Foundation

00A: Bec Warren 00E: Ruby Edmonds  

00B: Tia Rigoni 00F: Centayne Stopford 

00C: Chloe Turnball 00G: Meg Esnouf & Loukia Con 

00D: Esin Dincer 00H: Ashleigh Cosgriff & Laura Ferguson 

Weekly schedule:

PE and Health: Tues - 00A, 00B, 00E, 00F Thurs - 00C, 00D, 00G, 00H

Art: Tues - 00B, 00C, 00F, 00G Thurs - 00A, 00D, 00E, 00H

Performing Arts: Tues - 00C, 00D, 00G, 00H Thurs - 00A, 00B, 00E, 00F 

Auslan: Tues - 00A, 00D, 00E, 00H Thurs - 00B, 00C, 00F, 00H

Library: Mon - 00G, 00D Tues - 00B, 00E Wed - 00A, 00H Fri - 00F, 00C

Important Dates

Important Dates

October 5 - First day of term

October 19 - Assembly

October 30 - World Teacher’s Day

November 2 - Curriculum day

November 3 - Melbourne Cup Day

November 9 - Assembly

November 11 - Remembrance Day service

November 30 - Assembly

December 8 - Step up day

December 11 - Curriculum day

December 14 - Reports live

December 17 - Last day of term for students, 3:15 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 again.

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 completed Fast Phonics first and then moved onto Reading Eggs. Please contact your child’s teacher if you do not have your logins.