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Who We Are
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 Benets 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 Prole: Caring, Communicator and OpenMinded

Transdiscplinary Skills Focus Social Skills - Accepting responsibility, respecting others, cooperating, resolving conict, 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-ction 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)

Vocabulary: Cooperation# # Working together# Helping## Sharing## # # # # # Goals# # Skills# # # # Learner prole Essential agreements

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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 uently, 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, konik, beban kerja, keterampilan, menghargai dan tenggat waktu Beginner In 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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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 cooperated effectively? Vocabulary: Beginner: (together) (do) (success) Beginner+: (scientist) (together) (cooperate) (success) (discuss) Intermediate: (China) (student) (games) (little ball) (bottle) (discuss) (thin string) (success) Advanced Visual Arts In Grade 2 the students will begin the rst Unit of Inquiry as a stand alone. Focusing on an artist study of Andy Goldsworthy, 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 his artwork 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.

Music The Grade 2 students will become familiar with the routines of the music room. They will begin to recognize simple 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. As relates to their unit of inquiry on cooperation, the students will experience the benets of cooperation through a number 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, its right back to the grind for the students and teachers. We started 2011/12 with getting more familiar with nutrition and related tness. The PE class has been working on learning about nutrition (Food Pyramid) and tness exercises. Your child may have already be coming home letting you know about grains and vegetables. We will continue learning about health and related tness for the remainder of the year with a concentrated focus on this over the next two weeks.