Writing

To conclude our study on Spanish speaking countries, each student had to plan and write a response to all they had learnt.  Our focus was to organise our ideas into paragraphs.  Here are some more of the best pieces.  Can you work out what the main idea from each paragraph is?

Over Term 2, my class and I have been learning about Spanish speaking countries.  We have designed posters, completed reading tasks on different countries and found out what the countries sports are.

In Room 3, my class and I designed a poster each, of a country of our choice.  I choose to do mine on Argentina.  Argentina is an interesting country to research.  Did you know that Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires, has the largest avenue in the world?  It is so big, it has 21 lanes and you have to go underground to cross it.  Another tourist attraction is Iquazu Falls.  It is 80 metres high and is a fabulous place for a family photo.  It is also the home of the bot fly so make sure you have insect repellant!

About one week after we had completed our posters we got assigned some tasks to complete.  The task I chose was one where you had to find out how they celebrate special occasions.  I did mine on Puerto Rico.  The Puerto Ricans enjoy celebrations; in fact, nearly every day of the year is part of a special occasion.  The most important celebration in the Puerto Rican year is Christmas.  The Puerto Ricans love Christmas so much that they don’t want it to end.  Christmas in Puerto Rico goes from December 25^th to January 15^th.

Nearly every Spanish country I researched lately has had a main sport.  Most of them are soccer (that’s football to them).  The soccer we play here is a lot different than over there.  The crowd shout and scream, they have a variety of players to pick from and they play the game 90% mental and 10% physical.  Most of the Spanish speaking countries soccer teams have won FIFA World Cups.  If they haven’t, they have a least made the quarter finals.

I have enjoyed learning about the Spanish speaking countries and one day I hope to visit one.

Kody

Over the past weeks this term we have been studying Spanish speaking countries.  At first we were just learning about countries that just speak Spanish but then we were introduced to the language they speak today.

To be honest, I thought at first that it would be hard, but then when we were into it all, it didn’t have to take much skill.  Some of the words they use are the same as ours but they will only have one or two different letters.

Also for Theme we have been learning about famous people that were Spanish.  One of the most famous explorers of all time happened to be Spanish.  His name was Christopher Columbus and he was the first to discover South America.  He also persuaded the King and Queen of Spain five times but he was crueler than you think, he massacred an entire race of people he met.

We also did research for countries that spoke Spanish.  One of the countries I did was Mexico which has many different interesting facts.  One of them is that many Mexicans moved to America to work because 1 US dollar is equivalent to 11 pesos.  Also Mexico has many spicy mouth watery food that they eat every day.

Personally I reckon that it has been fun learning Spanish.  This has been one of the fun subjects for theme but I can’t wait to find out what our next subject is.  Hasta Luego.

Shea

This year my class has researched Spanish speaking countries.  We have learnt about Spanish food, celebrations, phrases, numbers and Spanish sports.  Spanish have different ways of living their lives than we do here in NZ.

The Spanish have a lot of tradition and celebration, a lot more than we do.  One celebration they have is called “La Tomatina”.  At this sticky celebration 30 000 Spanish flock to the Spanish town of Bunol to throw 240 000 pounds of tomatoes at each other.  One tradition the villagers of a country side town have is called “Castilla La Mancha”.  When the young boys of the village dress up as devils and dance around.  This is celebrated in February.

One Spanish country I researched is called Spain.  Spain has a variety of animals but only one is native to Spain and it is called the Liberian Lynx.  The Spanish play many sports like golf, soccer, football, water polo, tennis and cycling.  Rafael Nadal is considered the best tennis player of all time and he comes from Spain.

My class and I have learnt to speak Spanish as well as learning about Spanish countries.  We have learnt to count to 20.  We also learnt to ask “What’s your name?” in Spanish – “Coma te llamas”.  We can also say Hello and Goodbye – “Buenos dias” is good morning and goodbye is “Hasta luego”.

Sam