Year+1+Topics

(Return to Home Page) The Year 1 curriculum provides a study of present and past family life within the context of the students’ own world. Students learn about similarities and differences in family life by comparing the present with the past. They begin to explore the links, and the changes that occur, over time. = Key inquiry questions =
 * __ Past and Present Family Life __**
 * 1) ===== How has family life changed or remained the same over time? =====
 * 2) ===== How can we show that the present is different from or similar to the past? =====
 * 3) ===== How do we describe the sequence of time? =====

=Historical knowledge and understanding=
 * Differences in family structures and roles today, and how these have changed or remained the same over time
 * ====How the present, past and future are signified by [|terms] indicating time such as ‘a long time ago’, ‘then and now’, ‘now and then’, ‘old and new’, ‘tomorrow’, as well as by dates and changes that may have personal [|significance], such as birthdays, celebrations and seasons====
 * ====Differences and similarities between students' daily lives and life during their parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods, including family traditions, leisure time and communications.====
 * **__Music and Entertainment__**
 * **__Games and pastimes__**
 * **__Sport__**
 * **__Getting around__**
 * **__Communications__**
 * **__Food__**
 * __**Clothing and fashion**__
 * **__Celebrations and traditions__**
 * **__Churches in towns and hamlets__**
 * **__Houses and home life__**
 * **__School__**
 * **__Farming__**

__Websites__
[|Mallala Now and Then]

Gawler Now and Then

__Fiction__
Norwood, South Australia: Omnibus Books 1994.
 * Abdulla, Ian W. //Tucker//.

In this book, Ian Abdulla remembers the food gathering and preparation at his home on the banks of the River Murray during the 1950s. //Tucker// was short-listed for the Children’s Book Council Eve Pownall Award for Information Books in 1995. || || Norwood, South Australia Omnibus Books, 1993.
 * Abdulla, Ian W., //As I grew older : the life and times of a Nunga growing up along the River Murray.//

Family life for Aboriginal families living along the Murray River at Swan Reach, Berri and Cobdogla in South Australia in the 1950s and 1960s centred on the water and on catching food. //As I Grew Older// was awarded the Australian Multicultural Children’s Literature Award in 1994 || ||
 * Baker, Jeannie (1991). //Window// (1st ed). Greenwillow Books, New York

As the baby grows older inside the house, the view from his bedroom window changes. || || Do you have half-sisters, big brothers, step-parents? The modern family comes in all shapes and sizes. || || This story is based on the author's memories about her impoverished but happy, friendly life at La Perouse in New South Wales, where her Dad built a shack when she was five years old. || || Grandmother has a cupboard with lots of nooks and crannies and keepsakes from her Vietnamese family’s past. One contains secret wishes. || ||
 * Kane, Kim and Masciullo, Lucia //Family forest//. Hardie Grant Egmont, Prahran, Vic, 2010.
 * Russell, Elaine //The shack that dad built//. Little Hare Books, Surry Hills, N.S.W, 2005.
 * Hathorn, Libby. and Stanley, Elizabeth. //The wishing cupboard / Libby Hathorn ; [illustrated by] Elizabeth Stanley// Lothian Books South Melbourne, Vic 2002.
 * Cox, David //Ayu and the perfect moon//. Bodley Head, London, 1984.

Ayu in Bali learns the moon dance from her grandmother to perform at the moon festival. The tradition is handed on through the generations. || ||
 * Tonkin, Rachel. //Grandpa's stories / Rachel Tonkin// Roland Harvey Books Port Melbourne 1996.

An honest description of a grandfather’s developing Alzheimer’s disease. || ||
 * Tonkin, Rachel //When I was a kid//. Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial, St Leonards, N.S.W, 1997.

Family life in the fifties will give plenty of scope for comparisons. || || Newtown, N.S.W. Walker Books Australia, - Walker classics Although a child at this age level would not have grandparents with memories as early as those of Papa in this book,the book provides useful details of former family lives and remains in print.||||||||||  ||
 * Tonkin, Rachel ////Papa and the Olden Days///// Ian Edwards & Rachel Tonkin. - [2013 edition]
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