Foundation
Teachers: Nikki Lewis, Courtney Williams, Bec Mealings and Lauren Pring
Important Dates:
Week 9
Monday 9th September – Numeracy Week Dress Up Day
Monday 9th - Tuesday 10th September - Parent Teacher Interviews
Tuesday 10th September – Numeracy Week Maths Show (payment available via Compass)
Friday 13th September – Curriculum Day
Week 10
Monday 16th September – Whole School Assembly
Tuesday 17th September – Movie Day (Wear Your Pyjamas!)
Friday 20th September – Footy Finals Hot Dog Day (Wear Your Team's Colours!)
Friday 20th September – End of Term (3:30pm Dismissal)
Numeracy Week
Vermont Primary School will be holding its Numeracy Week from the 9th - 13th September.
On Monday 9th September, students are encouraged to come to school in free dress with a number represented somewhere on their shirts.
On Tuesday 10th September, all students will be attending a Maths incursion. For Foundation to Year 2, it's a Maths Show which is full of mathematical history, puzzles, magic and fun – designed to entertain and engage students while substantially increasing their interest in Mathematics! The cost is $8 per student. Please complete the payment and permission form on Compass by this Sunday 8th September for your child to attend.
Olympic and Paralympic Activities with our Buddies!
On Wednesday morning, all Foundation classes joined their Grade 6 Buddies for some exciting Olympic and Paralympic activities. Thank you to the Grade 6 students who planned, set up and ran these amazing activities for us. We had so much fun and we loved being presented with our medals.
Father's Day Picnic
Last Friday we very excitedly welcomed along our Fathers, Grandfathers and Special Friends to a picnic at Vermont Primary School! The Foundation students loved spending time with their special visitors.
Thank you for the Cardboard Boxes!
We have been very lucky to receive an enormous amount of cardboard boxes for our upcoming toy build next week. Thank you so much for bringing these along to school for us. We now have more than enough cardboard boxes, however, if you happen to have some shoe boxes at home, we would love to start collecting these for our designs in Term 4!
What’s on in the Classroom?
Maths
- Understanding the place value of digits in numbers up to 100 and beyond:
- Measuring the length of objects using informal units like unifix cubes.
- Understand and using ordinal numbers to describe positions in a sequence.
Literacy
- Revising and learning new sounds.
- Learning common words.
- Using our sounds to read simple sentences.
Writing
- Developing our letter formation on dotted-thirds.
- Writing a list of items needed to make our toys.
- Writing a letter to our buddies:
Show and Tell Timetable:
Week 9 Week beginning 9th September |
Free Choice
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Week 10 Week beginning 16th September |
No Show and Tell – showing a toy we made in class
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