AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

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Year 5 Thao Dien Unit of Inquiry 3 Overview

Goods and Services

Transdisciplinary Theme
How We Organise Ourselves
Central Idea
People create ways to buy and sell their goods and services
Concepts
Function, Connection, Reflection
Related concepts
Trade, production, consumption, wealth, poverty, natural resources
Lines of Inquiry

Assigning value to goods and services

The structure and function of organizations

How technology and money systems impact each other

Speaking & Listening

Identify organisational patterns and language features of spoken texts appropriate to a range of purposes

Use information to support and elaborate on a point of view

Use persuasive language to compose simple persuasive texts appropriate to a range of contexts
Reading & Viewing

Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text
connectives
Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for
example, tense and types of sentences)
Explore the effect of choices when framing an image, placement of elements in the image, and salience on composition
of still and moving images in a range of types of texts
Writing & Representing

Express a point of view for a particular purpose in writing, with supporting arguments

Examine how evaluative language can be varied to be more or less forceful

Use images in imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to enhance meaning

Understand how audience and purpose influence the choice of vocabulary

Write using clearly-formed joined letters, and develop increased fluency and automaticity

Experiment with vocabulary choices to engage the listener or reader

Identify a variety of connectives in texts to indicate time, to add information and to clarify understanding

Use a variety of spelling strategies to spell high-frequency words correctly when composing imaginative and other texts

Discuss and use strategies for spelling difficult words

Number & Algebra
Multiplication and Division

Count by fours, sixes, sevens, eights and nines using skip counting

Recall multiplication facts up to 10 10, including zero facts, with automaticity

Find 'multiples' and factors for a given whole number

Relate multiplication facts to their inverse division facts

Use and record mental and written strategies to multiply a two-digit number by a two-digit number

Use and record mental and written strategies to divide a two-digit number by a one-digit number where there is no
remainder
Use mental strategies to divide a two-digit number by a one-digit number in problems for which answers include a
remainder
Interpret the remainder in the context of a word problem

Fractions and Decimals

Model, compare and represent fractions with denominators of 2, 4 and 8; 3 and 6; and 5, 10 and 100

Model, compare and represent the equivalence of fractions with related denominators by redividing the whole, using
concrete materials, diagrams and number lines

Record equivalent fractions using diagrams and numerals

Recognise and apply decimal notation to express whole numbers, tenths and hundredths as decimals

State the place value of digits in decimal numbers of up to two decimal places

Model, compare and represent decimals of up to two decimal places

Place decimals of up to two decimal places on a number line, eg place 0.5, 0.25 and 0.75 on a number line

Round a number with one or two decimal places to the nearest whole number

Physical Education
This unit we are looking at Gymnastics
Students will demonstrate coordinated actions of the body when
performing gymnastic sequences. Over the duration of the unit,
students will learn a variety of skills and use these skills to design a
basic floor routine as an individual or group

Vietnamese National Curriculum

In unit 3, year 5 VNC will be continued on the 3 topics:
On the dreaming wings (trn i cnh c m),
being a smart people (c ch th nn), The sound
from the kite (ting so diu) . Through these students
will have chances to learn new vocabulary, new
grammatical points, how to write a longer paragraph
as well as review the phonic.

French
Students will have a chance to learn new vocabulary, communication
skills and express themselves in French with simple sentences.
Topic 3 will include: Halloween, sports, family and negative
sentences construction. (5 weeks)
Topic 4 will include: body, clothes, colours, Christmas vocabulary. (3
weeks)
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Mandarin
Can use simple Chinese sentences to do shopping
Can identify the notes RMB in Chinese
Can copy and write key words:- learn
main currencies around the world
Learn a shopping conversation (express needs, ask
price, pay)
Learn some daily shopping items
Character writing

Julian Knight
Year 5 Teacher
Thao Dien Campus