AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Leading to a Bright Future

Year 2 Thao Dien Unit of Inquiry 4 Overview

How We Express Ourselves An inquiry into the ways in which we discover and express ideas, feelings, nature, culture,
beliefs and values; the ways in which we reflect on, extend and enjoy our creativity; our appreciation of aesthetic.
Central Idea
Musical styles from around the world provide a reflection of cultures, beliefs and values.
Concepts
Form, Perspective, Reflection
Related concepts
Pattern, Musical Styles, Traditions
Lines of Inquiry

Musical styles from around the world.

Understanding cultures, beliefs and values through music.

How music is used to communicate feelings and emotions.

Language

Explore different ways of expressing emotions, including verbal, visual, body language and facial expressions.
Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts,
including appropriate use of formal and informal terms of address in different contexts.
Literature

Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making
connections with students' own experiences.
Express preferences for specific texts and authors and listen to the opinions of others.
Literacy

Respond to texts drawn from a range of cultures and experiences.

Mathematics
Statistics and Probability

Choose simple questions and gather responses.

Represent data with objects and drawings where one object or drawing represents one data value. Describe the
displays.
Measurement and Geometry
Recognise and classify familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects using obvious features.

Art

Chinese/Mandarin

Responding:
Learn Chinese through Chinese songs and music
and Chinese
culture. between 2D

Can verbally explain

the difference
new year song, happy birthday song and
and 3D artworks.
my friend of form by

Students can show understanding

listen
to Chinese
music by traditional
drawing a cube, sphere,
pyramid
and cone.
musical instruments
Creating:

learn to make new year cards in

Students complete art projects

Chinesewith verbal
explanation of what andlearn
whyChinese
the project
was made.
through
lyrics

Begin to be aware of the Element

Physical Education

Develops positive relationships with people and other peers.

Performs fundamental movement skills with equipment in minor games.

Vietnamese Language and Culture (VLC)

Language focus: VLC lessons focus on different music styles from the three different regions of Vietnam and
how music is used for celebrate Tet.
Culture focus: Tet Festival focus on special activities and Tet songs.
Vietnamese National Curriculum

In Unit 4, Year 2 VNC will continue on with Vietnamese phonics, story-telling and handwriting:

Phonics and handwriting: eng/ing/ung/ng, ang/anh/inh/nh, om/am/m/m, m/m/em/m,

im/um/im/ym, um/m/ot/at.

Story about how people behave with the environment.

Music

In Music we will be looking at the different styles of song, instruments and dance from around the world. The
students will explore African drum beats, folk dances from Russia, Mexico and Australia and traditional songs from
Vietnam, New Zealand and Australia.

Emilie Knight, Fairlie Thompson

and Kathryn Morris
Year 2 Teachers
Thao Dien Campus

Jayne De La Haye
PYP Coordinator