We are learning to describe people this half term. Today we talked about eye colours:
Tiene los ojos negros.
Tiene los ojos verdes.
Tiene los ojos marrones.
Tiene los ojos azules.
It is International Education Week, and to celebrate it, we looked at the school photos our penpals sent us from Valladolid. Their school is huge, it looks like a big church. We have taken photos too, and sent them to our penpals.
We are learning to use the dictionary this half term, and we need to know the alphabet to find the word we want.
Here is our alphabet song:
We started a new project with our penpals in Valladolid today, it is called "Star of the Week". Each week, a pupil will talk about himself/herself in Spanish, we will record it and send it to Spain. Harry was the first one today, he did great!!! And we were amazed to listen to Andrés from Valladolid, who can speak English very well. Well done Harry and Andrés!
Today we practised asking and answering questions. Our detectives had to ask questions and find the hidden items in the classroom (a potato, a tomato and a chocolate).
We had a look at our Spanish sentences in our books and made sure we used capital letters and full stops. We finished the lesson by singing the numbers song.
Today everybody had the chance to present the restaurant role plays, well done Year 6, good Spanish and fantastic acting!
We talked about paellas and had a look at a special spice: saffron! It gives the rice the right colour and makes it taste delicious. It is very expensive, so don't take it home please, just look at it by the Spanish display:-)
We looked at some euro coins again, Nicole brought these in to show us. Remember you can leave a comment if you have found out who is on a Spanish euro coin! You will get a price:-)
We sang our "cutlery song".
We finished the lesson with Chuchua from last year, this was Katy's special wish as it is her birthday today. Great singing!
Today we had a very busy lesson. First we practised numbers up to 100 with our silly song. I can't upload it here, but it is on the class computer if you want to sing it!
Then we played "Splat" with real euros and we practised the question ¿Cuánto cuesta?.
We presented our role plays and had a laugh when some pupils asked for a lemon sandwich, a tomato sandwich and a chocolate sandwich:-)
We made a Harvest bunting for our Spanish penpals, we decorated leaf people and introduced ourselves in Spanish next to them. We will finish our sentences next week. They look fantastic!
Today we have decided to spend time practising our travel sentences. We played "Pass the Parcel", and whenever the DJ stopped the music, we had to make sentences with two cards: a day one and a flag one. There are real flag experts in Year 5, so we had no problems recognising Argentina, Mexico, Paraguay ad Ecuador.
El jueves voy a Ecuador.
El sábado voy a Argentina.
El domingo voy a Paraguay.
El viernes voy a México.
We sang our song "Este puente...", it is becoming very popular:-)
We talked about Columbus Day, and watched a video about the history of the Spanish language.
Spanish is a Romance language, it comes from Latin.
We looked at the map of his first trip, if you want to see it again, click here.
Next week we will write postcards, hope you will enjoy looking through the leaflets, postcards and travel magazines I left by the Spanish display!
Today we have learnt how to order food in a Spanish restaurant. First, we made sure we had very quick waiters and waitresses, who had to race to our hungry Valentín puppet.
He kept asking for food:
Quiero un bocadillo de jamón, por favor.
Quiero un bocadillo de queso, por favor.
Quiero un bocadillo de pollo, por favor.
Because we have to pay for our food, we practised our Spanish numbers by singing a silly song where we had to shout out the numbers 10, 20, 30, etc.
We had a look at our postcards, they were sent by schools from all over Europe in our postcard exchange project.
We practised the restaurant role plays, and watched one group present theirs, they did really well!
Today we learnt to add the day of the week to our travel sentences, and now we know that we need the preposition EL. We remembered the names of some Spanish speaking countries and created sentences:
El martes voy a Argentina. El jueves voy a Colombia.
El miércoles voy a Uruguay.
We are finishing our postcards, next week we will have to write them!
We have received many cards from European primary schools in our postcard exchange project, look:
We sang our song: Este puente va a caer.
Here are the words:
Este puente va caer, va a caer, va a caer, Este puente va a caer, ya ha caído, Cómo vamos a cruzar, a cruzar, a cruzar, Cómo vamos a cruzar este río. En barquitos de papel, de papel de papel En barquitos de papel, lo cruzamos. This bridge is going to fall down, fall down, fall down, This bridge is going to fall down, it has fallen down, How will we cross, cross, cross, How will we cross this river, In paper boats, paper boats, paper boats, In paperpoats we will cross it.
Today we have learnt to say how we feel: Bien = Well Mal = Bad
How are you? is ¿Qué tal? in Spanish.
We made some mini movies with the clapper board and the ToonCamera iPad app. We all looked like cartoons!
We wrote two sentences about ourselves in our Spanish books and started to draw a picture of ourselves. It was exciting to write in Spanish for the very first time and practise a special letter, the ñ.
Me llamo George. Tengo 7 años.
We finished the lesson with a short video to our Spanish pen pals. Hopefully we will find some soon!
Today we learnt that we can join the body parts in one sentence with y! It means and, and it links parts of the sentence together when we describe our monsters.
We played the blindfolded artist, girls against boys, and Mrs Sawyer had to decide whose monster looked the scariest. Congratulations, chicas:-)!
We started to describe our monsters in our Spanish books, using the connective"y".
