A unit created to learn the names of the main animals featured in the corresponding musical theme, while reinforcing the number system from 1 to 10. With this unit, children will approach the mechanism of nouns’ plural formation and will learn how to use the verb “there is” (hay), forming with it basic sentences. As an added bonus, with this unit children will learn how to change the meaning of a sentence by substituting one or more of its elements.

DESCRIPTION:

EMOTIONS. “How are you?” Emotions, central to children’s day-to-day lives, are the protagonists of this unit. The goal here is to teach children how to give voice to their feelings while guiding them to learn how recognise distinct moods and how to make sense of them. Additionally, the unit focuses on the understanding of simple words at both the oral and written level.

GREETINGS. Within a learning context where day-to-day life and educational standards are the starting point, this unit will teach children how to greet each other, introduce themselves, and ask basic questions from a simple premise: “Hello, what’s your name?”, while at the same time emphasising and reinforcing the learning of Spanish phonetic key elements such as the pronunciation of vocalic sounds and of consonants like H and LL.

INSTRUMENTS. This topic is centred on musical instruments, which are used as a common thread to teach children how to identify them at a sensory level, while at the same time helping them to become familiar with topics like masculine and feminine nouns and singular articles. The written comprehension of simple written words and sentences is also addressed here.