Classroom Teachers in the Prep/Foundation area:

Prep/Foundation A: Mr Cameron Mitchell & Miss Ruby Edmonds

Prep/Foundation B: Miss Tia Rigoni

Prep/Foundation C: Ms Bec Warren

Prep/Foundation D: Ms Megan Watt and Mrs Loukia Constantinou

Term 4 Overview

Weekly schedule:

PE and HEALTH - 00A Thursday 00B Thursday 00C Wednesday 00D Tuesday

ART –  00A & 00D Wednesday, 00B & 00C Thursday

MUSIC - 00A Tuesday, 00B Wednesday, 00C & 00D Thursday

AUSLAN – 00B Tuesday, 00A, 00C & 00D Thursday

Library - 00A Monday 00B Thursday 00C Wednesday 00D Wednesday

Important Dates

Monday 7 October - Term 4 Begins

Friday 1 November - Diwali Day

Monday 4 November - Curriculum Day (No school for students)

Tuesday 5 November - Melbourne Cup day (Public Holiday)

Monday 11 November - Remembrance Day Service

Friday 29 November - 150 Year Celebration Day

Tuesday 10 December - Step-up Day

Friday 13 December - Curriculum day (No school for students)

Friday 20 December - Last Day for Term 4, 12:00 Dismissal

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
• Mathematics – partition and combine collections up to 10 using part-part-whole relationships to recognise and name the parts;  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;  collecting, sorting and comparing data and representing it with pictures.
• 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

We will be sending 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 again.

Please read the letter in your child’s reader bag for further information on which day to return your child’s reader. Please remember to send the reader bag back in weekly so they can be changed.

Sharing News

Students will be doing sharing news weekly. Please see the information in your child’s reader bag. 

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.