Days, Weeks, Months & Years

Recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, weeks, months, and years

How to tell they’ve got it

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Name the seven days of the week in order
Name the twelve months of the year in order
Understand that a year is made up of months and weeks

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Try this together

If you ask your child what day it is today, what day yesterday was, and what month we're in, can they answer all three — and tell you how many months are in a year?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Ordering Events in Timeages 4–6Understanding days/months/years builds on sequencing events chronologically

Days, Weeks, Months & Yearsthis skill · ages 5–6

Unlocks

Local weather patternsages 5–6Recording local weather conditions over time requires vocabulary for days, weeks, and months

Seasonal changesages 5–6Observing and describing seasonal changes requires basic date and time vocabulary (months, seasons, year)

Ancient Egypt on the Timelineages 7–9Placing ancient Egypt on a chronological timeline requires vocabulary for dates and time periods (BCE/CE, era, century)

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Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9M1M03medium confidenceYear 1 · Measurement

describe the duration and sequence of events using years, months, weeks, days and hours

AC9MFM02low confidenceFoundation · Measurement

sequence days of the week and times of the day including morning, lunchtime, afternoon and night time, and connect them to familiar events and actions

AC9M2M03low confidenceYear 2 · Measurement

identify the date and determine the number of days between events using calendars

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2M1M03medium confidenceMathematics · Level 1 · Measurement strand

VC2MFM02low confidenceMathematics · Foundation · Measurement strand

VC2M2M03low confidenceMathematics · Level 2 · Measurement strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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