WHO WE ARE

Over the coming weeks students will be looking into who we are. This unit is an inquiry into
ourselves, our responsibilities and our choices.
Please find below details of the unit and outlines of how Language Arts and Mathematics are
integrated within it. Please support your child by discussing the central idea and key
vocabulary with them, especially in your families mother tongue.
Central Idea

Being mindful of ourselves and our responsibilities can help us to

make choices

Key Concepts

Form: What is it like?

Connection: How is it connected to other things?
Reflection: How do we know?

Profiles: Reflective, Principled

Learner Profiles and

Attitudes
Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into our emotions

An inquiry into knowing ourselves
An inquiry into how we make choices

Integrated Mathematics

Data Handling:
Simple graphing information can be expressed and organized as
structured data
Speaking and Listening:
Everyone has the right to speak and be listened to
Active listening
Presenting information
Reading:
Connection text to self, text to text, text to world
Schema and prior knowledge what do we already know?
Writing:
Personal narrative
Viewing and Presenting:
Our feelings are not only expressed by words
Mindful, responsibility, choices, emotions, thoughts, responses,
process, ourselves, outcomes, consequences, connections,
cause, respect, independence, decision, relationships, reflection,
reflective, principled

Integrated Language Arts

Key Vocabulary

Attitudes: Independence, Respect, Tolerance