Foundation: Connect
A reminder for Term 4 that all students must have their hats every day.
Please feel free to add some sunscreen into yours child's school bags.
Students are loving the fruit at breakfast club that they often have at 'fruit' snack time. We are encouraging students to eat their own fruit first.
Please return all take-home readers every Monday with the reading folder. If you could have a look for any old books, and send them back that would be great.
Term 4
Literacy
This week in Core Literacy, our Foundation students have been consolidating their knowledge of sounds and spelling patterns, including ‘ar’ as in car, ‘all’ as in ball and magic ‘e’. We have continued practising heart words, with a focus on ‘live’, and applying our learning when reading and writing sentences. Partner reading has provided opportunities to practise sounding out and blending words to build reading fluency.
In Reading and Writing, students have been exploring information texts and researching an animal of their choice. They have been gathering facts about their animal’s appearance, diet and habitat, then turning their notes into full sentences. The iPads did create a lot of excitement but sadly the internet was not always kind to us when trying to connect but we persevered and were flexible! Students are also learning to create labelled diagrams using adjectives. We really appreciated you discussing different animal choices with them at home and letting them bring in items and researched facts before it had even begun! The dioramas are in full swing and they are loving creating them in Developmental Play.
Alongside this, we have continued writing weekend recounts, using words such as ‘first’, ‘next’, ‘then’ and ‘finally’ to sequence events, and rereading our work to check capital letters and full stops.
Numeracy
In Maths, we have been exploring place value and learning how numbers can be represented using tens and ones. Students have used hands-on materials to build and partition numbers, recognising that 34, for example, is made up of three tens and four ones. We have also been comparing and ordering numbers, explaining our thinking using ‘greater than’, ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’. Counting by twos and tens and practising one more and one less continue to support our number fluency.
Important Dates
Curriculum Day: No school on Monday 2nd November
Week 6: Cooking times with Mr Marco
- 0A Thursday Sessions 1&2
- 0B Thursday Session 3&4.
Have a wonderful week!
Kind regards,
Alex Whittle (0A) and Kate Clark (0B)
Foundation Team