Christmas in New Zealand

We celebrate Christmas in New Zealand. There are a variety of religions ( not just catholic- Presbyterian, Anglican, Baptists, Mormons Bretherens etc) but most people celebrate Christmas. We have similar traditions but these are some of the things that my family did when I was growing up and still do today. We share presents on Christmas morning. We usually have Christmas dinner at around midday and eat things like turkey, chicken, ham and lamb with roast potatoes, pumpkin kumara and other vegetables like peas, carrots and beans, also salad sometimes. Pudding is usually fruit salad, steam pudding, cream and ice cream. It is a real feast and we usually eat too much. Adults drink wine and children drink sparkling grape juice or fizzy drink. Shops are closed on Christmas day (this is one of the only days everything is closed these days) The day after Christmas day is called "Boxing Day." All the shops have big sales on this day.
Some people go to church at Christmas, but not everyone.
Christmas is a time for giving and to share with your family. Families often come together at this time of year. Because it is summer lots of people got to the beach, lakes and parks etc. There are always games of cricket and touch rugby and barbecues.
I hope you have had a great start to your new Year and we'll be back at the end of January.
Ciao for now.
Mr Hornby

Holiday Message

Here is a small video we made last week. It was 30c here on Saturday.

Holidays

Ciao everyone
The last few weeks have gone very quickly, it was very busy , especially for the teachers, with reports and end of year assemblies and presentations etc. Our school year has finished and we now have holidays until the 31st of January. At the beginning of the year we will have a whole new class of children. I recorded the children sending a holiday message and will share it with you in the next couple of days. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Ciao for now
Mr H

Laura, I will send a message to you at epals regarding what you want to do next year,
Have a fantastic Christmas, Steve

3F

Hi Kauri's class!
We're fine.
The sun is shining but it's very cold. Remember it's winter now.
In a week we're going on Christmas Holiday and we're very very happy for this.
We're staying on holiday for two weeks but we're going to have a lot of homework to do.
In Italy on 8th December we're making decorations, the Christmas Tree and the Crib.
Cities are lighted and decorated and people seem very happy but it's not snowing now and it's good when it's snowing at Christmas.
On Christmas day we have lunch with our family and relatives and we eat a lot of good food like Lasagne (here is a recipe) , Roast Beef , Vegetables and the tipical italian cake for Christmas Pandoro and Panettone.
We must go now. Lessons are finishing. Bye for now.
3F.

Hi everyone!how's it going?Not much is happening here in masterton.Appart from our end of year trip is coming up.We are going to upper hutt for a swim at the pools and a fish and chip lunch.Tomorrow is also big for the tararua team because the year 6's are graduating,and we have a speech and a slideshow.After that we get given our 6 sample books and a dictionary.thats pretty much it for now.See ya,Annaliese

Cristian

Hi Kauris class!
I'm Cristian and I'm 14. In Turin there are a lot of Mc Donalds' , Burger Kings and restaurants .If you want to eat Italian food you can go to Eataly .
Near my school there's a Mc Donalds' but it isn't very good. I never eat there, I prefer eating at restaurants. I like Burger Kings because they're faster and cleaner. Last year I went to eat pizza with my class. Do you eat pizza in your country? Do you like it?
Do you go out to eat with your class.
Bye Cristian.

Hi
Last Friday some year sixes went to the Masterton Intermediate for an orientation day. This gave them a chance to meet their teacher for next year and try some of the different activities offered.
On Thursday year fives headed of to camp at Mount Holdsworth for a night.
We had to walk over a swing bridge and we went through the river. It was a really long walk and a really big drop if we fell off the track.
We stayed in tents and went for a night walk. One of the people had a laser and was shining it.
In the morning we got woken up by a rooster at 4:00am!! We don't know what a rooster was doing there.
We took lots of photos and here are a few of them.

