Year 5

Spring 1

9.1.25

Happy New Year

Today we learned about a very strange tradition that takes place on New Year's Eve.

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Cognates in the City

This week, we have started to learn the names of popular places to go and visit in the city.  First of all we listened to the vocabulary to see if we could deduce its  meaning.  Then we looked at the words written down and discovered that a lot of the words are the same or similar to English words. We call these words cognates.

Then we used the bilingual dictionary to find the names of other places in the city.

Autumn 2

School Subjects

12.12.24

Today, we wrote sentences giving reasons for our school subject preferences.  We used the chart to help us and joined our sentences with the word because. (porque)

5.12.24

Today, we learned how to express our preferences of certain school subjects.

We discovered that some of the phrases can change slightly, depending on whether they are describing a singular or plural subject.

                          I like Sport                                                                         I like Sciences

Finally, we learnt some adjectives to describe each subject.  Once again, the endings of the adjectives can change in order to match the school subject (noun) it is describing.

3.12.24

This half term, we have been learning about school subjects in Spanish.  They are easy to remember as a lot of them are cognates, which means that the Spanish names are very similar to the English names.  We separated them into 3 groups.

We practised asking each other the question in a game of Quiz Quiz Trade.

Then we practised saying when we learn each subject.

14.11.24

Today, we have been learning to say a jungle rhyme in Spanish, using all the animals and different adjectives to describe them.

7.11.24

This week, we used adjectives and colours to describe the jungle animals. Some of the adjectives have different endings when describing feminine or masculine animals.

Autumn 1

3.10.24

This week, we used the bilingual dictionaries to find different adjectives to describe our jungle animals with.

19.9.25

This week, we have been learning the names of some common jungle animals.  We separated them into 2 groups - masculine and feminine nouns.

Then, we described each animal with a colour, making the colour (adjective) agrees with the noun.

12.9.25

This week, we learnt how to tell the time, to half past the hour.  We practised with a friend.

5.9.24

Today, we learnt to count from 30 to 50 in Spanish.

Then we learnt how to count in multiples of 10 up to 100.