Central Idea: People communicate feelings and thoughts in different ways, which others interpret. HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES Grade 2 Guiding Questions: • Should the communicator or receiver have the main responsibility for effective communication? • Can feelings be misinterpreted? • Can the same experience make different people feel differently? • Should we always manage our emotions in given ways? PYP Elements Concepts Function: People have ways of behaving. Perspective: People interpret movements in different ways. Related concepts: communication, gestures, emotion, culture, behaviour, opinion Skills Communication Skills: viewing, non-verbal communication Social Skills: accepting responsibility, respecting others, resolving conflic Learner Profile Communicator: expresses and interprets meaning in non-verbal communication. Open-minded: appreciative of how people may express themselves across cultures Outcomes to be reported on in the context of the written report: PSE • Uses vocabulary to communicate feelings in different situations Drama • Aware meaning is communicated through body language • Interpret intentions, thoughts and feelings expressed by Lines of Inquiry • Humans communicate through verbal and non-verbal means • An experience may mean different things to different people • We can learn to manage our emotions in different ways How can I help my child? • Talk with your child about gestures that are used in your culture. What is considered appropriate or inappropriate? • Watch people, in life or in visual or performing arts. Talk with your child about what emotions a person may be feeling by looking at their body posture and facial expressions.

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Central Idea: People communicate feelings and thoughts in different

ways, which others interpret.

H O W W E E X P R E S S O U R S E L V E S

Gra

de 2

Guiding Questions: • Should the communicator or receiver have the main

responsibility for effective communication? • Can feelings be misinterpreted? • Can the same experience make different people feel

differently? • Should we always manage our emotions in given ways?

PYP Elements

Concepts

Function: People have ways of behaving.

Perspective: People interpret movements in different ways.

Related concepts: communication, gestures, emotion, culture, behaviour, opinion

Skills

Communication Skills: viewing, non-verbal communication

Social Skills: accepting responsibility, respecting others, resolving conflic

Learner Profile Communicator: expresses and interprets meaning in non-verbal communication.

Open-minded: appreciative of how people may express themselves across cultures

Outcomes to be reported on in the context of the written report:

PSE • Uses vocabulary to communicate feelings in different

situations

Drama • Aware meaning is communicated through body

language • Interpret intentions, thoughts and feelings expressed by

Lines of Inquiry

• Humans communicate through verbal and non-verbal means

• An experience may mean different things to different people

• We can learn to manage our emotions in different ways

How can I help my child?

• Talk with your child about gestures that are used in your culture. What is considered appropriate or inappropriate?

• Watch people, in life or in visual or performing arts. Talk with your child about what emotions a person may be feeling by looking at their body posture and facial expressions.