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• VCELA085

  Know that symbols, words and images can communicate needs

  Elaborations

  • making choices through alternative and augmentative communication, sign, symbol and image selection
  • using language to make requests, greet people, convey basic information about themselves and others
  • using image and sentence strip to communicate a need for example I want… to assist in requesting an object
  • using symbols to label an image

  VCELA085 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Language

• VCSIS026

  Supported to engage in simple scientific inquiry

  Elaborations

  • engaging in simple scientific inquiry to find answers to simple questions, for example, ‘What happens when I freeze water?’
  • participating in simple structured investigations to explore an object’s characteristics

  VCSIS026 | Science | Level C | Science Inquiry Skills | Questioning and predicting

• VCELA073

  Recognise that a group of words can communicate a message

  Elaborations

  • learning to build on spoken sentence starters to communicate a need or want, for example ‘I want … a drink’
  • learning to combine words to convey a message, for example ‘Dad’s car’, ‘throw ball’

  VCELA073 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCCCTQ073

  Explore how past experience influences thinking and reactions to situations

  Elaborations

  • using everyday problems and situations to explore personal reactions to situations and how this can affect their response
  • exploring how prior knowledge and past experience can be used to make predictions and understand the world around them
  • exploring how prior knowledge and past experience can be used to solve problems

  VCCCTQ073 | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level C | Questions and Possibilities

• VCDSTS007

  Match familiar designed solutions to the personal needs they meet

  Elaborations

  • making a decision from a variety of options to meet a need, for example, matching kitchen utensils or garden tool to a specific use
  • selecting and using products for a specific need, for example, identifying ways to be shaded from the sun/be sunsafe
  • suggesting ideas about the use of a product and what need it meets, for example, what do you use scissors for?

  VCDSTS007 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level C | Technologies and Society

• VCELA096

  Recognise different ways to communicate needs, likes and dislikes

  Elaborations

  • expressing needs, wants and feelings through language and communication
  • making requests through the use of words, photographs, pictures or alternative and augmentative communication

  VCELA096 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCDSCD009

  Examine and indicate how designed solutions are created and produced safely to meet needs

  Elaborations

  • describing opportunities for creating designed solutions, for example, ways to re-use materials
  • communicating why a material was selected or rejected, for example, it was too big and would not fit
  • sharing ideas, with teacher guidance, about a designed solution, for example, expressing likes and dislikes about a design idea
  • using images and objects to indicate tools and equipment, materials and key steps of a process, for example, growing a food product or designing a birthday card

  VCDSCD009 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level C | Creating Designed Solutions

• VCSSU025

  Objects can move in different ways

  Elaborations

  • developing a basic understanding of how things move, for example, push and pull, drop or throw, battery power
  • using words that describe simple forces, for example, ‘fast’, ‘slow’, ‘push’, ‘pull’

  VCSSU025 | Science | Level C | Science Understanding | Physical sciences

• VCDTCD009

  Follow, and with assistance, represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems

  Elaborations

  • re-sequencing a known everyday activity using visual images or verbal cues
  • experimenting with very simple, visual step-by-step procedures to explore using a device or completing a task, for example printing a picture or starting a game
  • identifying sequences of instructions or events that are commonly experienced such as the sequence of traffic lights or instructions for making a sandwich
  • following two to three-step series of instructions to use a piece of hardware or software, for example locating a website by keying in its URL or inserting an image in a file

  VCDTCD009 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level C | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCHPEP033

  Explore their feelings and practice expressing their needs, likes and dislikes using simple communication tools

  Elaborations

  • learning through supported experiences about what feelings look like, when they have felt this way and how to act
  • learning to recognise their emotional expression
  • learning to use words, signs or symbols to name emotions for self and others
  • developing a vocabulary of key concepts and using pictures and real objects to indicate their understanding of their likes and dislikes and feelings, and events associated with each feeling
  • learning about the needs and viewpoints of others through group experiences and shared decision-making
  • selecting a solution and identifying cause and effect of actions for familiar social problems

