¡Hola Year 4!  

Welcome to your year 4 Spanish class page

Mrs Blackledge's email:      RBlackledge@sg.thedcet.com

Year 4 Spanish lessons are every Thursday afternoon ¡Gracias!

Remember, little and often will help you to learn Spanish more quickly 

Year 4 Spanish 2022 - 2023

Summer 2/Verano 2

¡Hola Year 4 ! This half term we will be learning  how to order food and drink in Spanish: Quiero (I want) Getting ready for a Spanish holiday! We will also be learning how to say which foods we like: Me gusta (singular food) Me gustan (plural food) and which food we don't like: No me gusta (singular food) No me gustan (plural food)

Culture: Do you know what a Paella is? Have you ever tasted one? Can you tell me what ingredients go in to it? See if you can find out! Hint: We did briefly see one being made in our birthday topic... 

We will also be revisiting both  the definite article THE in Spanish: el, la, los, las and the indefinite article A/AN in Spanish un and una

These both belong to the group of determiners: which other determiners do you know in English?

We will learn two new verbs: comer (to eat) and beber (to drink)

Summer 1/Verano 1

¡Hola Year 4 ! This half term we will be learning  parts of the body in Spanish. We will be labelling Señor Patata (Mr Potato Head) and reading a story about his family. 

Culture: Do you know where the potato first came from? Who brought it over? Which Spanish city was the first European city to receive a potato? See if you can find out 

We will also be practising  the definite article THE in Spanish: el, la, los, las

Spring 2/Primavera 2

¡Hola Year 4 ! This half term we will be learning how to say our birthday - a very important topic! This means we will first learn our numbers to 31, then our months and then have a go at designing a Spanish birthday card.

We will also learn some family nouns in Spanish and have a look at the Spanish Royal family (la familia real Española) and find out when the Spanish princesses celebrate their birthdays

Mi cumpleaños es el ........ de ........... (My birthday is the ......... of........) .

Spanish Spring Knowledge Organiser: This is now up online for you to follow your Spanish class work at home. 

Linguafun

Extra clips

Spring 1/Primavera 1

¡Hola Year 4 y feliz año nuevo! This half term we will be finishing our work on animals and listening to and learning to recite a story in Spanish called: Oso Pardo, Oso Pardo por Eric Carle (Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle) We'll be learning about Spanish adjectives and how they usually go after their noun and must agree in gender with their noun. 

Example: un pájaro rojo ( a red bird)   una oveja negra ( a black sheep)

Spanish Spring Knowledge Organiser: This is now up online for you to follow your Spanish class work at home. 

Stories/cuentos

Linguafun: If you pass a Linguafun unit, let me know and I will give you the certificate.

Extra clips:Here I will upload special clips, songs, stories or extra online lessons from our classwork for you to view at home. ¡Gracias!

Autumn 2 2022

¡Hola! This half term (and run up to Navidad/ Christmas) we have a pet theme! Starting with revising our Pets/Mascotas from Year 3 and our colours. Put all of this together to talk about the colour of pets. We will be looking at sentence order and agreement of adjectives. We will also be finding out about Picasso and his pets.  Did you know he could draw animals without lifting his pen from the paper and only one line?! We'll also be learning some new Spanish Christmas Carols (villancicos)

Please check out the Year 4 Autumn 2 Spanish Knowledge Organiser which has all of the topic language we will be covering this half term. Year 4 have a copy in their books. If you would like a hard copy, but don't have a printer, please email me.

I will be posting links, songs and stories here relevant to the work we are doing this term. If you complete the Linguafun topics for pets (mis animales) and colours, let me know and I will give you a certificate. 

Autumn 1 2022

¡Hola! Autumn 1/Otoño 1   Thursday, 13th October/jueves el 13 de octubre 2022

Lesson 5: Making friends with Antonio Gaudi (The Catalan architect)

Today we will be revising our Spanish colours from year 3. Talking about which colours we like (me gusta) and which colours we don't like (no me gusta). We are also going to find out about the Spanish Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi - Perhaps you know something about him already?  Please look at your Spanish knowledge organisers to practise your colours and also follow the link below to practise on Linguafun.

