Foundation Report

Over the past two weeks in Inquiry, students in Foundation have been learning about how living things survive and researching how they can care for animals and pets. This has allowed students to think about the environment animals live in, identify different things  various animals need to survive (such as food, shelter, water) and sort animals based on their features. 

Within Literacy, students have built on their knowledge gained from Inquiry lessons and have used the text ‘Heads and Tails’ written by John Canty to learn about descriptive vocabulary which described animal features. Students then created a factual minibook on an animal of their choice and used pictures and words to describe 4 different features of that animal. Check out some of these examples from Foundation B:

Students have been learning about subtraction and 2D shapes. With subtraction, they have been  using language such as ‘altogether’, ‘take-away’ and ‘makes’ to describe the process of taking one group away from another. The takeaway symbol and language of ‘minus’ isn’t taught within the Foundation curriculum. Students have been finding various shapes within the school environment and are learning to classify shapes based on their features.