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Curriculum

Halo semuanya - hello everyone!

Welcome back for Week 7 of Term 4! Although we have a rainy week ahead, we would like to remind everyone that hats are still required for all outdoor play times. Thank you for double checking that your child has a hat! 

In Week 6 we introduced a new purpose of writing… to persuade! Students made choices and explained their choices. This week we are going to be extending our persuasive language skills in Reading and Writing. We will be needing help from our VCOP gang as we try to convince others about the best colour crayon and the best places to visit. Students will need to remember to use WOW Words to make sure their ideas are interesting for the audience (thanks Vinny!), connectives such as ‘because’ to give reasons to match their ideas (thanks Connie!) and may experiment with punctuation such as exclamation marks (thanks Penny!). Check out Seesaw for a range of prompts to practise using persuasive language at home! Can you change each other’s minds? Do you agree or respectfully disagree?

Foundation students were lucky enough to participate in cricket clinics during PE sessions throughout the week and loved connecting cricket to Maths! We used our creativity to imagine that we were going on a trip to a cricket competition! Before we could board the plane, there was some planning to be done! Students “packed” a suitcase with the equipment, clothing, food and other materials necessary for our trip. Whilst packing, they compared and ordered their objects based on length and mass. Students were excited to explore the use of unifix blocks and rulers to measure to determine the shortest and longest objects. They used their hands to practise the ‘hefting’ strategy to determine the lightest and heaviest objects! Keep your eyes peeled on Seesaw to see their projects in action! Great collaboration and teamwork was happening in Foundation.

  Throughout Wellbeing sessions, we have been exploring a range of Character Strengths and using them to describe ourselves and those around us. Did you know that November 13th is World Kindness Day? Well we do! Foundation started a 20 Days of Kindness Challenge to practise using our character strengths of kindness, gratitude, bravery, humour and creativity. What can you do at home that would show kindness?

We are excited to welcome Tegan Kitteringham (Miss K) to the Foundation team to complete her final placement. You will see her friendly face in FJ for the next 4 weeks! 

Your Foundation teaching team, 

Brooke Henwood, Jessica Hirvonen and Ella Gasowski.

Student Voice

Kindness Challenge Day 1: Say Thank You - Who could we say thank you to?

• Joey X - "Mrs Andrews"
• Rashi B - "Miss Henwood for teaching us"
• Ryan H - "Terima kasih Bu Mundy for teaching us Indonesian"

Reminders

• FG will be hosting our Assembly on Wednesday 16th of November at 3pm. 
• All students are required to wear a labelled hat when outside.
• We would recommend checking in with your child to find out if they require additional food to eat during the day. We suggest adding extra fruit or vegetables to see them through as the weather warms up.

Pupil of the Week

FG: Roy S -

For demonstrating a love of learning during writing this week. You used WOW words to add exciting detail to your persuasive sentences, and used lots of different Ollie Openers. Keep up the amazing work, Roy!

FH: Rashi B -

For demonstrating perseverance in writing by carefully listening to the sounds in challenging words such as pop corn machine. You did a wonderful job of writing two letter codes that you heard! Amazing Rashi!!

FJ: Kaia D -

For demonstrating a love of learning during writing sessions. You have worked hard to include adjectives and connectives when writing a diary entry. Vinny Vocab and Connie Connective would be very proud. Great job Kaia!