How We Express Ourselves

Central
Idea:

Imagination is a tool for extending our ability to

think, create and express ourselves.

Inquiry
into:

Imagination as a form of expression

The process of developing our own creative

ideas

Reflecting on and extending on the

Organizing Theme:
Focus:
Questio Teacher Assessment
Summative

Unit Title:

How We Express Ourselves.

Maths, The Arts, Language

Proposed Dates:
Concepts:

December 6 January 17
Perspective, Reflection, Change

Objective:

Students will use their imagination to creatively develop ideas in different ways.

Audience:

Other children, parents and teachers

Product:
Success
Indicator:

Students will apply their thinking skills to creatively solve and extend familiar and unfamiliar problems.
Students can apply their imagination to express themselves creatively in a variety
of ways.

What is imagination?
What are different ways we can use imagination to express ourselves?
How can we use imagination to build on the ideas of others?
How can we use our imagination to help us solve problems?

Focused learning opportunities and curriculum benchmarks being covered during unit
To recognize words in word families (using patterns to read unfamiliar words, use rhyme pattern to predict a story/read a poem); Understand
basic story structure (beginning, middle, end); Making text to text connections by finding similarities and differences in texts; Understand
Literacy: authors purpose (to entertain, persuade, inform)
ONGOING: Reads with some fluency; Segments parts of words; Uses long vowel clues; Recognizes and applies digraphs; Uses meaning cues;
Reading Uses visual cues; Uses structural cues; Recognizes high frequency words in a text; Participates actively in shared reading, guided reading, and
read-alouds by posing/responding to questions and joining in; Chooses to read independently; Reads independently when directed (5-10
minutes)
Writing Focus: Narratives with Descriptions
Observes teacher modeling pre-writing strategies and uses strategies with guidance; Understands the purpose of pre-writing strategies; Uses
own experience as a stimulus when drawing and writing and shares these with others.
To write a title that introduces what the story will be about; To write a narrative as a series of logical events, organized into beginning, middle,
end; To include setting, plot, problem/solution in our narratives ; To use describing words to develop characters and setting ; To support our
writing with illustrations; To includes adjectives that describe size, color, number, shape, actions in our narrative writing ; To use descriptions
Literacy: gained by using 5 senses (what something looks, sounds, smells, feels, or tastes like) .
Writing To reread our work and add full stops and capitals where necessary; To reread our work and add adjectives with guidance to make our work more
descriptive/interesting; To publish our work for others to read.
ONGOING: Writes an increasing number of ideas independently; Upper and lower case letters when writing words; Uses appropriate spacing
between words; Spells words on the basis of sounds without regard to conventional spelling patterns; Spells a growing number of simple words
and some high-frequency words correctly; Correctly uses short vowels, digraphs, and blends; Uses full stops correctly at end of sentences;
Identifies and uses nouns and verbs ; Uses environmental print resources (eg, word walls, personal dictionaries, books) to extend the use of
language with guidance.
Pattern: Identifying patterns we see in school and at home; Continue a pattern I see or am given; Accurately describe patterns using shapes,
colors, manipualtives;
Shape: Sort 3D shapes from the environment using a set criteria (sphere, cylinder, cube, rectangular prism, pyramid and triangular prism);
Math
Recognize the parts of 3D shapes that are made up of 2D shapes; Identify the number of faces, edges and vertices in 3D shapes; Compare the
faces, edges and vertices of two 3D shapes
ONGOING: Addition, subtraction, Chance and data, Calendar and time
-Students will explore various interactive sites to express their thinking and imagination.
-Students will use Power Point to create content based on their imagination
ICT
-Students will compose music on the computer

Arabic A:
-Students will continue learning the alphabets (form, change, function and connection) and poems in Arabic.
Arabic B :
-Learn about UAE Famous Landmarks.
-UAE flag Colours
Arabic
-Learn how to join Arabic letters.
-Develop writing skills through different activities
-Learn how to say the Months in Arabic.
-Reading simple words in Arabic.
-Learn the Names of the seven Emirates in Arabic
-Use their imaginations to creatively move in space.
-Singing scale patterns from solfege syllables, interval numbers and/or pitch-matching
Music
-Create an imaginary classmate to focus attention on spatial awareness during partner dances, group work and resolving conflict.
-Identifying and demonstrating rhythmic notation, dynamics and melodic direction
-Participate in Athletic based activities where they will focus on sports day events linking to sportsmanship, team spirit, and competitive spirit.
-They will be encouraged to support their team and praise everyone for their efforts.
P.E.
-Alongside this they will discuss the ways their body changes during exercise.
ONGOING: Cooperative teamwork activities; swimming skills; Sportsmanship; Life-long fitness activities
-We will look at the artwork of Kandinsky and create drawings with pen, oil pastel and ink while listening to music as he did! This piece will also
introduce the elements of art focussing on colour and line.
The Arts
-The children will draw a pencil self-portrait and then use their imagination to create coloured patterns and pictures showing their imaginations.
-Creation of masks or puppets.
-Looking at specific author and illustrators and continue to work on locating books of personal interest and those that relate to self-expression.
-They will create their own sound effects for their drama piece.
-We will look at how stories can be brought to life using different methods such as mime/opera/puppets/Shadow Theatre/musicals and much
more.
Library
-Focus will be on how we can communicate using our language body movement and facial expressions.
-We will be creating a fun stage area where the children will get to perform their pieces of drama after we have prepared them.
-They will be choosing from the bunch of books of famous Fairy Tales that I have pulled but they will be able to adapt their words and how they
want to tell the story.
-Students will read, write and perform poetry
-Students will work with rhyming, phrasing and meaning in poetry
-Students will recognize and manipulate nouns, verbs and adjectives in poetry
EAL
-Students will read, analyze and make connections with narrative text
-Students will identify: characters, setting, sequence of events, problem and solution in narratives
-Students will write their own narrative text

Field
Trips