Miércoles 30 de marzo

¡Hola!

Last Wednesday and today we've been working with hobbies and sports. Last week was sunny and we were playing a Spanish playground game outside, "El pañuelo". It's a simple game in which there are two teams and each child has a different number, there's a person in the middle holding a cloth and shouting numbers. The children need to run at catch it before anyone else.
Today they drew a picture of themselves playing a sport or doing an action and they wrote about it.
Me gusta jugar al fútbol pero no me gusta cantar. (I like playing football but I don't like singing.)
No me gusta nadar ni tampoco correr. (I don't like swimming or running either.)
I've been working with some of them recording some information about what they like/don't like to do in their free time. You'll be able to listen to them soon.
They love this way of learning.

In the Spanish Club we are learning about fruits and healthy diet. We played different games and they also learned a poem.

Enjoy your holidays!

Sara Alonso (Spanish Language Assistant)

Miércoles 16 de marzo de 2011

¡Hola a todos!

Last Wednesday in year 3 we continued with the new topic "Sports and hobbies". We were playing Simón dice, the Spanish version of Simon's says, they loved it!

In the Spanish Club we had a culture lesson, we were playing a game to a well-known Spanish song I used to sing when I was a child, it's called "El corro de la patata". It involves different vocabulary related with food in the catchy rhythm and you also need to do different actions while you're singing.

Here you have a link to listen it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTH1TKTXNBY&feature=related

Sara Alonso (Spanish Language Assistant)

Miércoles 9 de marzo de 2011

¡Hola! ¿Qué tal?

This week in upper KS2 we've been working with different transports (en coche, en tren, en avión, en barco, en autocar ...). They're creating material for KS1 children. Some of them are working in books, some of them are working in comics and some of them are working in songs. They are doing a fantastic job! We will show it to you in a few weeks.

In year 3 we've been doing some mime games about the new topic, sports and hobbies, and writing some simple sentences about what they do in their free time (e.g. El lunes juego al baloncesto.)

The Spanish Club has been really funny, we've been working with some spanish tongue twisters. It was quite funny for them. Here you have two of them, try to read them!

"Mi mamá me mima y yo mimo a mi mamá." (My mum spoils me and I spoil my mum.)
"El rey se ríe de la reina." (The king laughs at the queen.)

By the way, have you seen the crossword?!

Sara Alonso (Spanish Language Assistant)

Spring 2

This half term in LKS2 the children will be finding out the Spanish words for different sports and hobbies through songs and games. In upper KS2 the children will be learning the names for different types of transport and they will be creating a book or a comic about this suitable for a KS1 audience .
In KS1 the children are learning colours,numbers, greetings and how to say how old they are through songs,role play and games.