Year 5 - Unit of Inquiry 1 Overview

Learning Styles

TD Theme: Who We Are

Central Idea: Understanding different ways of learning allows people to respond to their own learning needs
as well as those of others

Concepts: Form, Connection, Reflection


Related concepts: Communities, Identity,
Interaction

Lines of Inquiry: 1. How the brain works
2. How people construct knowledge using different learning styles
3. How learning styles impact on the way people engage in the learning community


Language
Speaking & Listening
Understanding that social interactions influence the way people engage with ideas and respond to
others for example when exploring and clarifying ideas of others, summarising their own views and
reporting them to a larger group
Understand that languages have different written and visual communication systems, different oral
traditions and different ways of constructing meaning
Identify organisational patterns and language features of spoken texts appropriate to a range of
purposes
Enhance presentations by using some basic oral presentation strategies

Reading & Viewing
Skim a text for overall message and scan for particular information eg. Headings, key words
Read different types of texts by combining contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge
using text processing strategies for example monitoring meaning, cross checking and reviewing
Summarise a paragraph and indicate the main idea, key points or key arguments in imaginative,
informative and persuasive texts
Identify and interpret the different forms of visual information, including maps, tables, charts,
diagrams, animations and images

Writing & Representing
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and
supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text
structures and language features
Plan and organise ideas using headings, graphic organisers, questions and mind maps
Demonstrate effective organisation of ideas in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to
enhance meaning
Demonstrate range of vocabulary to increase effectiveness of texts
Understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts
Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb and that these
need to be in agreement
Apply strategies for spelling words, including spelling rules, knowledge of morphemic word families,
spelling generalisations, and letter combinations including double letters
Use knowledge of alphabetical order to locate information in texts, eg dictionaries, glossaries





Vietnamese National Curriculum (VNC)

Trade people as we love ourselves-Thng ngi nh th thng thn
The Bamboo is rising straight - mng mc thng

Base on the AIS plans as well as curriculum, in unit 1, year 5 VNC (year 4 in local school) will be focused
on the 2 topics: Trade people as we love ourselves and Bamboo is rising straight. Through these, students
will have a chance to learn more about language, skills, techniques.....etc to develop their confidence to
use Vietnamese in daily life.

Art
Central Idea: There are many ways and
techniques that can be used to create depth in
a work of art.

Students will observe lines in the environment
around them and discuss the connections
between each one to an emotion. Throughout
the unit students will be given opportunity to
create a value scale in their art pieces, using a
variety of art techniques. Student s will also
identify and reflect on the use of line, shape
and value in famous artworks.

Chinese

Theme People and Jobs

People and their jobs
Talk about where people work
Talk about what students want to be in future
Write characters:
Complete a writing task about what jobs the
family members do and what one wants to
be in the future by using simple structure in
Chinese.

Maths
Number & Algebra
Apply an understanding of place value to read and write numbers of up to nine digits including
expanded notation
Arrange numbers of up to nine digits in ascending and descending order
State the place value of digits in numbers up to nine digits
Round numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand or million
Select, apply and record or explain a variety of mental and written strategies to solve addition and
subtraction problems, including word problems, with numbers of up to and including nine digits
Solve problems involving purchases and the calculation of change to the nearest five cents, with
and without the use of digital technologies
Use estimation to check the reasonableness of solutions to addition and subtraction problems,
including those with money

Measurement & Geometry
Combine common 2D shapes, including special quadrilaterals, to form other common shapes or
designs, eg combine a rhombus and a triangle to form a trapezium
Split a given shape into two or more common shapes and describe the result
Create symmetrical patterns, designs, pictures and shapes by translating (sliding), reflecting
(flipping) and rotating (turning0 one or more common shapes
Create and record tessellating designs by reflecting, translating and rotating common shapes
Draw the reflection (mirror image) to complete symmetrical pictures and shapes, given a line of
symmetry



PE
During the first unit in Physical Education we
will begin our first games unit which will
concentrate on basketball and basketball
specific skills.
Students will learn basic dribbling, passing,
catching and shooting techniques as well as the
rules of basketball and tactics involved in the
game.

French
Students will have a chance to learn new vocabulary,
communicating skills and express themselves in
French with simple sentences.

Topic 1 will include: greetings, numbers, age, and
alphabet.
Topic 2 will include: time, days, months, classroom,
and articles.