How we Express Ourselves

Over the coming weeks students will be inquiring into how we express ourselves. This is an inquiry into ways we discover and express culture. Please find below details of the unit and outlines of how Language Arts and Mathematics will be integrated.
Central Idea Key Concepts
In all cultures, the arts are used to express identity. Form What is it like? Connection How is it connected to other things? Perspective What are the points of view?

Lines of Inquiry

Different elements of identity Cultural identity and its connection to the arts How culture can influence the creation of art

Integrated Maths

Shape and Space

Shapes are classified and named according to their properties

Integrated Language Arts

Speaking and Listening: Students will begin to retell, relate and sequence events and stories with increasing detail. Be increasingly aware of tone and voice level Reading: Comprehension strategy of inference. Writing : Genre study: Folk tales contain a moral message.

Key Vocabulary

Identity, culture, creativity, moral, music, art, literature, artifact, instrument, 2D shape, circle, square, rectangle, triangle, hexagon, rhombus and pentagon, symmetry