Spanish Term 4

Prep

This term in Spanish, Preps will be learning about fruit and practising counting through the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar in our unit: “La Pequeña Oruga” (the little caterpillar). Students will engage in stop-motion animations to watch the story and listen to the new vocabulary in Spanish. 

Students will practise teacher-modelled dialogue to explain parts of the story, changing the number and fruit each week. Students will complete activities following instructions in Spanish and continue to practise following classroom directions in Spanish too. 

Through the unit “La Pequeña Oruga”, students will be exposed to an extra letter of the alphabet: ñ (enye), which makes the ny sound in “Pequeña” and common words including piñata and jalapeños.

Grados 1 y 2

This term in Spanish, students in grades 1 and 2 will begin the unit: “El Jardín” (The Garden). 

Students will use the familiar topic to learn new vocabulary in Spanish related to life outdoors, making connections to the world around them and practising sentence structures in Spanish. 

Students will build upon the learning from “Bajo el Mar” using the four different ways to use “the” in Spanish: el (masculine singular), la (feminine singular), los (masculine plural), las (feminine plural).

Grados 3 y 4

This term in Spanish, students in grades 3 and 4 will be learning new vocabulary related to school in our unit: “La Escuela”. 

Students will learn to name school items and learn language necessary for the Spanish Casa. Students will build upon the knowledge acquired in Term 3 in our unit: “La Hora”, to create visual timetables for la escuela.

Students will practise asking for items in Spanish and also learn how to ask for translations with the question: “¿Cómo se dice…?” 

Grados 5 y 6 

This term in Spanish, students in grades 5 and 6 will be revisiting vocabulary from Term 1 to practise conversations related to introducing and describing themselves in our unit: “Todo Sobre Mi” (All About Me).

Students will use teacher-modelled dialogue to talk about themselves, including likes and dislikes, and will learn how to ask questions to others. Students will use the dialogue to have short conversations in Spanish and create a project about themselves using information and full sentences. 

Students will practise asking for translations with the question: “¿Cómo se dice…?”