Important Dates:

• Wednesday October 8^th – Pevan and Sarah Concert.
• Thursday October 9^th – Fire Brigade Visit #1.
• Friday October 17^th – Fire Brigade Visit #2.

In Literacy students will be:

• explicitly taught the correct articulation and pronunciation of Stage 6 and 7.1 sounds from the Little Learners Love Literacy program (sh, ch, tch, th, ng, ph, wh, ai, ay, ee, ea, –y, igh, ie, -y, oa).
• revising the correct articulation and pronunciation of Stage 1 – 5 sounds from the Little Learners Love Literacy program.
• engaging in daily activities that involve manipulating the sounds in words to support students to read and spell.
• reading multisyllabic words (words with more than one syllable) by recognising adjacent consonants and consonant digraphs (two letters making one sound).
• developing an understanding of using the suffix -ing to indicate an ongoing action (e.g., jumping).
• explicitly learning to recognise punctuation and it’s use in texts, including full stops, question marks, exclamation marks and possessive apostrophes.
• continuing to learn a range of Heart Words from the Stage 6 and 7.1 Little Learners Love Literacy program.
• participating in daily formal handwriting sessions, revising how to form both the upper- and lower-case for all letters from A-Z.
• continuing to use ‘dirt, grass, sky’ paper as a first step to using dotted thirds when writing.
• revising the conventions of writing; writing from left to right and leaving spaces between words.
• identifying fragments (incomplete sentences) and converting these into sentences.
• exposed to completing a sentence stem containing the words ‘before’, ‘after’, ‘if’ and ‘when’ to expand written sentences.
• explicitly taught how to write a simple recount and narrative text.
• engaging in nonfiction texts to build their vocabulary and comprehension of information texts.
• exploring the First Nations People and their connection to country through a range of picture story books.
• revising story grammar elements like character, setting, problem, solution, feelings to build their oral language skills.
• participating in weekly ‘Story Champs’ sessions where they are exposed to simple stories, recognising the key Story Grammar elements and orally retelling the story sequentially to a partner.
• participating in Show and Tell opportunities and a formal oral presentation to enhance their Oral Language skills and develop confidence when addressing their peers.

In Mathematics students will be:

• Revising the correct formation for the numbers 0 – 20
• counting forwards and backwards from various starting points
• counting, comparing, ordering, making, naming and recording numbers to 20 and beyond
• subitising (recognising without counting) small collections or parts within a larger collection
• identifying ordinal positions on a number track and/or in a sequence
• making tens and ones using tens-frames, bundling sticks, base-10 blocks and other materials
• identifying, sorting and matching Australian coins
• describing position
• using a grid to move a given number of squares
• using verbal directions to describe how to move an object
• sorting collections into groups by identifying their differences
• answering questions about data sets
• collecting data for questions with two outcomes (e.g., yes/no questions)
• representing data with two outcomes
• identifying long and short duration and directly comparing the duration of two or more events
• solving problems involving the direct comparison of length, mass and/or capacity.

In Inquiry students will be:

• Delving into the geography unit, ‘Let’s Explore Our World’ to enhance their understanding of their place in the world, expanding to their neighbourhood, city and continent
• exploring the seven continents of the world and the people, landscapes, landmarks and animals associated with each
• exploring Digital Technologies using the iPad
• learning simple coding
• learning how to stay safe online
• enhancing their fine-motor skills through a range of table-top activities such as glueing, cutting, paper folding, threading, playdoh, stickers and dot markers

Wellbeing

We We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on gender norms and stereotypes and positive gender relationships.

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• Similarities or differences in the things we like and dislike
• aspirations for our futures; hopes and dreams
• how everyone can participate in different activities, regardless of their gender
• different ways that everyone can be strong and gentle
• fair and friendly play
• the different ways that clothes protect our body
• seeking help
• identifying strengths in ourselves that can be used to play and work well with others.

As well as revising previously learnt content, such as:

• Big Problems vs. Small Problems
• reaction size (matching your reaction to the problem)
• Zones of Regulation.

There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.

Important Dates:

• Tuesday 29^th July – 100 Days of School Celebration.
• 12^th – 22^nd August, F-2 Swimming.
• Thursday 4^th September – Father’s Day and Special Friends Afternoon (more information to come).

