Foundation News
Reading
In Reading, the Foundation students focused on retelling stories and making inferences. Students explored a range of familiar and engaging texts such as The Gingerbread Man, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, and Elmer. They learned about the 5 Finger Retell strategy to identify the characters, setting, problem, events, and solution in stories. They also learned to infer by discussing how characters may have been feeling and explaining the clues that helped them work this out. Students participated in role plays, creating drawings, making puppets, and sharing ideas with their peers to deepen their understanding of texts.
“The book was about the little girl” - Alex FA
“The problem was the wolf was trying to eat her” - Willow FA
“The fox ate the gingerbread man.” - Sophia FB
“The little goat tricked the troll.” - Izian FB
Writing
This fortnight in Writing, students continued to build their understanding of adjectives and sentence building. Students learned how adjectives describe nouns and how they can be used to expand simple sentences both orally and in their writing. Students also learned about colourful semantics and using it to identify the who, what and where in sentences, stories and pictures. They practised writing dominant sounds in words while identifying the parts of colourful semantics while using the skills they learned in spelling.
“L is easy to write” - Jiraiya FA
“The cup is blue” - Aaliyah FA
“Adjectives are like white shoes.” - Taner FB
“Green is the adjective.” - Neo FB
Maths
In Maths, students began learning about the Days of the Week. They learned that there are seven days in a week, including five weekdays and two weekend days. Through songs and games, students practised ordering the days correctly. Students also explored and compared the duration of different events, identifying which activities take longer or shorter amounts of time.
“That one took the longest because it was so far” - Gurbaaz FA
“Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday!” - Akanete FA
“Tomorrow is Wednesday.” - Layla FB
“The second one takes longer because there is more.” - Muhammad FB
Inquiry
During Inquiry, students learned about the basic needs of animals for survival. They explored how all animals need food, water, air, and shelter to live and grow. Students also learned about responsible pet care and discussed ways to keep pets happy and healthy, such as providing the right food, regular exercise, fresh water, and safe shelter.
“Animals need a bed to sleep on” - Mia FA
“Dogs and cats need water” - Jiraiya FA
“Dogs need to go for walks.” - Levant FB
“Animals need food and water to not be hungry.” - Hussein FB
Social and Emotional Learning / SWPBS
In Social and Emotional Learning, the Foundation students continued to learn about problem solving. Students participated in interactive games and role plays that encouraged them to think about how their actions affect others. They practised solving everyday problems, using kind words, including others in play, and showing respect both in the classroom and playground. In SWPBS, the Foundation cohort learned how to move safely around the classroom and identify the correct play spaces around the school. As students began to use technology in the classroom, they participated in discussions regarding how to use devices responsibly.
“I like the bean bag game” - Gurbaaz FA
“I can share” - Rubani FA
“When someone is hurt, helping them is kind.” - Beauty FB
“You need to walk around the classroom so you don’t get hurt.” - River FB
AUSLAN
In Auslan, students explored feelings, greetings, and questions. They learned how to sign different emotions such as happy, sad, excited, tired, and brave. Students also practised matching their signs with appropriate facial expressions. The Foundation students participated in songs, circle time discussions, and sharing their own feelings using Auslan. They learned greetings and questions including “Good morning”, “How are you?” and “What’s your name?” as they signed conversations with their peers.
“This is happy” - Mia FA
“I can do hello” - Jiraiya FA
“Miss T says good morning.” - Izian FB
“I can show sad.” - Amara FB
Special Events
ES Week
This fortnight, the Foundation students celebrated Education Support (ES) week by showing appreciation for the wonderful ES staff who support them everyday. Students created special card letters filled with kind words, drawings and thank you messages. They showed the school value of kindness as they presented these letters to the ES staff. The Foundation students also shared a few words to acknowledge the care, support, and encouragement the ES staff provide in the classroom.
“Thank you” - Cristiano FA
“Thank you for helping me”- Alex FA
“They help us.” - Thomas FB
“I made a card for them.” - River FB
Education Week
During Education Week, the Foundation students enjoyed a range of engaging learning experiences. Families were invited into the classroom during Education Week Open Classroom, where students proudly demonstrated their learning in phonics by reading and spelling words using the sounds they have been practising. They joined the students as they explored Indigenous perspectives through the text KooKoo Kookaburra and discussed how the bush animals may have felt throughout the story. Students then worked alongside their parents and carers to create bush animal masks inspired by the story and the characters’ emotions.
“Look what I made with my mum” - Akanete FA
“Will mum see my writing?” - Willow FA
“I made a mask with my mum.” - Taner FB
“Making the masks is fun.” - Thomas FB
