What’s Happening in Foundation in Term 2, 2025
Important Dates:
- Thursday May 8th – Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea (more details to come).
- Thursday May 15th – Farmer Daryl (more details provided on Compass Event).
- Thursday June 5th – 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.