Foundation Unit

This fortnight we have been exploring how to read and write the long a and long e sounds. We have learnt ‘ai’, like in paid, rain, and snail, and ‘ee’, like in seed, feet, and sheep. 

In Writing, the Foundation students have been looking at writer’s craft techniques and how they engage a reader. Students have been looking at rhyming, precise verbs, onomatopoeia and alliterations in texts. The students have also had a go at writing some 5 senses poems, beginning with the sentence stems ‘I can see…’ ‘I can hear…’ ‘I can smell…’ We have read a variety of Alison Lester books to support this unit and collected interesting words that help us to make our sentences more exciting and enjoyable to read. 

In Maths, students have been working on creating a worded problem for subtraction. They have also explored different ways to solve and record the problem including drawing a diagram and writing a number sentence. 

In Inquiry, students have explored the Djaara Seasonal Calendar. They have looked at how it differs from the four season calendar, and how the Djaara Seasonal Calendar uses observations and changes to the environment to determine what season we are in.

Students have been working collaboratively between both Foundation classrooms to create a display explaining and ordering the seasons which will be put on display in the corridor by the start of next term.  

Foundation Teachers

Libby Cannon (PLC), Bree Smith (PBS)