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• VCSSU004

  Changes in the world around us can affect responses

  Elaborations

  • making decisions about clothing, location and activity based on their reaction to, and changes in, the weather
  • demonstrating an awareness of the time of day by responding to activities associated with different times of the day, for example, eating lunch, getting dressed to go to school, packing bags to go home

  VCSSU004 | Science | Level A | Science Understanding | Earth and space sciences

• VCGGK011

  Experience weather and seasons

  Elaborations

  • exposed to weather conditions and their sensory characteristics
  • exposed to weather conditions being linked to pictures, words and images
  • experiencing the changing of clothing and activities due to the weather and the season

  VCGGK011 | The Humanities | Geography | Level A | Geographical Knowledge | Places and our connections to them

• Science: Level A description

  In Level A, students learn that their senses can help them understand the world around them and the objects within it. They experience a range of activities that will assist them to attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They are exposed to and encouraged...

  Level description | Science

• VCELA024

  Use sounds and facial expressions to affect familiar others

  Elaborations

  • encountering various languages and forms of communication at home, school and in the community
  • experiencing others engaging, communicating and changing things in the world around them
  • reacting to the sounds and voices of familiar others
  • reacting to a range of gestures, signs, images and facial features of familiar others
  • using sounds, noises, gestures, eye gaze etc. to gain attention or request an object, e.g. reaching towards something they want
  • turning towards a communication partner

  VCELA024 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA026

  Explore how sound, facial expression and actions can cause a change

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to others interpreting their actions and labelling them as needs and feeling
  • exploring how they can change their behaviour
  • reacting to others through gestures, facial expressions, sounds and movements
  • changing their focus of engagement on seeing or feeling an object or person

  VCELA026 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• English: Level A achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen to and react to some familiar objects, people, words and sounds within the environment by turning head, looking, reaching out and/or vocalising. They respond to their name and to familiar items when named. Students show an interest in others and an awareness of everyday social...

  Level description | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening

• VCSSU005

  Objects can be moved and touched

  Elaborations

  • demonstrating an awareness of force by watching or causing objects to bounce, swing, roll or slide
  • demonstrating an awareness of energy by responding to a variety of phenomena, for example, flashing lights, noisy toys, mechanical objects moving

  VCSSU005 | Science | Level A | Science Understanding | Physical sciences

• VCSIS007

  Gather information about objects and events

  Elaborations

  • reacting to sensory input while participating in supported activities related to changes in objects and events, for example, reactions to flashing lights, different types of music, travelling on a bus
  • participating in supported activities related to natural and constructed changes in the environment such as weather, tree planting, vegetable growing

  VCSIS007 | Science | Level A | Science Inquiry Skills | Planning and conducting

• English: Level A achievement standards - Writing

  When experiencing coactive writing activities, students make choices between objects and images and accept and reject objects and activities. Students develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination and they move their hands in response to tactile stimuli. Students can demonstrate their...

  Level description | English | Level A | Writing

• Science: Level A achievement standards

  By the end of Level A, students react to the properties and behaviour of familiar objects. They react to environmental changes and respond to their effects through a positive or negative response. Students initiate and communicate a response to, or acceptance or rejection of, familiar objects and events.

  Level description | Science | Level A

• VCELY021

  Respond to group text and personalised text being edited

  Elaborations

  • experiencing people editing and changing a text, for example change music, photo, written word or image
  • experiencing people editing by review and changing photos and images in multimodal texts
  • reacting to some of the changes occurring to digital multimodal texts

  VCELY021 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Writing | Literacy

• Critical and Creative Thinking: Level A achievement standards

  By the end of Level A, students react to significant changes in their environment. Students generate ideas by using their senses to explore the characteristics of everyday objects and make choices between objects.

  Students begin to identify their personal preference and make choices about what...

  Level description | Capabilities | Critical and Creative Thinking | Level A

• Digital Technologies: Level A achievement standards

  By the end of Level A, students recognise common digital systems that are used to meet specific everyday purposes.

  Students react to different types of data and how digital systems can be used to represent data as images.

  Students recognise that routine tasks involve completing a set of steps.

  Level description | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level A

• English: Level A achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level A, students react to a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They respond to images of familiar people, objects or events. They fleetingly maintain eye contact with a person or object. They enjoy reading material as it is being read/experienced...

  Level description | English | Level A | Reading and Viewing

• Media Arts: Level A description

  In Level A, students are exposed to media arts. They experience how media artworks can represent the world in which they live.

  Students become aware of character and settings as they explore sensory elements of media arts, explore ideas and assist in the construction of stories.

  Students experience...

  Level description | The Arts | Media Arts

• Mathematics: Level A achievement standards

  Number and Algebra

  Students observe the use of number within their daily life. They begin to respond to numbers in everyday experiences. Students demonstrate awareness of counting by responding to number rhymes, songs, stories and finger games. They experience and respond to ‘one for you,...

  Level description | Mathematics | Level A

• Health and Physical Education: Level A achievement standards

  By the end of Level A, students recognise themselves. They demonstrate different emotions people experience. They participate in actions that help them to be healthy, safe and physically active. They experience different settings where they can be active. Students show general awareness of body...

  Level description | Health and Physical Education | Level A

• VCMNA005

  Respond to the removal and addition of familiar items and objects in practical situations

  Elaborations

  • experiencing changes in quantity that occur during addition and subtraction within everyday experiences
  • attending to the adding and subtraction of familiar objects
  • reacting to changes in a collection when objects are added or subtracted

  VCMNA005 | Mathematics | Level A | Number and Algebra | Number and place value

• Drama: Level A description

  In Level A students are exposed to drama to assist them to attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They experience how drama can represent the world and represent ideas about the world. They experience dance and are encouraged to use gestures and body...

  Level description | The Arts | Drama

• Music: Level A description

  In Level A, students are exposed to music to assist them to listen to and explore sound and attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They listen to and explore sound and experience how they can make music. They experience music as part of an audience.

  Student...

  Level description | The Arts | Music