Foundation Report

On Tuesday 1st August, Foundation students celebrated their 100 Days of School. It was wonderful to see everyone getting into the spirit and all the efforts gone into dressing up in costume for the day. As always our Foundation students shone on stage performing the 100 days song and dance. A proud moment for us all, watching the students being awarded their certificate, celebrating this milestone of how much every one of our students have learned and achieved since their first day of Primary School.

Literacy

Over the last few weeks in Literacy, students have engaged with a variety of rich texts related to our Inquiry topic on Living Things. Students have practised recognising the difference between a fiction and non fiction text and practised identifying their text features. During Language experiences, we have been continuing to focus on building students’ vocabulary and developing their understanding of the texts they read, through locating and retelling information from the text. Students explored writing their own non fiction texts, including simple sentences about where an animal lives, what an animal eats and what an animal looks like. We are continuing to engage students in practising speaking in full sentences and are beginning to encourage adding detail to their sentences. Students have been introduced to including the use of adjectives to describe the noun in their sentence.

Numeracy

In Numeracy, students have engaged in activities focusing on making and recording teen numbers. We have also started to inquire into Addition, using concrete materials and visual displays for adding small groups of numbers together. We have continued to explore comparing objects based on their length. Students have practised using informal units, such as unifix blocks to measure the length of various objects and record their findings. Students have also begun learning about Mass, using hefting to decide which object is heavier or lighter.

Inquiry

As part of making connections of the learning in class, about living things needs for survival and caring for animals, Foundation students went on their first excursion to Animal Land Children’s Farm. Students participated in a range of hands-on learning experiences such as hand milking cows, feeding ducks, goats, sheep and nursing baby animals, to name a few. It was a memorable experience and a fun filled day for our students, with an opportunity for a pony ride and tractor ride, not to mention the highlight of the day, for some, travelling on a double decker bus!