  VCHPEP033 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCSSU024

  Weather involves sun, rain, wind and clouds and can be hot, cold and warm

  Elaborations

  • responding to questions related to the weather, for example, ‘Do you think it will rain?’, ‘Do you feel hot?, ‘Is it snowing?’
  • identifying and sorting pictures and objects into 'hot' and 'cold' weather activities

  VCSSU024 | Science | Level C | Science Understanding | Earth and space sciences

• VCSSU023

  Objects have different names and properties, and some can be manipulated and changed

  Elaborations

  • identifying and naming a variety of natural materials in the environment, for example, ‘rock’, ‘grass’, ‘water’, ‘sand’, ‘tree’
  • combining substances and observing them change during mixing, for example, salt and sugar dissolving in water, making jelly

  VCSSU023 | Science | Level C | Science Understanding | Chemical sciences

• VCHPEP029

  Identify their personal characteristics

  Elaborations

  • learning to express their feelings, needs, likes and dislikes using simple communication tools
  • describe in simple terms, basic physical characteristics of themselves and others
  • identifying things they can do and explore how these develop over time
  • participating in a range of minor games and activities and exploring what they can do, which ones they like and would like to do more

  VCHPEP029 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCELA087

  Use spoken words, sign or Augmentative Alternative Communication System to communicate and understand that images can be used to write and express ideas

  Elaborations

  • learning to use high-frequency images and words, for example the student’s own name, ‘stop’
  • using spoken words, articulating most of the sounds
  • learning that images/signs can be combined to make a word
  • listening to sounds and words and reproducing them using a personalised communication system

  VCELA087 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Writing | Language

• VCELA071

  Recognise that texts and communication can take various forms including multimodal and picture books

  Elaborations

  • investigating the relationship between symbols or images and objects, people and actions
  • recognising and participating in interactive stories

  VCELA071 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Language

• VCHPEP031

  Identify and name members of immediate family and demonstrate safety awareness, respond to safety instructions and identify safe and unsafe places and items in the environment

  Elaborations

  • sharing information about their own family using photos
  • learning about different types of relationships and identifying the people within each relationship group
  • exploring safety and learning to demonstrate safety awareness in familiar daily routines
  • learning protective behaviours that can help keep them safe, including how to seek or communicate a need for help from trusted people in their community who can help them stay safe and healthy, recognising and communicating when then feel unsafe and practising ways of asking for help in a range of different scenarios
  • using pictures and concrete examples to identify their understanding of safe and unsafe places and items in the environment around them

  VCHPEP031 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Personal, Social and Community Health | Being healthy, safe and active

• VCHPEP032

  Practise personal hygiene, independence skills and social skills including taking turns

  Elaborations

  • practising expressing needs, wants and feelings, and self-discipline to be an effective group member
  • participating in personal hygiene practices including hand washing, face washing, nose blowing and toilet routines and beginning to identify why they are important
  • exploring scenarios, actions and consequences and discussing how it feels and their choices
  • creating and retelling stories about social skills and exploring and practising the skills targeted
  • learning how to be kind, fair and respectful to others through structured learning experiences and social stories and how they can make people feel

  VCHPEP032 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Personal, Social and Community Health | Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

• VCHPEM037

  Participate in a variety of physical education experiences and games with simple rules with equipment in a range of environments

  Elaborations

  • copying simple physical movement patterns
  • beginning to learn to ride a tricycle or bike with training wheels
  • learning the skills needed to perform basic games
  • demonstrating safety rules when participating in structured physical activities
  • participating in games that require students to be aware of personal safety and game boundaries

  VCHPEM037 | Health and Physical Education | Level C | Movement and Physical Activity | Moving the body

• VCELT080

  Recognise familiar texts which share the same character or similar topic or event

  Elaborations

  • learning that texts can share a similar theme or character
  • joining in the chant or rhyme during shared reading

  VCELT080 | Curriculum content | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing | Literature

• VCGGK039

  Connection of weather to seasons

  Elaborations

  • exploring how changes in the weather effected a place, activity or event
  • using structured activities to observe and develop an understanding of how changes in the weather can affect a desired activity
  • showing an understanding of how changes in the weather can affect their daily activities by matching clothing activity and weather
  • connecting weather and season to clothing, activity and events

  VCGGK039 | The Humanities | Geography | Level C | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them