Foundation
The Foundation students returned to Term 3 with confidence and enthusiasm, quickly settling back into their classroom routines. It has been wonderful to see them reconnect with their peers and the school community, and watch them continue grow in confidence and independence as they build on all they have achieved so far this year.
NAIDOC Week
On the first week of Term 3, the Foundation students celebrated NAIDOC week. They learnt more about the history and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by learning about Dreamtime stories. They listened to a Dreamtime story, Warnayarra the Rainbow snake, and then painted their own versions of the rainbow snake.
Term 3 Overview
Literacy
MSL
The main reading focus for the Foundation students in Term 3 include:
- Learning about vowel digraphs such as 'oo', 'ai' and 'ay', 'ee' and 'ea', 'ie' and the trigraph 'igh'.
- Re-reading sentences for fluency and comprehension
Reading
The students have been enjoying engaging in various mentor texts during Reader's Workshop. This term, the Foundation students will again explore several mentor texts, such as Koala Lou, to provide opportunities to develop their comprehension skills, make connections, share ideas, and deepen their understanding of characters, settings, and themes within stories.
Writing
During our Writing sessions, the Foundation students are working on:
- Letter formation and sizing using dotted thirds lines
- Adding capital letters, finger spaces and full stops to sentences
- Writing down dictated sentences
- Identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives
- Writing a recount of our experiences and including details such as the setting, and who was there
- Retelling familiar stories and events through illustrations and labelling
Mathematics
This term, we will be exploring:
- Counting and comparing collections of up to 20 and beyond, including representing teen numbers and counting forwards and backwards from a given number.
- Adding and subtraction for numbers to 10, including identifying number pairs that make a given total, partitioning and combining numbers to 10, understanding part-part-whole relationships of numbers to 10.
- 3D shapes
- Non-standard measurement of mass
STEAM
Our STEAM Unit for Term 3 will be the Commonwealth Games. We will be:
- Learning about what the Commonwealth Games are, and;
- Participating in our own mini-Commonwealth Games at school
Important Dates
- Monday 13th July: First day of Term 3
- 100th Day of School: 29th July
- 7th August: Foundation Mini-Commonwealth Games
- 24th- 28th August: Book Week
- Friday 28th August: Book Week Dress Up Day
- Week of 7th September and 14th September: School Swimming
- Friday 18th September: End of Term 3