AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Leading to a Bright Future

Senior Kindergarten Thao Dien Unit of Inquiry 4 Overview

Transdisciplinary Theme

How We Organise Ourselves:

An inquiry into the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities; the structure and function
of organizations; societal decision-making; economic activities and their impact on humankind and the
environment.
Central Idea

People share spaces in our environment and safe interactions require choices about our actions.
Concepts
Function, Responsibilityand Reflection
Related concepts
Interactions, Communication, Safety, Choices, Learning environments and Adaptation
Lines of Inquiry
* Sharing spaces around our 'school and local community'
* Understanding the purpose of making safe choices within these environments.
* Safe interactions within these environments

Language
Speaking & Listening

Make connections to their own experiences when listening to or reading text

Understand people speak and understand different languages
Use vocabulary appropriate to classroom activities including the use of and to link ideas
Use conversational skills including taking turns to listen and speak
Recount through retelling stories
Inquire through asking simple questions
Describe through telling about an item during Show and Tell
Socialise through participating in role play
Engage the interest of listeners by speaking clearly
Instruct through giving information about classroom routines
Participate in unplanned and planned speaking and listening activities
Build on a knowledge of common topics to which they can relate
Use listening and speaking behaviours including looking at the speaker and speaking clearly

Reading & Viewing

Continue to develop phonemic awareness; blend simple CVC words

Choose and read picture books for pleasure
Show curiosity and asks questions about pictures and texts
Enjoy, listen attentively, and responds to stories
Join in with chants and poems
Recognise letter names and letter sounds and the alphabet sequence
Link letter names to sounds
Distinguish between pictures and written text

Writing & Representing

Use written symbols and drawings to communicate ideas or messages

Participate in shared writing, observing the teachers writing and make suggestions
Show an interest in writing and ask questions about written language
Continue to identify sounds of letters
Write the letter when the letter sound is given
Write and recognise their own name, friends names and simple CVC words

Mathematics

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Use materials to model different combinations to ten

Select appropriate method for solving a problem
Solve simple addition problems with 10
Begin to understand the concept of subtraction
Solve simple subtraction problem using objects including fingers
Representfocus:
a subtraction
Language
FRUIT problem using actions or drawings
Count backwards by ones to subtract, and count forwards by ones to add
Describe
the action of
separating
using everyday
language
such
takeDuring
away VLC lessons, the students
Senior
Kindergarten
classes
will continue
their next
VLC topic
withasFruit.
Compare two groups and describes how many more
will learn how to name different fruits in a variety of language games. They will learn a new sentence
Use number facts to 10
structure
Da hu ngon qu
to express
theirdrawings,
thoughts.numerals and words
Record addition/subtraction
sentences
using
Use the term sharing to describe division
Culture
Floating
Market aand
Vietnamese
traditional games
Use the focus:
term group
to describe
collection
of objects
Recognize unequal groups and rows
Record grouping using pictures and numerals
Record length comparisons by drawing
Describe daytime and night time
Use the terms before, after, morning and afternoon
Use the terms yesterday, today and tomorrow
Relate an event to a particular day
Continue to use calendar and identifies sequence of days and months
Use everyday language to describe position and give and follow simple directions.
Describe the position of an object in relation to another object
Begin to describe distance using terms such as near, far, nearer, further, closer
Read ordinal numbers and ordinal words to10th
Matche ordinal numbers and words to 10th
Continue to understand and use units of time, e.g. hours, days, weeks, months and years

Physical Education
Music
During this unit
Students
In Physical
will beEducation,
singing songs
the children
with actions that
will:
reflect the central idea of how people share spaces
- Participateinenthusiastically
our environment,
in class
and safe
activities
interactions require
- Demonstrate
choices
a range
about
of fine
our and
actions.
gross
The
motor
music focus will be
skills in a variety
'performing'
of different
withactivities
emphasis on the music concepts
- Understandofthe
rhythm,
rules of
steady
basicbeat
games
andand
pitch.
cooperate with others when playing games

Julie Estacion and Kerri Curran

Sk Teachers
Thao Dien Campus

Jayne De la Haye
Primary Years Programme Coordinator