What’s Happening in Foundation in Term 4, 2024
Important Dates:
- Wednesday 23rd October – Police visit incursion
- Thursday 7th November – Fire Brigade incursion
- Thursday 14th November – Responsible Pet Ownership incursion
In Literacy students will be:
- explicitly taught the correct articulation and pronunciation of stage 6 and 7.1 sounds ( sh, ch, tch, th, ng, wh, ph, ai, ay, ee, ea, –y, igh, ie, – y, oe) .
- engaging in daily activities that involve manipulating sounds and forming words.
- learning to use their letter sound knowledge to blend sounds together to read words and sentences.
- learning to identify the beginning, middle and end sounds of a word.
- building reading fluency by reading decodable sentences connected to the sounds they have learnt.
- participating in daily formal handwriting sessions learning how to form letters correctly and how to correctly hold a pencil.
- introduced to the conventions of writing; writing from left to right and leaving spaces between words.
- practising and revising Heart words (high frequency words that need to be learnt automatically).
- writing sentences that are grammatically correct
In Mathematics students will be:
- subtracting within 20 using concrete materials.
- comparing and ordering numbers (0-120).
- using one-to-one correspondence to share materials equally.
- identifying Australian Coins.
- exploring the language of time (o’clock).
- learning about measuring and how to compare the capacities of two containers using the words ‘holds more’, ‘holds less’ and ‘holds the same’.
- naming positions in a race and queue (1st to 10th) using ordinal numbers and terms ‘in front of’ and ‘behind’.
- posing questions and collecting data to create a simple display (e.g. ticks on a T-chart).
- participating in a daily review of concepts taught to consolidate mathematical skills.
In our Knowledge Unit and Inquiry students will be:
- exploring the topic of First Nations People.
- National Reconciliation Week.
- Australia’s 3 flags.
- different nations of Indigenous peoples in Australia.
- Acknowledgement of country.
- Welcome to Country.
- story of Bunjil.
- Birrarung book.
- animals of the Birrarung.
- exploring the topic of Who’s on our Money.
- people on Australian coins and notes and their significance.
- exploring Stories.
- introduced to classic stories as well as trickster tales and fiction from other cultures.
- exposed to language and recurring themes in children’s literature.
Wellbeing
Students will engage in Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships lessons looking at:
- Gender identity
- Positive Gender relations.
There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.