Beaumaris North PS

 2022 

Term 2

 Visual Art 

The Term 1 Unit of Inquiry is called 'Expressing Emotions in Art', which integrates with the Transdisciplinary theme- 'How we express ourselves'. The Line of Inquiry is -The creative ways to explore our emotions. Students are inspired by cultural celebrations and their different art forms.  

 

Students participate in- 

  • Designing their own Mandala to explore the emotion of happiness, inspired by the celebration of ‘Losar’ Tibetan New Year. They capture effective patterns, use of symmetry and colour. 
  • Experimenting with a range of painting tools and a warm colour palette, creating a page of painted anger, after reading the book “The Red Beast”. They explore the Japanese festival ‘Setsubun’, the students use their anger painted paper to create their own Beast, demonstrating drawing and collage skills. 
  • Creating a collage piece to represent ‘Bravery’, inspired by the elaborate headdress of Native America. They demonstrate a unique design enhanced with effective collage to illustrate bravery.  
  •  Watching a traditional New Zealand Maori Haka, an ancestral dance and war cry, students design a Tiki symbol print to evoke the emotion of ‘Fear’. Demonstrating a clear bold design and the application of the print making process. 

 

Music 

PYP Unit Of Inquiry : How We Express Ourselves and Who We Are 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Focus:  

 

To explore the effects of music on emotions through singing and listening and to find creative ways to express their emotions through group performances with percussion instruments.  Students will increase their music knowledge as they investigate tone colour, long and short sounds, long and short rhythms and ostinato patterns. 

 

The Children will: 

  • Sing songs: promoting respect and a positive attitude e.g. The Middle 
  • Make choices about sound: recognizing and playing rhythms in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 (thinker) 
  • Manipulate chants and simple songs to express ideas and emotions. They will do this by changing the different elements in music. 
  • Explore body movements as a means of expression. eg. raps, creative movement.  
  • Become familiar with the tone colour and playing techniques for tuned and untuned percussion instruments.  
  • Have many opportunities to find ways to express themselves musically and creatively through class performances. 

 

Japanese  

Term focus: 

Greetings, Classroom instructions, Classroom objects, Feelings and Emotions, Onomatopoeia 

 

PYP Unit Of Inquiry - How We Express Ourselves: Communication is influenced by feelings and emotions 

  

The students will be able to:  

  • Understand why Japanese students do physical exercise to start a day and do radio TAISO exercise. 
  • Describe their summer holidays using an adjective: SUGOI(fantastic!) 
  • Spell characters in the right stroke order. 
  • Spell their name in Katakana.  
  • Say greeting words. (KONNICHIWA, SAYONARA, OHAYO GOZAIMAS, MATANAY, MATA LYE SHOE) 
  • Read/ write greeting words. 
  • Say classroom instructions (SHE ZOO KANI, MOO ICHIDO, DOUGH ZO, HAI, IIE, IMAS) 
  • Read and spell classroom words. 
  • Say classroom objects (stationery). (IISU, TSUKUE, EMPITS, KESHEGOMU, HASAMI, NOLEE, COO DASAI) 
  • Read and spell classroom objects. 
  • Learn feelings/ emotions words to express how they are feeling now. (happy, excited, sad, nervous) 

 

 Physical Education

'How We Express Ourselves'

Students look at the concepts of Perspective and Communication  

 

Perspective- 

  • Working together as a group showing tolerance and respect for others. Demonstrating open-mindedness and caring for each other through the following activities- 
  • Team Building Games / Parachute / Fundamental Motor Skills.   
  • Consolidating basic movement skills and more complex movement skills.   
  • Continuing to practice, control and master Fundamental Motor Skills of Rolling, Under and Overarm Throw and Catching.    
  • Incorporate these skills into more complex minor games.   

Communication- 

  • Understanding how we can communicate with other students within groups and in games. Working on how we deal with losing or winning.  
  • Looking after sports equipment and personal organization.   

Library  

  

The Year 2 students are encouraged to borrow books from the Library. The focus will be on reading for enjoyment, interest and information. The children will have the opportunity to consolidate their literacy skills and further their development in literature appreciation. 

 

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