Term Overview

Class:

Wk
1

3C

Term: 3

Key focus/units: Science: Heat, English: The Lorax, Maths: Place Value,
Money, Number and Algebra, Measurement and Time. History: Places changing
over time. Art: Aboriginal Art Forms.
English
Maths
Science
History
The Arts
Vocab focus

NCR diagnostic test.

Introducing heat,

Exploring Gubbi

(Janelle) Aboriginal

homophones. Gruffalo

Multiplication, addition

looking at different

Gubbi culture and

Boomerangs.

picture book and

and subtraction number

ways it can be

sources from the

analyzing Aboriginal

tests. Mental strategies

produced and used.

past.

dreamtime stories.

for figuring out number

facts. Symmetry GR.

Gruffalo DVD. Literacy

Place value focus on

Experiment involving

Contd exploration

Boomerangs paint

groups

four digit numbers

heated objects

of Gubbi Gubbi

and colour them.

Comprehension

adding on, subtracting

observing and

people including

Create hand paintings

sheets. Continuing

and number sequences.

measuring using

significant land

with dots using

Aboriginal Stories

N + A - Explore number

thermometers and

sites, dances and

Aboriginal colours.

story map of Tiddalick

patterns to 10,000

graphing results.

identifying different

and compare to

involving addition and

types of sources.

Girawu the Goanna.

subtraction. Symmetry

Briefly introduce

Continue stories

group rotations including

Sambai people.

editing and rewriting

ICT, concrete symmetry

from a different POV.

and written.

Rainbow Serpent

Place Value Represent

Experiment with hot

Further investigate

Begin basket project

picture book focus.

four digit numbers using

foods using

the Sambai people.

building a basket out

Literacy groups

number lines, beads,

thermometers.

POSSIBLE visit

of natural materials.

Guided Reading.

MABS etc. N + A -

Students will

from Gubbi Gubbi

Start soaking the

Students choose a

Number patterns

develop strategies

local to discuss

baskets and putting zip

Dreamtime story and

involving addition +

for cooling food and

paintings, stories,

ties around the ends to

retell it from a different

subtraction. Page 15 of

graph results.

dance and

hold them together.

point of view.

Number book to be

didgeridoo.

completed.
Measurement group
rotations.

Compare and contrast

Place Value Partition

(Require more LEPs

Identify Sambai

Continue basket

two different stories

four digit numbers. N + A

from Mentor to

people on a map.

project start painting

The Great BATle and

Continue exploring

complete Science

Investigate Torres

the baskets to the

Why are Bats

number patterns

from here on).

Strait Islander

colours the students

Nocturnal? Evaluate

involving + and -.

culture and how it

would like using water

texts, settings,

Measurement group

has developed from

paint in specific

characters and moods

rotations. Pg 18 of

the time of

designs similar to

used by authors.

Number book.

European invasion.

Aboriginal art.

Monitoring Task

Place value - use place

(Require more LEPs

Compare

Baskets continue to

Comprehend

value written strategies

from Mentor to

Queensland before

decorate by gluing

traditional story,

to add (and subtract if

complete Science

and now with

nuts on, adding

compare stories, find

there is time). N + A

from here on).

photographs of

ribbons, naming them

evaluative words,

Represent multiplication

Woombye. Use

and taking the zip ties

verbs, noun groups

in various ways. Page 19

wishing chair to

off.

and use

of Number book.

compare transports

comprehension to

Measurement GR.

of different times.

read/retell.

Start reading the Lorax

Place value recalling

(Require more LEPs

Explore model

Baskets Complete

and being to explore

addition number facts

from Mentor to

trains, pictures and

decoration with all

language features

using various learning

complete Science

videos of trains and

groups, take photos of

(rhyming text).

objects. Measurement

from here on).

how they have

them all for

Examine sentence

group rotations

changed society

assessment purposes

structure and analyze

continued. Multiplication

and connected us.

(just in case) and get

evaluative language

Represent

Continue wishing

them ready for

used in the novel.

multiplication in different

chair. Students

students to take home.

ways and recall number

write an

facts.

explanation on
Trains.

Compare different

Place value add and

(Require more LEPs

Local community

Aboriginal Art

points of view in

subtract two and three

from Mentor to

study pose

Continue dot paintings,

stories and begin to

digit numbers and using

complete Science

questions about a

line paintings and

plan writing a story

a written place value

from here on).

community and

animal paintings.

from a different point

strategy to add.

research. Find

of view (PBPW).

Measurement group

changes in the

rotations contd.

build environment

Multiplication Continue

and a list of choices

recalling number facts

to choose from.

and continuing
multiplication and

division.

Draft and edit a story

Place Value Use

(Require more LEPs

Students learn

from a different

written strategy to

from Mentor to

about past and

perspective. Rehearse

subtract. Review,

complete Science

present work and

and present the

reinforce and extended

from here on).

the changes society

narrative to the class

place value learning.

has made in certain

as a practice.

Multiplication Review,

jobs/ Scaffold

(WRITING

reinforce and extended

research

WEDNESDAY

learning on connecting

documents for

FOCUS).

multiplication and

students to use for

division. Time Group

their assessment

rotations.

task and start to

(Janelle)

pose questions
about task.

Retell the Lorax from a

Place Value Use

(Require more LEPs

Scaffold research

different character in

written strategies to add

from Mentor to

documents for

the text. Plan and draft

and subtract.

complete Science

students to use for

monitoring task 2.

Measurement

from here on).

their assessment

Scavenger Hunt

task and start to

assessment. Time

pose questions

group rotations.

about task.

(Janelle)

Fractions
Represent/compare unit
fractions and use
symbols to represent
fractions.

10

Rehearse and present

Place value NCR

(Require more LEPs

Model/share write

monitoring task two in

diagnostic test. C2C

from Mentor to

an explanation and

front of the class as a

Telling time assessment.

complete Science

students begin to

storyteller. Students

C2C Multiplication Fair.

from here on).

write their

can dress up as the

Fractions Using

explanations of a

character or as a

symbols to represent

family moving to a

presenter if they wish.

collections of fractions.

different
environment. Finish
assessment.

(Janelle)

Ass
ess
men
t &
date
s

Measurement scavenger

(Require more LEPs

Assessment:

hunt Week 8. NCR

from Mentor to

Change in a

Diagnostic Week 9.

complete Science

Community 17th

Telling Time +

from here on).

September

Multiplication Fair
Week 10

(Janelle)