Curriculum Outline Term 3

Foundation

00A: Ashleigh Cosgriff & Cameron Mitchell

00B: Tia Rigoni

00C: Bec Warren

00D: Meg Esnouf & Loukia Con

00E: Ruby Edmonds

00F: Esin Dincer

Weekly schedule:

PE and HEALTH - FC FD: Tuesday FA FB FC FF: Thursday

ART –  FA FE: Tuesday FB FC FD FF: Thursday

MUSIC - FB FF: Tuesday FA FC FD FE: Thursday

AUSLAN  - FA FB: Tuesday FC FE FD: Wednesday FF: Thursday

Library - FD FF: Monday FE: Friday FA FC: Wednesday FB: Thursday

Important Dates

October 6 - First day of term

October 17 - Festival of Colour

October 20 - Assembly

October 31 - World Teacher’s Day

November 3 - Report writing day (No students at school)

November 4 - Melbourne Cup Day

November 10 - Assembly

December 1 - Assembly

December 9 - Step up day

December 12 - Curriculum day

December 15 - Reports live

December 19 - Last day of term, Noon finish

Learning

In term 4, the Foundation students are focusing on the following:

• Reading – recognising all upper- and lower-case letters and the most common sound that each letter represents; blend sounds associated with letters when reading, such as reading ‘c-a-t….cat’;  investigating the sounds made by digraphs, such as ch and ck
• Writing – the features of fiction and non-fiction texts (eg. photos, glossaries, facts); the author’s purpose for writing particular texts; sequencing the events in simple narratives to retell a story; extending sentences when writing and learn about nouns, verbs and adjectives
• Mathematics – multiplication and division, involving equal sharing and grouping with physical materials,  name, represent and order numbers from 0 to at least 20, using materials and numerals;  quantifying and comparing the mass and capacity of different objects; comparing the duration of events
• Inquiry – Our Inquiry topic this term is “Living Things”, in which students will examine the differences between living and non-living things. They will explore what living things need to survive and grow. Students will examine their changing environment and will explore how the changes in the environment might affect living things. 

Home Learning

Home Reading –

We will continue to send home one decodable “I Read To You” text per week once a week. This is for your child to read to you nightly.  The focus of these books is for matching sounds, breaking up (segmenting) words and putting them back together (blending). The same book is read five nights a week to help build up segmenting, blending and to help build up fluency. 

We will be sending home  up to five of the “You Read to Me” books that will be selected by students, as they would like these books read to them. These are for you to read to your child nightly. The focus of these books is for your child to hear what fluent reading sounds like. You can read a different book to your child each night. You can also read a book again on a different night if your child wants to hear it gain.

Math Seeds & Reading Eggs – Your child can log into these apps at home to practice their reading and numeracy. At this stage, it would be preferred if students used Fast Phonics, rather than Reading Eggs. Please contact your child’s teacher if you do not have your logins.