Foundation News

Production is coming...

Thank you to everyone for their cooperation with getting our costumes organised.  It feels quite real now that we are practising with our hats on! Notices and Flexibuzz notifications will be sent in the coming week regarding arrangements and finer details.  We will be having dress rehearsals in the days leading up to the 20th and on the day we will be catching the bus to the theatre for a whole school dress rehearsal.  We are getting very excited about it! We hope you've bought your family tickets!  Here is the link if you need to purchase 

Go to this link to purchase:

https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=307386&

We Are Learning To... (WALT)

We've been working hard on developing our number knowledge and counting skills. Knowing numbers to 20 seems quite a simple concept. However, this involves diving further into exploring language around two-digit numbers such as before, after, more than and less than.  Students have practised skills with subitising concepts which involves automatically recognising numbers without counting them.

In Reading, we have begun exploring Literacy CAFE. The CAFEmenu breaks each component—Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding vocabulary—into significant strategies that support each goal. Posted on the classroom wall  it serves as a visual reminder of whole-class instruction as well as individual student goals.  Some students have a goal within the Comprehension component.  They are focusing on becoming more confident with drawing on text specific vocabulary to retell or summarise events from the book.  Others are focussing on reading for meaning, blending sounds and rereading and others are focussing on beginning and ending sounds.

We are building up to writing an information report!  At this stage we have been exploring features of non-fiction books and reports.  Ask your child what they will find in a non-fiction book and a fiction book (it's confusing that non-fiction doesn't mean not true!).   

Next week we will be sending through Seesaw updates.  Seesaw is our online portfolio of students' work.  Stay tuned for updates in relation to maths, reading and writing. This will be either a photo shot or a brief video.  We encourage you to discuss this learning experience with your child.  We will also be sharing our learning goals with you!

Next week

On Tuesday we have:

* Responsible Pet Ownership session - this is just for our class! Students will learn how to interact and care for dogs in a safe and responsible ways.  Yes we get to meet a real dog! It's fun and informative for our students to further develop their knowledge of pets in the community.

*Whole school TRIBES day which includes our Health & PE activities including our COLOUR RUN!  If you haven't already done this, please head to www.myprofilepage.com.au to set up your fundraising page!  We will be running down at Elizabeth Bridge after recess and we are very excited!! We hope you can join us for the fun.... and mess!  

Wednesday is the Kinder to School Transition session! Please spread the word with sibling families.  We look forward to seeing many of our 2018 parents and students join us at 2.30pm.

Friday is the school disco! 6pm - 7.15pm!  I will be out of the classroom on Friday for my Term 4 planning day. I can't believe I'm planning for the last 11 weeks of the school year! If you don't have a Working With Children Check and you would like to come on our excursion to the beach in December, I strongly advise you to process this online over the holidays.  You can produce your receipt at the office which is suffice until your card arrives (they can take a while!)

Personal & Social Development

Our students are collaborating so well together throughout the school day. I love hearing the play dates that take place outside of school and positive interactions that they can build their skills.  Part of the Victorian Curriculum requires us to report on these interactions.  Recognising and expressing emotions, developing resilience,  relationships and collaboration are all areas in which we focus our knowledge and skill based learning.  Students engage in Cooperative Play experiences twice a week to practise and develop social skills.  We have also worked on resilience activities and building a positive mindset. Providing social opportunities for your child is a great learning experience for these skills to be maintained and developed, especially as we prepare our students for Junior School!

2 weeks to go...

Kylie, Jenny and I are looking forward to the remaining couple of weeks with our lovelies!  It will be a quick lead up to the production and a wonderful showcase from our students.

Thank you to all our families for their continued effort to support the learning and development of this wonderful cohort of students.  We really do love what we do xxx