For Grade 3 teachers planning the week of Monday 26 to Friday 30 October 2026 (Term 4 Week 4).
This week we will be finishing the Weeks 3 and 4 Maths block (numbers to 1000, multiplying and dividing, money and time), starting the Life Skills topic Products and processes, and continuing the English FAL theme Feeling calm with the spr- blend, comparative adjectives and publishing a paragraph.
Remember to complete the Maths SBA tasks for Weeks 3 and 4, bring real objects such as a brick, sugar and dried fruit for Life Skills, and put the editing checklist on the board for Tuesday’s English FAL writing. No formal English FAL task falls this week.
Where this week fits
- Term 4 runs from 6 October to 9 December 2026, so this is the fourth week of the term. There are no public holidays this week.
- Mathematics: this is the second week of the Weeks 3 and 4 block in the ATP, so finish the block and its SBA task this week.
- Life Skills: Weeks 1 to 3 of Term 4 were set aside to catch up on Term 3 work. Week 4 starts the new Term 4 topics.
- English FAL: follow the Week 4 column of the Term 4 ATP.
Grade 3 Mathematics
Counting to 1000, comparing and rounding, 3-digit addition and subtraction, multiplying by 2 and 5, dividing by 2, 5 and 10, money and time to the minute.
Grade 3 Life Skills
Topic: Products and processes. Sugar cane to sugar, clay to brick, preserving food, drama with body language and mood, and rhythmic movement.
Grade 3 English FAL
Theme: Feeling calm. Words about calm and stress, sight words parents, why, weird, calm and tried, the spr- blend, inferences in shared reading, editing and publishing a paragraph, and comparative adjectives.
The DBE 2023/2024 ATP page does not list a Grade 3 English FAL Term 4 ATP. The Grade 3 English FAL plan follows the DBE 2022-2023 Grade 3 English FAL Term 4 ATP, which the Western Cape Education Department shares on its ePortal. The workbook pages it lists may differ in your edition of Workbook 2.
Pacing note
If your class is behind, do not skip ahead to keep up with these plans. Finish the current topic, carry unfinished work into next week and use the daily mental maths and oral sessions to keep revising. If you are ahead, use the extension activities in each plan.
Other Foundation Phase grades this week: Grade R, Grade 1, Grade 2
Useful links
- DBE 2023/2024 Foundation Phase ATPs
- DBE 2022-2023 Grade 3 English FAL Term 4 ATP
- DBE 2026 workbooks for Terms 3 and 4
- DBE 2026 school calendar (PDF)
- Grade 3 ATPs 2023 to 2024 on caps123
- How to use the Foundation Phase annual teaching plans
- Foundation Phase CAPS assessment made simple
- More Foundation Phase English FAL lesson plans
caps123.co.za is not an official DBE page. These plans are based on DBE documents. Always check the official DBE documents and your school and provincial assessment programme.