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)