This week we have had a focus on languages in school and in P6 we learnt Spanish. We listened to native speakers and practised saying some Spanish words. We noticed that lots of letter sounds were the same in Spanish but there were a few that we had to watch out for like z, c, rr and ll.
Then we learnt how to describe people in Spanish. When we were doing this, we had to be careful to make sure we changed the ending of our adjectives to masculine ‘o’ or feminine ‘a’ depending on who we were describing. This made a link to what we have learnt about masculine and feminine words in French.
After that, we used what we had learnt to describe famous Spanish speakers, including Pablo Picasso, Queen Letizia of Spain, Fernando Torres, Shakira and Rafael Nadal. We talked about which countries other than Spain have Spanish as their national language, for example Columbia, where Shakira is from. P6 produced some excellent pieces of writing to describe these people in Spanish!
Finally, Katie, Mya, Miai and Oskar teamed up with Boe, Lauren and Oliwia from P5 to share what they had learnt. P5 had been learning the words for family members in Italian so the P6s taught them how to describe their family members in Spanish. You can see them working together in the photographs below.
Adios,
Mrs Cullum and P6
