Foundation

Home Inquiry 

Jolly Sounds

Check out our YouTube channel. Every week a new set of sounds will be put up to share with your children at home or even show you how we teach them the sound and action. In their purple pouch is the sound and action sheet to practice. You can get them to write it any way you like for example with a water sprayer, playdough, shaving cream, write it in flour. Just as long as they are starting from the correct position and forming the sound correctly. Handwriting hero app is great to use to ensure formation is correct. 

Heart Words

Students were sent home the first sheet of heart (snap) words. Please check our YouTube channel to show you how to practice the first set of heart words. 

Jolly Words

These are words that can be sounded out and blended. The children say each sound in the words and then blend them together to read the word. We encourage them to chop the sounds on their hand and then blend them together to read the word. They are to keep the card until they are comfortable with the words and blending accurately and then in the mornings they can swap for a new card. Once they have ticked off all the colour dots in that colour card section, we will test them and move them up to the next colour card if they are successful. Please keep these in their Jolly (purple) pouch always. See our YouTube channel for the video showing how to do them. 

YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLnfvRwv4dyqmDKu0nLh2Vw 

Week 2 learning program:

 Readers Workshop – Strategies that help us read

Word Study – sounds: ee, or, ue       Heart words: there, who do

Bookmaking – Spotlight session: Crafting

Inquiry into Maths 

Teen numbers, subitising, sequencing events

Where We Are In Place and Time

Central idea:  Celebrations and place are significant to people  

Line of inquiry 1: Families and cultures 

Line of inquiry 2: Places that are special  

Line of inquiry 3: Significant events are celebrated 

Learner profile: Open-minded, Knowledgeable, Inquirers 

Key concepts: Connection, perspective 

Christian Studies: Christian Church 

Key Idea: Christians pray, worship and celebrate the sacraments 

Children share their experiences of Christian prayer, worship and celebrations.  

Kimochis at home: We have 2 very special Kimochis that are going to come for a visit on the weekend. Brave bug and Curious Cat. Students have designated weekends where they will bring home a small bug or cat and a book with instructions of what they will need to do. They will take the Kimochi home on a Friday and bring them back on the Monday. Please make sure they are taken care of and don’t get drawn on or eaten by any family pets.  If you do not have a printer at home, we are happy to print for you. 

Hats: Students do not need a hat in Term 2 and Term 3. These can be washed and kept at home or in the front pouch of their school bag, so they don’t get lost during this time.

Gumboots: During the colder months as the weather gets wetter and muddier, it is a great idea for students to wear gumboots in the nature play at break times. If your child enjoys playing in nature play, please send gumboots labelled with their name to school. These are kept in plastic bags on the children’s bag hooks by our classroom.    

Consent to Australian Early Development Census (AEDC)

Please see below a link to a letter regarding the AEDC census that is due to start on 8 May. If you do not consent to the collection of your child's information, please contact your child's teacher before 7 May and no information about your child will be collected.

Keep smiling,   

Emma and Amy 

Emma Wachtel: wachtel.emma@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

Amy Hughes: hughes.amy@goldengrove.sa.edu.au