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

21 July - First day Term 3, Curriculum Day

22 July - First day Term 3 for students

30 July - Parent Teacher Conferences - no school for students

4 August - Assembly - Year 2s performing

15 August - Bookweek Parade and activities at Ambrosia campus all day

22 August - Curriculum Day - no school for students

25 August - Assembly - Grade 1s performing

1 September - Edendale Farm excursion

5 September - Father’s Day stall

15 September - Assembly - Prep presentation

1 September - final day of Term 3, 2:15 dismissal, Footy colours day

Learning

In term 3, the Foundation students are focusing on the following:

• Reading – Reading – recognising all upper- and lower-case letters and the most common sound that each letter represents and blend sounds associated with letters when reading, such as reading ‘c-a-t….cat’, blend sounds associated with letters when reading, such as reading ‘c-a-t….cat’.
• Writing – recording known sounds with focus on lowercase formation, retelling events from a text, sequencing events from a text
• Mathematics – representing situations involving addition and subtraction; and multiplication and division, involving equal sharing and grouping with physical materials, naming and describing familiar shapes, describe the position and location of themselves and objects in relation to other people and objects, identifying and comparing the length of different objects
• Inquiry – Our Inquiry topic this term is "How have places changed over time?”, looking at describing and explaining where places and activities are located and identifying how people are connected to different places. 

Home Learning

Home Reading –

We are continuing 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 are continuing to send 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 used Fast Phonics, rather than Reading Eggs. Please contact your child’s teacher if you do not have your logins.