AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Leading to a Bright Future

Year 2 Thao Dien Unit of Inquiry 5 Overview

How People Play

Where we are in place and time
An inquiry into orientation in place and time; personal histories, homes and journeys; the discoveries, explorations and
migrations of humankind; relationships between and interconnectedness of individuals and civilizations, from local and
global perspectives.
Central Idea
Over time the technology and environment change; this influences how people play.
Concepts
Causation, Change and Connection.
Related concepts
Chronology, history, innovation, progress, use of materials.
Lines of Inquiry

How toys and games have changed.

Changes in homes, clothes and daily lives.

How the environment and technology have changed.

Language

Understand concepts about print and screen, including how different types of texts are organised using page
numbering, tables of content, headings and titles, navigation buttons, bars and links.
Literacy

Engage in conversations and discussions, using active listening behaviours, showing interest, and contributing
ideas, information and questions.
Make short presentations using some introduced text structures and language, for example opening stateme
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning about key events, ideas and information in
texts that they listen to, view and read by drawing on growing knowledge of context, text structures and
language features
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentencelevel grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations
and diagrams
Reread student's own texts and discuss possible changes to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation

Mathematics
Number and Algebra

Recognise, model, read, write and order numbers to at least 100. Locate these numbers on a number line
Measurement and Geometry

Measure and compare the lengths and capacities of pairs of objects using uniform informal units
Give and follow directions to familiar locations

Art

Chinese/Mandarin

Responding:
School routine
Students complete art projects with verbal explanation of
what and why the project
Learn
wasabout
made.daily routine and some school itemstime and daily life routine (get up, go to school,
Can choose the appropriate
go home
lineetc.)
to represent an object
- school items such as desk, chairs, stationary
Creating:
- learn basic expressions about daily life routine
Follow directions to create
and stationary.
a finished artwork.
- learn Chinese pinyin and characters
Use tools in the Art Room
- write
appropriately.
simple characters

Physical Education

Demonstrates maturing performance of basic movement and compositional skills.

Vietnamese Language and Culture (VLC)

.Year 2 VLC will collaborate with homeroom classes to inquire into the Central Idea: Overtime, the
environment and technology change, this influences how people play. During VLC lessons, the children will
inquire into how Vietnamese games and toys have changed overtime. They will also make some folk toys
using natural materials around them.
*Language focus: Family
The students will learn basic vocabularies related to nuclear family (ba, m, anh, ch, em) and some new sentence
structures to introduce their family members.
Vietnamese National Curriculum

In unit 5, year 2 VNC will be continued on Vietnamese phonics, story-telling and handwriting:

Phonics and handwriting: t/ t/ t/ t/ et/t/ ut/ t/ it/ it/ ut/ t/ oc/ ac/ c/ c/ uc/ c/ c/ uc/ ic/ c/ ach/
ich/ ch/ op/ ap/ p/ p/ p/ p/ ep/ p/ ip/ up/ ip/ p/ oa/ oe/ oai/oay/oan/ on.

Story about how people behave with the environment.

Music

The students will inquire into the musical and rhythmic games children have played over the last century. They will practise
'keeping a steady beat' learning old clapping, skipping and hopping games and work cooperatively with their peers as they
travel through time discovering the new digital music games of the 21st century.

Emilie Knight, Fairlie Thompson

and Kathryn Morris
Year 2 Teachers
Thao Dien Campus

Jayne De La Haye
PYP Coordinator