We have had a very warm November and the last 2 days have been 29 and 30 c, today was cooler at 21 c. We saw on the news that it has already been very cold in parts of Europe.
Ciao for now
Larissa

3F

Hi,
we are very sorry for what happened to the miners, we heard the news on TV and we read it on newspapers. We thought about you.
Thank you for the sites, we couldn't see them all this morning because we didn't have enough time. We only have three English lessons a week and a lot of things to do. we're studying for exams we'll have in June. It's a difficult year for us. We'll see them soon, it's fantastic to learn something about your country.
Yesterday it snowed a bit in Turin; today the sun is shining, but it's freezing.
We're looking forward Christmas holiday.
Bye
3F

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Hi! In Greymouth (in the South Island of New Zealand ) 31 miners were mining for coal,and 2 explosions came while they were down there.Two managed to escape,but the rest didn't survive.The first explosion trapped them,and the second one they couldn't survive. It was heating up in there while they were trapped. It is a national tragedy. In writing on Thursday we wrote letters to the families that were related to the miners, but we haven't sent them yet.


Annaliese

Camp

Ciao Everyone
Tomorrow (Friday) the year 6 children will visit the school they will go to next year, Masterton Intermediate. The year 5 children will go to Mount Holdsworth for an overnight camp. We'll share some photos with you next week.

Ciao for now
Mr Hornby

3F

Hi guys!How are you? Would you like to see the work we did last year about the food pyramid with our English teacher using the smart board? We hope you'll like it. What do you think about it?

Bye 3F

Callum

Hi,
Today the temperature in Masterton is 27 degrees (highest)
you can check out the daily forecast for Masterton here.

Most of you live in Torino so you probably have no idea what it's like living in a rural town such as Masterton.
Some of the people in our class live directly in the country and wake up to the sound of native birds such as Tui and Fantail every morning.
I live in town but when we go into the country it is truly majestic.

In the country around Masterton are Mount Holdsworth and Mount Bruce National Parks. Mount Bruce is more commercial, with lots of conservation projects, and Mount Holdsworth is a rough Mountain with a campsite that is maintained by DOC. ter

In town we have a few shops including the Warehouse, a kiwi icon department store. Other big retailers in Masterton are Briscoes, Toyworld, and Farmers.
We are continuously getting new stores so next post could be huge if I list them all.

ANother big enterprise in New Zealand is McDonalds Family Resteraunts, which we have one of in Masterton. Other big takeaway stores are KFC, Subway, and Pizza Hut.

Do you have native animals in Italy?
Do you have McDonalds?
If so what do they serve?

Callum

Camden.

Hi there. My name is Camden I like to play a lot of sport like Motocross rugby soccer softball.I live in Masterton New Zealand it is a pretty quiet town we have the pools , mini golf,bolling and movies.I am 3rd in nz for motocross for my age group witch is 11 to 12.

Thomas

HI my name is Thomas I'm am 10 on Tuesday the 23rd of November. Some of my hobbies are tennis,rugby,soccer,PS2 and psp.Some of my games on my psp is rugby league challenge,toy story 3 and little big planet.most weekends in the summer me my dad and my brothers go to the stock cars normally there are heaps of crashes it is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mitchell

Hi my name is Mitchell Im ten.I live in a house with my mum,dad and my sister siena.I have two pets they are cat-crash dog-murthy.i play rugby for the masterton rams I play first five.Some of my hobbies are rugby,computers,reading,tennis,ps2,psp and drawing.My teacher is Mr.Hornby.I have a pool at my house we go in it at the moment because its really warm.This weekend my sister and mum are going to aukland for a birthday so that leaves Dad and I.We just got a new boat so im hoping for good weather so I can learn to water-ski It is blue.The year five camp is coming up and im going its going to be cool.Bye for now, MItchell

