Today at Swan Lane we celebrated European Languages Day. Each year group chose a European country as their focus for the day. Year 3 (perhaps somewhat predictably!) chose Portugal.
We began by learning some basic greetings - we can now all say hello and goodbye to someone and introduce ourselves in Portuguese. We also learnt how to sing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' in Portuguese, as well as learning the names of the colours and different fruits. Mrs Vaqueiro also brought in some Portuguese language children's books from home for everyone to look through.
At parties, Portuguese people will often serve a 'chocolate salami' cake (which isn't as disgusting as it sounds!). We had a go at making one using melted chocolate, biscuits and dried fruit. The cake needs a few hours to set in the fridge, so we were able to enjoy a slice after afternoon break.
In the afternoon, we had a look at all the popular tourist destinations in Portugal and used Google Earth to find out where Mrs Vaqueiro's husband and his family are from in Northern Portugal, before designing our own tourist information posters.
It was great to have the opportunity to do something a little bit different from usual on a Monday - hopefully the children have learnt something new and had some fun along the way!
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