Foundation

Term 3 Foundation Newsletter

Welcome back to an exciting term! We are enjoying seeing the skills of the students developing so well! The first few weeks will be packed with fun as we celebrate 100 days of school on Tuesday 28^th July. The theme will be “100 days brighter” and students will be invited to wear bright colours for the day. We will have special 100 day activities in the afternoon.  We are looking forward to having a Sustainability focus for a STEM incursion next Monday 20^th July. Later in the term we will attend swimming lessons in weeks 9 and 10.

Core Curriculum

This term we will be looking at Features of Special places where students will explore the idea of place and belonging by learning about the special places in their lives, community, and local environment. They identify places that are familiar or important to them, such as their home, school, or park, and describe what makes these places special. Students listen to and share stories about local places and how people use and care for them. They begin to understand that places can have different meanings for different people, and that we all have a role in looking after the places we belong to.

Literacy

We have been extending our knowledge of letter sounds to include digraphs and are enjoying learning how to form letters of correct size and shape using dotted third lines in our books. We are looking forward to working on our reading fluency, this term. We will be studying fairytales and their structure in Literature studies. Our sentence level writing will continue to be extended by exploring  more boundary punctuation such as question marks and we will revise nouns/verbs and adjectives as we learn to extend our sentences.

Keep up the nights of reading!

Numeracy

We will soon complete our unit on counting and place value of numbers to 20. Our focus this term will be on addition and subtraction, measurement (length, mass and capacity) as well as learning to share and group collections equally.

Specialists

We are fortunate to have more fun in STEM on Mondays. Art and Auslan sessions will be on Tuesdays. Library sessions will be Wednesday afternoon but please send books to school whenever you are finished as they can be placed in the library tub in the classroom ready to take to library on any day.

PE will be on Thursday.

Assembly is on Friday at 3pm. All welcome to attend..

Looking forward to a fun term!

 Jodie Williamson