Jordan

Hello there.
My name is Jordan and i live in Masterton new Zealand.
My school is Solway primary and I'm a year 6.
We are in the starting point of summer and the school pool is
getting filled up for us to go swimming. For the past couple of days,
the temperature ah been almost up to 26. Now im going to introduce my self.
My favourite sport is hockey because my Dad use to play it and now all of my family plays it.
My favourite food is K.F.C , strawberrys, and burgers.
My family members are... Mum, Dad, Kurtis, Jacob, Daniel and my steep brothers and sisters,
Brady, Kayla & Ruby. my brother has a baby daughter called Lyric.
My family is Quite big dont you think?
What do you do in your spare time?
what are your favourite subject?
Hope to talk to you again
Jordan

Hey guys!Wow,you have done heaps of replies to our blogs!Today is a bit colder than usual,but that feels much better because our days before were too hot.We have heaps of things going on like a while ago Kanuka and Rimu moved into the hall because builders have come to make their classes more spacious.So we can't go into the library because it is full of stuff!The builders won't be working on the computer suit for a while,though.Wow,we are all fine.Is it snowing over in Torino?In Masterton we never have snow,but we do in other parts of the country like Christchurch.Our sunny weather is early coming because it is spring,but in December it will be summer,so it is pretty close because today is the 19Th of November.We had an small test a couple of days back-it was a vocabulary test I think.We don't really put books in our bags-except for sometimes our homework book,and we always bring it on Friday's.We haven't got a computer lab,but we have a computer suite.The programmes we use on them are Internet,free mind,office word,Microsoft office PowerPoint,and a few other programmes.We have got some fun activities to do like sometimes in the afternoon our teacher will take us outside for a game on the big field.
I think I've written enough for one day,Sincerely Annaliese

Cristian, Rossana, Valentina, Samuele

Cristian: The populatio in Turin is about 1 million. My favourite subject is maths.
I don't eat at school because I don't like the food. After school I do my homework, I play or I meet my fiends. I like playing football. I love pasta, lasagne(stuffed pasta bakes in the oven), ice-cream, but I hate soup.

Rossana: In my school there are a lot of students. I like it. I love dancing. In my freetime Iuse the computer and I watch Tv. Turin is full of nice shops. Are there any interesting saops in your town?

Valentina:at school I like French and P.E. I don't like eating in the canteen. In my freetime I play computer games and I dance.

Samuele: my favourite subjects are P.E. and English. I eat in the school canteen, but I don't like the food very much. In my free time I like playing football. I play in a team called "Lascaris".
Bye to everyone
Hope hearing from you soon

Virginia, Alessio, Ayalnesh, Mauro

Virginia: My favourite museum is the "Egyptian museum", I like the "Mole Antonelliana" too, it's the symbol of Turin, it's the second in the world after the one in Cairo. My favourite subjects are history and P.E. I like cooking meat. I like tomatoes, peaches, hamburgers and potatoes.

Alessio :Turin is nice but too busy. My favourite subjects are English, maths and science.

Ayalnesh: in there is an important car factory, I think it's famous, its name is FIAT. I like English, art, history and music. In my freetime I go to the cinema with my friends and I watch Tv. I also like playing nintendo, but I don't like reading very much.

Mauro: my hobbies are playing computer games and playing football. In my free time, I go out with my fiends.

Camila, Andrea, Francesco, Luciano

Camila: Hi, there are a lot of restaurants, hotels and cinemas in my town.
My hobbies is playing volleyball and listening to music.

Andrea: In my free time I play football, watch TV and I like playstation games.

Francesco: I like my city because there are a lot of parks and shops, but I don't like the traffic. I play waterpolo in a team. i played a match last week and I scored a goal.

Luciano: My city is very big, it's the largest city in Piemonte. i like P.E, geography and English.
I don't eat in the school canteen. I go home to have lunch. After school I play football, I play in a team called "Carrara 90". I like this sport very much. In my free time I play computer games and I like going to the park with my brother.

