Grade 4/5

Marc Leal
"It is mainly about connecting/engaging the students with our culture."
Teaching Values
Teaching is a great pleasure. Language is the vehicle of culture. It is important to promote the learning of language because it brings many benefits to a student's future.
They can acquire new understandings, meet other people, relate to and collaborate with others in the building of a better future.
Our Program of Study consists of teaching Portuguese as a Second Language and as a Heritage Language. We use differentiated teaching/learning in our classrooms. Students develop their listening, writing, and speaking skills.
Grade 4
Learn And Play
Students will learn:
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Summer vacation vocabulary
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How/when to capitalize words in Portuguese
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Syllables
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How to use the verb ‘to be’
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Portugal and its geography
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Noun Agreement
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Etymology of words
Key Learnings
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Noun Agreement
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Adjective Agreement
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Interrogative pronouns
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Understand the differences in capitalization
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Sentence structure
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Portuguese Culture
Grade 5
Learn And Play
Students will learn:
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Present Tense of Regular Verbs
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Reading and Comprehension
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Gender and Number agreement for Nouns and Adjectives
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Introduction of some of the most commonly used irregular verbs
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Past Tense of Regular verbs
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Future Tense of Regular verbs
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Students will work on lots of different projects
Key Learnings
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Noun Agreement
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Adjective Agreement
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Rules for Number and Gender
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Verbs of the Indicative mood
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Sentence structure
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Portuguese Culture