Unit Title:

How We Express Ourselves

Focus: Music, Art, Language, PSPE Proposed Dates: 12
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October 20
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Concepts: Perspective, Reflection
Learner Profiles: Communicator, Reflective, Risk Taker
Attitudes Appreciation, Creativity
Central
Idea:
Artists use elements of art to communicate and
create visual works that an audience may
interpret.
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Success
Strategies:
Exploring elements of art, plan, analyse, create, reflect and provide reasoning for visual art
pieces.
Audience: Whole school gallery
Product: Piece of Art, writing piece, oral explanation.
Inquiry
Into:
- Different Visual Art forms
- What artists communicate through visual arts
- Ways we interpret art
- Elements of visual art forms
Success
Indicator:
Students will be able to communicate through visual art and articulate reasons for their
choices of elements.
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What is visual art?
How can we use the elements of art to communicate different ideas?
How can we express ourselves through visual art?
What influences our interpretation of art?
Possible learning experiences these may take place in individual subject time, or within the Unit of Inquiry
Literacy:
Reading
Students will explore the following text types. Narratives texts: develop strategies to help them retell and respond to incidents with attention to plot elements e.g. setting, character, conflict and resolution. Evaluate
how visual images in both fiction and non-fiction text support print to create meaning. Nonfiction texts: explore art and famous artists as they read and gain understanding of what has influenced their artwork.
Literacy:
Writing
Students will explore Descriptive text type- Explore a small range of adjectives, similes and metaphors to describe their emotions about past experiences through their artwork. Students will continue to develop sentence
structure and conventions (capital letters, punctuation, letter formation) and editing skills. They will share their writing pieces with their peers. Student will continue to explore Recount text type- Use past tense verbs, a
range of time and sequence words to order events about personal experiences and reflect on understandings related to the Unit of Inquiry.
EAL
Speaking Alphabet awareness and numbers. Retelling stories/asking questions and practicing pronunciation. Reading Alphabet awareness and numbers, A-Z Readers and Oxford Reading Tree. Focus on accuracy, fluency
and high frequency words. Decoding where necessary. Writing - Spelling high frequency words from text + UOI content vocabulary (i.e., media/brush/texture/shape, etc.). Punctuation. First look at graphic organisers.
Comprehension Elements of stories/books, finding meaning using context, making connections and predictions. (Time-permitting: Understanding learner profile traits) UOI: Specific focus on art and emotion (synonyms).
Connecting to concepts of perspective and reflection
Math
Students will explore Pattern and Function-Describe and create number patterns using a variety of strategies. -Build number relationship by relating addition and subtraction facts to 20 and beyond.
Number -Use Place Value to read, represent and order numbers up to 4 digits. -Model addition with and without regrouping using concrete materials. -Develop range of mental strategies and informal recordings methods for
addition and subtraction. -Solve number sentences using drawings, numerals, symbols and words.
Space and Shape - Recognize 3D in pictures and the environment and presented in different orientations. Identify and draw straight, curved, vertical and horizontal lines. Identify 2D faces from 3D shapes. Represent 2D
shapes using a variety of materials. Make tessellating designs. Identify line of symmetry.
I.T.
Students will explore museums and art pieces around the world using Google Art Project in the Planetarium. Students will use a variety of online art programs to create, edit and share own artwork.
Students will use the iPads to take photographs and create a collage using PicCollage. Students will use PowerPoint to present and reflect on their artwork.
Arabic
Students in Arabic A will explore emotions ( reading stories about emotions ) synonyms, elements of the stories - long vowels and short vowels
Students in Arabic B. will explore emotions and expressing themselves colours 2 D shapes..alphabet group one ( tha-ya-na)
Music
Students will continue our unit called Hear, See, Do. Students are learning that the sound that musicians create is a connection between what they hear, see, and do. Students will inquire about notation, how we approach
our instruments (voice, violin, cello, percussion, etc.), and what to listen for in music.
P.E.
Students will explore Dance Expressing ourselves through movement, looking at coordination, control and fluency. Matching and mirroring actions will also be used as ideas to link together using different perspectives to
be used when designing sequences. We will reflect on how are performances have changed from the beginning to the end of the unit.
The Arts
Students will explore the seven Elements of Art: Line, Shape, Color, Texture, Value, Space and Form. Students will investigate the purpose of art works from a range of times and places, and students will identify how the
artists used the Elements of Art to express themselves through various media. Focusing on printmaking, students will express their unique perspectives through their own art making. Emphasis will be placed on ways one
can make changes to communicate new and different ideas, as well as reflecting on the design process.
Library
Students will review how to select books based on personal interest, using the 5 finger rule, a picture walk and the blurb. They will inquire into how to use the contents and index of a non-fiction book to locate information.
They will also inquire into the non-fiction section of the library and how it is organized. They will view books wordless books and identify how pictures can tell a story