Unit Title:

How we express ourselves

Our experiences and imagination inspire us to create and communicate.
Ways we express our imagination Exploration as a way to create Communicating our experiences How are we inspired

Organizing Theme: Focus:

How we express ourselves Music, language arts

Proposed Dates: Concepts:

January-March 2014

Reflection, Perspective and Connection

Teacher Questions

Central Idea:

What is imagination? What inspires us to create? How do we communicate our experiences through our creations? Related Concepts: Expression, Inspiration, Interpretation, Exploration.

Inquiry Into:

Possible learning experiences these may take place in individual subject time, or within the Unit of Inquiry Literacy: Reading Literacy: Writing Math
Rhyming songs, stories: Giraffes cant dance, Dinasourumpus, Goldie locks and the three bears, Lullabyhullaballo!, Can you hear it?, Stanleys Party, Mumma dont allow, Tooth Faily, Violets Music, Prancing, Dancing Lilly, Commotion in the ocean, poem book: Tap dancing on the roof.

Pictures of musical/movement experiences. Facial expression drawing, painting, printing. Emotion stories (drawings). Re-telling personal experiences.

Sorting, patterning, counting Mathematical language: loud, quiet, long, short sounds etc Students : will explore different sounds and begin to contribute to musical activities by using them creatively will begin to distinguish between different types of sound (eg. Soft/loud) will participate in group singing will accompany song repertoire with appropriate body movements use movement to express specific aspects of different musical styles (marching, tip-toeing) will create body movement to tell the story will learn to play and handle simple percussion instruments Discuss if and how different music inspires us. Exploring different types of movement. Exploring noises with the body. Exploring ways to move quietly and loudly, soft or hard. Communicating through mime, dance and movement.
Exploring feelings through www.educationcity.co.uk Students are still working on mouse skills (hand and eye-coordination) Children will look at how the imagination plays a role in creating and responding to art works. -explore various different medium as a way in which to create eg. Spaghetti and marble painting, modelling using soft clay and plasticine. -look at the work of artists who use their work to express emotions eg. Picasso -create art works in response to sounds and music. Watching different types of movement preformed by a visitor (GWA students/teachers) Trip to local theatre Indoor discovery: Role play/ Imaginative play areas.

Music

P.E. ICT

The Arts Field Trips/ Special

Guests