In Literacy students will be:

• Explicitly taught the correct articulation and pronunciation of Stage 5 and 6 sounds from the Little Learners Love Literacy program (ck, sh, ch, tch, th, ng).
• Revising the correct articulation and pronunciation of Stage 1 – 4+ sounds from the Little Learners Love Literacy program.
• Engaging in daily activities that involve manipulating the sounds in words to support students to read and spell.
• Learning to read multisyllabic words (words with more than one syllable) by recognising adjacent consonants and consonant digraphs (two letters making one sound).
• Developing an understanding of using the suffix -s and -es to pluralise nouns.
• Developing an understanding of using the suffix -ed to represent past tense.
• Explicitly learning to recognise punctuation and it’s use in texts, including full stops, question marks, exclamation marks and possessive apostrophes.
• Continuing to learn a range of Heart Words from the Stage 5 and 6 Little Learners Love Literacy program.
• Participating in daily formal handwriting sessions, revising how to form both the upper- and lower-case for all letters from A-Z.
• Introduced to ‘dirt, grass, sky’ paper as a first step to using dotted-thirds when writing.
• Revising the conventions of writing; writing from left to right and leaving spaces between words.
• Expanding simple sentences to contain adjectives and ‘who, what, where and when’ words both orally and when writing.
• Exposed to completing a sentence stem containing the words ‘because’ and ‘but’ to expand written sentences.
• Identifying the difference between statements and questions and discussing the relevant punctuation associated with these sentence types.
• Explicitly taught how to write a simple information text to contribute the classes ‘multi-genre book’.
• Exploring Kings and Queens and vocabulary words associated with the topic, such as ‘royal’ and ‘kingdom’.
• Learning and reciting the poems ‘Old King Cole’ and ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’.
• Reading stories associated with Kings and Queens such as, ‘King Midas’ and ‘The Princess and the Pea’, discussing the Narrative structure and answering literal and inferential questions about the texts.
• Developing their understanding of fiction texts by exploring, ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’.
• Learning story grammar elements like character, setting, problem, solution and feelings to build their oral language skills.
• Participating in weekly ‘Story Champs’ sessions where they are exposed to simple stories, recognising the key Story Grammar elements and orally retelling the story sequentially to a partner.
• Participating in weekly Show and Tell opportunities to enhance their Oral Language skills and develop confidence when addressing their peers.

In Mathematics students will be:

• Revising the correct formation for the numbers 0 – 20.
• Counting, comparing, ordering, making, naming and recording numbers to 20 and beyond.
• Subitising (recognising without counting) small collections or parts within a larger collection.
• Representing an addition number story, using pictures, materials, a number track, or a ten-frame and solving these problems.
• Representing a subtraction number story using pictures, materials, a number track, or a ten-frame and solving these problems.
• Identifying equal shares by sharing between two or three.
• Solving problems by sharing collections.
• Making groups of two, three and beyond.
• Identifying the attributes of length.
• Directly comparing the length or height of two objects.
• Ordering objects based on comparison.
• Identifying the attributes of mass.
• Directly comparing mass, using hefting and balance scales.
• Making predictions about the mass of objects, then checking to verify predictions.
• Identifying the attributes of capacity.
• Directly comparing capacity by pouring like amounts.
• Making predictions involving capacity and checking these predictions.

In Inquiry students will be:

• Exploring Digital Technologies using the iPad.
• Learning simple coding.
• Learning how to stay safe online.
• Enhancing their fine-motor skills through a range of table-top activities such as glueing, cutting, paper folding, threading, playdoh, stickers and dot markers.

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on problem-solving, stress management and help-seeking.

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• Big Problems vs. Small Problems.
• Reaction size (matching your reaction to the problem).
• Solving problems independently.
• Friendly and unfriendly decisions.
• Positive play.
• How to ask for help.
• Recognising who they can ask for help at home, school and in the community.
• Noticing our own and other’s emotions.
• Managing our emotions.
• The Zones of Regulation.

There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.

Important Dates:

• Thursday May 8^th – Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea (more details to come).
• Thursday May 15^th – Farmer Daryl (more details provided on Compass Event).
• Thursday June 5^th – Milo’s Birthday Surprise (more details to come).

