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How We Express Ourselves - Parent Letter
How We Express Ourselves - Parent Letter
Central Idea:
Vocabulary List
-Expression
-Emotion
-Creativity
-Feelings
- Abstract
-Design
- Paintings
-Conceptual
-Analyze
- Interpretation
- Create
-Culture
Self-Expression
-Visual
-Perception
Traditions
-Traditions
-Self-Expression
-Uniqueness
- Aesthetic
Teacher Questions:
1. How do people express themselves
through the arts?
2. What different opinions do people
have about art?
3. How does traditional art impact
culture and society?
An Inquiry into
Learner Profiles
Communicators: We understand and express ideas and
information confidently and creatively in more than
one language and in a variety of modes of communication.
We work effectively and willingly in collaboration with
others.
Principled: We act with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of fairness
and justice, and with respect for the dignity and rights of people everywhere.
We take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.
Attitudes
Tolerance: Being Sensitive about differences and diversity in the world and
being responsive to the needs of others.
Commitment: Being committed to their own learning, preserving and showing
self-discipline and responsibility.
Independence: Thinking and acting independently, making their own judgments
based on reasoned argument, and being able to defend their judgments.
Transdisciplinary Skills
Social Skills:
Respecting Others: Listening sensitively to others; making decisions based on fairness
and equality; recognizing that others beliefs, viewpoint, religions and ideas may
differ from ones own; stating ones opinion without hurting others.
Research Skills:
Formulating Questions: Identifying something one wants or needs to know and ask
compelling and relevant questions that can be researched.
Observing: Using all the sense to notice relevant details.
Thinking Skills:
Metacognition: Analyzing ones own and others thought processes; thinking about how
one thinks and how one learns.
Synthesis: Combining parts to create holes; creating designing, developing and
innovating.
Communication Skills:
Viewing: Interpreting and analyzing visuals and multimedia; understanding the ways in
which images and language interact to convey ideas, values and beliefs; making
informed choices about personal viewing experiences.
Self-management Skills:
Gross Motor: Exhibiting skills in which groups of large muscles are used and the
factor of strength is primary.
Codes of Behavior: Knowing and applying appropriate rules or operating procedures
of groups of people.
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Language
Learning Objectives:
Reading:
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Recognize and read grade appropriate irregularly spelled words.
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or
appeal to the senses.
With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate
complexity.
Writing Content and Conventions:
With guidance and support focus on a topic needed by revising and
editing
With guidance and support explore a variety of digital tools to produce
and publish writing.
Write poetry that describes actions, feelings and thoughts using
descriptive language.
Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word
meanings.
Speaking and Listening:
Create audio recording of stories or poems, add drawings or other visual
displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to
clarify ideas, thoughts and feelings.
Mathematics
Learning Objectives:
Science
Learning Objectives and Skills:
-Identify and describe different brain states when we express ourselves
- Identify or generate a question or problem to be explored
Social Studies
Learning Objectives and Skills:
-Formulate and ask questions about the past, the future, places and society in
relation to art.
-Identify and describe different mediums artists can use to express themselves.
- Analyze different perspectives on art.
- Recognize traditional artwork and discuss its significance.
- Create a piece of art which successfully engages an audience
Specialist Outcomes
Art
Learning Objectives: In Unit 6-The students will be able to:
Activities/Projects/Connections:
How We Express Ourselves Unit of inquiry: Reflection As part of the Autism
Awareness campaign, students will be involved in the drawing of the longest painting
in the world in an attempt to break Guinness World Record that will be later given to
the Dubai Autism Center as well help create greater awareness in the region (with
permission from parents).
The painting will run for over 8 km in length and will require every child who
participates to draw a full body self-portrait.
Music
Learning Objectives: In Unit 6- The students will be able to:
Engagements/Projects/Connections:
P.E.
Learning Objectives: In Unit 6 - The students will be able to:
Movement Composition:
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