Foundation: Connect

Weeks 6 and 7

Please remember to pack cutlery if required for a lunch order

Foundation Working Bee is Thursday 21st March 3:30pm-5:30pm.

Many hands make light work, the more the merrier! Kids welcome to come and help too!

Week 6 will be the Foundation Students' first full 5 day week! We look forward to building their learning stamina to include Wednesdays now!

Week 6 and 7 Timetables:

Wednesday testing has concluded
Please note Monday 11th March is Labor Day - No school
Creative Communities take place on even weeks

Working Bee

On Thursday 21st of March 3:30-5:30pm we have a FOUNDATION WORKING BEE if you’d like to help participate. It is to reinvigorate the outside area behind the Foundation learning space. The idea would be to help set it up into a workable space that students can use as a learning space outside and for developmental play opportunities. It may require pruning trees, sweeping, organising resources etc. If you would like to contribute please email the office and they will let the Foundation team know. We are hoping to make this into a beautiful area for the students.

Take Home Books!

Students are being super responsible for their readers which makes us super proud! Please make sure students have a satchel for their books so they stay in great condition. We are changing weekly (Mondays) which is working super well! We have printed some great decodable books from SPELD so if these come home it is fine – they are allowed to be in satchels. They are great texts that the students can segment and blend well with sounds learnt.

Morning Routine

Your children are doing a fabulous job each morning, getting more and more confident with each day!

The Foundation teachers aim to foster your child's independence and we encourage a quick drop off at the door for them to begin their morning routine. It's OK if they forget a step along the way - we are here to help!

Literacy

Students will be consolidating and reviewing the letters s/a/t/p/i/n. They will be building upon their knowledge of these sounds and take the sounds from isolation and start blending the sounds to form words. For example they will segment the sounds and say /s/a/t sounding it out individually then blend the word together and say ‘sat’ fluently. Reading fluency will commence in classes which will involves reading word lists that are decodable with sounds they have learnt.

We are learning the heart words ‘the, to and was’. These are words that students will learn off by heart as they have a tricky part to them.

Orally constructing a full sentence is a focus, with students being able to identify the who and the what in the sentence. We have been looking at pictures to help stimulate sentence ideas and been sharing our ideas with a partner.

Numeracy

The focus in numeracy for Weeks 6 and 7 is number fluency. We are working to consolidate understanding by students making numbers with manipulatives such as MAB, Unifix and popsicle sticks. Being able to 'make' a number embeds a strong foundation that goes beyond the recognition of number names and numerals.

Tens Frames will utilised so students can learn to 'trust the count'. This means when students read, write or hear ‘seven’, they can imagine what that collection might look like and how it relates to other numbers.

Celebrations From Weeks 4 &5!

Foundation students have now become familiar exploring our incredible Playscape. They have been building on their fine motor skills by making our focus letters out of playdough, what enjoyment and delight was had when the tubs came out!

Tummies were extra full after our special cooking session with Mr Marco! Students learned how to safely prepare and cook savoury muffins! Herbs were chopped, mixtures were scooped and a total of 176 muffins were cooked... AND EATEN! There may have been a little help from some siblings and teachers with taste testing - all in the name of quality control of course!