{"id":269,"date":"2018-10-27T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/?page_id=269"},"modified":"2022-05-11T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T05:14:23","slug":"class-five","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/curriculum\/primary-education\/class-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Curriculum Themes for Class Five<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-432 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/class5-inset-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/class5-inset-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/class5-inset-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/class5-inset.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The curriculum for Class Five has a main theme of Ancient Civilizations of India, followed by Persia, then Babylonia, Egypt and finally Greece. By studying these ancient civilisations in sequence, the children examine the qualitative changes in the development of humanity that took place through these different cultural epochs.<\/p>\n<p>A second important theme for Class Five is botany. This forms part of a sequence aimed at developing an understanding of how they themselves are related to the kingdoms of nature. This sequence began in Class Four, with the study of the human form and animal forms, which leads to a study of the plant kingdom in Class Five. Finally in Class Six, the focus will move to the study of the mineral world in the form of geology and mineralogy.<\/p>\n<h3>Possible Main Lessons in Class Five<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2255 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Outdoor-Classroom-writing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Outdoor-Classroom-writing.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Outdoor-Classroom-writing-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/>Indian Myths, Writing (English)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Botany (Science and Technology)<br \/>\nFractions, Decimals and Percentages (Mathematics)<br \/>\nStories of Persia and Babylon (English)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Zoology (Science and Technology)<br \/>\nMeasurement and Introduction to Geometry (Mathematics)<br \/>\nEgypt \u2013 Isis and Osiris (English)<br \/>\nGeometry \u2013 The Sacred Circle (Mathematics)<br \/>\nAustralian Explorers (History)<br \/>\nGreek Heroes (English)<br \/>\nNumber Revision (Mathematics)<br \/>\nClass Play \u2013 Greek Mythology (Creative Arts, English)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curriculum Themes for Class Five The curriculum for Class Five has a main theme of Ancient Civilizations of India, followed by Persia, then Babylonia, Egypt and finally Greece. By studying these ancient civilisations in sequence, the children examine the qualitative changes in the development of humanity that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":74,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-PageTemplate4.php","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"ams_acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions\/2258"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drss.vic.edu.au\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}