Central Idea:

Communities provided interconnected services

designed to meet peoples needs.
Lines of Inquiry
Reasons people live in the local community
Services needed to support a community
Planning services for a community
Concepts:
Key Concepts: function, causation, connection
Related Concepts: networks
Subject Focus:
Social Studies
Visual Arts
Learner Prole: Thinker
Attitudes: Commitment, Creativity
How we Organize Ourselves
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Transdiscplinary Skills
Social Skills - group decision making
Research Skills - planning
Thinking Skills - !synthesis
Summative Assessment
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How you can help your child at home?
Talk to your child about the reasons you chose to live where you do - what services are available to
you?
Spot different services as you drive or walk through town.
Language Focus:
Procedure
Procedures tell how to do something
Procedures have
- an opening statement of goal or aim
- materials required listed in order of use
- series of steps listed in chronological order
Grammar Focus:
Basic punctuation and tenses (ongoing
throughout the year)
Use of commands, action verbs, connectives
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Vocabulary:
community village city town
services electricity water shops
people school hospital road
plan
Indonesian Language Focus:
Intermediate and Advanced
Integration with UoI : Community in Indonesia ,
organisation in their community such as Rukun Tetangga,
Rukun Warga, Kelurahan, etc. and services in their
neighborhood.
Grammar focus: action verbs, adjectives, full stop and
comma
Speaking and Listening Skills: follow multi step
direction,retell familiar stories in sequence
Writing Skill: Text type - procedure ( how to make or
do something). writing legibly and in a consistent style and
use accurate grammatical constructs (Kalimat
Sederhana)
Vocabulary
komunitas! masyarakat! paguyuban,
pelayanan,! mendukung,! kebutuhan,keinginan,
lingkungan! kelurahan! kecamatan
kabupaten! kotamadya! propinsi!
berkaitan puskesmas! imbalan
sukarela!! jasa! ! barang
Rukun Tetangga (RT)! Rukun Warga (RW)
Beginner
Students will make simple explanation writing about
a community. They will focus on what/who/when/how
about things that happens in a community. They will
practice to make an outline before the make a good
copy of their writing. By the end of the unit they will
produce a simple explanatory writing.
Grammar focus:
The use of question words: what/who/when/how
Conjunction and and but
Visual Arts
The Grade 2 students will develop their painting skills following the style of Friedensreich Hundertwasser. The artist
Hundertwasser was famous for his painting techniques of creating vibrant colour combinations, patterns and textures in his
artwork. The students will learn how to do his painting techniques independently and then will apply them together to
create their painting.
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Music
Now that the Orff instruments have arrived (xylophones, glockenspiels and metallophones), the grade two students will
begin to experience the ability to play in their own child-sized orchestra. A variety of note values will also be explored,
including quarter notes, half notes, and eighth notes. Students will begin to be able to recognize traditional notation for
these notes and their accompanying rests, and be able to play them using body percussion and on the instruments. As the
Christmas season approaches, a variety of traditional songs will be sung as well. I would also encourage any Grade 2
students who wish to join the choir to sign up for the next EX session. Only 15 new students from grades 2 and 3 will be
able to join.
PE
This is beginning of the Term Two and for the rst four weeks, ES students will be involved in different Sports units. Grade 2
students will have swimming lessons to develop their knowledge, swim strokes and water safety in the week A ONLY until
December.
In Week B they will have regular PE class. "In Week B the students will nish their soccer unit and will begin a new games
unit on volleyball. In these two games units ES students will develop their skills, game strategies and knowledge.
Chinese Language Focus:
Chinese will focus on acting a story, FINDING PANDA IN THE COMMUNITY. Through the suspense story, the students
will know many interconnected services designed to meet peoples needs in the community and associate their real life.
Vocabulary
Beginner: [j y yun)hospital cho sh)supermarket ;[gng yun)
Beginner Plus: [j y yun)hospital cho sh)supermarket ;[gng yun) ) l f din)
hair salon | yn hang)bank ])) jng ch j)police station
Intermediate: [j y yun)hospital cho sh)supermarket ;[gng yun) ) l f din)
hair salon | yn hang)bank ])) jng ch j)police station | zho)nd , mi)buy ], jin
tu fa)cut hair
Advanced: [j y yun)hospital cho sh)supermarket | yn hang)bank ])) jng ch j) |
[ sh q)community [, f w )service |] bo jng)Alarm ;; fn fn)one after another ?)?
_ b jn b mn)leisurely