Year 1 Bilingual Curriculum Overview
English - Literacy
-
-
Listen to & read picture books about
animal characters
Examine how animal characters
have human qualities – appearance,
behaviour & traits
Examine how authors create
characters using language & images
Asking & answering questions
Sentence structure
Past tense verbs
Create new characters for books
English – Science
Students explore sources of light and
sound.
 how light and sound are produced
 how changes can be made to light
and sound effects.

how light and sound are useful in
everyday life
English - Maths
Japanese - Literacy




Identify half
Half collections & objects
Identify two equal parts of a whole
Count forwards & backwards in ones from
any starting number
 Recall ones, twos, fives, tens counting
sequences
 Identify the missing element
 Identify standard place value partitions
 Record numerals & number names/place
value
Sequence & order 2 digit numbers
 Position & locate on number line
 Identify number relationships – larger,
smaller
 Ask a suitable question for gathering data
 Gather, record & organise data
 Identify chance of events
 Predict outcomes
 Will happen, might happen, won’t happen
 Partition a number into more than two parts
 Identify that the total remains the same
regardless of the order of joining the parts
 Identify compatible numbers to 10
 Use compatible numbers to 10 to add
 Rearrange the parts of the addition number
problem to use the ‘use ten’ strategy eg.
2+4+8
 Explain rearranging the parts does not
change the whole
 Describe addition & subtraction processes
 Use addition facts to solve problems
 Describe addition & subtraction using
part/part/whole understanding
 Identify related addition & subtraction
facts
Term 4 2015
-
The rest of 48 Hiragana characters to read and write
Some Katakana and Kanji characters
Vocabularies: more animals, things in nature, things in a classroom and school
Writing a simple diary and observation diary
Drama: Omusubi Kororin(1H &n 1D) Tanabata Star Festival (1T)
-
Japanese – Maths




Patterns with 5s
To become familiar with number above 20 to 100
Counting things in a classroom using Japanese counting grammar
Story Problem Solving (Drawing a picture, making a formula reading story,
and answer the question: addition &subtraction)
Japanese – Geography





Revision of names of school places and rooms
Description of direction and location to those places
The natural, managed and constructed features of the place
Description of the features of the places
Description of ways that places can be cared for
Japanese – Cultural events
-
Mochi (Sticky rice activity)
Drama performance
Special Days



Incursion – Taiko Drum workshop - Week 3 Wed 21st October
Swimming carnival (Date will be confirmed)
Japanese Drama– Week9 (Date will be confirmed)