¡Hola! Autumn 1/Otoño 1   Thursday, 6th October/jueves el 6 de octubre 2022

Lesson4: Making friends with the Romans - Salve amice! ('amigos y amigas')

Today we will be visiting the Roman aqueduct of Segovia in Spain. You will also learn how to introduce yourself to a Roman! 

 ¡Gracias! or Gratias tibi (latin :))

Next week we will revise our Spanish colours

Latin Vocabulary               

Salve                          hello

Quis es?                      Who are you?

.......... sum                     I am ....(lit: .... I am)

Vale!                             goodbye

¡Hola! Autumn 1/Otoño 1   Thursday, 29th September/jueves el 29 de septiembre 2022

Lessons 2-3: Making Spanish friends 'amigos y amigas'

Today we will be practising our Spanish writing. Having a go at writing from memory! Revising our numbers to 20. Listening to a story about Don Quixote de la Mancha - I mentioned him last week.

This week, I am posting the story clip that we watched in class. Can you tell me the name of Don Quixote's horse? Have another listen.

Spanish vocabulary

Me llamo                   my name is...                                 

estoy bien                 I'm fine                            

estoy mal                  I'm not fine

regular                      so so

tengo ocho años       I am eight years old

tengo nueve años      I am nine years old

me gusta                   I like

no me gusta                I don't like

¡Hola! Autumn 1/Otoño 1   Thursday, 15th September/jueves el 15 de septiembre 2022

Lesson 1: Making Spanish friends 'amigos y amigas'

This year we will get to know Spain/España, a little better. This lesson we will warm up to our Spanish and sing some familiar songs, revise our Spanish phonics from last year, making sure we have an excellent pronunciation! Also, we will remember our basic Spanish questions and answers so we can make some Spanish friends 

Year 4 Spanish 2021 - 2022

Summer 2/Verano 2

Year 4 sang the song De Colores so beautifully. I will leave the recording up for a little while longer.  Well done to you all

¡Adiós Year 4! 12 de julio

I am amazed how fast this year has gone by! Here are some of the songs from Year 4 Spanish. Have a sing song before watching your Year 4 Spanish film: El libro de la Selva/ Jungle Book. 

I will see you all in Year 5 where we will be 'visiting' South America. See what you can find out about South America  Remember you can re visit stories and songs from this year. I will leave them up on your page and don't forget Linguafun 

¡Hasta la vista! See you in Year 5

Lessons 1 -2: The body/ El cuerpo

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Summer 1/Verano 1

Lessons 3 and 4: My family/mi familia

. Saying 6 members of family in Spanish and their names

. Saying 'My' in Spanish

- Saying 'is called' in Spanish - Se llama (lesson 4)

Homework/Deberes: If you have time to do some Spanish deberes, I would like you to watch the lightbulb languages clip below and then draw a picture of your family and introduce them: Example - mi mamá se llama Sofia, mi papá se llama Felipe Or you could make up a family from another world. Have fun/ Disfrute

Vocabulary: ..... se llama.......  -  ( ....... is called......)

Spring 2/Primavera 2 (2022)

Lesson 9  Birthday topic/ Feliz Cumpleaños

Spring 2/Primavera 2 (28th March/ el 28 de marzo 2022)

Topic focus: We will learn how to say our Birthday in Spanish

Learning objective:  Saying our birthday in Spanish and learning how to sing Happy Birthday in Spanish

Grammar: 

Homework : Use the Vocabulary pdf below to practise saying your birthday and that of others. You could design more cakes for them

After the Easter Holidays: We will practise writing about ourselves and learning some simple family vocabulary.

Lesson 8Birthday topic/ Feliz Cumpleaños

Spring 2/Primavera 2 (22nd March/ el 22 de marzo 2022)

Topic focus: We will learn how to say our Birthday in Spanish

Learning objective:  This week we will learn the 12 months in Spanish and learn our own birthday month.

