Year 2 ThaoDien Unit of Inquiry 2 Overview

Sharing the planet: An inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people
and with other living things; communities and the relationships within and between them; access to equal opportunities;
peace and conflict resolution.

Central Idea
People can establish practices in order to sustain and maintain the Earth's resources.

Concepts
Change, Reflection, Responsibility.

Related concepts
Lifestyle, Choice, Sustainability.

Lines of Inquiry
The limited nature of Earth's resources.
Personal choices and their impact on sustainability.
Reusing, reducing and recycling different materials.
Language

Recognise that different types of punctuation, including full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, signal
sentences that make statements, ask questions, express emotion or give commands.
Compare different kinds of images in narrative and informative texts and discuss how they contribute to meaning.
Know that regular one-syllable words are made up of letters and common letter clusters that correspond to the
sounds heard, and how to use visual memory to write high-frequency words .
Manipulate sounds in spoken words including phoneme deletion and substitution.

Literacy

Read supportive texts using developing phrasing, fluency, contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic
knowledge and emerging text processing strategies, for example prediction, monitoring meaning and rereading
Construct texts that incorporate supporting images using software including word processing programs.


Mathematics
Number and Algebra

Recognise and describe one-half as one of two equal parts of a whole

Measurement and Geometry

Tell time to the half-hour.
Describe duration using months, weeks, days and hours.
Recognise and classify familiar two-dimensional shapes using obvious features.


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Leading to a Bright Future
Physical Education

Communicates appropriately in a variety of
different ways.
Performs fundamental movement skills with
equipment in minor games.
Art

Responding:

Can demonstrate how to draw organic and
geometric shape
Students complete art projects with verbal
explanation of what and why the project was made.

Creating:

Use tools in the Art Room appropriately.
Follow directions to create a finished artwork.
Vietnamese Language and Culture (VLC)

*Language focus: TRANSPORTATION AND COLOURS

Year 2 will continue their next VLC topics with Transportation and Colours.
During VLC lessons, the students will learn how to:
-Name different vehicles in Vietnamese
-Give simple directions
-Sing a vehicle song : Em tp li t
The students will also learn 8 colours (red, yellow, blue, green, pink, orange, black and white) and apply their newly learnt
vocabulary to describe their favourite vehicle.

*Culture focus: VIETNAMESE TEACHERS DAY
- Vietnamese Teachers Day focus on common activities and songs.
Emilie Knight, Fairlie Thompson
and Kathryn Morris Robert Crowther
Year 2 Teachers Primary Years Deputy Principal
Thu Thiem Campus
Chinese/Mandarin


Learn about colour and clothes, likes/dislikes
L8,9,10
daily colours
daily clothes
simply describe things in colour
simply talk about what colour one wants
to wear
learn radicals and characters
Vietnamese National Curriculum

In unit 2, year 2 VNC will be continued on Vietnamese phonics, story-telling and handwriting:

Phonics and handwriting: ay/y, eo/ao, au/u, iu/u, iu/yu, u/u, on/an, n/n, n/n, en/n,
in/un, in/yn, un/n, ong/ng, ng/ng, ung/ng.
Story-telling: Qa sinh nht- The birthday present/ Sc nu i hc-The squirrel goes to school,
Bng hoa k diu The magical flower