Social Emotional Learning - Mindfulness

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Foundation Year English

• Explore different ways of using language to express preferences, likes and dislikes (AC9EFLA02)
• Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas (AC9EFLA05)
• Recognise and develop awareness of vocabulary used in familiar contexts related to everyday experiences, personal interests and topics taught at school (AC9EFLA08)

Year 1 English

• Explore language to provide reasons for likes, dislikes and preferences (AC9E1LA02)
• Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) (AC9E1LA07)

Year 2 English

• Explore how language can be used for appreciating texts and providing reasons for preferences (AC9E2LA02)

Foundation Health and Physical Education

• Participate in a range of activities in natural and outdoor settings and explore the benefits of being physically active (AC9HPFM03)
• practise fundamental movement skills in minor game and play situations (AC9HPFM01)

Year 1 & 2 Health and Physical Education

• Investigate a range of health messages and practices in their community and discuss their purposes (AC9HP2P06)
• Participate in a range of physical activities in natural and outdoor settings, and investigate factors and settings that make physical activity enjoyable (AC9HP2M03)

Foundation Visual Arts

• use play, imagination, art knowledge, processes and/or skills to discover possibilities and develop ideas (AC9AVAFD01)
• create art works that communicate ideas (AC9AVAFC01)

Year 1 & 2 Visual Arts

• experiment and play with visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials (AC9AVA2D01)
• use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks (AC9AVA2C01)

Syllabus outcomes: ALES1.6, MOES1.4, GSES1.8, SLS1.13, PHS1.12, VAS1.1, VAS1.2, ENe-6B, ENe-9B, ENe-6B, EN1-9B, EN1-6B

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking

Relevant parts of Foundation Year English achievement standards: Students can share thoughts and preferences, retell events and report information or key ideas to an audience. They read, view and comprehend texts, making connections between characters, settings and events, and personal experiences.

Relevant parts of Year 1 English achievement standards: Students can share ideas and retell or adapt familiar stories, recount or report on events or experiences, and express opinions using a small number of details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts. They identify the text structures of familiar narrative and informative texts, and their language features and visual features.

Relevant parts of Year 2 English achievement standards: Students can share ideas, topic knowledge and appreciation of texts when they recount, inform or express an opinion, including details from learnt topics, topics of interest or texts.

Relevant parts of Foundation Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students identify the benefits of being physically active and how rules make play fair and inclusive.

Relevant parts of Year 1 & 2 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students can explain why health information is important for making choices. Students apply fundamental movement skills in different movement situations and describe factors that make physical activity beneficial.

Relevant parts of Foundation – Year 2 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students make artworks in different forms to express their ideas, observations and imagination.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low - Teachers scaffold students using unfamiliar vocabulary to describe their experiences.

• Art supplies – coloured pencils and markers
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Whiteboard
• White paper – A4 size.

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