Gabriele, Clara, Martina, Anita

Hi,
I'm quite good at school and my favourite subjects are P.E. science and music. I like playing ice-hockey and rollerskating. In my free time I like playing computer games and reading Dylan Dog comics.Gabriele

Clara: My favourite subect is English and my hobby is rollerskating.

Martina: I like the shops in my town. My favourite subjects are P.E, and English. In my free time I play volleyball and dance.

Anita: in Turin there are fantastic shops in the centre. I like my city at Christmas, streets are full of lights and Christmas trees. My school is near my house. My favourite subject are English, french and Italian.

Erica, Carlo Alberto

Hi,
I like my town because there's a lot of open space. It isn't a quiet place, there's a lot of traffic.
You can find a lot of shops in the city centre. I like going shopping with my friends.
Is your city quiet? My hobby is playing tennis and i play it on Saturdays. In my free time I go to the park with my friends, I do my homework and watch TV.
A presto Erica

Turin is full of monuments and museums, for example the Natural Science Museum.
The typical Italian food is pasta, pizza, rice, mushrooms and a typical regional dish is "Bagna Caoda" a garlic and anchovies sauce you eat with every kind of vegetables.
My hobbies are working on my computer and surfing the net. At the weekend I like riding my bike in the city centre.
See you soon Carlo Alberto

Simona

I live in Turin, in the north-west of Italy in a region called Piemonte. There are a lot of monuments here, for example tht"Mole Antonelliana" a very high building and there's the Muesun of the cinema inside. There is also the "Egyptian museum", it's famous all over the world. I like my city because there are a lot of things to do, but I don't like it when it's raining because I can't stay outdoor.
In my free time I love dancing and playing volleyball with my friends.
can you tell me something more about the place you live in?
Bye Ciao
Simona

3F

Hi, Kauri class!How are you?We are working hard at school now because in june we will have an exam.Next year we will go to secondary school,so we are going to change our school.What about you?Will you have an exam?
Have you got many books in a school bag?
Do you do extra school activities?
Have you got a computer lab?which programs do you use?
Today, it's sunny here, but the mountains aroud our town are completely covered with snow.
Bye for now.
3F

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Hi
Feed and read is when we have morning tea our teacher ( Mr Hornby) reads to us when we eat he wears a funny hat while he is reading.
we play games and climb trees and play with the playground equipment in our free time.
We would love to come to Itly some time it sounds coll to learn some of your language.
The phonix and the all whites are the main football teams in New Zealand and yes we like the all blacks very much we support them in rugby maches and we are very proud that we bet scotland.
bye for now hope hearing from you soon.

Hi again,it's Annaliese.The weather in masterton has been really hot and sweaty (the purfect weather for swimming).Wow,you guys must have really poor weather for swimming:(.Sadly,now in the mornings we are having cold weather,but it gets all hot again in the afternoons.Just a few minutes ago,we had our math and reading tests.Mr.Hornby's birthday was on friday.
Bye for now,Annaliese

Hi

Hi everybody,
are you all fine? We are ok, the weather in Italy is rainy at the moment and it's quite cold. We tried to write to you this morning, but we had problems with the internet connection. We'll try again on Wednesday. What's the weather like in your contry at the moment?
Hearing you on Wednesday.
Bye Laura Marchese

3F

Happy to know so much about you.
We don't know what is fedd and read. Can you tell us, please?
In our free time we go out with friends, watch TV, play sports, listen to music and play video games. We have stereos and ipods.
We have a lot of playstation games such as Mario Kart, Warrior game, Call of Duty. We'll write some more next time.
Our school year ends on 10th June.
We have a playground and we play there in the lunch break.
It's fantastic celebrating Christmas in summer!!!
Hope hearing from you soon. A presto
3F

Cristian

Hi, in Italy there are a lot of football teams, for example Juventus, Inter, Milan and Roma. My favourite is Juvntus becauseit's nice and great team. In my town there are two football teams:Juus and Torino. I watch Wellington Phonix matches on TV. My favourite foolballer in New Zealand is Smeltz. He plays in Turkey.
What do you do in your free time? Would you like to come to Italy? What are the main football teams in New Zealand? Do you like All Blacks?
A presto

