Unit of Inquiry How we organize ourselves?

Our school is a unique international state school in Slovakia committed to meetingthe needs of today’s multicultural societies and recognizing the changes in theglobal nature of our lives.Unit of InquiryHow we organize ourselves?Our next UoI is “Community workers”“Povolania”. This unit is connected withtransdisciplinary theme “How weorganize ourselves?”An inquiry into the natural world and itslaws; the interaction between thenatural world (physical and biological)and human societies; how humans usetheir understanding of scientificprinciples; the impact of scientific andtechnological advances on society and onthe environment.The central idea for this Unit is:People play different rolesin communities to which they belong.Spoznávaním každodennej práce ľudí siuvedomujeme jej dôležitosť.In the first part children will learnabout key concept function whichexpress various communities we belongto and how the communities areorganized.In the second part we will learn aboutthe roles of people who are part of ourcommunities. This part of the unit isconnected with key conceptresponsibilities. We will learn about theresponsibilities community helpers haveand whythey areimportantfor us.In the thirdpart childrenwill learnaboutparents`jobs andtheir role inthecommunity.This part of the unit is connected withthe key concept connection. We will talkalso about the jobs of children theywould like to have.Focus Skills for the unit: Social and research skillsthrough the 1 st part of theinquirySocial skills through the 2 nd partof the inquiry Communication and researchskills through the 3 rd part of theinquiry

Learner Profile Attributes for theunit and Attitudes: Children will learn to beknowledgeable when they willlearn about the variouscommunities and how they areorganized.They will become open-mindedwhen they will learn aboutcommunity workers and why theyare important for us.Children will learn to becomereflective when they will talkabout their future jobs anddreams.Summative assessment task(s):TASKHome PROJECT: “My parents` roleand its connection with thecommunity”EVIDENCEChildren will make the presentationsabout the job of their parents. They canmake a poster; they can do a play, showthe example, and invite the parents.ASSESSMENTTASK2TEST – “Social Studies”EVIDENCEChildren will have a short test, whichwill show if children understand what welearned during the unit of inquiryASSESSMENTTeacher will prepare a check list.Children will get the points for eachtask.Visits and learning experience:Children`s museum (Detske museum) inBratislava:http://www.detskemuzeum.sk/sk/exhibition/view/cim-chces-bytTechnical Museum in Vienna:http://www.technischesmuseum.at/mitmachausstellung-fuer-kinderhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N_mNsUosLEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oy7IfICtQESelf-assessment – children will selfassesstheir work.TASK 1School PROJECT: “My dream job”EVIDENCEChildren will prepare a presentationabout their dream job. They will findthe important information about the joband present it for the class.ASSESSMENTTeacher will prepare a rubric to assesstheir presentations.

LANGUAGESSlovak with Ms PatucovaEnglish with Mrs. KongWe already started with Slabikar N. 2.Speaking, Listening, ReadingThank you for practising reading withchildren. We have already startedreading in Citanka.It is very important that children arepractising reading in Slovak every day.WritingWe are going to practise all the letterswe didn`t. Please besides of reading,start to practise also writing at home.We will write a lot of small tests(Dictations) from Slovak, so we canbe ready for the big dictation (In themiddle of February).Most ofthe timewe willpractisethedictationsof thewords, butwe will tryalso thesentences.Starting from the 2 nd term, children willlearn to write to express their thoughtsin 2 or 3 sentences following a writingprompt in their writing journal. Wealready started our first writing topic,“When I grow up, I want to be a .....”.Their writing should include consistentuse of complete sentences, properpunctuation, and some details. We willalso continue to use the vocabularybuilding words for weekly spelling andsentence writing practices.Other than continuing to develop theirphonics skills, we will work on differentreading skills and strategies needed forindependent reading. We willincorporate fiction and non-fictionbooks about different jobs in ourreading. Please continue to have yourchild read out loud to you daily for 15minutes and ask your child questionsfollowing the reading to buildcomprehension.Please,check thetest notebooks from Slovak at least atthe end of each week.

MATHEMATICSDuring this unit we will start to count to100. We will learn to count with groupsof tens. We will learn to recognizenumbers patterns and skip count.The new vocabulary children will learn is: 36 is before 37 37 is between 36 38 is after 37graphs.Here are some of the maths wordschildren will learn: is less than is greater than equals bar graph picture graph even and odd numbersDuring this unit we will also start tolearn about place value, data and graphs.We will learn about the numbers madewith tens and ones. We will learn how touse data to make different kinds ofPlease, check the test notebook fromMaths after each week.Thank you

Dear Parents,We finished the 3 rd unit of inquiry. I think all of the children enjoyed it. Children wereenthusiastic and full of energy to learn something new. At the end of the unit most ofthe children were sick, so it was hard to finish the unit on time, and how we preparedto.EnglishDuring the English we talked about the different books. Children brought theirfavourite books. They said why the book was their favourite and what the characters ofthe book were.We learned about the elements of the story. Children made the chart (a story map) oftheir story. They tried to fill all of the elements of their favourite story.We also learned about the children genres. Most of the children understand all of thegenres we learned and made nice posters about it.Social StudiesDuring the SS we learned how to express our feelings. We started to prepare the play(PYP 1 Theatre). Children were divided in 5 groups. Two of them prepared the puppetshows, two prepared plays, and one prepared the book.ITChildren made the invitations for the play.Best regardsMs Patucova