Grammar: Spanish months are written in the lower case. Compare this with English months

Homework : Follow the linguafun link below to practise your months in Spanish 

Next Lesson: We will put everything together to be able to say our own birthday. We will also be looking at a Spanish birthday celebration. 

Lesson 6 and lesson 7 Birthday topic/ Feliz Cumpleaños

Spring 2/Primavera 2 (8th March/ el 8 de marzo 2022)

Topic focus: We will learn how to say our Birthday in Spanish

Learning objective:  This week we revised our numbers to 20 and learnt how to continue counting up to 31. You could try to do the number macarena at home! The vocabulary is posted below :)

Grammar: Hay means there is or there are. Use this to reply to the question: 

¿cuántos hay? ¿cuántas hay?(how many are there?) Can you remember what the difference is between the two questions? Why does one end in os and one end in as?

Homework : We didn't quite finish everything today! (again!) If you would like to continue this lesson, just check out the vocabulary pdf below. Complete the activities and either email me or bring in your work to Spanish next week. If you do not have much time for Spanish, practise your numbers with Linguafun (remember to tell me if you have passed the unit quiz and I will give you a certificate ). The links are below ¡Gracias!

Next Lesson: We will be revising our numbers up to 31 and beginning to learn the 12 months in Spanish.

Lesson 5 World Book Day 2022

Spring 2/Primavera 2 (1st March/ el 2 de marzo 2022)

Topic focus: Reading a well known book in Spanish and learning some Swahili

Learning objective:  This week we listened to a story in English called 'Handa's Surprise' and in Spanish called 'La sorpresa de Nandi'

Grammar: Reviewing the singular definite article and adding on the plural definite article: el, la, los, las. What is the definite article?  (THE) Also reviewing adjectives in Spanish and their position. Do they agree with the noun? Do they go before or after the noun?

Homework : We didn't quite finish everything today! If you would like to continue this lesson, just check out the pdf below. Complete the activities and either email me or bring in your work to Spanish next week. ¡Gracias!

Next Lesson: We will be practising our numbers up to 31

Spring 1/Primavera 1 (2022)

Lesson 4 Making mini books on flags/banderas

Spring 1/Primavera 1 (15th February/ el 15 de febrero 2022)

Topic focus: Learning how to describe the colours of flags

Learning objective:  This week we are going to remind ourselves how to make mini books! I know it has been a while! and add to our mini book library. Don't worry if you have lost yours, we can make another one during the lesson.

Grammar: How to say my (mi), it is (es), adjectival agreements of colours to match the Spanish word for flag, bandera Question! Why do the spellings of some of the colours have an a at the end instead of an o?eg negra instead of negro

After half term : Learning how to say our birthday in Spanish: counting to 30, months, birthdays and designing a card

Homework: Remember to check your year 4 MFL page during the holidays. There are always stories to listen to, songs to sing and Linguafun topics to practise ¡Gracias!

Lesson 3 Describing the colours of Flags 

Spring 1/Primavera 1 (8th February/ el 8 de febrero 2022)

Topic focus: Learning how to describe the colours of flags

Learning objective:  This week we are going to have a quick quiz on flags of Europe! You are going to learn how to describe the colours on a flag.

Grammar: How to say my (mi), it is (es), adjectival agreements of colours to match the Spanish word for flag, bandera Question! Why do the spellings of some of the colours have an a at the end instead of an o?eg negra instead of negro

Next Lesson: We will be adding on shapes to describe flags.

Homework: I'm sorry we will not have our farm animal lesson today. I thought that as we are currently celebrating the Queen's special Jubilee (70 years), I thought we should have a look at our own flag and that of other countries. If you are interested do look at the Linguafun activities and see if you can earn the unit certificate for mis animales (see last lesson's link) ¡Gracias!

Extra flag activity from Lightbulb languages:

Other activities:

Find out about the meanings of the different colours that we see
on flags.

Find out about the flags of the countries where Spanish is spoken.

Lesson 2 Story: Oso Pardo, Oso Pardo 2 (Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle)  

Spring 1/Primavera 1 (25th January/ 25 de enero)

Topic focus: Reciting Brown Bear in Spanish from memory

Learning objective:  This week we are going to learn how to make nouns plural in Spanish and to have fun telling and singing the story of Oso Pardo in Spanish.

