AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Leading to a Bright Future

Year 2 Thao Dien Unit of Inquiry 2 Overview

Sharing the Planet: An inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with
other people and with other living things; communities and the relationships within and between them; access
to equal opportunities; peace and conflict resolution.
Central Idea
People can establish practices in order to sustain and maintain the Earth's resources.
Concepts
Change, Reflection, Responsibility.
Related concepts
Lifestyle, Choice, Sustainability.
Lines of Inquiry
The limited nature of Earth's resources.
Personal choices and their impact on sustainability.
Reusing, reducing and recycling different materials.

Language

Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary

Learn the different ways in which vowels can be pronounced e.g. how, low: apple, apron.
Identify syllables and split familiar compound words into parts
Grammar and Punctuation
Use mainly simple and compound sentences, with and/but used to connect ideas. Because may
begin to be used in a complex sentence.
Begin to reread own writing for sense and accuracy
.
Reading
Predict story endings.
Read poems and comment on words and sounds, rhyme and rhythm.
.
Writing
Use the structures of familiar poems and stories in developing own writing.
Make simple notes from a section of non-fiction texts, e.g. listing key words.
Speaking and Listening
Articulate clearly so others can hear.
Vary talk and expression to gain and hold the listeners attention .

Mathematics
Calculation
Find all pairs
of multiples of 10 with a total of 100 and record the related addition
Music
Art and subtraction
facts

Use the = sign to represent equality, e.g.16 + 4 = 17 + 3 Can choose the appropriate line to
In Music students will be singing songs connected
demonstrate their idea or emotion

Add four or five small numbers together

to RECYCLING focusing on the Music Elements
an
Can
use recycled

Recognise the use of a symbol such as or to represent

unknown,
e.g. materials
+ = 10 to create
of Duration (staying time to a steady beat) and

Solve number sentences such as 27 + = 30

artwork
creatures
Pitch (singing in tune). They will make a musical

Understand that addition can be done in any order, but subtraction

cannot
Can use
art tools appropriately
instrument out of recyclable cardboard from

Understand subtraction as both difference and take away

Begin to work independently in the art
home. Recycling songs will include Jack
Johnson's '3Rs' and Sesame Street's 'Use it
room
Position and Movement
Again'.

Follow and give instructions involving position, direction and movement Physical Education
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Recognise whole, half and quarter turns, both clockwise and anti-clockwise
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Recognise that a right angle is a quarter turn

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Physical Education will be involved in a variety of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkb-T9I43Sg
Chinese
minor
games including running and tag games.
Handling Data
These
willand
be used
to developitthe

Answer a question by collecting and recording data in lists and tables,

representing
as students
block ability to
follow
instructions,
awareness of other players and
Chinese
greetings
basics

graphs and pictograms to show results

their own gross motor skills of running and evading

Use Carroll and Venn diagrams to sort numbers or objects using

one criterion; begin to sort
players.
Week
1-5 Learn
about:
numbers and objects using two criteria; explain
choices
using
appropriate language, including not
How
to greet
people
in a formal way
Vietnamese Language
and
Culture
(VLC)
How to use polite words

*Language focus: Transportation and colours

Basic strokes and pinyin study and learn
to write
characters.
Year 2 will continue their next VLC topics with Transportation
and
Colours.
During VLC lessons, the students will learn how to: Body gestures (culture study)
-Name different vehicles in Vietnamese
-Give simple directions
Assessment
-Sing a vehicle song : Em tp li t
Respond to basic greetings in Chinese
The students will also learn 8 colours (red, yellow, blue, green, pink, orange, black and white) and apply their
newly learnt vocabulary to describe their favourite vehicle.

*Culture focus: Vietnamese traditional means of transportation

Vietnamese National Curriculm (VNC)

In unit 2, year 2 VNC will be continued on Vietnamese phonics, story-telling and handwriting:
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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-telling: Qa sinh nht- The birthday present/ Sc nu i hc-The squirrel goes to school, Bng hoa k
diu The magical flower

Emilie Knight and Kathryn Morris

Year 2 Teachers
Thao Dien Campus

Jayne de la Haye
IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) Coordinator