From the 1/2 Classrooms

Welcome to Term 4! 

This term our integrated topic is 'Through Generations, the importance of connections.' The rationale of this unit is to look at things that changed and things that stayed the same, and how this knowledge can help prepare us for the future.

Throughout the term students will explore:

• Family structures: how are families different?
• Places of cultural or spiritual importance: why are some places important to preserve?
• The lives of people in the past: how has life changed and what has stayed the same?
• Using language to describe time and points of view. 

During literacy lessons, students will practise formulating interesting questions and follow up questions with their peers. This aims to prepare them for conducting interviews with grandparents or people from an older generation. Through this, students will discover how we can connect with others by learning about their experiences, and will come to understand that we all have things in common.

We will read literature exploring story telling and cultural significance of place. Students will consider why it is important to look after historical and cultural significant places. 

As part of this unit we will go on an excursion to the Melbourne Museum and attend the program 'My grandmother's toy box', which will inspire the students to create a mini museum, with objects from the past, in our classrooms. 

Students will study language used to describe the past, the present and the future and will present their museum object to their peers.

The unit will conclude with a rich assessment task in which students demonstrate what they have learned from their interiews with someone from an older generation, about the aspects of live that have changed and have stayed the same. 

Grade 1/2 Teachers 

Paula Paziotis, Karin Tsiandikos-Huf, Llaaneath Poor, Maryanne Cozzio,