WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE & TIME

Students will explore how artifacts give us clues about people, places, and events from the past. They will investigate different ways history is recorded and understand why preserving artifacts matters. Through guided inquiry, students will strengthen their research skills and build connections between the past and present. They will think critically about information and its sources, developing a deeper sense of responsibility as they uncover the stories behind historical objects.

HOT OF THE PRESS

Students will become reporters by reading, researching, and writing various reports, including articles and news stories. They will learn to gather facts from reliable sources and organize information clearly. Students will use text features like headlines and captions to make their reports easier to understand. They will practice writing with purpose, editing for accuracy, and using correct spelling and grammar. Through their research, they will develop skills in note-taking, paraphrasing, and referencing sources.

PATTERN & FUNCTION

Students will explore patterns in numbers and understand how they help solve problems. They will describe, extend, and create number patterns using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Students will learn the rules behind these patterns and use them to complete number sentences. They will discover how operations are connected, using inverse relationships and properties like commutativity and associativity. By recognizing and applying these patterns, students will build strong reasoning skills and confidence with numbers.

NUMBER OPERATIONS

In this unit, students will build fluency with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They will explore how operations connect and can be shown in different ways. Students will use mental strategies to solve problems when working with facts to 20, use a range of strategies to add and subtract bigger numbers, and conceptually explore multiplication and division. They will double, halve and skip count to solve problems and model equations. Through word problems and hands-on practice, students will develop confidence and flexibility with number operations.

STORIES, EVIDENCE AND IDEAS

Students will strengthen their Portuguese literacy skills through meaningful connections with two Units of Inquiry: How the World Works and Where We Are in Place and Time. Using structures, design, materials, artifacts, and history as contexts, students will use Portuguese to read, discuss, interpret, and create narrative and visual texts that support their UOI learning. They will practise sequencing events, identifying important details, making predictions and inferences, explaining relationships between ideas, and supporting their interpretations with evidence from texts and images. Students will also use oral rehearsal and collaborative discussion to organise their thinking before writing. As part of their stand-alone Portuguese learning, they will develop greater fluency and comprehension in reading, strengthen descriptive and narrative vocabulary, and write increasingly organised narratives with clear beginnings, developments, conflicts, and resolutions. They will also continue developing paragraphing, dialogue, punctuation, spelling, syllable awareness, and the processes of planning, revising, and improving their writing.

MOVEMENT THROUGH TIME AND CULTURE

Students will explore Traditional Games and Traditional Dance, developing movement skills while discovering how games and dances have been passed down through generations and across cultures. Integrated with the Year 3 Where We Are in Place and Time Unit of Inquiry, students will investigate how traditional games and dances can provide clues about people’s lives, cultures, traditions, and communities in the past. They will compare traditional and modern games, explore dances from different cultures, and consider how movement, games, and dance can preserve traditions and communicate stories, beliefs, and cultural heritage. As part of their stand-alone PE learning, students will create and perform short movement sequences, use movement to communicate emotions and retell simple stories, share dance ideas collaboratively, and develop curiosity and respect as they recognise cultural similarities, differences, and diverse identities.