Reception Year OneTerm 1, 2018 Curriculum Overview

The Australian Curriculum is a framework that guides what we teach. It is an online document and can be found at: www.australiancurriculum.edu.au. As a teacher, I understand that students bring to school a wide range of experiences, abilities, needs and interests. Students natural curiosity about their world provides a platform to plan and review their learning. I believe that students learn through a balance between interactions with others, experimentation, scaffolding, explicit teaching, practice and play in the classroom and beyond. In particular, play allows children to use their creativity while developing their imagination, dexterity, and physical, cognitive, and emotional skills. Play is important for healthy brain development. It is through play that children at an early age engage and interact with the world around them. The following is a description of the curriculum areas covered this term. The theme for the term is “Me and My History”:

Religious Education:God and Revelation: Students explore God’s presence in creation. Students will explore how their senses are important in communicating and in expressing their love for God and others.Being Human: God loves each human person. Prayer and Liturgy: CelebratingStudents explore prayer, including Liturgy, within the Christian Tradition as celebrations of God’s presence in their lives. Students are invited to participate in prayer and Liturgical experiences.

English:LanguageStudents will explore the English language and how it is used differently at home and at school depending on the relationships between people. Students will work on sound-letter matches (phonics). Students will learn to recognise and name upper and lower case letters and know the most common sound that each letter represents.LiteratureStudents will be responding to, examining and creating literature. Students will be encouraged to share their experiences with literature. Students will experience modeled and shared reading of a variety of texts and reading response activities.LiteracyStudents will begin exploring decodable and predictable texts, and learn the three ways to read a book- read the pictures, read the words, retell the story. Students will have a go at creating short texts which report their ideas. Students will be encouraged to draw pictures when representing their ideas. When writing, students will be encouraged to practice letter formation. Speaking and ListeningThroughout the year, children will be given many opportunities to develop their Oral Language skills. Interaction skills children will further develop include turn-taking, recognising the contributions of others, speaking clearly and using appropriate volume and pace. The 5 L’s of listening and the basic skills of listening and speaking will be encouraged. ‘Show and Share’ allows students to practice speaking in front of a familiar audience for different purposes. Sharing helps children to develop their listening and speaking skills as well as further develop their confidence. Children will have the opportunity to talk about an item with the class.Daily FiveThe Daily 5 is a series of literacy tasks (read to self, read to someone, listen to reading, writing and word work) that students work on each day while the teacher engages in small group instruction. This framework helps students develop the daily habits of reading, writing and working with peers. The goal is to develop lifelong skills of independent literacy.

Student Wellbeing:Program Achieve- Organisation and Getting Along:The development of social and emotional capabilities. Central to this development is learning about acceptance of oneself, setting goals, planning time, being tolerant of others, thinking first, playing by the rules, and social responsibility.Child Protection- The Right to be Safe:The focus will be on the theme “We all have the right to be safe. We can help ourselves to be safe by talking to people we trust.”Circle TimeCircle Time involves establishing codes of conduct, co-operative games and discussions based on persistence. Restorative Practices will also be a focus.

Inquiry and Skills Focus:Inquiry Learning:Biological Sciences:Students will explore the basic needs of living things, including food and water. There will be an inquiry skills focus with students developing the skills of questioning and predicting, planning and conducting, processing and analysing data and information and communicating.History:The “Me and My History” theme will involve students sharing observations, organising information and exploring the events and stages which occur in people’s lives. It places lifetime events and stages in

Mathematics:Number and AlgebraPatterning Initially, students will be involved in patterning using various materials in order to develop an understanding of number sequences, patterns within number and ordering collections. Students will be exposed to various types of patterns such as repeating and growing patterns. Number and Place ValueStudents will be involved in making connections between number

Health and Physical Education:Physical activity and participation:

Daily fitness activities, physical education lessons and dance lessons. Being healthy, safe and active.

Students will develop fundamental movement skills in different movement situations and test alternatives to solve movement challenges. They will perform sequences that incorporate the elements of movement. Students will be encouraged to interact with others positively in game play and apply simple game rules to participate fairly. Students will be ‘screened’ in movement and development and Gross and Fine motor skills with support from Paul Northeast.

The Arts:This term we will focus on collaborative art projects that build a sense of belonging and community.In Visual Arts, students:* become aware of visual conventions and learn to notice visual detail* explore how and why artworks are created and ways to use and apply visual conventions, such as line, shape, colour and texture* make artworks in different forms to express their ideas, observations and imagination, using different techniques and processes.

Design and Digital Technology:In conjunction with the “Me and My History” theme, students will construct a model of a home with construction materials. The design challenge will involve students in problem solving, team work and collaboration, creative thinking, investigation of various materials and effective joining techniques.

Italian:CommunicatingStudents will participate in routines, games, instructions and shared activities in the Italian language. They will interact with peers using specific language and grammar related to formal and informal greetings and introducing themselves. UnderstandingThrough oral discussions and reading Italian texts such as picture books and e-books, students will begin to make meaning and seek connections between the Italian and English language. Students will also practice reproducing sound symbol relationships and simple grammatical features of the Italian language.

Inquiry and Skills Focus:Inquiry Learning:Biological Sciences:Students will explore the basic needs of living things, including food and water. There will be an inquiry skills focus with students developing the skills of questioning and predicting, planning and conducting, processing and analysing data and information and communicating.History:The “Me and My History” theme will involve students sharing observations, organising information and exploring the events and stages which occur in people’s lives. It places lifetime events and stages in

Mathematics:Number and AlgebraPatterning Initially, students will be involved in patterning using various materials in order to develop an understanding of number sequences, patterns within number and ordering collections. Students will be exposed to various types of patterns such as repeating and growing patterns. Number and Place ValueStudents will be involved in making connections between number