We warmly welcome our students and families back to Term 2! During Term 2, our Foundation students will be busily working on the following:

Literacy:

Phonics: Students will continue to participate in our daily Sounds-Write phonics lessons. Students will be exposed to the following sounds; o, p, b, c, g, h, d, e. They will engage in lessons such as Word Building, Sound Swap and Dictation to practise the skills of segmenting, blending and phoneme (units of sound) manipulation.

Reading: Our beginning readers will be introduced to the strategies of pointing to each word, segmenting sounds and recognising common sight words. Our independent readers will focus on strategies to comprehend and answer questions about the texts they have read. During Shared Reading, we will be listening to a variety of Narrative texts. We will focus on the structure, characters, setting and features of narrative texts, learning to complete a Five Finger Retell.

Writing:  Students are learning to hear and record the sounds they can hear in words. They will continue to regularly use the dotted thirds to help form and position letters correctly. Students will continue to write Recounts about past events and will experiment with different parts of a Narrative. We will begin to recognise some elements in familiar narratives, for example, characters, setting, problem and resolution and will learn to write a simple sentence to tell an imaginative story.

Numeracy:

Students will use manipulatives, drawings and numerals to solve addition and subtraction sums. They will learn vocabulary related to addition and subtraction and will explore the ‘Count All, Count On and Count Back’ strategies. Students will develop fluency with forwards and backwards counting. They will understand that numbers are said in a particular order and there are patterns in the way we say them. Students will collect, sort and display data gathered through a picture graph and will answer yes / no questions about data that we have gathered.

Inquiry:

Physical Science: ‘That’s my hat!’

Students will explore how we are surrounded by thousands of objects made out of different materials. They will learn that when we design objects we make choices based on the properties of different materials to suit the users.  Students will design and make their own party hat, considering the materials used and the weather it might be worn in.

Chemical Science: ‘What’s it made of?’

Students will investigate how materials will be part of the world in the future and will explore how existing materials might be used in new ways. They will learn what materials allow us to make and do. Students will have opportunities to explore what things are made of in the school environment and the properties of the materials used to make them.

Religion:

Students will learn about the difference between signs and symbols. They will explore how signs and symbols convey meaning and will investigate a variety of these, such as electronic, artistic, non-verbal and visual. Students will learn about some signs and symbols connected to the Catholic Church and their meaning.