Foundation: Connect
Term 1 2025
Reminder: Hats for recess and lunch times in Term 1 (it is best for them to stay in the student's locker for the term)
Take- home books will be changed on Mondays - Your child can read and reread this throughout the week with you. Please use Wushka for more books online to read with your child. Login details are glued inside the front cover of diaries.
Fluency passages will be sent home weekly or fortnightly (depending on sounds lea - you can alternate these with the take-home books for reading practise at home. It is really important students are tracking the individual letters with their finger then blend all the sounds together.
Welcome!
Dear Foundation Families,
Our Foundation students continue to be settled in their routines and are working well as we pass the halfway mark of the term. This has been their first full week of school! Please note, Wednesdays are school days for Foundation students from now on.
We’re excited to welcome back Mr Marco, and students will be taking part in cooking sessions, learning valuable kitchen skills. Another highlight has been the added responsibility of taking home their readers and fluency sheets to practise throughout the week. It’s wonderful to see their enthusiasm for learning both at school and at home. Keep up the great work, Foundation!
The Resilience Project
As part of the Resilience Project this week, students created their own Yarning Sticks. This meaningful activity encouraged them to express their thoughts and feelings while fostering connection and storytelling. It was wonderful to see the creativity and care each student put into their designs. The Yarning Sticks will serve as a great tool for sharing and listening, helping to build empathy and resilience in our school community.
Empathetic Listening
Name 3 ways you can show empathetic listening
Learning
This fortnight, Foundation students have been developing their subitising skills—quickly recognising small groups of objects without needing to count each one. This important skill helps build number sense and supports future mathematical learning. They have also been learning about 2-part repeating patterns, using classroom objects and drawings to create and extend their own patterns. In addition, students have been identifying and naming familiar shapes in their environment and practising flexible counting, counting forwards and backwards from various starting points. Measurement has also been a focus, with students comparing objects and using terms like long, tall, and short to describe their observations. It’s wonderful to see their confidence and problem-solving skills growing!
Students have been continuing to build their sound knowledge. We have learnt the letters 's,a,t,p,i,n,b,l,f,h, and u' so far and students are starting to consolidate them. We are focusing on segmenting and blending our letters to form full words and are loving celebrating our reading success of individual words.
We are enjoying listening to stories and have loved exploring 'This Moose Belongs to Me' by Oliver Jeffers. The characters, setting and plot have been analysed while focusing on how people and animals are classified as nouns. The students loved drawing the character 'Marcel the Moose' and had a go at writing down the first sounds for various body parts when participating in constructing a labelled diagram.
Communities
On Friday, 28th February, our Foundation students joined their Community Groups to take part in School Clean Up Day. With enthusiasm and energy, they led the way in caring for our school grounds, making a real difference. It was wonderful to see their sense of pride and accomplishment once the job was done. And rest assured—we made sure everyone washed their hands afterward!
Warm regards,
Alex, Rhiannon, Megan and Kate
Foundation Team
