Foundation

Reminders And Dates For Foundation Students

Werribee Zoo Excursion - Friday 15th November

Swimming Program - Monday 2nd December until Friday 6th December

State-wide Transition Day for 2025 classes - Tuesday 10th December 11.30am - 1.30pm

Prep incursion- Dan the magic man

Prep lunch and Dan the Magic Man visit - Wednesday 18th December 11:30 - 1:30pm

Last day of term 4 - Friday 20th December 1:30pm dismissal 

LITERACY:

Reading

Students will be revising the sounds covered over the past 5 weeks and work on fluency during fluency pairs. They will be reviewing all the sounds that have been taught over the past few weeks including: 

sh/, /ch/, /th/,/ck/, /wh, /ng/, /q//u/ as in queen.  

Students will be making longer 5 sound words with these sounds. They will be introduced the tch sound as in watch and le sound as in candle. 

Writing

Students will be learning to expand their sentences using sentence stems with the words before and after. Students will begin learning to develop characters to include in a narrative story. They will then draft and publish a short narrative story including a setting, beginning, middle and end. They will continue to practise letter formation, spacing between words and full stops and capital letters.

Speaking and Listening

Students will show and share things that are important to them and learn how to greet, end and ask questions about their chosen topic. Students will present their investigation project for inquiry about their chosen animal habitat to the class in a clear voice and describe how different animals adapt to different environments.

NUMERACY:

Number & Algebra 

Students will be learning and revising a range of practical strategies for adding and subtracting small groups of numbers. They will also revise place value by understanding the value of teen numbers by using concrete materials to understand tens and ones. 

Measurement & Geometry: 

Students will be learning to sort and describe 2D shapes such as squares, circles, triangles and rectangles according to their features. They will also begin to recognise 3D shapes in their environment. 

Statistics & Probability: 

They will explore the concept of collecting and representing data. Students will explore and answer yes/no questions to collect information.

INQUIRY: 

Students will be exploring how different animals adapt to their habitat. After our Werribee Zoo Excursion, students will complete an investigation project where they will create an animal and it's habitat, describe it's features and present their project to the class. They will explain how they made their animal, materials' they used and ask questions and give helpful feedback to their peers.

Music

The Prep students will keep singing and playing instruments to express their experiences and ideas. In the coming weeks, they will also learn some Wadawurrung language by singing the song "Ngarrimili."

Physical Education: 

As we approach the second half of Term 4, Foundation students will complete their unit on Gymnastics, and also work on linked movement sequences through dance. 

Art:

In the last half of the term, Visual Arts students will dive into a "choice-based" learning approach, focused on Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB). This method empowers students to choose their own artistic paths, exploring what interests them most. Art stations include clay sculpting, drawing, painting, collage, and construction. Each station allows students to experiment, build skills, and express creativity. We’re excited to see the unique and personal art each student will create!

STEM: 

In the second half of this term Foundation students will be focussing on caring for their local area. We will be learning about our dunes system and what lives there, our coastline and the plants and animals that call it their home. Students will discuss being responsible at the beach, caring for our oceans and strategies to look after for our local environment.