Foundation Report

Language Experiences – Visualising!

Language experiences are an exciting part of our literacy curriculum, providing students with fun and engaging opportunities to generate authentic purposes for writing. We have been reading a range of different picture story books and using our five senses to visualise and make meaning of the texts. 

We begin with an experience, record this via pictures and drawings, and revisit these to establish ideas, discuss and collect words, and provide stimuli for modelled and shared writing. Students use aspects of the experience to gain independence as writers, where they plan and learn to write words and simple sentences. 

Mathematicians in Action!

In Foundation we have been loving our maths inquiries into teen numbers. We are counting the days we have been at school and are working hard to subitise to ten. To practise this in different ways we have played games, subitised cards with different amounts and practised with counters that form different patterns and formations. 

We have also started to inquire into measurement; using direct and indirect comparisons to decide which objects are longer and shorter. We have also spent some time sorting and classifying objects and creating patterns with objects and drawings. Reviewing these concepts through our investigations has been a huge hit. Please enjoy photos of our Foundation mathematicians in action!  

Inquiry Investigations! 

This Term, Foundation students will be exploring the central idea, ‘Living things have basic needs in order to survive’. In this unit, students will explore living things and their basic needs, including food and water, through the context of caring for ourselves, plants and caring for pet animals. This week, students had fun making their own grass head. They will now observe their growth whilst reinforcing what this living thing needs to thrive.