Specialist News
Term 2, 2013 Year 2
Library
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Discuss how to look up ‘invertebrates’ on the Public Access system and other words to get maximum
choices e.g. ‘bugs’, ‘insects’, ‘spiders’ e.t.c.
Explain the difference between a ‘keyword ’ and ‘subject’ search.
Discuss the Non-Fiction location and where you would go to find minibeasts.
Discuss the layout of most information books and how to use them efficiently – how is the contents,
index and glossary used?
Identify the age appropriate labelling of books for the Premiers’ Reading Challenge.
Visual Art
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Parts of an Insect: The Invertebrate
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The Essential Agreement in the art room
Botanical Drawings of an insect – Focus on fine line details
Draw and Construct a giant bug, three body parts, with added legs,
antennae, wings .
Independently creating own shapes, patterns and designs within
giant bug.
PYP concepts: FORM – what are the body parts like?
Develop fine motor skills – Hessian textile appliquéd bug with sewn
border
Clay: Tile – Mini-Beast
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Japanese
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numbers(1-20)
school (compare Australian schools with
Japanese schools; building, classrooms,
subjects, etc)
minibeasts (names of some minibeasts,
origami minibeast, minibeast booklet in
Japanese)
Japanese songs
TSUYU (rainy season in June) and
weather words
Concepts
Form (pattern)
Perspective ( belief)
Perspective( points of view of others)
Specialist News (cont’d)
Physical Education
Focus: Continue to practice, control and master Fundamental Motor Skills such
as ball bouncing, kicking and throwing.
Developing basic movement skills and incorporate these skills into Gymnastics
activities.
 The children will use a variety of equipment and various sized play balls
when performing ball skills.
 The skills learnt will be incorporated into minor team games and
activities.
 In gymnastics activities include leaping, jumping and rolling and spatial
awareness.
 Concepts: Form- Identify the specific characteristics of different skills
 Attitudes: Empathy- Be open minded and reflective of the perspectives
of others
 Learner Profile: Thinker- Thinking about solving problems when
performing different skills
Music- Our Mates the Invertebrates
Learn songs related to ‘Our Mates the Invertebrates’ (Minibeasts)
 Bugs & Beetles (Sing 90 p7))
 Tadpole Blues’ (Sing 10 p40)
 Inch Worm (round)
 Shoo Fly (round)
Explore and make choices about sound :
 Create a sound picture reflecting the conductor’s signs for soft, loud, getting louder, getting softer and cut off.
 Create and perform a minibeast chant.combining written notation, choice of suitable instruments, movement
and voice.
Make use of music as a language of expression:
 Listen to ‘Flight of the Bumble Bee’’ by Rimsky Korsakov (Ad Music p68 #20)
 Explore how choice of instruments, tempo and dynamics can change the mood of music (connection)
 Discuss how the change of tone colour can change the mood of the song eg from fast moving bugs and beetle to
slow moving snails
 Discuss what causes the instruments to sound this way: eg the echo chamber, what an instrument is made of,
how much it vibrates
 Discuss which instruments are best grouped together to create a particular effect eg a tadpole swimming then a
frog jumping