Foundation Unit

Now that it's week 4, the Foundation students have settled into the routines of Woodend Primary School and we have been able to really explore some more academic elements of the classroom. We absolutely love seeing the students’ enthusiasm for learning and gaining new knowledge. We can’t wait to watch the continued growth of the Foundation students. 

In our phonics lessons, we have continued to develop our knowledge of 6 letters (s,a,t,p,i,n). Students are learning their sounds and how to write these using the correct letter formation. They are also learning to segment words and record them. We have also been practising the cued articulation for the 26 single letter sounds. 

During reading lessons, we continue to practice pointing to words as we read, but are also showing the students how to get their mouth ready for the first sound in the word. Students have increased their knowledge about concepts of print and are searching for their HFW whilst looking through texts. 

For writing, we have been using sentence stems to write sentences. Students used the sentence stems ‘I am’, ‘My pet’, ‘My family’ and then chose something that they could write about, recording any sounds they could hear in their chosen word. 

Maths has been all about representing numbers to 10 and how it can be represented in many different ways (tens frames, tally marks, dots that can be easily subitised). We have also been practising writing these numerals and matching a collection of that size to the numeral. 

We are excited to begin our inquiry project on families and communities. In class, students have been busy drawing a 5 star drawing of their family.

Also, just a friendly reminder that students' reader bags (blue book bag) need to be brought to school every day. 

Foundation Teachers

Libby Cannon (PLC), Bree Smith (PBS)