Ordering Events in Time
Your child can put daily events in order using words like first, next, before and after. They know yesterday, today and tomorrow.
In curriculum terms
Sequence events in chronological order using language such as before, after, next, first, today, yesterday, tomorrow, morning, afternoon, evening
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If you ask your child to describe what happened this morning in order, can they use words like "first", "then", "after that" — putting breakfast before leaving for school?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 NSW · 2 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
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
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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.