For Grade 3 teachers planning the week of Monday 2 to Friday 6 November 2026 (Term 4 Week 5).
This week we will be starting the Weeks 5 and 6 Maths block (numbers to 900, fractions, multiplying and dividing, money and data), finishing the Life Skills topic Products and processes with paper mache and drama, and starting the English FAL theme Sadness with the str- blend and paragraph writing.
Remember to plan when you will give the Maths SBA oral and written tasks for Weeks 5 and 6, collect newspaper, flour paste and bowls or balloons for paper mache, and be sensitive during the English FAL theme Sadness, as some learners may have lost someone close. The formal English FAL written task follows in Week 6.
Where this week fits
- Term 4 runs from 6 October to 9 December 2026, so this is the fifth week of the term. There are no public holidays this week.
- Mathematics: this is the first week of the Weeks 5 and 6 block in the ATP. The block has an SBA task, so plan when you will give it over the two weeks.
- Life Skills: this is the second and last week of the topic Products and processes (Weeks 4 and 5). Disasters and what we should do follows in Week 6.
- English FAL: follow the Week 5 column of the Term 4 ATP.
Grade 3 Mathematics
Counting to 1000, place value to 900, add and subtract to 999, multiplying by 2 and 5, dividing by 2, 5 and 10, fractions, money, position and views, and reading data.
Grade 3 Life Skills
Topic: Products and processes. Materials, process steps and preserving food, paper mache, drama games, South African instruments, movement sequences and shadow imitations.
Grade 3 English FAL
Theme: Sadness. Words about sadness and loss, sight words could, try, better, maybe and smile, the str- blend, inferences in shared reading, planning and drafting a paragraph, and the future tense.
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.