Spring 1 Blog

2023

Early Years and Key Stage 1

26.1.23

This week we learnt a rhyme in Spanish called Chocolate.  It is a bit of a tongue twister, but it helped us with our counting too.

We also played Splat this week.  Listen to the numbers being said in Spanish and splat the one you think you can hear!

19.1.23

This week we have been learning how to count in Spanish.  In Nursery and Reception we counted up to 3.

                                              0          -   cero   thero

                                              1          -   uno    oono

                                              2          -   dos    dos

                                              3          -   tres    trace

We played a game called Last Man Standing to help us to remember the numbers.  We counted up to 3 around the circle in Spanish, and anyone saying  tres  had to sit down.  

                                                                                                                                            Our winner!   La ganadora.  

In Year 1 and 2 we counted up to 5 in Spanish.  We learnt some actions to help us remember the numbers.

         cero   -   zero                                               uno  -  1                                  dos  -   2 (clap with 2 hands)

              tres  - 3                                                   cuatro -  4                                              cinco -  5

In Year 1 and 2 we counted up to 5.  We also learnt a new song to practise the colours.

12.1.23

This week we learnt how to recognise and say 2 more colours in Spanish.

                                          yellow  -  amarillo             green - verde

Toca algo amarillo...                             Toca algo verde...

(Touch something yellow)                     (Touch something green)

We sang a song to practise the 4 colours we have learnt so far.

This week we had to listen really carefully and touch each of the 4 colours as they were said.

5.1.23

İFeliz Año Nuevo!  Happy New Year!

This week we started to learn how to say some of the colours in Spanish.  We started off with 

                                                     red rojo     and       blue azul 

José and Elena helped us to pronounce the words correctly.  Then we had to listen carefully to the colours being said in Spanish and hold up the colour we could hear on our fans.

Toca - Touch

We also learnt this new instruction in Spanish.  When we heard, 'Toca rojo', we had to touch something red, and,  'Toca azul '  meant we had to touch something blue.

In Year 1 and 2, we also learnt the word for yellow - amarillo.

Epiphany 2023

Epifanía 

Week ending 13.1.23

This week we have been looking at how Epiphany is celebrated in Spain.  

In Year 3 we learnt how children leave their shoes out on January 5th, in the hope that the Kings will leave presents in them the next day.  At Year 4 we learnt about the special cake eaten, which is shaped like a crown.

 At Year 4 we learnt about the special cake eaten, which is shaped like a crown.

In Year 6 we listened to a Spanish text about Epiphany.  We looked for clues to try and deduce what the text was saying.  We looked for cognates (words that are the same or similar in English and Spanish), names and numbers.  We also thought about the context of the passage, using facts that we already know about Epiphany. Then we looked at the meaning of some key words within the text.

Year 3 

This half term we have been learning how to say the months of the year in Spanish.  We discovered that just like the days of the week, the months of the year do not begin with capital letters in Spanish. 

We noticed a pattern in the spelling of septiembre, octubre, noviembre, diciembre.

Classroom Instructions

This week we learnt a song to help us to understand some classroom instructions.

Year 4

Parts of the school

¿Dónde estás? - Where are you?

This term we have been learning about the parts of the school.  We asked each other the question, 'Where are you?

Where's Wally

Today we put Wally in different places in pictures of  the school.  We practised asking, 'Where's Wally?' in Spanish.

23.2.23

This week we have been learning how to follow and give simple directions.

We gave directions to Wally so he could find his way around the school.

Year 5 2023

10.1.23

This week, we began our new topic about places in the city.  Some of the names of places are cognates.  This means they are easy to recognise because the words are either the same or similar to English ones.  Before we looked at the words we listened to them in Spanish to see if we could deduce their meaning.  Then we looked at them written down, before we used the bi-lingual dictionary to check the meaning of each word.

17.1.23

This week we used prepositions to describe where different places in the town are.

This

This week we looked at the word this in Spanish.  

We noticed a spelling pattern in some of the names of the shops.

This week, we learnt how to ask and reply to the question.

We finished by singing a song to help us remember the phrases.

Ir - to go

This week we looked at the verb which means,'to go' in Spanish more closely.  The pattern that the verb is in is called a paradigm.

We used the rhythm of the song, 'We will rock you,' to help us to practise each part of the verb.

Buying a ticket

This week we practised asking for an entrance ticket to a city attraction.

Year 6 2023

12.1.23

Today we began our new topic about Professions.  When talking about jobs in Spanish, some professions have endings that change according to the gender of the person they are describing.

