What’s Happening in Foundation in Term 3, 2024

Important Dates:

100 Days of School Celebration: Tuesday 30^th July.
Father’s Day/ Special Friends’ afternoon : Thursday 29^th August.

In Literacy students will be:

• explicitly taught the correct articulation and pronunciation of letters and sounds.
• blending and segmenting adjacent consonants, consonant digraphs and syllabification.
• 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 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).

In Mathematics students will be:

• representing numbers on a number line (0-20).
• adding and subtracting within 10 using concrete materials on a 10s frame, fingers and using a number line.
• comparing and ordering numbers (0-20).
• practising writing numerals correctly.
• participating in a daily review of concepts taught to support them with consolidating the concepts taught.
• describing, creating and continuing patterns for given rules (AB, ABC, AAB).
• comparing areas and describing them using the words ‘bigger than’, ‘smaller than’ and ‘the same as’.

In Inquiry students will be:

In Inquiry students will explore a History and Geography unit, Let’s Explore our World. During this unit students will be provided with an overview of our planet and many of the ways we can explore it. Students begin with their own physical location in this world, expanding from their neighbourhood to their city and eventually to the continent on which they live. To understand where they are on the planet, students are taught about maps and how to use them—from two-dimensional maps of their city or state to the globe.

Throughout the unit they will explore the landscapes, wildlife, and people of each continent. 

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on:

• Stress Management
• Help – Seeking

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• how to identify stress, and how to relax their minds and bodies when this feeling is present.
• identify people in their lives who they can call on for help when they require someone to assist them in a situation

There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.