AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Leading to a Bright Future

Year 2 Curriculum Overview

Unit of Inquiry 4
How We Express Ourselves An inquiry into the ways in which we discover and express ideas, feelings, nature, culture,
beliefs and values; the ways in which we reflect on, extend and enjoy our creativity; our appreciation of aesthetic.
Central Idea
Celebrations, music and traditions are expressions of shared beliefs and values.
Concepts
Form and Perspective
Related concepts
Beliefs, values, belonging, traditions and culture
Lines of Inquiry

Celebrations, music and traditions from around the world.

Different ways cultures, beliefs and values are expressed.

Language
Phonics, spelling and vocabulary

Build and use collections of interesting and significant words.

Discuss the meaning of unfamiliar words encountered in reading.

Choose interesting words and phrases, e.g. in describing people and places.
Reading

Read aloud with increased accuracy, fluency and expression.

Identify and describe story settings and characters, recognising that they may be from different times and places.

Talk about what happens at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a story.

Show some awareness that texts have different purposes.

Writing

Write with a variety of sentence types.

Choose some interesting words and phrases, e.g. in describing people and places.
Speaking and Listening

Listen carefully and respond appropriately, asking questions of others.

Maths
Calculation

Partition all numbers to 20 into pairs and record the related addition and subtraction facts.

Relate counting on/back in tens to finding ten more/less than any two-digit number and then to adding and
subtracting other multiples of 10, e.g. 75-30

Add and subtract a single digit to and from a two-digit number

Add pairs of two-digit numbers

Find a small difference between pairs of two-digit numbers

Problem Solving

Choose appropriate mental strategies to carry out calculations and explain how they worked out the answer

Explain methods and reasoning orally

Explore number problems and puzzles

Make sense of simple word problems (single and easy two-step) decide what operations (addition or subtraction,
simple multiplication of division) are needed to solve them and, with help, represent them, with objects or
drawings or on a number line

Check the answer to an addition by adding the numbers in a different order or by using a different strategy, e.g.
35+19 by adding 20 to 35 and subtracting 1, and by adding 30 +10 and 5 +9

Check a subtraction by adding the answer to the smaller number in the original subtraction

Describe and continue patterns which count on in twos, threes, fours or fives to 30 or more
Vietnamese Vietnamese
National Curriculum
Language
(VNC)
and Culture (VLC)
In unit 4, year
*Language
2 VNC will
focus:
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MUSIC ( collaborate)
on
Vietnamese
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celebrate Tet
Story about how people behave with the
environment.
*Culture focus: Tet Festival focus on special activities and
Stories/
Tet songs
educational games/ activities.will
be added.
Music
Physical
Education
The Y2s
will learn
dances and songs from a variety of
countries/cultures culminating in a concert for parents. The
During the musical
fourth unit
of inquiry,
students
in Physical
elements
focused
on will
be tempo (fast, walking
Education will
be and
involved
in dynamics
a variety of
minor
games and soft),
speed
slow),
(very
loud/strong
including running
and tag games.
These
willstructure
be used(repetition AB).
timbre (instrumental
sound)
and
to develop Students
the students
ability
to follow instructions
will be
learning;
and move safely
around
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Stick Game
(New
on enjoying movement
being actively
involved
in
On and
the Bridge
of Avignon
(France),
games.
Log drivers Waltz (Canada),

Nutbush and Kookaburra song (Australia)

Students will learn a repertoire of simple melodies as part of
Chinese
(Mandarin)
a whole
class ensemble
to perform at assembly.
Week 1-5 Learn about:
name and introduce family members in Chinese
and introduce family members in Chinese Emilie
Jenny Knight
Bell
pinyin study g,k,h (P31)
Year 2 TT Campus
Radical study:
Kathleen
Hyles
Year
2 TD Campus
culture studyfamily spirit (harmony)

Year 2 TT Campus

Kathryn Morris
Assessment:
Colour family picture and label the family members
in TD Campus
Year 2
Chinese. Fill in basic information about family.
Jayne de la Haye
IB Primary Years Programme (PYP)
Coordinator