iHola chicos y chicas! 

 !Bienvenidos a español! I hope you will find useful all the following blocks of information. 

Below you will find:

GAMES created in various free apps that can help you revise and gain confidence with some of the topics covered in the lessons.

 TAPAS, which are short 5-8 min videos that will be shown during the week at school to increase your opportunities to practise and reinforce your language skills.

YEAR 3 - TERM 1 - We are busy learning the following:  

VOCABULARY:

• Greetings: hello - goodbye - good morning - good afternoon - good evening.
• Colours (x11)
• Numbers (0-10)
• Some animals (from the story 'Brown Bear')

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Q&A):

• What is your name?
• How are you?
• How old are you?

GRAMMAR & PHONICS:

• Some words are feminine and some are masculine
• In Spanish we use a question mark upside down  (¿) at the beginning of a question.
• We also use an exclamation mark upside down (¡) at the beginning of an exclamation
• PHONICS: We heve looked at the pronunciation of the letters: h - ll -  j - ñ - z

INTERCULTURAL CONTENT:

• The location of Spain in a map of the world
• Some common Spanish first names (and how a full name looks like)
• The tradition of the Three Wise Men or Three Kings, bringing Christmas presents on the 6th January

LANGUAGE LAERNING STRATEGIES:

• There are some techniques we should use to help with learning new words and structures:  singing a song, reading a story, rhymes or poems
• Also, adding an action to a sound or word
• Finally, playing games is a good way to learn the new material

YEAR 3 - TERM 2 - We are busy learning the following:  

VOCABULARY:

• The name of the letters of the alphabet in Spanish.
• The name of 10 farm animals: cow, pig, chicken, horse, etc.
• The numbers to 15.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Q&A):

• What animal is it?
• How many animals do you have?

GRAMMAR & PHONICS:

• PHONICS: the main 15 differentiated sounds of Spanish and their graphemes.
• The rules for making singular nouns into plural nouns.

INTERCULTURAL CONTENT:

• We have learnt a song about little chicks in Spanish.

LANGUAGE LAERNING STRATEGIES:

• Using the images and actions assigned to a particular grapheme or group of graphemes we can accurately pronounce new words in Spanish.
• Singing songs and reading stories in a foreing languages help us to get more confident with the language and to explore its sounds in a fun way,