We recorded a short video to our eTwinning partners in Valladolid, they will be happy to hear from us!
And just after the end of the lesson, we sang Happy Birthday to the birthday girl. I hope her ear is not hurting too much:-)
Today we practised the question ¿A dónde vas? = Where are you going to? We answered using the preposition "a". Voy a Barcelona. Voy a Madrid. Voy a Alicante.
We talked about why it is good to learn a language and got a sticker/book if we could give a reason:-) Now we know that it is important to communicate when we go abroad, when we want to make friends or in case we get to hospital in a foreign country.
Y3 We had a Skype Chinese lesson! The teacher played the ukulele and sang "Twinkle twinkle little star" in Chinese and we repeated the lines after her. We did really well! We sang the Me llamo... song, and taught them to say Hola and Adiós. Their school is called Robin Hood Primary School in Birmingham and their blog is
We made hot air balloons with spoon men. We had to learn to say hello in 3 languages and write them down on post its. Then our little people were allowed to travel around the world in hot air balloons!
eTwinning postcard project We made "Happy European Day of Languages" cards and sent them to 18 schools in Europe. We have started to receive some from them, look at our displays:
Today we have learnt about sandwich fillings and we said which ones we liked and didn't like. This time there was no real food like last time, but we still managed to hold a whole chicken! Look at all these yummy sandwich fillings!
el bocadillo de queso = cheese sandwich
el bocadillo de pollo= chicken sandwich
el bocadillo de jamón = ham sandwich
Next week we will make a class survey and see which is Y6's favourite.
We started to celebrate the European Day of Languages! We will send cards to 20 different schools in Europe, and our cards will travel to Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Latvia, Romania, Italy, Greece and to another English school in London. We are very proud of our work and we are excited about getting their cards. They will love the glitters!
We sang our song: Soy una taza,it was fantastic to sing and dance it together, Y6 definitely did lots of Spanish practice every day:-)
The Spanish leader from last week got his reward, he did so well practising the words every day with the class. We picked the new leader for the 5 A DAY challenge.
Surprise song!!! I hope the pupil who asked for it will find it!!!! :-)
Today we have learned to ask: ¿A dónde vas? = Where are you going to? We looked at the map of Spain and answered with our favourite places: Voy a Barcelona. Voy a Madrid. Voy a Alicante.
We sang our song: Este puente va a caer. (The bridge falls down, how will we cross the river? On a paperboat!:-)
We started to celebrate the European Day of Languages! We will send cards to 20 different schools in Europe, and our cards will travel to Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Latvia, Romania, Italy, Greece and to another English school in London. We are very proud of our work and we are excited about getting their cards. They will love the glitters!
The Spanish leader from last week got his reward, he did so well practising the words every day with the class. We picked the new leader for the 5 A DAY challenge.
First we revised our body words we learned last week, we played "Simon says" and with Mr Potato Head's lost body parts.
We had a lucky volunteer who came out to the front of the class to be the class alien! Mrs Culshaw described the alien like this:
Tiene tres ojos, cuatro orejas, una boca y una nariz.
The hat is pictured on Valentín here.
Then we practised tiene with the kitchen timer!Hope we all remember that tiene means he has got/she has got....
We had great fun singing our new body song: Chuchua! Here it is in case you want to sing it at home, but be careful, it is exhausting!
The Spanish leader from last week got her reward, she did so well practising the words every day with the class. We picked the new leader for the 5 A DAY challenge.
We have learned to say how old we are: Tengo siete años.
We walked around the classroom with finger puppets and said:
Tengo siete años.
Now that we can say two sentences about ourselves, we created our Gamis with the Tellagami ipad app. It was funny to hear ourselves speaking a different language!
We were given Spanish books and we all put our names on them.
After giving a reward to our Spanish leader, we chose a new pupil to lead the 5 A DAY challenge, good luck to her!
In Year 5 today we have learned the names of some places we would like to travel to (la montaña= the mountainel río=the river, el lago=the lake, el bosque=the forest) and a very important verb: Voy,it means "I am going to...".
We joined in a song with actions and had to spot the new word we had learned at the beginning of the lesson.
We also started to design a postcard, and label the places on them.
Mrs Culshaw picked a "volunteer":-) to be the Spanish leader for the 5 A DAY SPANISH. Good luck to him!
In Year 4 we have learned some body parts: la nariz, (the nose) los ojos (the eyes), la boca (the mouth), las orejas (the ears).
We know that it is easier to learn new words if we practise saying them a lot, so we played our favourite games. We had fun trying the new detective sunglasses on!
Unfortunately Mr Potato Head couldn't be with us today due to getting lost but luckily Mrs Culshaw had a REAL potato with her , which saved the lesson!
We sang "Cabeza, hombros, piernas y pies" from our CD and all got very tired.
We picked the Spanish leader, good luck to her next week!
In Year 3 today we have learned to ask each other's name and say our own names.
We sang a song while passing a parrot to each other and every time the music stopped, we all asked ¿Cómo te llamas? Whoever was holding the parrot had to answer : Me llamo....
We walked around the classroom with finger puppets and said: ¿Cómo te llamas? Me llamo....
We chose a Spanish leader for the 5 A DAY challenge, good luck to him!
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