GWA PYP Curriculum Map: Grade 3 How We Express Ourselves

Through Poetry, people use

Transdisciplinary How we express language to entertain and Subject Art Dates
Central Idea 21 May- 22 June
Theme ourselves express themselves. Integration Music

Creativity Features of Poetry

Learner Profile Confidence Communication Skills Interpreting the poets message
Targeted Approaches Lines of Inquiry
Attributes & Thinking Skills Expressing thoughts, ideas and emotions through language.
Enthusiasm to Learning & Concepts
Attitudes
Tolerance

Goal: For students to write and present original and meaningful pieces of What forms can poetry take?
poetry Why and how is poetry important to culture?
How are poems different around the world?
Product/Performance: Poetry Slam
How are storytelling and poetry similar?
Success indicators: Students will take part in a poetry slam with a combination Why is poetry important for passing down culture and
Summative
of Grade 3 students from different classes. Each student will share a poem they Key Questions heritage?
Assessment
have created, with expression and passion, and the audience will share their How does a persons culture impact his/her poetry?
two stars and a wish with each poet. How do people use poetry?
Why is poetry effective in music/jingles/slogans?
What types of emotions can poets elicit?
What do you need to remember when sharing your poetry?

Unit of Inquiry Integrated and Stand-Alone Learning Outcomes

For reading this unit, students will read a range of poems: free verse, visual poems and structured poems, and describe language features used for effect.
For writing this unit, students will create poems using appropriate vocabulary to the setting, purpose, and audience. Students will use rich vocabulary: powerful nouns,
verbs, adjectives, invented words and unusual word combinations.
For viewing and presenting, student will discuss own feelings in response to visual messages, realize that effects have been selected in visual presentations to achieve a
Literacy
certain impact on a particular audience (e.g. colour, line, light). Students will understand that body language (e.g. facial expression, gesture/movement, posture, orientation,
eye contact, and touch) can be used to achieve effects and influence meaning.
For speaking & Listening students will listen attentively to poems read aloud and performed, will listen to other responses, identifying how people react differently and will
perform poems individually or in groups.

For number, student will review number strategies, different operation of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Students will solve problems in all operations,
Mathematics explain reasonableness of strategies and place value.
For pattern and function, students will review ordering numbers, doubling and halving and solve number puzzles.

Technology and Students in grade 3 will have the opportunity to creatively present their poetry pieces using a range of iPad apps including Book Creator and iMovie. They will record audio,
Media Literacy rearrange various forms of media on a timeline and create sound effects and images to enhance the purpose and presentation of their selected pieces of writing.
integration
 Arabic A:Health and safety.
Arabic Arabic B: we will learn about the 4 seasons and the weather and some Arabic songs

Music students are learning how to create and compose music using the elements of beat, rhythm, and pitch. We will integrate poetry by exploring how to use the words
Music
from poems to create rhythms.

In PE will be continuing their Games unit focusing on Volleyball and Rounders in which they will:
Learn the actual skills of volleying a ball - Bump, Set, an underarm Serve.
Learn to move into space effectively
PE
Learn adapted rules of volleyball and rounders
Make quick and effective decisions during a game scenario
Express ourselves effectively within the team.

Art students will revisit their I Am Poem from the beginning of the school year (the poems are a part of their sketchbook cover identity collages). Students will reflect on
Visual Arts what they wrote and they will be encouraged to revise their poems. Students will then create a new expressive artwork that illustrates their poem. Finally, in conclusion to
the academic year, students will also complete their post-assessment observational drawings.

Students will have a chance to share what their transition will look like at the end of third grade. Some are moving to a new classroom in grade four where they will make
Counseling: PSE
new friends, others will be leaving GWA, and some will be moving to a different country. Students will explore how the RAFTing acronym can help them make a positive end
(Personal, Social,
of the year transition. Students will also be encouraged to find creative ways to express their gratitude to friends/individuals whom they grew fond of but will no longer
Emotional)
share the same school/city after this year (i.e. identify, write poems or quotes that resonate with their feelings during this time of transitions).

Incursions &
Poetry Slam
Excursions