Assessment Requirements:

June 2015

Grade 5

Your son starts his exams on MONDAY 22th JUNE 2015.

Please ensure that he has the following at school EVERY DAY during the assessment week:

: A complete pencil case including: 2 blue pens, grey pencil, sharpener, coloured pencil crayons, staplerwith staples, glue stick, ruler and a pair of scissors.

: Bottle of water – plain not flavoured.

: The books and or study notes for the exams he is writing that day and the next day.

: The special requirements for each specific exam – see the study list for details.

English:

  1. Comprehension Skills
  • Literal interpretation
  • Inferential reasoning
  • Sequencing
  • Finding the main idea
  • Reading for information
  • Answering in a full sentence
  • Copying spelling and information correctly from the source material.
  1. Language:
  • Identifying parts of speech
  • Nouns ( Common, Proper, Collective, Gender, Pronouns)
  • Adjectives
  • Comparing Adjectives
  • Verbs
  • Prepositions
  • Punctuation
  • Application of spelling and language skills. Mrs Williams

Literature and Creative Writing

  • Cricket in Times Square
  • Chapter 1-4

Advertisements

Cartoons

NewspaperMrs Goncalves/ Mrs Roberts

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Mathematics:

Paper 1: Mental and Mechanical

  • Revise all work that has covered in term one and two work books
  • Revise all work covered in the Prac. Maths and Insta Maths books.
  • Go over all class assessments in Revision and Test Work Book.

Paper 2:

Problem Solving and Data Handling

  • Revise all work as for Paper 1.
  • Revise the steps that are followed when doing problem solving.
  • Revise all graphs that have been learnt. Revise how to draw as well as read information off the graphs. Mrs Kapp andMs Zietsman

Afrikaans:

Revise all work that was covered in TaalenBegripboek.

  • PiekfynBoek
  • IdiomeenAfkortings – bl 13
  • Teenoorgesteldes – bl 37
  • Trappe van vergelykingenintensiewevorme – bl 37
  • Geslag 9 manlikenvroulik) – bl 59 en 60
  • Vergelykings – bl 60Ms Zietsman

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History:

  • The San
  • The Khoi
  • Chronology
  • Skills: Using sources, Sequencing, Fact and Opinion, Cause and effect, Similarity and difference. Mrs Williams

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Geography:

  • The World map
  • Cardinal points of the Compass
  • Africa and Africa’s physical features
  • South Africa’s neighbours and their capitals
  • South Africa’s capital cities
  • Rural and Urban communities
  • South Africa from above
  • Physical features of South Africa
  • Rivers: where do rivers start and end?

Tributaries and catchment areas

Tributaries and catchment areas of South Africa’s main rivers

Viva Social Sciences: pg. 8- 35 (do not learn the maps off by heart)

pg. 61- 78Mr Page

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Science:

  • Plants as Producers
  • Biomes ( Not the research project)
  • You will be given a source from which you will be tested on location, temperature, weather, important plants and animals, environmental concerns.
  • Food chains
  • Animal Study( Do not study the Mallard Duck or your own animal. You will be givena source from which you will be tested on appearance, habitat, feeding, defence, reproduction and ecology)
  • Animal and human skeletons and joints. ( Also study bone experiment)
  • Life Cycle of AnimalsMs Pearson