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Important Dates Friday 11th May: Mother’s Day Stall Teddy Bear’s Picnic Friday 18th May: Grandparent’s Morning Monday 11th June: Queen’s Birthday Holiday Friday 29th June: Last day of Term 2. Moving Day Last Thursday, with the help of many wonderful parents, we moved furniture and resources into our stunning new rooms. Thank you so, so much to all those amazing helpers. We couldn’t believe how quickly our rooms started to look like Foundaon classrooms!! 8th May 2018 Highlights from Term 1 The Foundation students had a very busy end to Term 1. Our excursion to Legoland was fabulous and the children enjoyed creating and building with Lego. Our Learning Celebration afternoon gave the Foundation students the opportunity to showcase their learning. The children were surprised by just how much they had already learnt! It was with great excitement that we ended Term 1 with Easter activities and an Easter egg hunt. CAFE Reading You may have heard the Foundation students talking about CAFE reading. We use CAFÉ to introduce and reinforce the reading strategies: C — Comprehension. I listen to and understand stories that are read to me. A — Accuracy. I hear, work and play with spoken language. F — Fluency. I know letters, sounds and words. E — Expand Vocabulary. I am aware of print and know how to handle a book. The students work on individual goals based on these strategies. In our Reading sessions the students have been concentrating on: * where to begin reading; * full stops, exclamation marks and question marks; * the beginning, middle and end of stories. Botanic Gardens Excursion The Foundaon students had a wonderful day at the Botanic Gardens. We were so lucky with the weather and enjoyed sunshine for the most of the day. The only rain was when we were geng into the bus at the end of the day! The students poed daffodil bulbs, saw and heard the story of the “Lightning Tree”, took a rainforest walk, visited the herb garden, made potpourri and had a wonderful me exploring the Children’s Garden. On our return we asked the students what their favourite part of the day was and the answer was……. “EVERYTHING!”
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Important Dates
Friday 11th May: Mother’s Day Stall
Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Friday 18th May: Grandparent’s Morning
Monday 11th June: Queen’s Birthday Holiday
Friday 29th June: Last day of Term 2.
Moving Day
Last Thursday, with the help of many wonderful parents, we moved furniture and resources into our stunning new rooms. Thank you so, so much to all those amazing helpers. We couldn’t believe how quickly our rooms started to look like Foundation classrooms!!
8th May 2018
Highlights from Term 1
The Foundation students had a very busy end to Term 1. Our excursion to
Legoland was fabulous and the children enjoyed creating and building with Lego. Our Learning Celebration afternoon gave the Foundation students the
opportunity to showcase their learning. The children were surprised by just
how much they had already learnt! It was with great excitement that we
ended Term 1 with Easter activities and an Easter egg hunt.
CAFE Reading
You may have heard the Foundation students talking about CAFE reading.
We use CAFÉ to introduce and reinforce the reading strategies: C — Comprehension. I listen to and understand stories that are read to me.
A — Accuracy. I hear, work and play with spoken language.
F — Fluency. I know letters, sounds and words.
E — Expand Vocabulary. I am aware of print and know how to handle a book.
The students work on individual goals based on these strategies.
In our Reading sessions the students have been concentrating on:
* where to begin reading; * full stops, exclamation marks and question marks;
* the beginning, middle and end of stories.
Botanic Gardens Excursion
The Foundation students had a wonderful day at the Botanic Gardens. We were so lucky with the weather and enjoyed sunshine for the most of the day. The only rain was when we were getting into the bus at the end of the day! The students potted daffodil bulbs, saw and heard the story of the “Lightning Tree”, took a rainforest walk, visited the herb garden, made potpourri and had a wonderful time exploring the Children’s Garden. On our return we asked the students what their favourite part of the day was and the answer was……. “EVERYTHING!”
Term 2
Page 2 Foundation Newsletter
Our Inquiry Units for Term 2 are “Sustaining Life” and “We Are All Connected”
In the “Sustaining Life “ unit, we will be looking at:
Features of plants;
Products we depend on from plants;
Imagining a world without plants.
In the “We Are All Connected” unit we will be looking at:
Animals can be classified by their characteristics and their features;
People, plants and animals are interdependent;
All living things grow and change.
English
This term we will be introducing the letters: e,s,t,y,g,f,o,p ,k and n.
The students will participate in;
CAFE Reading: Explicit teaching of reading strategies.
Word Study: Letter books with an emphasis on the letter of the week and high frequency words.
Listening Post: Listening to our Big Book on headphones and a follow up activity.
Computer: Reading Eggs, Create a Story, Kid Pix, etc.
Maths
This term we will be focusing on the numbers 1-10, ordinal number 1st - 10th, Chance, Shapes, Length, Mass and Capacity.
Reminders
Punctuality: Students are expected to arrive at school in
plenty of time to complete their morning tasks and line up
before the bell goes at 9:00am. Students who arrive after the
bell need to get a late pass from the office.
Nude Food: We are a nude food school. You can help us to
keep our school clean by packing lunch and play lunch without
wrappers. We are looking forward to a very busy and exciting Term 2.
Kind regards,
Jan and Des.
