GWA PYP Curriculum Map: Grade 5 How We Organize Ourselves

Developing skills and behaviors

Transdisciplinary is necessary to transition Subject Dates
HWOO Central Idea Literacy and Math May 21 - June 21
Theme successfully from one Integration
environment to another

Structure and characteristics of new environments

Inquirers What TD skills will be
Learner Profile Knowledgeable specifically be targeted? Understanding emotions and responses associated with change
Targeted Approaches Lines of Inquiry
Attributes & Risk-takers Thinking, Research, Skills and strategies that are required to be successful in transitions
to Learning & Concepts
Attitudes Commitment Communication, Self-
Confidence management
Empathy

Goal: To communicate their understanding of skills and strategies that will How are you feeling about next year? How do you imagine next year
enable them to be successful. will be?
What do you need to do and be in order to have a successful transition?
How will your learning this year enable you to have a successful
Product/Performance: Create a yearbook entry for the end of Grade 6. transition?
What transitions have you experienced in your life and how did you
Summative Structure and characteristics of new environments adapt?
Key Questions
Assessment Understanding emotions and responses associated with change What are the differences between your current environment and your
Skills and strategies that are required to be successful in transitions new environment?

Success indicators: Successful RAFTing and students taking on the

responsibilities of a MYP student, including moving through the school without
direct supervision.

Unit of Inquiry Integrated and Stand-Alone Learning Outcomes

Writing: Recounts use a succinct orientating device early in the piece to introduce a point of view. Events are related in time order. Students will use observation and/or
reflection to foreground events or details of significance to them. Students fictional recount ending statement should reflect or comment on what success looked like in
Literacy
Middle School as if they had just completed 6th grade. Their recount (in the form of a scrap book) would in fact be a way to predict future events, inserting information
about skills and knowledge outcomes that are necessary for a middle school student.

Students will inquire into and develop an understanding of how we can use probability to make predictions about what could happen in the future. Students will evaluate
real-world applications such as the results of games and examining whether or not certain events will occur. They will also develop an understanding of why predictions can
be inaccurate, even when very likely to occur.
Mathematics
Students will be introduced algebra and be given the opportunity to solve problems using algebraic methods, including conversations and comparison of rate and time.
Extension activities will include similar applications using exponents and roots to explain responses.

Technology and Students will learn how to navigate through Managebac in preparation for the MYP
Media Literacy
integration
 Arabic A:Unit 6 safety and happiness.
Arabic Arabic B: Students will learn about the school subjects in Arabic and how to express their likes and dislikes about them. They will also revise all the grammar lessons that we
learned before.

Music students are creating and composing original scores on Finale Notepad software. They are exploring the use of rhythm, pitch, beat, tempo, and dynamics in their
Music
original work.

In PE will be continuing their Games unit focussing on Volleyball and Handball in which they will:
Learn the actual skills of volleying a ball - Bump, Set, Serve and Smash
Learn to move into space effectively
PE Learn basic rotations of volleyball
Learn basic rules of volleyball and handball
Make quick and effective decisions during a game scenario
Express ourselves effectively within the team.

Art students will glaze their clay whimsical fish and complete their post-assessment observational drawings. In conclusion to the year, they will reflect on their art
Visual Arts
experience, take home their sketchbooks and all of their artwork and look ahead to their transition into MYP Art.

Counseling: PSE Students will explore how the RAFTing acronym can help them make a positive end of the year transition in fifth grade PYP. Students will explore their possibilities of
(Personal, Social, making the transition complete for themselves through opportunities of reconciliation with their peers and appreciation of their moments together. As many of our friends
Emotional) may be moving away from GWA or to start fresh in a new country, change and transition will take place for everyone as we begin life in Middle School.

Incursions & Step-Up Day. Students spend a day as an MYP student

Excursions PYP Graduation