Tim Watts

This simple assessment will help gauge if students can order the months of the year correctly, and if they can create and enter information onto a calendar, and read a calendar. Can see which students are performing above expected level by recalling or working out the days of months. (I always use the knuckles method with my students - they repeat the names of the months as they tap their knuckles or the gap between knuckles. The months on the knuckles have 31 days.) I have used this with my

An A3 size word document (docx) with all the Australian Curriculum Content Standards displayed in a table. The standards are grouped so that at a glance you can see last years expectations, and next years, for the same content area. (for this purpose year seven standards are included for use by year six teachers)

Students create questions about Australian Rules Football (AFL) football teams. After designing their question, they ask their class mates and collect the answers in a tally. This information is then draw onto a bar/column graph. I use this activity near the Grand Final on our Footy Colours Day at school. I've also created a Prometheam Interactive White Board flipchart to go with this. (Will need AvtivInspire software, or some way to import into your own IWB product) This activity links in

Students colour, cut and past hour and minute hands to "quarter past" and "quarter to" times. I've used school day activities, but students can also chose to describe and match times of other activity they enjoy, such as television shows.