Planning tool

Students:

• identify and order the months of a year
• identify and describe patterns found in calendars
• work out days remaining in the week, month and year
• describe the ways non-Indigenous society organises seasons, recognising the connection to weather patterns
• describe ways that First Nations Australians mark the seasons by plant, water and animal cycles.

Some students may:

• be unfamiliar with the way a calendar is organised into weeks and months
• not yet be able to bridge across months when working out days remaining in the year
• know the names of the months, but may not be able to place these in the correct order
• not know that First Nations people have a different way of representing seasons than the commonly used Western approach.

The Learning from home activities are designed to be used flexibly by teachers, parents and carers, as well as the students themselves. They can be used in a number of ways including to consolidate and extend learning done at school or for home schooling.

Learning intention

• We are learning how to read a calendar.

Why are we learning about this?

• Calendars are a tool we use to measure time.

What to do

1. Find a calendar.
   1. Find today’s date. What day of the week is it? What month is it?
   2. Count how many days until the end of the week (Friday).
   3. Count how many days until the end of the month.
   4. What is the next month?
2. Think about a special day in the year.
   1. Find a day in the calendar that is a special day.
   2. What date is it? What is special about this day?
   3. Draw a picture about the day. Add the date.
   4. How many months and days until that special day?

Success criteria

I can:

• read a calendar and tell the date
• work out how many days are left in the week or month
• say the months in order.