Foundation Unit
This Fortnight in Foundation, students have continued to investigate living things and what they need to survive. Students have been creating an animal of their choice out of polystyrene balls. They have also discussed and created what their animal will need to survive.
Thank you so much to all parents and carers who attended Parent Teacher Interviews this week. These interviews were a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the achievements of all students and physically show you how far your child has come with their learning this year, by looking at samples of their work. We are just so proud of each and every child!
The Foundation teachers would like to extend a huge heartfelt thanks to all families for supporting your child with their learning. All students have made outstanding growth to date and supporting your child with their learning at home greatly assists in their achievement at school. Term 2 has been a long term to say the least and we have been so impressed with how each and every child has continued to persevere with their learning, even though they are feeling extremely tired.
Classroom teachers will be sending home 5 levelled texts with every child so you can continue to support your child with their learning during the school holidays. Alternatively, the Wheeler’s Centre has a variety of texts available to borrow online. Your child’s username and password is stapled to the front of their reader diary. If you are after some other ideas of things you could do with your child over the holidays they could keep a diary by writing about some of the things they do. You could also play a new maths game with them at home they have recently learnt, that requires them to apply what they have learnt about numbers and early addition so far. The game is called Up & Down and the students have been playing a modified version that is played as follows:
Materials: 2 six sided dice, paper, pencil
How to play:
All players write the numbers from 1 to 12 down the page.
Players take turns at rolling both dice in order to cross out a different number or numbers on their page. They can either cross out the numbers they roll or cross out the sum of the numbers rolled.
The winner is the first player to cross out all numbers from 1 to 12.
Foundation Teachers
Libby Cannon (PLC), Bree Smith (PBS)