HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES

Students will explore how stories are created, shared, and expressed. They will discover that stories have different purposes and can be told through words, pictures, movement, and music. They will see how stories connect people, cultures, and ideas. They will learn how stories are passed down over time. This inquiry will inspire creativity, communication, and an appreciation for different perspectives.

THE MAGIC OF STORYTELLING

This is a fully integrated language unit where students will explore storytelling while building literacy skills. They will engage in oral storytelling, drama, picture books, and shared writing. They will learn to structure stories with a beginning, middle, and end. They will create and share their own stories using words, pictures, and actions. Through listening, retelling, and writing, they will gain confidence in sequencing and expressing their ideas.

PHONOLOGY

In this year-long phonology unit, students will build core skills for reading and spelling. They’ll learn to hear, identify, and spell with phonemes using unigraphs, digraphs, blends, and short vowels. They’ll practice breaking words into sounds, changing phonemes to make new words, and recognizing patterns in word families. These skills will help students understand how spoken language connects to written words.

DATA HANDLING

Students will learn to sort, organize, and understand information. They will group objects by attributes and use pictures, diagrams, and materials to show data. They will collect information to answer questions and solve problems. They will use graphs to interpret their findings and make predictions to support decisions. They will build confidence in organizing and understanding information.

FRACTIONS

Students will explore wholes and parts. They will learn that a whole can be one object or a group of objects. They will see how all parts together make a whole. Students will practice dividing objects into equal groups to share fairly. Through hands-on activities, they will learn to group, share, and combine objects in everyday situations.

STORIES CONNECT US

In this unit, students will further develop their Portuguese language skills through the exploration of folk tales from different contexts and cultures. They will listen to, interpret, retell and respond to stories, recognising recurring features and exploring what these can reveal about people, experiences, values and ways of understanding the world. Through traditional literature and visual texts, students will develop oral comprehension, expand their vocabulary and identify elements such as characters, sequence of events, theme, essential information, intentions and emotions. They will use visual cues and paratextual features to anticipate and construct meaning, expressing opinions, making connections and recognising that the same story can be told, interpreted and appreciated in different ways.

Exploring stories from different contexts and cultures may also expose students to different forms of expression, imagination and shared experiences, establishing connections with the How We Express Ourselves Unit of Inquiry.

GYMNASTICS AND DANCE

Students will use movement as a way to express ideas, emotions, and stories through Gymnastics, Dance, and Aquatics. Integrated with the Year 1 How We Express Ourselves Unit of Inquiry, students will explore Function, Connection, and Perspective by creating movement sequences that communicate meaning, discovering dances and movement traditions from different cultures, and recognising that the same idea or story can be expressed and interpreted in different ways. As part of their stand-alone PE learning, students will develop control, coordination, balance, rhythm, and confidence as they create simple movements, combine gestures to tell a story, and share emotions with others through movement. In Aquatics, they will also use movement in water to explore themes, communicate ideas, and express feelings in creative ways.