Tag: Foundation

Fairy Tale Fun in Foundation

Our Foundation students have enjoyed reading and discussing elements of fairy tale stories these last few weeks. This week, students helped create a class fairy tale by innovating on the text – ‘The Giant Turnip’. As we are growing sunflowers, we cleverly created our class book ‘The Giant Sunflower’. The students enjoyed seeing themselves as characters in the story and assisted with illustrations. Over the next few lessons, students will create individual fairy tales and short stories by innovating. Teachers are looking forward to seeing all of the imaginative stories.

Lots of fun in Foundation!

Welcome back! Foundation students have now settled into Term 4 and teachers have enjoyed listening to enthusiastic oral presentations about the school holidays.

Our students have been excited to commence the Inquiry unit ‘The Wonderful World of Materials’ The genius, Dr Know (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Ms Vounoridis) returned to visit Foundation students to introduce the unit.

During the visit, students discussed the definition of ‘Materials’ and established that materials are used to make things. As a cohort, students brainstormed a list of materials found in the environment. 

Our students had the task of bringing in a toy from home so they could discuss and label materials used to create their toy. We had a great discussion as to why certain materials are used for various toys.

We had an opportunity after our writing task to reflect on the materials we discovered through our inquiry learning and sorted them into Venn diagrams. Students were able to find items that had two or more materials and place them in the Venn diagrams. We cannot wait to show Dr Know next week!