Classroom News
Foundation
Term 2, Week 10
Blackburn Primary School
The Foundation students completed our Inquiry topic ‘Weather in our World’. Our students investigated and researched different aspects of weather in our world. Their work is displayed inside our building, outside the Foundation classrooms.
Our students have enjoyed using the Heggerty’s program to develop phonemic and phonological awareness and we are seeing the benefits in our reading and writing sessions. The Foundation students continued to develop their Reading and Writing skills, linking the information to our mentor texts throughout the term. We read both fiction and non-fiction texts, explored new vocabulary, used decoding strategies to help us read and used the information to develop our ideas in Writing.
In Numeracy, our focus this term was counting, understanding the place value of teen numbers in terms of tens and ones, addition, collecting data and measurement. Over the holidays you may like to continue to look for everyday opportunities to talk about Numbers which are everywhere, whether it is skip counting looking from letter box numbers as you go for a walk or simple addition stories.
We are looking forward to our Parents/Teacher interviews over the next two sharing the achievements our students have made. We will also discuss future goals for your child going into Semester Two.
Reminders:
PMP Fridays Term 3 - Please let us know if you are able to assist.
Fairytale Fiasco Week 1 Term 3 - Please check Compass to give consent for this fabulous incursion.
Thank you,
Foundation Team
Vicky, Louise, Kirsten and Alannah