Foundation

  Welcome back to Term 4!  

Welcome to Term 4, an exciting time of consolidating our skills and transitioning to Year 1! We have lots of fun planned amongst the learning. Some highlights will be a STEM incursion in week 2, Grandparent’s Day and Book Fair, PAFA meal Deal, Farm excursion to Chesterfield farm, Junior Sports Day and Year 1 transition activities as well as our annual End of Year Event!

Inquiry

This term we will be looking at Geography and the impact of farming on their day to day life. Students will develop an awareness of their local community and how farming provides daily needs and its effects on the environment. They explore Indigenous perspectives, how people are connected to places and how we care for them. They’ll investigate location and direction and other significant features of their environment such as weather and the seasons and begin to understand the geography of their local area. They’ll learn to give and follow simple directions, and describe location relative to other people and places using everyday spatial terms such as front/back, up/down, right/left, near/far, above/below. They draw simple pictorial maps from their developing mental maps of familiar environments. Looking forward to lots of fun! In week 6 we will have an excursion to Chesterfield farm.

Literacy

We will continue to enjoy our structured reading groups with an initial focus on fluency and comprehension. Our writing focus will be on consolidating sentence structure and features of sentences as well as beginning to use dotted thirds to write on. 

Our phonics focus in Sound Waves will be continuing to explore digraphs (two letters that make a new sound) ie ee, ar, oo ect.

Oxford words are still on a self paced system where students hand them to the teacher to be tested when they feel they are ready. (Once students reach 100 words, they then learn to spell (write) them all beginning at list 1-10. This is also self paced.)

Keep up the nights of reading!

Numeracy

Our focus this term will be on graphing, time (Days, weeks and months), mapping (Giving and following directions) categorising, money and addition and subtraction.

Specialists

We are fortunate to have more fun in STEM aend Auslan sessions for both grades on Tuesdays.

Library sessions for FK and FW will be on Fridays.

PE will be on Thursday for both grades.

FK will have Art on Wednesday. FW has Art on Thursday

Assembly is on Friday at 3pm. All welcome to attend. We will continue our Discovery Learning sessions on Monday and Wednesday.

Looking forward to another fun filled term!

Kind Regards, Foundation Team