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

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Learn And Play

Students will learn:

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• Summer vacation vocabulary

• How/when to capitalize words in Portuguese

• Syllables

• How to use the verb ‘to be’

• Portugal and its geography

• Noun Agreement

• Etymology of words

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Key Learnings

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• Noun Agreement

• Adjective Agreement

• Interrogative pronouns

• Understand the differences in capitalization

• Sentence structure

• Portuguese Culture

Grade 5

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Learn And Play

Students will learn:

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• Present Tense of Regular Verbs

• Reading and Comprehension

• Gender and Number agreement for Nouns and Adjectives

• Introduction of some of the most commonly used irregular verbs

• Past Tense of Regular verbs

• Future Tense of Regular verbs

• Students will work on lots of different projects

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Key Learnings

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• Noun Agreement

• Adjective Agreement

• Rules for Number and Gender

• Verbs of the Indicative mood

• Sentence structure

• Portuguese Culture