Year 6 Country Inquiry

This term the year 6s have been researching about Spanish Speaking countries. Their inquiry presentations were of a very high quality and we learned much about many countries. Students could choose what they wanted to research about, however, many taught us about the flag, location, population, climate, culture, traditions, history, famous landmarks and cities, travel tips, animals, plant life, sports, national dress, famous and infamous people among other things.

Some even looked into the forms of greeting each other and discovered that women in one country greet each other by shaking forearms instead of shaking hands. We even sampled scrumptious food and refreshing drinks and some dressed up for the part, looking like natives of the country. We may not be able to travel at present, however, the year 6 presentations kept us connected to other countries and through them we were able to experience the culture and are now more knowledgeable for when we may travel overseas again.

Below is a list of the twenty countries which have Spanish as their first language and the highlighted ones were those chosen by the students to do their inquiry.

Argentina                                                        Guatemala

Bolivia                                                            Honduras

Chile                                                              Mexico

Colombia                                                        Nicaragua

Costa Rica                                                      Panama

Cuba                                                              Paraguay

Dominican Republic                                          Peru

Ecuador                                                           Spain

El Salvador                                                      Uruguay

Equatorial Guinea                                             Venezuela

Other Countires where Spanish is commonly spoken are;

Andorra                                                                   The United States of America

Belize                                                                       Gibralta

Congratulations on a job very well done year 6. You should be proud of yourselves. Hopefully you will get to visit some of these countries one day and use the Spanish you have learned at Yeronga State School and beyond.

Señora Hegarty

Year 4 to 6 Spanish Teacher