Hello!
We don't have a diary but we have a homework book to stick homework sheets in.We have a different homework sheet every week we have to find out currency and capital city.
We have 23 children in our class so we are sort of a big class.Our teacher is awesome he dose all the computer work and does it really well. We have a school web show called kiDZ-i.
Our currency is the New Zealand dollar and we have cents as well.
Yes we do love watching TV and sticky TV ,
what now and all movies on Disney channel.
We like lady gaga,keisha,Adam Lambert and Katy perry's songs.
For breakfast we have rice bubbles, weetbix, cornflakes and maybe nutragrain and toast.
For lunch at school we have
bars
sandwiches
baking
but we have to make our own lunch at home unlike you.
For tea we have
meat
potatoes
vegetables
Do you have feed and read?
What do you do in your spare time?
Do you have a playground?
in the weekend we had our Guy Fawkes day and the whole weekend we had fire works going off.

Hi to everybody!
At Christmas we have a time to hang out with all our family and friends.We give each other presents for the new year.People even go on holiday for Christmas. Its not really a religious thing for some  New Zealanders. Others go to church. Often Christmas is spent at the beach because it is summer. Yes people do decorate their houses with lights and decorations. Sometimes there is even a competition for the best house that puts their lights up. Christmas holidays are 6 weeks for us.We cook turkeys , ham and barbecues for a Christmas dinner.To drink we have wine (ha ha).No we kids don't we have jucie and fizzy drink.
We don't celebrate a carnival day but we have a fun carnival day.Its called the A & P show. At the A & P show we have rides like: A Ferris wheel
A ghost train
A twister - which goes up really high then spins around
And a dragon train ride.
People also bring their farm animals like: Cows
Sheep
chicken
pigs
And they walk around the show in a parade to win prizes.
There is also a horse competition which people bring there horses along and they do jumps and sprints.
Yes we do have PlayStation and we play on it all the time.Yes we do listen to music. We listen to lady gaga , Keisha , Katey Perry.Well I will say that the boys prefer the PlayStation and the girls like the music.We do have Television and we watch all the time to.Our favourite TV programs are Sticky TV, What Now , Fear Factor and Wipeout. In the weekend we had our annual Guy Fawkes day. There were some cool colourful fireworks.There was one that gave everyone a huge fright!
Do you have ipods to put your music in?
What does your schools year go up to?
What PlayStation games do you play?

Other Questions

Luciano
Hi to everybody,
Do you have a diary to write your homeworks on? Is your class big or small? That is your currency? We have euro and you?
Hope hearing from you soon.

Questions

Martina
Hi,
Do you like watching TV? Which are your favourite TV programmmes? What kind of music do you like? What's your favourite food?
We watch so much TV and we like reality programmes. We like listening to pop music foe example Shakira and Lady Gaga. My favourite foof are pizza, hamburgers, chips and ice-cream.

Festivities

Hi to everybody"
We don't wear uniforms at school in Italy. We usually wear t-shirts and jeans or trousers. When it's cold we put on a pullower or a sweatshirt.
We'll send you a picture as soon as possible. We haven't got one at the moment so we have to take it first.
We celebrate Christmas in December so it's very cold in Turin and it sometimes snows a lot. we decorate our homes with Christmas trees and Cribs. The streets in our town are decorated too, there are a lot of lights everywhere. At Christmas we have lunch with all the family and stay altogether playing cards or Bingo. What do you do at Christmas? Do you decorate your homes and streets? Is it a religious festivity for you? We are Catholic so we celebrate Christ's birth.Christmas holidays are two weeks for us.
We eat a lot of delicious food at Christmas, every region has its specialities. We eat special cakes as Panettone or Pandoro. Do you eat or drink anything special on this day?
Labour holiday is on 1st May, only one day.
Carnival is celebrated in Italy with streets parades, people dress up in different way, thery wear funny masks and costumes. Do you celebrate it too?
Summer holidays are very long, almost three months, but we don't have any other long periods except for ten days at Easter. We also have two terms at school, but there's no holiday at the end of the first one.
What do you usually do in your free time? Do you have playstations at home? Do you listen to music? Which kind do you prefer? What about television? Which are your favourite TV programmes?
Hope hearing from you soon.
3F

