Learning Space News
Foundation
100 Days of School
Last week the Foundation students celebrated their 100th day of school! It was a wonderful milestone and everyone should feel very proud of how much they have learned since the first day of school. Students enjoyed fun activities about the number 100 and received a medal at a special assembly. Teachers are very proud of the progress students have made and look forward to even more learning, fun and growth next semester.
“I loved dressing up as a grandma!” - Ivy N
“I love we got 100 snacks, but not the yucky ones!” - Devante
“We got a medal!” - Sarawatey
“It was the best day ever!” - Emily
English
Students have continued to grow in their literacy learning, with a strong focus on developing oral language through rich, hands-on language experiences. They have loved connecting their sounds to engaging activities, including creating colourful jellyfish for the letter J and having rainy-day fun with umbrellas for the letter U. These experiences have inspired students to use their creativity when writing about what they have learnt and enjoyed.
Students have also been introduced to procedure writing. They have learnt that a procedure is a text that tells us how to do or make something. To build their understanding, students have participated in a range of practical language experiences before learning to write the steps in the correct order. So far, they have learnt how to make jam toast, complete a triple jump and run a race. These engaging activities have helped students understand the importance of using clear, sequenced instructions.
Students have continued to work incredibly hard during phonics sessions, developing their skills in segmenting and blending words, and spelling using the sounds they know. These skills are supporting students to read increasingly more challenging texts and write more detailed and confident sentences.
Students have already achieved so much this term, and we are incredibly proud of the progress they have made. We look forward to seeing their confidence and learning continue to grow throughout the remainder of Term 3.
Mathematics
Students will continue to develop and strengthen their number sense, building confidence with recognising, naming, representing, and ordering numbers from zero to at least 20. They have started to learn about addition and subtraction, using a range of strategies to solve problems. Storytelling and drawing are key tools to help them explain their thinking, and students shared the steps they took to find their answers. It has been wonderful to see them not only working with numbers but also beginning to articulate the processes behind their mathematical thinking.
Students are exploring a variety of measurement concepts including length, capacity, mass, and duration. They will participate in a range of engaging, hands-on activities such as comparing and ordering objects by size, experimenting with containers to see which holds more or less, weighing everyday classroom items, and exploring how long different activities take. These activities will allow students to connect their mathematical learning to the real world, deepening their understanding of how maths is used in daily life.
Inquiry - Australian Animals
Students chose to learn more about Australian animals for their Inquiry project. They have been learning lots of fun facts about Australian animals, including facts about their appearance, habitat and diet.
Each week students are learning about a different Australian animal, such as koalas, kangaroos and wombats. They are learning lots of new vocabulary as they discuss the different animals, such as ‘herbivore’, ‘nocturnal’ and ‘marsupial’. Students have been labelling the different parts of the animals and then making their own Australian animals from different craft materials to add to the learning space display.
Students have been connecting each animal to an indigenous story and learning the indigenous word for the animal, such as ‘kurboroo’ is the Bunurong word for koala.
On Monday 7th September, students will get to celebrate all their learning when they go on an excursion to Moonlit Sanctuary, and get up close to some of the Australian animals that they have been learning about.
