What’s Happening in Foundation in Term 4, 2025
Important Dates:
- Wednesday October 8th – Pevan and Sarah Concert.
- Thursday October 9th – Fire Brigade Visit #1.
- Friday October 17th – 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.