Beaumaris North PS

 Term 3, 2022

Year 1

Visual Art 

The Term 3 Unit of Inquiry is called “Food through the eye of an Artist”, which integrates with the Transdisciplinary theme- “How We Organise Ourselves”. 

 

The Unit focuses on artists Margaret Preston, Claes Oldenberg, Giuseppe Arcimboldo and modern animations of Soupe-Opera.  

 

Activities include: 

  • Still life fruit drawings. Developing skills and understanding of observational drawing. 
  • Printing plate and print design. Inspired by the still life fruit drawings, capture the linear detail of fruit to create an effective print design –viewing the works of Margaret Preston. 
  • Ceramic healthy meal on a plate, inspired by Claes Oldenburg’s soft food sculptures. 
  • Multimedia collage inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldi portraits and the animations of Soupe-Opera. Students will create a collage using magazine images of food and colour paper facial features.     

Language (Japanese) 

Term Focus and Topics:

Japanese food and Transportation in Japan   

 

PYP Transdisciplinary Theme:

HOW WE ORGANISE OURSELVES 

FOOD GOES THROUGH MANY STAGES OF PRODUCTION BEFORE REACHING US 

 

Concepts:  function, change  

 

PYP Transdisciplinary Theme:

WHERE WE ARE IN PLACE AND TIME 

TRANSPORT CHANGES OVER TIME 

 

Concepts:  function, forms  

 

Lines of Inquiry 

  • The stages food products go through from origin to consumption 
  • Resources and their management 
  • The different forms of transport  

The student will be able to:   

  • Say some names of forms of transport (car, bus, train, bullet train, etc) in Japanese. 
  • Explain what kind of transport they have in Japan and tell the differences between Australian transport and Japanese transport.  
  • Make a paper SHINKANSEN (bullet train). 
  • Say and spell “NOODLES” in Japanese. 
  • Say and spell some ingredients (meat and vegetables) of YAKISOBA: Japanese style fried noodles in Japanese. 
  • Say some cooking verbs like cut and fry in Japanese. 
  • Make paper YAKISOBA (Japanese style fried noodles).  

Japanese Incursion (11 August)

Four Seasons: 

Learn about beautiful Japanese seasons and culture. 

A performer will engage our students in learning about Japanese culture and they will enjoy the performer’s ventriloquism, Japanese folktale, and games, etc.  

 

PE PROGRAM – TERM 3 

Year 1  

  

The term 3 Unit we are focusing on is “Sharing the Planet” 

 

Focus: Athletics skills- running, jumping, leaping, and throwing, using these skills in modified athletics activities. Use these skills in races, relays and minor games. We will also run a Mini Athletics carnival where students get to interact across junior year levels with one another as athletes do from different countries whilst competing at the Commonwealth Games.  

Motor skills/Game Sense- continue to reinforce the basic skills covered in Semester One through interactive game play. Revise the skills of throwing, catching, bouncing and kicking. 

 

Concepts: Connection- how we interact with one another when competing across different year levels as people would when competing for their country at the Commonwealth Games. 

 

Learner Profiles: Balanced and Principled 

 

Year 1 Music 

Transdisciplinary Theme: Where We Are In Place and Time 

 

Just as Transport changes over time, so does music change, both within a piece of music and over long periods in history. Students will be focussing on Change and Form, as they both compare and play a variety of musical pieces. 

Students will be: 

  • Finding ways to record creative compositions and soundscapes (using both informal and formal notation) and then performing them. 

 

  •  The Soundscape will involve transport, a focus of their Unit of Inquiry. Year1 will also perform the soundscape called ‘The Rain is Falling’. 
  • Using music vocabulary to compare changes in music, as they listen appreciatively to a variety of works. The focus is both on learning to express one’s ideas and on being open minded to the ideas of others.  
  • Understanding that both formal and informal notation is a form of communication from one person to the next. It helps to pass on both old and new ideas in music to others of different generations.  
  • Playing the chime bars. They will be revising technique, practising tunes and notating simple ostinatos, on the chime bars.   
  • Playing percussion instruments in small performance groups and putting a percussion performance together, to the chant ‘A Big Green Tram’. 
  • Moving and responding creatively to music and learning a dance.  
  • Singing fun songs related to their Unit of Inquiry e.g. On a Bicycle 

Library  

  

All students are encouraged to borrow books from the Library. The focus is on reading for enjoyment, interest and information. The children also have the opportunity to practise their borrowing skills and further their love of reading. 

The Library program also supports and extends the units of inquiry being studied in each year level and provides classrooms with resources to enrich the units offering varied forms of information