Our new friends from INTERCULTURA - AFS

Hello, everyone!
   This week we met new interesting friends, coming from different countries of the world:

They are attending the school year in the south of Italy through the association INTERCULTURA, but they spent this week in Saronno. 

On Wednesday afternoon they came to our school, Pizzigoni Primary School, and met the children of the fifth year, who interviewed them and made posters and wrote essays about this experience.

This is what we did:

Intercultura AFS

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The children enjoyed this afternoon very much: they were really very excited and happy to meet the foreign students and asked them many questions.

This experience was emotionally powerful and helped the children to think about prejudices and sterotypes and to try to overcome them.

                     Intercultura is looking for hosting families for the next school year: have a look at their site http://www.intercultura.it/Homepage/  - having a brother or sister coming from the other side of the world is bound to be an exciting experience for your children!

And don't worry about your house: if Ian, from Guatemala, put up with living in my witch's cavern, your house will surely be OK!

Bye!

 Clare - the Witch

The Union Jack

Do you like this flag? This flag is called THE UNION JACK and it is the flag of the United Kingdom, or Great Britain.

You can print and colour it, if you want. Click on the flag.

This flag is the sum of three other flags:

The flag of ENGLAND, with the cross of St George

The flag of SCOTLAND, with the cross of St Andrew

and the flag of IRELAND, with the cross of St Patrick.

I'm sure you'll like also this flag:

This is the flag of WALES.

I like this red dragon on a white and green field very much! If you also like it, you can print and colour this flag clicking on it. 

Together with England, Scotland and the North of Ireland, Wales is part of the United Kingdom.

Well, why don't you print and colour the flags and bring them to school?

Remember the name THE UNION JACK: I might ask you what it is so that you can explain your school friends.

I've got one question for you: What is the STARS AND STRIPES? You may remember we mentioned it at school... otherwise look it up on the Internet and tell me.

My family comes from...

Hello, everyone!
             click on these maps of the world and see the different countries our families come from!
This map is about class 3B; click on it so that you can read it.

These are our flags:

ITALY

MOROCCO

IRAN

SPAIN

ECUADOR

And this map is about class 3C; click on it so that you can read it.

Look at the beautiful flags of our Countries:

ITALY

AZERBAIJAN

GERMANY

ECUADOR

TUNISIA

PAKISTAN

ROMANIA

PERU

ETHIOPIA

If you like flags, click here and see more flags of the world:

Are you very very good at matching flags and Countries? Try this difficult game:

Wow! Too difficult for me...

Good night,

  Clare - the Witch

The maple leaf

Hello, everyone!
         How are you? I'm fine. The weather is sunny today, but it's very cold!
This morning we finished our maple leaves at school: do you like them?

Thanks to Amin, Gaia, Giovanni, Antonio, Luca, Laura, Caterina, Mattia, Anita, Cecilia, Francesca, Aurora, Federica, Pino, Cristiano, Edoardo, Alessandro for letting me take a picture of their leaves!

And special thanks to Kathy Barbro, the art teacher who gave me this idea, 

Batik-esque Maple Leaf Drawing

By the way, the MAPLE LEAF is the symbol of Canada. Look at the Canadian flag:

Here are the sugar maple's bark, fruit, leaf and twig:

And with the delicious MAPLE SYRUP you can eat wonderful PANCAKES... Yum Yum!

I have to go now: I'm hungry and my sweet hot pancakes are ready!

Bye, 

Clare - the Witch

Where are you from?

Hello, everyone!!!

Where are you from?  Where are your mum and dad from?

Who is your favourite football player? Where is he from?

Who is your favourite singer? Where is she from?

My favourite wizard is Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: he's from England. 

The World

Let’s see if you can find oceans and continents of the world:

Find English speaking countries in the world:

Do you like flags? Click here and match countries and flags:

Now drag the landmarks to the country they belong to:

Enjoy yourself! Bye bye,

Clare – the Witch