AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Leading to a Bright Future

Year 1 Thu Thiem / Thao Dien Unit of Inquiry 1 Overview

Sharing the planet:
Transdisciplinary Theme Sharing the planet:

An inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and with
living things; communities and the relationships within them; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict
resolution.
Central Idea
Interactions between living things are essential to our environment.
Concepts
Causation, Connection, Responsibility
Related concepts
Impact, interactions, living things, Growth Cycles
Lines of Inquiry

How environmental factors influence living things

Human impact on the environment

English
Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary

Hear, read and write initial letter sounds.

Know the name and most common sound associated with every letter in the English alphabet.
Use knowledge of sounds to write simple regular words, and to attempt other words.
Spell familiar common words accurately, drawing on sight vocabulary.

Reading

Join in with reading familiar, simple stories and poems. Demonstrate an understanding that one spoken word
corresponds with one written word.
Know that in English, print is read from left to right and top to bottom.
Read a range of common words on sight.
Use phonic knowledge to read decodable words and to attempt to sound out some elements of unfamiliar
words.
Talk about events in a story and make simple inferences about characters and events to show understanding.

Writing

Compose and write a simple sentence with a capital letter and a full stop.
Write simple information texts with labels, captions, lists, questions and instructions for a purpose.

Form letters correctly.

Speaking and Listening

Show some awareness of the listener through non-verbal communication.

Mathematics
Number

Recite numbers in order (forwards from 1 to 100, backwards from 20 to 0)

Read and write numerals from 0 to 20

Count on in 2s beginning to recognise odd/even numbers to 20 as every other number

Use more or less to compare two numbers, and give a number which lies between them

Give a sensible estimate of some objects that can be checked by counting, e.g to 30

Use the = sign to represent equality

Calculation

Know all number pairs to 10 and record the related addition

Know doubles to at least double 5

Addition and Subtraction

Understand addition as counting on and combining two sets; record related addition sentences

Add a single-digit number by counting on/back

Find two more or less than a number to 20, recording the jumps on a number line

Add a pair of numbers by putting the larger number first and counting on

Physical Education
Length, Mass & Capacity
During the second unit of inquiry, students in Physical Education will be involved in a variety of minor games including

Compare
lengths
direct
comparison,
by using
uniformthe
non-standard
unitsto follow instructions, awareness of other
running
andby
tag
games.
These willthen
be used
to develop
students ability
players and their own gross motor skills of running and evading players.
Vietnamese Language and Culture (VNC)
Vietnamese Language and Culture (VLC)
*Language focus: NUMBERS AND FEELINGS

*Language focus: NUMBERS AND FEELINGS

In unit 2, year 1 VNC will be continued on
Year 1 will continue their next VLC topics with
Vietnamese phonics, the alphabet, story-telling,
Numbers and Feelings. During VLC lessons, the
handwriting:
students will learn how to count to 20, introduce
Phonics, alphabet and handwriting: i, k, l, m,
their age and express their feelings in
n, o, . , p
Vietnamese.
*Culture focus:
Story-telling:
Ra v
th - 1:
story about
Important celebration
in a Vietnameses
life-part
Tic y thng (One
celebration
themonth
rabbitoldand
the turtle / kh v ra-story

about the monkey and the turtle/ Chia

Music
phn
story about sharing

The Year 1 students will be singing songs

connected to living things focusing onArt
the Music
and Shape
Elements ofLine
Duration
(staying time to a steady
Central
Idea: in
Shapes
be found
in art and in the
beat) and Pitch
(singing
tune).can
Songs
will include
environment.
Artworks
can contain
both geometric and
'The Butterfly
Colours Song',
'5 Little
Speckled
organicofshapes.
Frogs' and 'Each
us is a Flower'.
.
Lines of Inquiry:

How do shapes help to express ideas and tell a

story in works of art?

What is the difference between a line and a

shape?

Where can I find two-dimensional shapes in

everyday life?
Bjorn Billson, Jo Hendren
Taylor Oughton
Year 1 TeachersLoretta
Thao Wayth,
Dien Campus
Year 1 Teachers Thu Thiem Campus