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Who We Are

An inquiry into the nature of the self; beliefs and values;

personal, physical, mental, social and spiritual health;human relationships including families, friends,

communities, and cultures; rights and responsibilities;what it means to be human.

Central Idea

Cooperation is essential to achieving group goals.

Lines of Inquiry

Skills and attitudes needed to cooperate

Benefits of cooperation

Roles and responsibilities in cooperation

Concepts:

Key Concepts: Function, Connection, Responsibility

Related Concepts: Cooperation, Roles, Responsibilities

Subject Focus: Social Studies - Social Organisation

and Culture, Personal, Social and Physical Education

Learner Profile: Caring, Communicator and Open-

Minded

Who We Are

UNIT OVERVIEW

Transdiscplinary Skills Focus

Social Skills - Accepting responsibility, respecting others, cooperating, resolving conflict, group decision-making and

adopting a variety of group roles.

Summative Assessment

Students will create atoolbox(showing guidelinesofhowtocooperate) usingthePYPAttitudesandSocial

Skills. The group taskistoworktogethertopresentwhattheyhavelearnedtoanaudience.Students will also develop short term and long term personal goals, and class essential agreements.

How you can help your child at home?

Make a chart of the responsibilities of each person in your house that shows how you all cooperate.

Show how you have to cooperate when playing a game. The students can conduct a survey on their parents workplace and how everyone cooperates.

Look at a sports team and draw how each member cooperates.


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Language Focus:

Text Type Focus:

Reports and Explanations: These are non-fiction texts which provide information and describe how things work.When working with these texts students will be conducting surveys, classifying and describing people in various

workplaces and teams/games.

Grammar Focus

Punctuation (capital letters, fullstops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas)Tenses (this will be ongoing throughout the year)

UNIT OVERVIEW

Vocabulary:

Cooperation# # Working together# # Goals# # # Learner profile

Responsibility# # Helping## # # Skills# # # Essential agreements

Team# # # Sharing## # # Attitudes

Indonesian Language Focus:

Intermediate/Advanced

In Indonesian Intermediate and Advanced class, students will study simple sentences , the use of capital letters,

reading simple Indonesian stories fluently, following two simple instructions and responding to appropriate

questions. To integrate with the unit the students will study cooperation; how people cooperate in their home,

neighborhood( such as siskamling, kerja bakti di lingkungan ) and school. In addition, students will study recount

writing ( telling about past experiences) To enhance their presentation skills, the students will use some IT

applications such as Photo Booth and Microsoft Word.

Vocabulary: Kerja sama, gotong royong, bergiliran, antri, sepakat , kesepakatan, peranan, peran, tujuan,

perjanjian, sikap, perilaku, menghargai, tanggung jawab, konflik, beban kerja, keterampilan, menghargai dan

tenggat waktu

BeginnerIn the Indonesian beginner class, students will learn greetings (salam and selamat), counting numbers from 1- 10

and will share personal information such as names, birthday, address, hobbies, family and school. The students

also will learn some Indonesian songs and how to introduce themselves and their friends to others.


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Visual Arts

In Grade 2 the students will begin the first Unit of Inquiry as a stand alone. Focusing on an artist study of AndyGoldsworthy, an environmental artist that only uses natural materials in open environments to create his

sculpture. In support of the Unit of Inquiry the students will initially work independently to learn how he creates hisartwork and practice with the different materials. Then they will be grouped together and experience how working

together as a group is essential to achieving their creation of a large environmental artwork.

UNIT OVERVIEW

Music

The Grade 2 students will become familiar with the routines of the music room. They will begin to recognizesimple melodic patterns using do-re-mi-so-la and high do. They will also learn the hand signs for these notes.

Theoretical elements such as dynamics (loud and soft, crescendo and decrescendo) will also be explored. Asrelates to their unit of inquiry on cooperation, the students will experience the benefits of cooperation through anumber of singing games.

PE

First Id like to say welcome back even though its has been over two weeks since we have returned from the big

holiday. Now that we are back, it s right back to the grind for the students and teachers. We started 2011/12

with getting more familiar with nutrition and related fitness. The PE class has been working on learning about

nutrition (Food Pyramid) and fitness exercises. Your child may have already be coming home letting you know

about grains and vegetables. We will continue learning about health and related fitness for the remainder of the

year with a concentrated focus on this over the next two weeks.

Chinese Language Focus:

A successful test about cooperation

We will focus on 3 topics

- We need cooperation- Cooperation leads to success- Individual competition leads to failure

Teacher's questions:

- Why do the Chinese students need to cooperate?

- How do they cooperate with each other?

- How do scientists know they have cooperatedeffectively?Vocabulary:

Beginner: (together) (do) (success)

Beginner+: (scientist) (together)

(cooperate) (success) (discuss)

Intermediate: (China) (student)

(games) (little ball) (bottle) (discuss)

(thin string) (success)

Advanced

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