Posts

Ciao everyone
I notice that there are 2 draft posts, if you want to publish these click on edit post and you can change and publish post. :-)
Arrivederci a presto

Introducing Holidays!

Hey Guys!
No we don't drink tea (the teachers drink tea and coffee )
We have heaps of holidays, and here are the main holidays in New-Zealand: Easter, Christmas, and New years day. February 6th Waitangi Day - celebrates the signing of the treaty between The British and the Maori (1840)
Other things we celebrate are: Guy Fawkes day- November 5th, Labour weekend, Queens birthday and Valentines day.(Birthdays). Our school year is divided into  terms, Easter is always part of the first holiday, those holidays are 2 weeks and the Christmas holiday is 6 weeks, (our summer)
Our weekends at school are Saturday and Sunday,and our holidays at the end of each term are 2 weeks,except for Christmas holidays which are 6 weeks!. On Guy Fawkes day we have fireworks, which is always fun! Valentines day is a day to give the people you like/love a card to say I love you. Labour weekend is a 3 day weekend. I think you know what all the other holidays are about. We haven't got a cafeteria like you, we provide our own food in lunch boxes. On Fridays we have a choice to order a lunch order,which gives you fruit, a drink box and a main course which costs $5.00 dollars.
We have also had Halloween in the past few years but it is only celebrated by some people. Have your clocks changed? 23c here tomorrow.
Maori : kai is food  (rhymes with sky)
tamariki is children.
Can you send us a picture please. Do you wear a school uniform?
We'll tell you more about rippa rugby later.
Annaliese

Italian

Some Italian sentences:

how are you? = Come Stai?

Fine thanks = Bene grazie

Where are you from? = Da dove vieni?

I'm Italian = Sono Italiano

How old are you? Quanti anni hai?

3F

That sounds interesting!
Do you drink tea in the Morning tea time? We eat some snack bars and drink orange juice or water.
What is Rippa Rugby? We don't have it in Italy.
We forgot to tell you we don't go to school on Saturday and you?
Food isn't very good and it's provided by school. We eat pasta, meat, fish, ham with vegetables and fruit. Italian people are known for food, we always eat pasta with different sauces and pizza.
We have a playground in our school and we go there during the lunch break to play.
What about festivities? Which are your traditional ones? In Italy the main festivities are Christmas, New Year and Easter. Nowadays we celebrate Halloween too and you? What do you do on that day? Do you dress up?
When do you have holiday tome in your country? We finish school in june and we get back on 15th September. Then we have two weeks for Christmas and one at Easter.
We really liked the Maori words, could please write some more?
In Italy the offiacial language is Italian, but people speaks dialects according to the regions.
We'll write again next Wednesday because we're not at school on Moday, it's All Saints'day, it's holiday here.
We're enjoying talking to you so much, we're learning a lot of new things about your country.
Arrivederci a presto(see you soon)
3F

Questions

At Solway we bring our own food to eat for lunch. do you have food provided at school? What sort of food do you eat for lunch? We eat things like sandwiches, filled rolls (salad and ham or cold meat cuts) fruit, snack bars, chippies, muffins and biscuits
Do you have a playgroud outside? We have grassy fields and playground equipment.
Ciao for now
Mr H