Grammar: Plural nouns and SOME in Spanish: unos and unas. Question! Why are there two ways to say SOME in Spanish?

Next Lesson: we are going to have a look at the names of some farm animals and how to say THE in Spanish. If you would like a preview, follow the Linguafun link and click on the

yellow boxes

Lesson 1 Story: Oso Pardo, Oso Pardo (Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle)  

Spring 1/Primavera 1 (11th January/ 11 de enero)

Topic focus: Completing the topic on pets from Autumn 2

Learning objective: This week you are going to learn a story about a brown bear written by Eric Carle. Listen, read and finally learn to tell the story in Spanish. Watch the above clip by Alina Celeste, who tells/sings it in an interesting way. It is called Oso Pardo. Do you recognize the story?

Grammar: reinforcing masculine and feminine nouns. adjective order in Spanish and comparing this with English. Agreement of adjectives with their nouns. 

 Brown Bear/Oso Pardo activities:

Autumn 2/Otoño 2 (2021)

Lesson 9: Mis mascotas y sus colores (Describing the colour of pets)  

Autumn 2/Otoño (30th November/ 30 de noviembre)

Focus: Describing the colour of our pets

Grammar:  Colour adjectives and sentence order

(Revision of the indefinite article: A/an     un, una)

What do you notice about the adjectives? Most of the time in English they go before the noun and in Spanish they go after the noun. There are some exceptions but we will look at this another time  

Example: I have a black cat         Tengo un gato negro

Why do you think the colour adjectives change spellings sometimes? Some of you gave some great answers to this question! You told me that adjectives must agree with the noun. ¡excelente! Great language detective work Year 4 

Example: I have a black tortoise       Tengo una tortuga negra

Lesson 8: Mis mascotas (My pets)  Autumn 2/Otoño (16th November/ 16 de noviembre)

Focus: We will start our pet topic. Do you have any pets? If you don't, what sort of pet would you like to have? Please look at the Spanish pet vocabulary pdf to help you practise the pets we will be learning in class. 

2 Linguafun Homework: To follow the link below to practise your pet vocabulary. Remember to let me know if you successfully pass the quiz and I will write out a certificate for you  If you would like extra homework, I am posting the Linguafun worksheets or you could make a Spanish poster about pets

Lesson 9 we will continue with our topic on Pets and learn how to say what colour they are. We will also be meeting a Spanish (Catalan) artist called Pablo Picasso.

Lesson 7: Los colores  Autumn 2/Otoño (2nd November/ 2 de noviembre)

Focus:We revised our colours and learnt about the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and some of his famous, colourful buildings in Barcelona. We also listened to a song from 'The Lorax' sung in Catalan and compared how it sounds to Spanish (We learn Castillian).

Homework: 1 To use the sheet I handed out with waves on it and to design your own house within the waves like a building that Gaudí would have designed. His version was called 'La Pedrera' (the quarry!)

2 Linguafun: To follow the link below to revise your colours. Remember to let me know if you successfully pass the quiz and I will write out a certificate for you 

Lesson 8 we will start our topic on 'the family and pets'.

Spanish vocabulary: Formal language to interview Antoni Gaudí

¿cómo se llama?                What is your name? (formal)

¿cómo está?                       How are you? (formal)      

estoy bien                 I'm fine                            

estoy mal                  I'm not fine

regular                      so so

Lesson 6: Hola amigos Autumn 1/Otoño (19th October/ 19 de octubre)

Focus: Gingerbread Spanish writing and writing 3 things 'about myself'from memory.

Lesson 5: Hola amigos Autumn 1/Otoño (12th October/ 12 de octubre)

Focus:Today we are revising our numbers to 20. Practising our Spanish writing and visiting the Roman aqueduct of Segovia. You will also learn how to introduce yourself to a Roman! 

update: Great job learning some Latin today year 4 You can practise the language below and don't forget to have some fun practising your numbers on Linguafun. I have posted the links below. ¡Gracias! or Gratias tibi (latin :))

Next week we will revise our Spanish colours

Spanish vocabulary

Me llamo                   my name is...                                 

estoy bien                 I'm fine                            

estoy mal                  I'm not fine

regular                      so so

tengo ocho años       I am eight years old

tengo nueve años      I am nine years old

Latin Vocabulary               

Salve                          hello

Quis es?                      Who are you?

