Spanish

Year 4 y el mundo de los juguetes

Hola a todos! What is your secret method of staying joyful? The students from our Year 4 Spanish group have found the answer: A toy a day keeps the sadness away!

This term we focused on a much-loved topic - Toys/Los Juguetes - and went on a journey through the vast universe of toys: the children learnt a lot of new vocabulary, how to express their preferences, as well as basic lines they can use when going shopping at a toy store. Even though we cannot physically go shopping, we can still be creative and organize an online shopping spree…so I welcome you to Los Juguetes - the online fair that took place during one of our Spanish lessons!

As most of you know, as a school we are on a journey to embrace the HPL Pillars, so we took this opportunity to use Originality, Creativity, and Creative Playfulness in order to complete the task of making your online store! The students were very excited to prepare their ‘’stalls’’, choosing which items to sell: toys, paintings, old books, and the most popular of all: a real dog! No worries, the dog still got to stay with its real family and no real buying happened; however, the next time they go to Spain, we wish good luck to the parents as their children will be able to handle themselves in a toy store and go shopping alone. I conclude by saying that I loved their contagious joy, the time they took to get things ready, and the fact that no matter what happens, nothing can beat a child’s way of seeing the good in everything! I surely do believe we have so much to learn from them: the world can indeed be a better place if we decide to believe that!

Until next time, when we will tell more about our adventures during the Spanish lessons, we would like to wish you Feliz Navidad y Prospero Año!

Ms Alexandra Ivascu