In Literacy students will be:

• explicitly taught the correct articulation and pronunciation of Stage 3, 4 and 4+ letters and sounds from the Little Learners Love Literacy program (y,r,e,qu,z,j,u,k,x,w,ll,ss,ff,zz,tt,gg,dd).
• revising the correct articulation and pronunciation of Stage 1 and 2 letters and sounds from the Little Learners Love Literacy program (m,s,f,a,p,t,c,i,b,h,n,o,d,g,l,v).
• engaging in daily activities that involve manipulating the sounds in words to support students to read and spell.
• learning to use their letter sound knowledge to blend sounds together to read words and break sounds in words up to spell them.
• learning to identify the beginning, middle and end sounds of a word.
• participating in daily formal handwriting sessions, learning how to form letters from Stage 3 and 4 of the Little Learners Love Literacy program correctly, and how to correctly hold a pencil.
• introduced to the conventions of writing; writing from left to right and leaving spaces between words.
• provided with daily opportunities to write their name using correct letter formation.
• writing simple decodable sentences that include a noun (who) and verb (what doing).
• orally expanding sentences to include a where, when and what.
• listening to and investigating a range of non-fiction texts to develop their understanding of Farms and Families Around the World.
• exploring a range of classic stories including ‘trickster tales’ and fiction from other cultures.
• discussing recurring themes in children’s literature.
• learning story grammar elements like character, setting, problem, solution, feelings to build their oral language skills.
• participating in weekly Show and Tell opportunities to enhance their Oral Language skills and develop confidence when addressing their peers.

In Mathematics students will be:

• revising the correct formation for the numbers 0 – 10.
• taught the correct formation for numbers 11 – 20.
• counting, comparing, ordering, making, naming and recording numbers to 20 and beyond.
• partitioning numbers to 10 into two, or three parts.
• subitising (recognising without counting) collections or parts within numbers to 10.
• making number pairs to 10.
• copying, continuing and creating three-part patterns.
• sequencing events.
• identifying, naming and making two-dimensional shapes and sorting them by their features.
• sorting objects in different ways.

In Inquiry students will be:

• learning about the importance of farms as a source of food and other products.
• developing an understanding of different family structures, as well as their own family tree and history.

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on personal strengths and positive coping.

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• being kind, brave and showing respect.
• understanding appreciating their own and others personal strengths.
• differences between families.
• noticing our own and other’s emotions.
• managing our emotions.
• The Zones of Regulation.

There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.

Important Dates:

• Thursday 20^th February – Foundation Family Fun Night and BBQ (5:30pm – 7:00pm).
• Monday 17^th February – Foundation Show and Tell begins (please refer to note given out at Meet the Teacher for weekly Show and Tell topics).

In Literacy students will be:

• explicitly taught the correct articulation and pronunciation of Stage 1 and 2 letters and sounds from the Little Learners Love Literacy program (m, s, f,a, p, t, c, i, b, h, n, o, d, g, l, v).
• engaging in daily activities that involve manipulating the sounds in words to support students to read and spell.
• learning to use their letter sound knowledge to blend sounds together to read words and break sounds in words up to spell them.
• learning to identify the beginning, middle and end sounds of a word.
• participating in daily formal handwriting sessions learning how to form letters from Stage 1 and 2 of the Little Learners Love Literacy program correctly and how to correctly hold a pencil.
• introduced to the conventions of writing; writing from left to right and leaving spaces between words.
• provided with daily opportunities to write their name using correct letter formation.
• reciting nursery rhymes to build their knowledge in rhythm and rhyme.
• exploring fables and learning to identify characters, behaviours and virtues.
• building their vocabulary when reading nursery rhymes and fables.
• learning story grammar elements like character, setting, problem, solution, feelings to build their oral language skills.

In Mathematics students will be:

• taught the correct formation for writing the numbers 0 -9.
• counting, comparing, ordering, making, naming and recording numbers to 5 and beyond.
• subitising (recognising without counting) collections to 5.
• copying, continuing and making two-part patterns.
• ordering daily events.
• discussing parts of the day.
• naming and ordering the days of the week.
• describing the position of objects and their position in relation to other objects.
• participating in a daily review of concepts taught to support them with consolidating their learning.

In Inquiry students will be:

• identifying the five senses and the body parts associated with these senses.
• describing how our senses help us learn about the world and protect us from harm.

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on emotional literacy.
Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• recognising and identifying their own emotions.
• developing vocabulary to identify emotions.
• recognising other people’s emotions.

Students will also learn about our SWPB Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix. They will establish what it means to ‘Be Safe’, Be a Learner’ and ‘Be Our Best’ at school.