.......... sum                     I am ....(lit: .... I am)

Vale!                             goodbye

Lesson 4: Hola amigos Autumn 1/Otoño (5th October/ 5 de octubre)

Focus:Today we are going to learn about Spain and practise our Spanish speaking 'amigos y amigas en España' Learning to make Spanish friends. We're also making sure we have a good Spanish accent. Sing the Spanish alphabet song below to help you.

Next week we will revise our numbers up to 20 and learn some Roman numerals

Lesson 3: La Oruga Hambrienta Autumn 1/Otoño (28th September/ 28 de septiembre)

Focus: Today we are finishing our 'Oruga Glotona' books, singing the new 'Mariposita' song and making sure you can have a simple conversation with 'una oruga' and 'una araña'. 

Next week we will be starting our Year 4 topics, starting with a closer look at 'Spain'

Lesson 2: La Oruga Hambrienta Autumn 1/Otoño (21st September/ 21 de septiembre)

Vocabulary

el huevo                  the egg                                    

la hoja                   the leaf                                

la luna                   the moon 

la oruga                   the caterpillar      

el capullo               the cocoon                 

la mariposa           butterfly     

el and la                 The (definite article)               

Homework/los deberes:

1 Linguafun: Practise Nos 1-4. This is revision from last year and will give you confidence before we start our new topics 

Year 4 Spanish 2020 - 2021

¡Hola! (Tuesday, 13th July/martes 13 de julio)

Today will be our last Spanish lesson in year 4! We are going to put together all the language we have learnt this year to make some Spanish 'amigos' at the 'playa' (beach). We'll also be making some pretend sandcastles 'castillo de arena' and learning a song about bebé tiburón.

I have uploaded a Year 4 Spanish speaking and writing pdf at the top of this page for you to keep practising over the Summer. This is the language we will be using in tomorrow's lesson. 

¡Hola! (Tuesday, 29th June/martes 29 de junio)

Today in Spanish we are going to learn how to say and order 6 'drink nouns'. We are also going to learn how to order food and drink in a Café (Quisiera I would like) and how to talk about our 'likes' Me gusta and 'dislikes' No me gusta.

¡Hola! (Tuesday, 15th June/martes 15 de junio)

Today in Spanish we are going to learn how to say and order 6 'food nouns' using Linguafun. You are also going to find out about 'Paella'.

Summer 1/Verano 1 (2021)

¡Hola! (Tuesday, 25th May/martes 25 de mayo)

Today in Spanish we are going to learn how to say our birthday in Spanish and we are going to design our own Spanish birthday card. We'll also learn how to sing 'Happy Birthday' in Spanish: 

Cumpleaños feliz
Cumpleaños feliz
Te deseamos …………………….
Cumpleaños feliz

¡Hola! (Tuesday, 11th May/martes 11 de mayo)

Today in Spanish we are going to learn how to say our months in Spanish 'los meses'.

Here are the links to help you learn your months in Spanish at home. Make sure you can say the month of your birthday! 1 Song: to learn months in Spanish  2 Linguafun link to help you learn your months and a certificate if you manage to complete this :)

¡Hola! (Tuesday, 27th April/martes 27 de abril)

We learnt about Spanish Birthday 'fiestas' today. Here are the links for: 1 the globos balloon song that we sung and danced to! 2 The Spanish birthday party 3 Linguafun link to help you learn your numbers to 30 and a certificate if you manage to do this :)

¡Felices Pascuas! (31st March) We've come to the end of our first few weeks of Spanish back at school. We've been learning our 'chocolate' song and you've all done really well. I am going to post the tune for you to practise it at home.

