Term 3 Curriculum Overview

Grade

Reading

Writing

Maths

Inquiry

Foundation

Procedural Texts

Students will read procedural texts and build on their ability to problem-solve unknown words by using a range of strategies. They connect to the meaning and context of the texts and self-correct accurately. They use punctuation and meaning to read with fluency and read out loud and adjust their voice to accommodate the meaning of the texts they read.

Procedural Texts

Students will explore procedural texts and learn about the vocabulary that helps someone know how to perform a practical task. They will generate ideas for their writing using familiar events in their lives. Students reread their writing and make changes to ensure it makes sense to their audience. They share their published pieces with classmates.

Conducting a statistical investigation and collecting simple data

(Weeks 1-2)

Exploring worded problems and their different structures. Using mental strategies and estimation to make sense of answers.

Modelling addition and subtraction (weeks 3-4)

Exploring worded problems and their different structures. Using mental strategies and estimation to make sense of answers.

Place Value

(Weeks 5-6)

Understanding patterns e.g., decade numbers and teens. Exploring trading principle using proportional materials which are ungrouped. They learn about positional notation and the number names

Algebra: repeating patterns

(Weeks 7-8)

Copying, extending, creating, and explaining repeating patterns. They use geometric shapes, movements, sounds, colour etc. to copy and create patterns in the form AB.

Location and vocabulary development

(Week 9)

Following and creating simple maps using directional and positional language.

HAPPY ANIMALS

In this unit students explore the designs and set up of Collingwood Children’s Farm. Requirements for each different animal. Compare with how humans live and what humans need for survival.

Name animals in English and French.

Needs of animals and humans.

They will investigate the history of Collingwood Childrens Farm and how the design of the current farm meets the needs of animals.

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Realistic Narratives

Students will explore how good readers reread to check on their accuracy and understanding and how many strategies are required to ensure meaning is maintained. They focus on their fluency by attending to punctuation and reflecting on how to change their voice to show meaning. Students concentrate on improving their expression, intonation, pausing, stress and rate.

Personal Narratives

Students will learn from mentor texts about how writers write about events in their own lives. They produce writing that is high in descriptive language and provides insight into one own life through careful use of dialogue and illustrations. Students revise to clarify meaning and edit for accuracy. They share their published pieces with their peers.

Multiplication and division

(Weeks 1-4)

Developing meanings for the two operations and seeing the links to addition and subtraction. Using concrete, visual, and abstract representations.

Fractions as part-whole

(Weeks 5-7)

Looking into the part-whole using geometric figures, linear models, and set models, and exploring division concepts of fractions.

Location and transformations

(Weeks 8-9)

Engaging in map reading and developing locational and directional language.

ZERO WASTE

In this unit students will identify, classify, and investigate different types of waste produced at school and in the home, if it can be recycled or reused and the impact it has on the environment. Students will learn about Aboriginal Peoples connection to country and the importance of caring for country. They will investigate waste systems in the classroom, school and in the home and design solutions to improve waste management in one of these settings. They will explore sustainable solutions which are in place in the local community to support waste reduction.

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Informative Texts

Students will understand the purpose, structure and language features of functional texts. Students will notice how the sentence structures can vary for functional text. Students will use their own background knowledge to search for and understand information about settings, geographical areas, history and economics. Students will make connections between personal experiences and text.

Informative Texts

Students will be able to craft a text that informs about a topic they are passionate about. They will consider what they want their reader to know and how they want them to read it.

They will achieve this through the use of their Writer’s Notebook, making lists of expert topics and questions, collecting information and experimenting with words, structure and features to suit their audience.

Describing chance and probability

(Weeks 1-2)

Conducting chance experiments and representing data with a range of graphs such as dot plots, bar graphs, and stem and leaf plots.

Fractions

(Weeks 3-5)

Fractions as part-whole (using set models), quotients, and numbers on a number line. Revisit decimals (naming, ordering and comparing) and make connections between fractions and decimals

Measuring, comparing, and calculating the attributes of length and area

(Weeks 6-8)

Students explore the metric system and its link to place value. They explore one-dimensional lines for length and two-dimensional space for area.

Geometry Angles and 2D figures

(Week 9)

Exploring angles as a measure of turn. Creating benchmark angles and developing informal measuring tools to make sense of the protractor.

UPCYCLING

In this unit students will investigate upcycling in the local and global community and the positive impact of upcycling on the environment. Students will learn about Aboriginal Peoples connection to country and the importance of caring for country. Students will investigate local and global upcycling projects and experience the works of a local artist or designer who has upcycled local products. They will explore ways to design upcycled products in the school or home environment they no longer have a use for to create art or a product with a new use.

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Poetry

The unit focuses predominantly on free verse, where students create imagery, mood and rhythm. Through the study of a wide range of poetry students explore many different poems by carefully reading and responding to them.

They will identify particular poetry tools and become comfortable with the rhythm and pattern of the words and other text features.

Poetry

The unit focuses predominantly on cultivating the poet in all students. By taking risks as writers and experimenting with their ‘poetic licence’, students will transition from reading and talking poetry to writing. Using their Writer’s Notebook and mentor texts, students will experiment with poems, mainly free verse, where they create imagery, mood and rhythm and combine these with the use of text features and language conventions to express their feelings, insights and thoughts.

Probability

(Weeks 1-2)

Conducting experiments and representing data on various graphs. Making conclusions about the fairness of games.

Fractions, percentages, and money (Weeks 3-6)

Operating with fractions- all four operations.

Algebra

(Weeks 7-8)

Location and time

(Week 9)

Constructing maps and following timetables.

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

In this unit student will investigate climate change and ways we may live in the future in adapting to accelerating climate change. They will explore how scientists are working with Aboriginal Peoples to mitigate natural disasters such as bushfires and manage our natural ecosystems. Students will explore local, national, and global sustainable living designs of the present and future and the roles renewable energies will have in design for the future. They will design a house or school of the future taking into consideration the future changes to the planet.

Community