Team Foundation News

Tinkering with Bee-bots  

During the last couple of weeks, the Foundation students have been revising their knowledge of location, exploring different spaces within their classrooms and around the school, and using language to describe the position of a variety of objects.

Last week, the students were introduced to the Bee-Bots. Bee-bots are programmable floor robots that introduce some of the basic concepts of coding. Students were asked to apply their knowledge of directional language to program the Bee-Bots to follow a pathway of the students' creation.

Students were first given some time to 'tinker' with the Bee-bots, using the floor space in the classrooms to find out what the Bee Bots can do and to become familiar with how to program them. There was much excitement as the Bee Bots made their way around the classroom!

A few days later, students worked in pairs and used classroom materials to build a simple obstacle course for their Bee Bots. They considered how they wanted their Bee Bots to move through the course and collaborated to make a class list of directional language, including terms such as 'forwards', 'backwards', 'between', 'around', 'towards', 'turn', 'right' and 'left'. Students were able to use this language to verbalise the path their Bee Bots took as they navigated around their obstacle course. 

Term 4 Foundation Stars 

Week 3 - Ellery

In Week 3 Ellery was the third Foundation Star for Term 4. Ellery shared a number of lovely photos in her Timeline. By looking carefully at these pictuers, we all learnt that Ellery loves to visit the beach with her family and splash in the warm water. She also loves to learn and her favourite subject is the Solar System and all things astronomical. We also learnt that Ellery had a fun birthday party when she turned six years old. Ellery celebrated with her school friends at a party place that allowed them to experience many science experiments! For her personal talent, Ellery performed a musical tune on a piano. The song that Ellery played was calm and melodic and everyone was amazed at Ellery's piano playing skill! Well done Ellery for sharing your life with us! We learnt so much about you!

We will look forward to seeing future Foundation Star presentations in Term 4. Thank you once again to Ellery's family for supporting her with this activity!

Miss Jones

Foundation Teacher