European Week - September 2007 - Read what we have been up to!
In Year 6
We have been learning about Italy. We have studied famous artists, landmarks and food. We have produced artwork based on these themes, including our own interpretations of the Mona Lisa and 3d pasta art! We have learnt basic Italian vocabulary, including numbers to 10.
Children worked in pairs to independently research an area of Italian life and presented this to other members of class and school. Finally, we tasted some Italian cuisine, including mozzarella, focaccia, olives and Italian cold meats. We have all thoroughly enjoyed the week and learnt a huge amount. Arrivederci!
 
Year 5
We are learning about Holland. We have found out facts, learnt how to say words and phrases to greet people, days of the week, months of the year, animals, colours and the weather. We have also found out what Dutch people eat and wear and designed a daily menu and clog.
Also we investigated Dutch artists and recreated some famous Van Gough and Rembrandt paintings.
We also we learnt the song ’Vader Jacob’.
Year 4
As you may be well aware of, this week the children at Beacon Rise have been taking part in European week. As part of this event, all year groups have been learning more about a specific country in Europe.
Both year 4 classes this week have been learning more about the eastern European country of Poland. We have learnt our Polish greetings and numbers up to 10 as well as other day to day sayings which we collaborated into a translation book. We discovered where Poland is in Europe as well as its main cities and geographical landmarks. We have also researched Poland through the internet and books and discovered many fascinating facts. In addition, we have had the opportunity to develop our artistic skills through recreating a number of Polish pictures using a variety of methods.
Year 3
We have been learning about Greece this week. We had a mini Greek Olympics where we dressed up as ancient Greeks. The children took part in 4 events. The hurdles, which as you can see was very close between Amir and Ellis in 3M! We also had a long distance running event, javelin and shot put. As well as this we also acted out the story of Theseus and the Minotaur which is a famous ancient Greek legend. We shared our performance with other children in the school throughout the week. We all had lots of fun and it was thoroughly worthwhile!
Year 2
We have been finding out about Spain during European Week. Some of us have enjoyed Spanish holidays and have learned a few words of Spanish already from children’s television. Flamenco music and dancing, making spanish fans, creating cubist portraits in the style of Picasso and learning simple songs in Spanish are just some of the activities Y2 children have enjoyed this week. Cooking and tasting typical Spanish food – gazpacho, Spanish omelette and tapas – were popular activities too. A great week was had by all while learning about the language, food and culture of Spain.
Year One
We have been very busy learning all about Germany. We really enjoyed reading ‘Hansel and Gretel’, this is very famous German fairy tale. Our paintings of Hansel and Gretel look wonderful on our display!
We have also been busy tasting lots of German foods, we loved the German sausages, cheese and chocolate………yummy!
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