4th Grade

Year 25-26

Passwords

  • La contraseña
  • Dime la contraseña
  • No me acuerdo
  • El plátano
  • ¿Qué dices?
  • La contraseña es la manzana
  • …o no puedes entrar
  • Dime la contraseña o no puedes entrar
  • ¿En serio?
  • Abre la puerta
  • Nunca
  • Con permiso
  • Por supuesto
  • No comprendo
  • ¿Me ayudas?
  • Feliz Navidad

FOURTH GRADE- Students focus heavily on preparing for the annual (and much anticipated) Spanish Play, which is based on the adventures of Pato, my stuffed animal duck. Fourth graders perform this show (new plot every year) entirely in the target language for the Lower School community. It is a must-see and takes place in late spring. More details will be sent out at a later date.

Year 2024-25

Songs

Year 2023-24

Skills

Songs

Year 2022-23

Culture Projects

  • For a playlist of Scholastic read-alouds in Spanish, click HERE;
  • For fairy tales in Spanish, click HERE.

Songs

Cartoons

Year 2021-22

Culture Projects

Songs- Fútbol

Songs

Cartoons

Year 2020-21

Culture Projects

Songs

2019-20

2018-19

2017-18

2016-17

2015-16

2014-15

Curriculum- Fourth Grade

Students in fourth grade experience 90-100% immersion in the target language. The first semester is spent preparing for a theatrical performance presented entirely in Spanish for the community. Fourth graders work tirelessly to memorize lines and later perfect their pronunciation, intonation, and expression in the target language, thereby making the presentation comprehensible to and enjoyable for non-Spanish-speaking and Spanish-speaking audience members alike.

Students spend the second semester preparing for Middle School Spanish, touching on more advanced grammatical concepts and focusing their attention on the written word. If time permits, they may read a short TPRS novel in Spanish. The year culminates with a Spanish soccer unit, where fourth graders travel outside to play fútbol. Common expressions and instinctive linguistic responses are pre-taught, so that the games are experienced completely in the target language. Students rotate acting as “sports announcers” on the side, attempting to narrate the action as it happens.

Sprinkled throughout the year are various Culture Projects; these lessons focus on amazing and beautiful aspects of the Spanish-speaking world (landforms, monuments, traditions, etc.), and knit together the Lower School Spanish experience. Last but not least, fourth graders master the names and locations of all of the 21 Spanish-speaking countries on a gigantic floor map. They have the opportunity to participate in an All-School Map Competition at the end of the year and obviously want to walk away with the gold.