Hello from our students and teachers

Hello from Room 10 - Foundation Grade 1 Q 

On Monday our class enjoyed a special visit from the Teddy Bear Hospital run by Monash University. Big Ted and his friends taught us all about the important roles medical professionals have in our lives. They set up different areas for us to explore, an operating table, asthma station, plaster area, food information station, emotions table, x-ray area, immunisation station, and a General Practitioner information area. We had lots of fun learning about how to keep ourselves healthy!

Literacy

This term we have continued learning how to write recounts and learned to write our own narrative stories based on fairy tales we know. We have stopped verbally sharing our Investigation Time plans and are instead writing down our plans.

Book Week was so much fun! Everyone in our class came dressed up. We loved sharing our costumes and books with each other. 

Over the past few weeks we have begun learning about information texts. We can identify many features found in information texts and have enjoyed learning about kangaroos, wombats and echidnas. Our knowledge of these animals has developed and we can share about how these animals look, what they eat, where they live, and what they can do. We have learned how to label a diagram and what and animal lifecycle look like.

Numeracy

This term we have been learning lots about subtraction. We are able to use lots of different words that tell us that we are using subtraction - minus, less, subtract, take away, difference, deduct, decrease and fewer. We have used lots of manipulatives to help us learn to subtract in lots of different ways. We can represent our subtraction as a diagram, number sentence and on a number line. 

Our favourite subtraction activity was 'Smartie Subtraction'. Mrs Q got us all a packet of mini Smarties, we had to count and record how many we had. Mrs Q let us eat one or two, but we had to record our subtraction using a diagram and write a matching number sentence. It was a very YUMMY maths lesson!

This week we have started learning about money. We have made coin rubbings, played money games and are getting very good at talking about the features of each coin. We are learning to identify, name and order the Australian coins from the least valuable to the most valuable, placing them on a number line was very tricky!

Learning about Money at Home - Play Money Caterpillars

Give your children a handful of small change and some paper and coloured pencils. Ask them to draw around the coins or do some coin rubbings in rows of up to six coins, writing their values in each coin and colouring in their creatures to create some bright and colourful designs. Now, ask your child to add up the coins that make up each caterpillar’s body, to find each ones monetary value. Which caterpillar is most expensive? Is that because it has the most coins, or because it has fewer coins of higher value?