Important Dates:

• Wednesday April 29^th – Responsible Pet Ownership program.
• Thursday May 7^th – Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea (more details to come).
• Wednesday May 13^th – Animal Land Excursion (more details provided on Compass Event).
• Wednesday June 3^rd – 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 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 segment sounds in words to spell them.
• learning to identify the beginning, middle and ending sounds in words.
• participating in daily formal handwriting sessions, learning how to correctly form letters from Stages 3 and 4 of the Little Learners Love Literacy program, as well as how to hold a pencil correctly.
• being introduced to the conventions of writing, including writing from left to right and leaving spaces between words.
• being provided with daily opportunities to write their name using correct letter formation.
• writing simple decodable sentences that include a noun (who) and a verb (what doing).
• orally expanding sentences to include 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 such as character, setting, problem, solution and feelings to build 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.
• 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 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 12^th February – Foundation Family Fun Night and BBQ (5:30pm – 7:00pm).
• Monday 16^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.
• 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 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.