Curriculum News

Literacy

Reading

Literacy Groups will continue this term with students completing activities that focus on reading, speaking and listening. Students will deepen their understanding of letter-sound relationships by participating in Guided Reading sessions with their teacher and through a variety of activities. Activities focus on reading, oral language, M100W, Jolly Phonics and SMART Foundation.

The whole class reading strategies that we will focus on this term are:

• Rocky Racoon: visualising as we read
• Spinning Spider: using prior knowledge to make connections
• Tommy the Tuning In Tiger: tuning into interesting and new words
• Peeking Poodle: checking both pictures and words for meaning
• Fix Up Bear: using a fix-up strategy when a text doesn’t make sense

Writing

Daily writing lessons focus on SMART Foundation, genre writing and handwriting. Students are encouraged to write using their own experiences and resources such as M100W cards.  The genres for Term 3 are writing to explain, writing to entertain through poetry and writing to persuade. Explicit handwriting lessons continue this term with a focus on the correct entry and exit points of each letter. They use their handwriting workbook for this practise.  

Numeracy

Number and Algebra

Students will be learning about place value and recognising number names and quantities. They will continue practising counting forwards and backwards, partitioning five and ten and begin counting by 10s. They will also be learning about patterns with objects, drawings and shapes. Lastly in Number, students will learn about representing simple, everyday financial situations involving money.

Measurement and Geometry

Students will learn about time and clocks, and will focus on terminology such as ‘o’clock’ and ‘half past’.

Inquiry

Science

Earth and Space is our Inquiry unit topic this term. Foundation students will explore observable changes that occur in the sky and landscape such as day and night and daily and seasonal changes that affect everyday life.

RE

Religious Education is integrated where possible in curriculum areas. This term, students will focus on Social Justice through the lens of compassion, sharing and fairness. We will explore stories of Jesus from the Bible with discipleship.