Year 4 Spanish Work
AUTUMN TERM 2015
Dragonflies and Ladybirds started this term revising and improving their knowledge of numbers to 31 and months of the year to help to help them ask and answer questions about dates, birthdays and ages.
SPRING TERM 2016
This term Year 4 have been leanring all about Shapes, Colours and Position to help them talk about and describe their favourite paintings.
At the end of our topic, we worked on describing our favourite Miro paintings and then had a go creating, labelling and writing about our own 'Mirò Style' pictures using pencils and the iPads.
During the second half of term, Year 4 had great fun developing their vocabulary to describe people. We learnt about different ways of describing your hair and eyes and then used this knowledge to create their own 'Wanted' posters for cartoon criminals.
Click on the image below to see the display board that we created on purple mash or select the images to the right.
...and 'La Navidad' celebrated across the Hispanic world. Year 4 enjoyed finding out about Christmas in Spain and used their knowledge of dates and festival vocabulary to create their own pictorial calendars and cards.
'EL TIEMPO'
During our next topic, Year 4 loved becoming weather forecasters and used our new song well to help them learn to say whole sentences to describe the weather around Spain.
We played games to describe pictures for each other to draw and used detailed sentences to talk about our favourite Miro paintings.
" Hay dos círculos abajo"
' SE BUSCA' (wanted) POSTERS
We then then learnt about 2 special dates in the Hispanic Calendar; 'El Dia de los Muertos' celebrated in Mexico and other South American countries.....
We looked at works of art by the Spanish surrealist painter Joan Miro to explore a range of shape based pictures and create our own.
Can you guess which paintings these children were describing?
" Hay doce puntos negros a la derecha."
"Hay dos ojos a la izquierda."
"Hay un rectàngulo rojo en el centro de un círculo blanco."
We're still practising remembering all of our Spanish grammar. E.g.
- adjectives come after a noun
- adjectives need to agree with the noun that they follow
- there are different verb forms depending on who is talking / who is being spoken about
but the children worked really hard at creating these posters independently, writing phrases from memory with only a few mistakes.
I hope we catch the criminals!!
SUMMER TERM
LA HORA!!
Recently we have been learning how to tell the time in Spanish. It's quite tricky because its the opposite way round to how we say it in English!!
We played games to help practise our skills, interviewed each other about times that we have different mealtimes and learnt our 5 times table in Spanish so that we could tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes!!
LA COMIDA!!
In Year 4 we started off learning how to talk about food we have for breakfast using the verb 'desayunar'. Then we learnt how to say different foods for other mealtimes so we could interview each other about what we like to eat, what we hate and what we love using the verbs 'me gusta..., odio..., me encanta...'
Finally we started to learn how to conjugate verbs so we could ask questions and talk about each other i.e. For breakfast I eat (desayuno) , for breakfast you eat (desayunas), for breakfast he/she eats (desayuna) - It's tricky work, but we managed it!!
Click below to see the video that we watched to help learn all about 'La comida!'
