As we’re all preparing for back to school, we’re thinking about what this year will hold curriculum-wise for our kids. So, we thought it might be useful to have an easy to read view of the curriculum in nutshell, with some suggestions for supporting products to help our kids through this year. This is organised by grade, but with some helpful tips at the end for all ages. We hope this is helpful – happy reading, and have a great year!
N.B. All details on the curriculum are taken from www.australiancurriculum.edu.au
This first blog is for Prep/Foundation Year:
Mathematics
By the end of the Foundation year, students make connections between number names, numerals and quantities up to 10.
They compare objects using mass, length and capacity. Students connect events and the days of the week.
They explain the order and duration of events. They use appropriate language to describe location.Students count to and from 1 to 20 and order small collections.
They group objects based on common characteristics and sort shapes and objects.
Students answer simple questions to collect information.
Supporting products available:
- Gillian Miles wipe clean placemats counting 1 to 10, 1 to 30 - $4.99
- Gillian Miles wall posters counting 1 to 10, 1 to 20 – wipe clean posters with exercises on the back for practice
- Gillian Miles counting to 10 exercises – a great book to learn shapes, sizes and numbers through simple, fun exercises - $5.95
- Orchard Games The Game of Ladybirds, $29.95. Often recommended by teachers, this is a simple game for 3-6 year olds where they roll the dice, match the spots and count the ladybirds hiding on the leaves. Fun learning for numbers 1-10.
- Events and days of the week – Doowell magnetic family calendar $24.95, Melissa and Doug wooden magnetic calendar $39.95
- Monkey Maths board game $26.95 age 4 plus. Through balancing banana’s this introduces basic maths concepts like number recognition, sorting, counting and basic addition
English
Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing)
By the end of the Foundation year, students use predicting and questioning strategies to make meaning from texts.
They recall one or two events from texts with familiar topics. They understand that there are different types of texts and that these can have similar characteristics.
They identify connections between texts and their personal experience.
They read short, predictable texts with familiar vocabulary and supportive images, drawing on their developing knowledge of concepts about print and sound and letters.
They identify the letters of the English alphabet and use the sounds represented by most letters.
They listen to and use appropriate language features to respond to others in a familiar environment.
They listen for rhyme, letter patterns and sounds in words.
Productive modes (speaking, writing and creating)
Students understand that their texts can reflect their own experiences.
They identify and describe likes and dislikes about familiar texts, objects, characters and events. In informal group and whole class settings, students communicate clearly.
They retell events and experiences with peers and known adults(show and tell).
They identify and use rhyme, letter patterns and sounds in words. When writing, students use familiar words and phrases and images to convey ideas.
Their writing shows evidence of sound and letter knowledge, beginning writing behaviours and experimentation with capital letters and full stops.
They correctly form known upper- and lower-case letters.
Supporting products available:
- Melissa and Doug Alphabet stickers – over 1000 stickers - $9.95
- Letterland first rhyming activity book($11),
- First Sticker dictionary ($19.95),
- Fun to find sticker book ($20)
- Usborne English Picture Dictionary - $24.95 – over 1,300 pictures, 1000 words defined, great from prep to year 2 - illustrates clearly how words are used.
- Infantino 20 words picture puzzles – age 3-6, learn to spell words from dog, to boots to lamb using simple puzzles $39.95.
Science
By the end of the Foundation year, students describe the properties and behaviour of familiar objects.
They suggest how the environment affects them and other living things.
Students share observations of familiar objects and events.
Supporting products available:
GeoMag magnetic building shapes – from $26.95. Great for building dexterity, and understanding attract and repel properties of magnets, but more importantly great construction fun!
History / Foundation Year Achievement standard
By the end of the Foundation year, students identify similarities and differences between families. They recognise how important family events are commemorated. Students sequence familiar events in order. They pose questions about their past. Students relate a story about their past using a range of texts.
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