AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Leading to a Bright Future

Year 2 ThaoDien Unit of Inquiry 2 Overview

How We Organise Ourselves An inquiry into the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities; the
structure and functions of organisations; societal decision-making; economic activities and their impact on humankind and
the environment.
Central Idea
There are many people in our community who help us in different ways.
Concepts
Function, Connection, Responsibility
Related concepts
Roles, Networks, Citizenship
Lines of Inquiry

How people help us in the community

Why we need people in the community to help us

Different organisations which cater for specific purposes

Language

Understand that people use different systems of communication to cater to different needs and purposes and that
many people may use sign systems to communicate with others.

Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent Whats happening?, What state is being described?, Who
or what is involved? and the surrounding circumstances.

Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings
and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs).

Recognise and know how to use morphemes in word families for example play in played and playing.

Recognise sound-letter matches including common vowel and consonant digraphs and consonant blends.

Literature

Discuss how authors create characters using language and images.

Mathematics
Number and Algebra

Develop confidence with number sequences to and from 100 by ones from any starting point. Skip
count by twos, fives and tens starting from zero.
Count collections to 100 by partitioning numbers using place value.
Represent and solve simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of strategies including
counting on, partitioning and rearranging parts.

Chinese/Mandarin

Art
Responding:

Can label Warm, Cool, Primary, Secondary on a

colour wheel.
Students complete art projects with verbal
explanation of what and why the project was made.

Can name2-4 food, fruit, drink respectively in

chinese
Can express ones likes/needs

Can copy and write characters: ,

Creating:

Provide constructive criticism when responding to

artwork.
Begin to be aware of the Element of Art and
Design.

Physical Education

Follows a simple sequence that links

basic movement patterns.

Vietnamese Language and Culture (VLC)

*Language focus: ACTION VERBS
Year 2 will continue their next VLC topic with Action Verbs. During VLC lessons, the students will learn how to say
different useful action verbs through a variety of language games. They will also learn a new sentence structure: Ti
ang and apply their newly learnt vocabulary to describe what someone is doing in Vietnamese.
*Culture focus: Vietnamese children song
-Em tp th dc bui sng

Vietnamese National Curriculum

In unit 3, year 2 VNC will be continued on Vietnamese phonics, story-telling and handwriting:
- Phonics and handwriting: ay/y, eo/ao, au/u, iu/u, iu/yu, u/u, on/an, n/n, n/n, en/n, in/un, in/yn,
un/n, ong/ng, ng/ng, ung/ng.
Story about jobs in the community.

Emilie Knight, Fairlie Thompson

and Kathryn Morris
Year 2 Teachers
Thao Dien Campus

Jayne De La Haye
PYP Coordinator