Foundation Spotlight

In this newsletter, the Foundation teachers wanted to have their students share their ‘voice’ and what’s important to them at school this term. Enjoy the students’ thoughts, reflections and corresponding pictures.

Foundation A

Exploration

My bird's chirp is broken but the vet will fix it. ~ Emily U

They’re coming to the vet so that they can feel better. I like fixing the animals. ~ Raphael S

She was eating some carrots and her wobbly tooth came out and bounced around. The vet could use robotic teeth to fix her.

Reading

We’re learning about sounds. ~ Emily U

I learnt about the letter ‘S’ sound. It’s like snakes. ~ Teddy T

I’m learning how to know how to read words. I sound out letters to read words. ~ Audrey A

Writing

I learnt how to write words by sounding the letters out like C - A - T. ~ Phoebe A

I like writing about recess.” Finn M

Maths

In maths we’re learning how to do 1st, 2nd, 3rd. My favourite thing to do in maths is play Buzz. I also like making counting by 10s kites. ~ Poppy P

In maths I learn about adding things together. ~ Lucas E

Foundation B

Maths

We are learning about ordinal numbers. ~ Hazel K

Literacy

The more we read the more words we know! ~ Shiv L

We are learning about different sounds like ‘ch’ ‘sh’ ‘qu’ ‘wh’ and ‘magic ‘e’. ~ Maddie U

We were playing letter snap. We were practicing letters, but we didn’t get any the same! ~ Zoe R

Me and Eddie were playing Boggle. So I tried to spell the words and Eddie hided the card. I spelled ‘bath’,” –Shiv L

Exploration

In Exploration we get to see what people make. ~ Killian O

We explore different stuff like making crafts and Magna Tiles. ~ Laura B

We made it and it was really easy to make. We made it out of Magna Tiles and stuff. We then made a Pokémon tower. ~ Eddie F We really just worked together. ~ Miia L

We were making a design for the SeaWorld. We made it out of cardboard boxes and tubes. So my sea animals could have a place to play. We then thought it might be too hard. ~ Luke M

I was making a person out of popsicle sticks and then I added a kite. I used it for my puppet show. ~ Ava R

We were flying to Disneyland. Sophie was the pilot. We were playing airport. ~ Robbie E. Me and Robbie are playing in the airport. We are flying to America. ~ Sophie H

I did a little ball and then when it stayed I added some leaves and sticks and then putted some eggs in it. Then I made some little birds. ~ Zoe R

I am sewing a person. I did it with thread and a needle. It was hard to not do knots. I liked that I was sewing. ~ Maddie U

Foundation C

Ice cream flavours & getting to school

In maths I was finding out which ice-cream somebody had as their favourite. And then somebody asked me how I got to school. ~ Evelina N

I was telling Evelina and Grace my favourite ice-cream flavour. We were trying to get people to tell us how they got to school or their favourite ice-cream. My one was ice-cream flavours. ~ Alexia N

A pet... or not?

We were telling everybody ‘do they have a pet or not?’ and then we had to cover their names if they had a pet or not. And the pets you could do was fish, dog and cat, or other. ~Maggie C

PMP

In PMP, you throw the ball to each other and then they have to try to catch it with their Velcro thing. ~ Olivia B

I had to throw the ball and then you’re supposed to catch it. ~ Ida G

Playing in a band

We were playing in a band. We made up our own instruments and we made sure they worked properly. Mine was just a stick and I was tapping it on the ground. ~ Lewis M

For my Mum

So what I did, I was making a little DJ to bring home to my Mum. So I got a little circle thing and then I traced it to make that thing and then I made it coloured to colour the DJ. ~ Evie M

On the weekend...

On the weekend I watched TV. ~ Evelina N

On the weekend I went to Station Street with my Mum. We went to the shop. ~ Maple M

On the weekend I went to my cousin’s house. It was so fun. ~ Van D

Foundation D

You can tell it’s me by my socks. I’m on the monkey bars in PMP. That bit was hard but going down was easy. The obstacle course was so easy. ~ Freddie C

That was PMP and I was going across the logs. It was a obstacle course so there were a few choices how to do it and I choosed that. ~ Stella F-W

I’m playing tic tac toe and I ticked on ‘sat’ and I chose Freddie because he was sitting nicely on the floor and he was concentrating. ~ Liam M

I mailed a letter to Evie. I put it in the letter E for Evie. I used our post office in the classroom. ~ Lucy O

I was doing spelling on the whiteboard. I made ‘tap’. ~ Millie G

I’m climbing the rock climbing logs. We were doing PMP and we did hockey. ~ Rocco G

My board game is called ‘Listen To The Colours’. Here are the rules. If you land on:

BLACK you stay there until you roll a 6.
RED you’re out of the game for 20 seconds.
ORANGE you have to be a chicken for 5000 years. You can skip a few days.
BROWN you have to say 5 toilet words.
PURPLE stay there for 50 seconds.
BLUE get another counter to move on the board. Then you have 2 to move.
LIGHT GREEN AND LIGHT BLUE you lose the second counter.
DARK GREEN you can have as many more rolls as the number you rolled to get there.
GREY Tell a joke to the person you are playing with.
PINK Do the splits for 100 seconds.

~ Max M

Racing cars

We were racing cars down a pipe. Those umbrella things was for the car to jump up and bang them out. ~ Freddie C, FD

~ Foundation Teachers (Zoe, Kelly, Grace and Cathy) & Students