Foundation
Creating a love of learning with Mrs McBride & Miss Jenni
Important Dates
Friday 4th July - End-of-term BBQ, casual clothes and 2.30 pm dismissal.
Thank you to all our wonderful families for another amazing term.
August 1st ~ Foundation Students will be celebrating 100 days of school next term!
Students are invited to come dressed as a 100-year-old person!
Mrs McBride is busy planning lots of fun activities for this special day.
Swimming Program Dates
Next Term, Foundation students attend a swim and gym program with the Year 1 students. Students must wear their bathers to school under their uniform.
Students will need the usual: a towel, underwear, goggles and/or swim cap if they need it, a plastic bag for wet things, and plenty of food.
Recess snack is eaten at school at 10am, and lunch is after swimming before Gym, so you can imagine how hungry the students get! Please name everything.
The dates for Swim/Gym are:
- Friday 1st August
- Friday 8th August
- Friday 15th August
- Friday 22nd August
Friday 29th August
Permission forms will be available on XUNO shortl
Literacy
Wombat Stew! Wombat Stew! What would we put in it? What did we love about the story? Can we act it out? These are just some of the questions we have been discussing and working through lately in Foundation.
We have also been working hard on our fluency when we are reading. This means that we may read the same sentence 4 or 5 times to make our voice sound 'interesting'.
We have also enjoyed using nursery rhymes to practice our rhyming words, looking at identifying words and sorting them into sentences. It has been a great way to look at text features.
Numeracy
We continue to use a range of engaging learning tasks to practise counting, sorting, making and representing our numbers 0-20. The dice game was a huge hit! Each student rolled a dice, then students had to 'race' to calculate the two amounts and point to the correct number on the page. If they both got the same (& correct) answer, students gave each other a high five! If they made a mistake, they had to do 3-star jumps.
Roll a number and show it on the tens frame
how many more do you need to make 10?
Roll a number and show it on the tens frame
how many more do you need to make 10?
3 and 2 is 5
3 and 2 is 5
5 and 5 is 10!
5 and 5 is 10!
Integrated Studies
We have been learning about where we live, and comparing this to where different animals live. Students have investigated a range of habitats and identified the animals that live in these spaces, then presented this to the class. We have discussed what animals need to survive and identified a range of different animal features. Our next step is to create an imaginary animal, design a habitat for it and draw and label its features.
Presenting the garden habitat to the class
Presenting the dessert habitat to the class
Presenting the ocean habitat to the class.
Animal features according to Ryker
A map from 'we're going on a bear hunt'.
"I live in a house, It looks like this."
"My house looks like this"
Our maps showing Rosie's walk.
Presenting the garden habitat to the class
Presenting the dessert habitat to the class
Presenting the ocean habitat to the class.
Animal features according to Ryker
A map from 'we're going on a bear hunt'.
"I live in a house, It looks like this."
"My house looks like this"
Our maps showing Rosie's walk.
Western Bulldogs Footy Clinic
Lots of fun was had at the Football clinic today.
