AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

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Year 5 Thao Dien Unit of Inquiry 5 Overview

Energy
Transdisciplinary Theme
Sharing the Planet
Central Idea
Extraction, conversion and storage of energy affects communities and their environments
Concepts
Function, Change, Responsibility
Lines of Inquiry

Forms and sources of energy

The way energy is transformed and used

The effect of different forms of energy on our lives

Language
Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary

Extend earlier work on prefixes and suffixes, recognising that different spelling rules apply for suffixes which
begin with vowels and those that begin with consonants.

Use effective strategies for learning new spellings and misspelt words.

Identify unfamiliar words, explore definitions and use new words in context.

Identify word roots and derivations to support

Identify word roots and derivations to support spelling and vocabulary, e.g. sign, signal,
Grammar and Punctuation

Understand conventions of standard English, e.g. agreement of verbs.

Use pronouns, making clear to what or to whom they refer.

Practise proofreading and editing own writing for clarity and correctness.
Reading

Comment on a writers use of language and explain reasons for writers choices.

Provide accurate textual reference from more than one point in a story to support answers to questions.

Look for information in non-fiction texts to build on what is already known.

Locate information confidently and efficiently from different sources.

Develop note-taking to extract key points and to group and link ideas.

Understand the use of impersonal style in explanatory texts.

Read and evaluate non-fiction texts for purpose, style, clarity and organisation.

Compare writing that informs and persuades.

Writing

Map out writing to plan structure, e.g. paragraphs, sections, chapters.

Begin to attempt to establish links between paragraphs using adverbials.
Write non-chronological procedures and explanations.
Use a more specialised vocabulary to match the topic.
Review, revise and edit writing in order to improve it, using IT as appropriate.

Mathematics

Number

Order and compare negative and positive numbers on a number line and temperature scale

Calculate a rise or fall in temperature

Calculation - Mental Strategies

Count on or back in thousands, hundreds, tens and ones to add or subtract

Add or subtract near multiples of 10 or 100, e.g. 4387 299

Use appropriate strategies to add or subtract pairs of two- and three-digit numbers and number with one decimal
place, using jottings where necessary

Calculate differences between near multiples of 1000, e.g. 5026 4998, or near multiples of 1, e.g. 3.2 - 2.6
Addition and Subtraction

Find the total of more than three two- or three-digit numbers using a written method

Add or subtract any pair of three- and/or four-digit numbers, with the same number of decimal places, including
amounts of money
Measurement - Capacity, Volume, Length and Mass

Read, choose, use and record standard units to estimate and measure length, mass and capacity to a suitable
degree of accuracy

Convert larger to smaller metric units (decimals to one place), e.g. change 2.6 kg to 2600 g

Order measurements in mixed units

Round measurements to the nearest whole unit

Interpret a reading that lies between two unnumbered divisions on a scale

Compare readings on different scales

Draw and measure lines to the nearest centimetre and millimetre

Problem solving

Consider whether an answer is reasonable in the context of a problem

Understand everyday systems of measurement in length, weight, capacity, temperature and time and use these to
perform simple calculations
Understand everyday systems of measurement in length, weight, capacity, temperature and time and use these to
perform simple calculations
Choose an appropriate strategy for a calculation and explain how they worked out the answer
Deduce new information from existing information to solve problems
Use ordered lists and tables to help to solve problems systematically
Explain methods and justify reasoning orally and in writing; make hypotheses and test them out

Mandarin

French

Chinese and Western foods

Students will have a chance to learn new vocabulary,

communicating skills and express themselves in French
with simple sentences.
Topic 4 will include: Assessment test, Transportation
and Directions (6 weeks)
Week 1:- Assessment test review on units 3/4/5
(colours, animals,verbs food)
Week 2: - Assessment test.
Week 3:- Introduce transportation vocabulary
Week 4: - Continue transportation vocab.
- Asking and giving directions
Week 5: - Place prepositions (sur, sous, pres de),
indicating where things
Week 6: - Discuss places we go (piscine, ecole, musee,
cinema)

Review how to express time in Chinese

Daily food and drink vocabulary
Read and write about time and daily meals
Learn radicals:
Character study: divide characters into parts

Vietnamese National Curriculum

In unit 5, year 5 VNC will start with a new topic: Explore
the world. Through these students will have chances
tolearn new vocabulary, new grammatical points, how to
write a longer paragraph as well as review the phonic.
Stories/ educational games/ activities.will be added.

Vietnamese Language and Culture

Physical Education

Language focus: ALL ABOUT ME

Year 5 will continue their next VLC topic with All About
Me. During VLC lessons, the students will learn how to
introduce their name, age and nationality in Vietnamese.
They will learn some new sentence structures to talk about
their school, hobbies and interest.
*Culture focus: Vietnamese children songs

During the fifth unit of inquiry, students in Physical

Education will experience a variety of ball games and
activities. They will focus on throwing, catching, dodging
and moving into space. Students will practise
communicating positively with others and applying
tactics in a team environment.

Music

Visual Arts

Students will investigate the relationship between Musical

Instruments and the transfer of ENERGY. They will
experiment with and reflect on the effect of sound waves
from voice and/or instruments on water. Through song,
they will reinforce their understanding of the 9 elements of
Energy and also look at ways Musical Instruments can be
used for making energy.

Julian Knight
Year 5 Teacher
Thao Dien Campus

During our fifth unit of inquiry the student will investigate

pattern, texture and colour. Students will explore and
create artwork using a variety of mediums including
texta, pencil, crayon and paint to express their creativity.