Just in case you can't remember the words, here they are 

Chocolate molinillo

Corre corre que te pillo

Correrás, correrás

pero no me pillarás

Correrás, correrás

pero no me pillarás

If you would like some extra 'Spanish Easter' fun over the holidays, go to my main MFL page. I have posted lots of Linguafun Easter activities for you to do. Also, you can practise our song ' La Bendición' which you now all sing so beautifully  Have a lovely holiday and see you all in the Summer term. ¡Hasta la vista! 

Year 4 Spanish World Book Day /Día del Libro 4 de marzo

It is World Book Day on Thursday and in Year 4 we will be listening to the Mexican story called 'Adelita'. Follow and listen to the link. Does the story remind you of another story.....? Let me know what you think  I am also posting a short classical guitar piece called 'Adelita' played on a Spanish guitar. Enjoy and see you all next week. ¡Hasta la vista!

Lessons 6 and 7 (23rd February- 2 March)

Topic focus: To revise our numbers to 20 from year 3 and To learn our numbers up to 30 

Learning objective: This week and next week, you are going to learn how to say numbers to 39 in Spanish using Linguafun and Lightbulb Languages.

Grammar: Writing our Spanish numbers correctly up to thirty.

1 Linguafun: Go to No 11/21-30 (if you need to practise your numbers to 20 go back to no 10)

2 Vocabulary: Click on the yellow Presentación. Practise the numbers up to 26.

3 Actividad: Play the yellow activity games: Actividad 1-11. Spelling: Activity 11 practise your new number spellings. Listen to the word and have a go at typing it up without looking up the word. See if you can get a 'fantástico' 7/7!

4 Repeat the above with the green presentación and actividades

5 Unit Quiz: Do the end of unit quiz for numbers 21-30

6 Worksheet: Do the 21-30 Number worksheet

Lessons 8 and 9 we will be learning our months (and revising days of the week from year 3)

Extra Spanish for weeks 6 and 7

If you are confident with your numbers up to 30. Watch the following clip that continues with the numbers up to 40 (cuarenta).

Lesson 5 (9th February) Just one lesson, as next week is half term. If you like, you could continue this activity during the half term holiday. 

Topic focus: Completing the topic on pets and farm animals /Mis animales 

Learning objective: This week you are going to learn a story about a brown bear written by Eric Carle. Listen, read and finally learn to tell the story in Spanish. Watch the above clip by Alina Celeste, who tells/sings it in an interesting way. It is called Oso Pardo. Do you recognize the story?

Grammar: reinforcing masculine and feminine nouns. adjective order in Spanish and comparing this with English. Agreement of adjectives with their nouns. 

 Brown Bear/Oso Pardo activities:

1 Listen to the different stories and choose your favourite one!

2 worksheet: click on the link to play I spy/veo veo. Count the animals from the story, colour them in and write the correct number next to each.

3 worksheet: Animal-wheel - you will need to print this out. Stick on card, if you can. Colour in the animals and use the wheel to help you re-tell the story in Spanish

4 Make a minibook: We will be doing this in class. Colour in the animals. Cut out the correct description for each animal, stick it next to the correct animal and colour it in. Cut out the pages and staple together. You will have your own story to read over and over again

5 Recite the story from memory! If you have done all of the above, you should have no problem remembering the story and re-telling it to a member of family, younger sibling. 

6 Sing your favourite version!

After halfterm,we will be learning our numbers up to 30 and months, getting ready for our Spanish Birthday topic!

Home Learners: lesson 5

You could watch the following online lesson from the National Oak Academy, which does something similar to my lesson. It is only 20 minutes long. I'll also include the link for the previous 4 lessons on 'pets' if you would like to reinforce your learning on this topic 

Lessons 3 and 4 (26th January - 2 February)

Topic focus: Farm animals /Mis animales 

Learning objective: This week and next week, you are going to learn how to say 6 farm animals in Spanish using Linguafun.

