage values MA3-RQF-01 new Compares and orders fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 MA3-RQF-02 new Determines 1/2, 1/4, 1/5 and 1/10 of measures and quantities
VCELT328 Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced VCELT327 Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors VCELT316 Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes VCELY319 Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources VCELY329 Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive print and multimodal texts, choosing text structures, language features, images and sound appropriate to purpose and audience VCELY330 Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria for text structures and language features VCELY332 Use a range of software including word processing programs to construct, edit and publish written text, and select, edit and place visual, print and audio elements VCMNA182 Use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers to calculations VCMNA185 Use efficient mental and written strategies and apply appropriate digital technologies to solve problems VCMNA191 Create simple financial plans VCMMG196 Calculate the perimeter and area of rectangles and the volume and capacity of prisms using familiar metric units VCMMG197 Compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and convert between them VCMMG227 Measure, calculate and compare elapsed time VCMSP206 Construct displays, including column graphs, dot plots and tables, appropriate for data type, with and without the use of digital technologies VCELT356 Create literary texts that adapt or combine aspects of texts students have experienced in innovative ways VCELT355 Experiment with text structures and language features and their effects in creating literary texts VCELY347 Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts VCELY358 Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience VCELY359 Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices VCELY361 Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts VCMNA214 Add and subtract decimals, with and without digital technologies, and use estimation and rounding to check the reasonableness of answers VCMNA213 Find a simple fraction of a quantity where the result is a whole number, with and without digital technologies VCMNA218 Investigate and calculate percentage discounts of 10%, 25% and 50% on sale items, with and without digital technologies VCMNA209 Select and apply efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies to solve problems involving all four operations with whole numbers and make estimates for these computations VCMMG224 Solve problems involving the comparison of lengths and areas using appropriate units VCMMG226 Interpret and use timetables VCMSP235 Construct, interpret and compare a range of data displays, including side-by-side column graphs for two categorical variables VCMSP237 Pose and refine questions to collect categorical or numerical data by observation or survey

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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