Hi I'm Jasmine. Our time at school is from 8:55 am to 15:00 pm. We go home the same time everyday. We also have two breaks. One is Morning tea time, the other is Lunch time. We have Morning tea time at 11:10am and lunch at 1:00pm.
We don't go to museums , but we do go on trips. Mostly to go to a Music Show or a Production. We sometimes go to Movies, this year we did.
We don't have French class, Art class, Science class or any of those other classes. We did go to a Science roadshow though. We stay with one teacher for the whole day and do writing, reading, spelling, maths, art, music, physical education and Topic. Topic covers science, social studies, Technology etc. We sometimes do things with the whole school. The weather here is alright. It's like normal weather. Sometimes it's sunny, sometimes it's raining and overcast. It doesn't snow in Masterton. It's only snowed like weak snow. We've never had real white snow before. Other places in New Zealand have snow sometimes in winter.
Our School is not too big. It has a plantation. A plantation is a bushy place with a grassy ground and behind it, lots of tall pine trees. They're good for playing in. There are two fields. One is only fairly big. It's good for playing Rippa Rugby on. There is another field called the Big field. It is huge compared to the other field. This field is good for playing Soccer or Rugby on. There is a goal post, so that's good for rugby.
New Zealand has 2 official languages English and Maori. Haere Mia is welcome and Kia-ora is Hello (in Maori).

Bye for now
Jasmine

Welcome by 3^F

Hi Kauri's class! We are very happy to write to you.
We are 21 students in class. Our school is divided in three buildings, two branch school and a main one.
We are in one of the branch school and we're about 120 students.
We go to school from 8am to 13pm. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we finish school at 16pm and on Wednesdays lessons finish at 14pm.
We study Italian, maths, technology, art, science, English, French, P.E., religion, geography, history and music.
We have a smart board and we like working on it.
In the afternoon we do our homework and in the free time we play football and we meet our friends.
We have two breaks in the morning,one at 10 and the other at 12am.
Some of us eat in the school canteen but the food is not very good.
In the school year we go out to visit museums or monuments (the symbol of Turin is the Mole Antonelliana) or we go to the cinema or theatre. What about your school? What subjects do you study? Do you study French?
What' s the weather like in your country now? Now in Turin it's raining and it's quite cold.
Welcome in Italian is " benvenuti " and bye bye in Italian is "ciao"
We are looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Bye 3°F

Here we are at last!

We are rellay happy to start corresponding with you. On Monday my students will answer your questions and write something about them.
We live in Turin. a big industrial town in the north-west of Italy, not far from the mountains. It's autumn now and the temperature is getting cold. Our school is called "Dante Alighieri", it's quite big,about 800 students. I'm the English teacher, my name is Laura.
Our school has a website www.dantealighieritorino.it, you can visit it if you want, there are some photos you can see and some of our works. If you want to know something more about our town you can visit this site: http://www.comune.torino.it/en/
Bye
Laura Marchese

This is a picture of our class taken 20th of October 2010.
We hope you like it.

Kauri's welcome

Hello! I'm Annaliese and I'm 10 years old and I'm Larissa and I'm 9.We are really happy that you have decided to blog with us,and so is the rest of the class. Our school has got around 200 students and is really fun and friendly. We have exactly 9 classrooms and some great teachers. Our class is called Kauri and we have 23 classmates. We live in a small town called Masterton and it has around 20,000 people.We have just recently finished our school production called the river. we are in the middle of spring and the month is October,and can't wait for Christmas. Unlike you,Christmas is in summer. Our class is into gardening and our teacher Mr Hornby is great at computer work. The temperature today is 15.Everyone in New Zealand was very happy when we drew with Italy in the Fifa world cup.
I would like to know if I can learn a bit of your language?(Annaliese sent this question)
I would like to know how many children are at your school? {Larissa sent this question}
Can you tell us a bit about your school?
From Annaliese and Larissa

Welcome

Welcome to our new Italian friends. We will start by telling you a little about our school, students and community and ask questions to find out about your school and area.
Steve Hornby (Teacher)