Grammar: to revise masculine and feminine nouns to practise making sentences agree

to learn how to say THE in Spanish (there are 4 ways!): el (the/ masc) la (the/ feminine) los (the/ plural, masc) las (the/plural, fem)

1 Linguafun: Go to No 6/mis animales

2 Vocabulary: Click on the yellow Presentación. Practise each farm animal noun three times. Click on the ABC to see how the nouns are spelt and practise each noun again, this time looking at the spellings.

3 Actividad: Practise your new vocabulary and play the yellow activity games: Actividad 1-11. Spelling: Activity 11 practise your new spellings. Listen to the word and have a go at typing it up without looking up the word. See if you can get a 'fantástico' 7/7!

4 Actividad 12 -13: These are fun games to practise your grammar for this lesson. Have a go. Email me if you are still confused! You should be ok, just remember what I have told you in class 

5 Sentence building: Listening activity

6 Comprehension: Reading activity

7 Unit Quiz : Do the end of unit quiz for Spanish pets and farm animals. See if you can get a certificate. Print it out or let me know and I will print it out for you.

8 Farm animal worksheets: Please do the two worksheets. Don't worry if you can't print. You can draw the pictures and label them. Take a picture (remember to write your name!) and email them to me. If you have a printer you could print out the 'pairs' game. Label, colour, cut out the pictures and play: snap, pairs, a game of your own invention! I have included the flashcards with the words on this week.

Lessons 5 and 6 we will be learning our numbers up to 30 and months, getting ready for our Spanish Birthday topic!

Lessons 1 and 2 (12th -19th January)

Topic focus: My pets /Mis mascotas (mis animales)

Learning objective: This week and next week, you are going to learn how to say 6 pets in Spanish using Linguafun.

1 Linguafun: Go to No 6/mis animales

2 Vocabulary: Click on the green Presentación. Practise each pet noun three times. Click on the ABC to see how the nouns are spelt and practise each pet noun again, this time looking at the spellings.

3 Conversación: Practise the conversation about pets. Click through each conversation. Remember to use your 'best Spanish accents' 

4 Actividad: Practise your new vocabulary and play the green activity games: Actividad 1-11

5 Pet worksheets: Please do the two worksheets. Don't worry if you can't print. You can draw the pictures and label them. Take a picture (remember to write your name!) and email them to me. If you have a printer you could print out the 'pairs' game. Label, colour, cut out the pictures and play: snap, pairs, a game of your own invention!

Please don't go any further. Next time I will be teaching you how to say:

'the' in Spanish /I have, it has/ its name is 

6 Listen to the Spanish song about pets: which pets are mentioned? How do you say 'woof' in Spanish etc!

¡Hola Y Feliz Navidad Year 4! 

(15th December/15 de diciembre) - This week (week 14),

I am sorry we will not be able to finish our Christmas lesson and give out my Christmas certificate this week. Don't worry, I will not forget! First lesson back, I will hand it out

You can still do the Christmas Spanish activities on the main MFL page. Keep practising your Spanish Carols (also on the main page) and this week I have posted a Spanish Christmas film, Señor Frosty. Enjoy and have a lovely Christmas holiday year 4. 

See you in 2021, ¡Hasta la vista!

¡Hola!  (8th December/8 de diciembre) - This week (week 13),

We will have our Year 4 Christmas lesson on Thursday. I may have to split it between this week and next week. More Spanish Christmas activities. Hurrah!

1 Linguafun advent calendar: I hope you are having a look at this. Lots of interesting information about Christmas around the world.

2 Thursday's lesson: We are going to practice our two carols - Feliz Navidad and Cascabels. You can find both on my main page.

3 Story: Listen to a story in Spanish about the first Nativity/La primera navidad.

We will make a Spanish mini book about the first nativity. Can you remember how to make them? 

4 Christmas film: We will watch a Christmas film in Spanish (about Olaf) and finally I will be handing out my Spanish certificate.... I wonder who it will be? 

¡Hola!  (1st December/1 de diciembre) - This week (week 12),

Spanish will be on-line until the Christmas holidays so you can complete your ukulele classes with Mrs Bowsher. I will still be setting work for Spanish, please complete it! Continuing with our topic on 'La familia' (the family). You are going to learn how to say the names of family Se llama (he,she is called) and how old they are tiene (he she is Lit: he she has).

