Foundation Newsletter - Term 3 - Week 3
Connecting with the Preps
Welcome back everyone! Term 3 has started off with a bang! We’ve
now had our first Fire Education visit, we had an absolute ball today
celebrating 100 days of Prep and we can’t wait for our excursion on Friday to Melbourne
Zoo.
The children are enjoying writing recounts about their
weekend on a Monday. It is always interesting to see what they remember and
enjoyed! The children are also learning how to write a report and it has been
great to see some students giving this a go during Free Choice writing. As our
Inquiry topic is Living Things, we are also reading lots of reports on a range
of animals.
So far this term some children have been focusing on the
recording and sounds of letters "q", "r " and "v " whilst other children have been
working on "ea" as in beach, "a" as in swan and "or" as in fork. The children
continue to enjoy guided reading with their teacher followed by a range of
reading activities, including Reading Eggs on the iPads. Thank you to the
children who have been working on their MIOOW words and have brought them in to
show us! Well done!
Maths
Over the last couple of weeks the children have been
focusing on Counting and Place Value.
The children have been counting forwards and backwards, recording and matching numerals
and the corresponding name and drawing that amount accurately. They have also
been ordering two digit numbers and are beginning to learn about place value.
The children have been making two digit numbers using unifix cubes e.g. 17 is 1
ten and 7 ones. This week we have begun our unit on Time. We are
ordering the days of the week and connecting familiar events with days of the
week and next week we will look at o’clock times.
This term our topic is Living Things and so we have been
discussing what a living and non-living thing is. That was a really interesting
discussion! We began with a KWL grid, what do we know and what do we want
to know. The questions from what we want
to know have led the way for the texts we choose to help answer the children’s
questions. What we have learnt will be completed at the end of the term. We
welcome children bringing in pictures of living or non-living things to add to
our Living Things Picture Board.
This term we have caught up with our Buddies to complete our
comics that we began producing last term. We hope you enjoyed reading these at
home. Today our Buddies surprised us by coming over to join us for lunch and
they came with 100 days of Prep crowns they’d made and even cards! The Grade 6
buddies were very excited for them!
Reminders
Dates to Remember!
- August 9th - NED show - Whole School
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