We discovered that the 'd' sound in the word médico is pronounced like 'th' (as in the word 'the').  We looked at all the  other Spanish words we have met so far that also contain this sound.

19.1.23

This week we practised the difference between the words a  and  the  in Spanish.

We sorted  lots of different professions out  according to their spelling patterns.

We found 3 different groups of spelling patterns - words ending in ista, ante and ta.

26.1.23                                               Quiero ser...  I want to be...

This week we explored how to say what we would like to do.  The word quiero begins with qu which is pronounced as k in Spanish.  We looked back at other words we have met so far that contain this sound.

I want to be a vet.                               I want to be a singer.                          I want to be a footballer

I want to be a police officer.                 I want to be a fashion designer.        I want to be a wrestler.

                                                                       I want to be an inventor.

2.2.23

This week we searched for adjectives that would help us to describe which personal attributes are needed for different professions.

We had to make sure that each adjective agreed (matched) the person it was describing.

I want to be a  ....  because ...

This week we built sentences, saying which profession we would like to do and why.  We used a sentence builder to help us to recall all the vocabulary we have learned so far this term.

Ser (to be)

This week we looked at how to put the verb ser together.

2022

Year 3 

Months of the Year

Today in Year 3 we have started learning the months of the year.  We are learning actions to help us remember them and we played a game to spot the missing month in the sequence.

Today we sorted out anagrams of the months in Spanish.

To help us with the spelling of some of the months, we grouped together all the ones that end in 'bre', which is pronounced as 'bray' in Spanish.

This week we learnt some instructions that we often hear in the classroom.  We sang a song and played Simón Dice (Simon Says) to help us remember them.

Year 4 2022

Las partes de la escuela

(Parts of the school)

Today we learnt how to say 6 parts of the school in Spanish.  We practised them with the question, ¿Dónde estás? (Where are you?).

Phonics

We looked back at words we have met so far with 'c' (before i or e)  pronounced as 'th' and added the parts of the school to our list.

Today we practised a slightly different question and answer.

¿Dónde está Wally?  (Where’s Wally?)

Wally está en ...   (Wally is in ...)

We placed a stick puppet of Wally in pictures of different parts of the school to practise different answers.

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We tested ourselves to see how many of the places in school we could remember.  We noticed a pattern, as some of the words  have the 'io' sound in them.  We looked back at other topics we have done and grouped words containing the 'io' sound in them. 

Today we learnt some simple directions in Spanish.  We put them together in a dance to help us remember them.

Year 5 2022

In the city

Today we used both sides of the bi-lingual dictionary to find the names of places in the city.

We found a group of shops that all have a spelling pattern in common.

We read a story about Zog the robot who was looking for the cake shop.  We already knew some phrases to give him directions, but we learned some more  to describe the position of buildings in the town.  We also learnt an important grammar rule.

Year 6 (2022)

Professions

We have started to look at the words for professions in Spanish.  We have discovered that some profession nouns in Spanish have endings that change, to match the gender of the person they are describing.

Today we looked at the spelling patterns of professions in Spanish and made groups of them.

This week we learnt how to say what we would like to be.

Quiero ser...

(I want to be ...) 

We used the bilingual dictionary or googled to find names of other professions we would like to do

Phonics

Today we looked back at all the vocabulary we have learnt so far that contains the 'th' sound represented by 'z' in Spanish.  We put all the words together in a spidergram.

Today we looked for adjectives in the bi-lingual dictionary to describe attributes needed for certain jobs.  We found out that you have to be careful when using the dictionary, making sure which words are adjectives and nouns.  

We practised saying a group of adjectives that all end in 'ente' and noticed that the 'e' is pronounced as 'ay'.

We made a collection of other Spanish words we have met so far that end in 'e'.

Spring 2021

Well done for all your hard work at home Year 4, and thank you for sending your video clips.

Year 4

You have drawn some great pictures of the special cake (el roscón de reyes) eaten during Epiphany in Spain.

Parts of the School

We learnt the names of the parts of the school in Spanish.

¿Dónde estás?  Where are you?

¿Dónde está Wally?  Where’s Wally?

Giving directions

Help Wally find his way around school.

Parts of the face

Describing our eyes and hair

Year 3 

Great to see you all working so hard on your Spanish at home Year 3!

Months of the year

We have been learning some classroom instructions.

Pets

We learnt the names of some pets.

¿Tienes una mascota? Do you have a pet?

Describing pets with a colour

We discovered that the colour comes after the noun in Spanish.