Please watch the two clips from Lightbulb Languages (both are video link, no other clips can be viewed). Then do the worksheet. Follow the arrows and write at least 5 sentences with the name of each family member and  how old they are. Challenge: to write 10 sentences in Spanish. Say each sentence aloud as you write it. Please hand in next week or email it to me: write your name in the subject box (My email is on the MFL page)

Christmas advent activities On the main MFL page I have posted a Christmas tree advent activity for you to do. Sing the Spanish carols that we learnt last year: Feliz Navidad and Cascabels, Try  Blanca Navidad (I'm dreaming of a white Christmas), which I would have taught you this year - why not have a go anyway) ¡ Gracias !

 Next week I will be posting Spanish Christmas activities and cards for you to do.

¡Hola!  (24th November/24 de noviembre) - This week (week 11),

Continuing with our topic on 'La familia' (the family). We will learn how to say 4 new members of the family: tío (uncle) tía (aunt) primo (boy cousin) prima (girl cousin) We will also have a closer look at the Spanish Royal Family tree and we will listen to a Spanish song about our family: Somos una piña (Our family is a tribe) I wonder why they use a 'pineapple' to describe families?! Let me know what you think.....

Home Learning and Home Work (deberes): If you didn't do this last week, go to Linguafun and finish unit 5 'Mi Familia' Today in class, I will be asking pupils to draw and label a picture of their family. Please look at the following pdf for vocabulary, ideas and title. I would like you to hand this in next week. ¡ Gracias !

 Next week we will make our Year 4 Spanish mini-library 

¡Hola!  (17th November/17 de noviembre) - This week (week 10),

We are starting our new topic on 'La familia' (the family). Today we will learn how to say 6 members of the family and how to say their names. We will also have a look at the Spanish Royal Family. Do you know the name of the Spanish King? Do you know who will rule after him? Do some research and see if you can find out....

Home Learning and Home Work (deberes): Go to Linguafun and have a go at unit 5 'Mi Familia' Do the Linguafun worksheet on 'mi familia' and have a go at the unit quiz. If you pass then print out the certificate and let me know Home Learners, watch the following clip to learn family vocabulary and listen to the song.

 Next week we will be learning how to say how old brothers and sisters are in  'Mi familia'.

¡Hola!  (10th November/10 de noviembre) - This week (week 9),

We are listening to the traditional Spanish story about Don Quixote de la Mancha (Y Sancho Panza)  We will be practising our Spanish by pretending to be a Don or a Doña.

Follow the BBC link to listen to the story again and have another go at the quiz. Also listen to a song about the infamous 'Don Quixote de la Mancha'  I wonder, do you know what the expression 'tilting at windmills' means? See if you can find out 

 Next week we will be starting a new Spanish topic on 'Mi familia'.

¡Hola!  (3rd November/3 de noviembre) - This week (week 8),

We are making Spanish bookmarks for our reading books! Using the language we revised last halfterm. See the link below if you are not in my lesson today and make one at home. Or, make a bookmark for home anyway. The more the merrier!

https://www.lightbulblanguages.co.uk/resources/PrimarySpanish/bookmarks.pdf

We will also be catching up with the adventures of our big, green, friend Muzzy - el grande Muzzy (nuestro amigo verde)

Hola  (20th October) - This week (week 7), I will be sending home the Linguafun log in details for your child to have fun learning and consolidating their Spanish at home. I would like them to practice the units 1-3 and unit 10 which cover the topics we have been revising this Autumn1: Saying your name, how you are feeling, numbers to 20 and colours  Pupils can practice the language and play the activities. They can also watch the revision videos and sing the songs we have been learning (see below).

Year 4 have worked hard in Spanish this half term, Well done!

Have a lovely and restful half term holiday. 

¡Hola! Year 4 (week/semana 6 -15 de octubre)

This week we are revising our Spanish colours, listening to the story of Elmer the elephant in Spanish: Elmer el elefante de colores and we are designing and describing our own 'Elefante'. Have fun choosing a name!