Second Reading Challenge

Hi, everyone!
   How are you? I bet you're very sad because school in Italy finished some days ago...: I know - you miss your favourite witch!
During one of our last school afternoons we had our fantastic

2ND READING CHALLENGE 

All four teams in the class were really good at the challenge, so that I gave everybody this award:

The challenge questions concern Roald Dahl life: he was a writer we appreciate very much, don't we? Many of his books were in our school library.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL PLAYERS!!

and many thanks to TEACHING IDEAS.CO.UK for Roald Dahl's fact cards!!

Bye,

Clare - the Witch

P.S. If you're a teacher, go to the page FOR EFL TEACHERS: MIX at the top of the screen to download worksheets of the activity

London

Hello, everyone!
Have a look at this presentation of London: I hope you like it.
Please notice that, when we watched the presentation in class, in slide 2 you could click and go to Google Earth to find London, in slide 3 you could click and find European countries and their capital cities on the map.
Well, these links are not active in the following presentation.

If you want to download Google Earth go to http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
If you want to go to the map of slide 3, click http://www.yourchildlearns.com/europe_map.htm
If you want to hear the British hymn we heard at slide 9, click on http://www.ddripandelli.it/ourworld/queen.htm
If you want to hear Big Ben chime we heard at slide 11, click on http://www.champsclock.com/download/big%20ben%20-%20tower%20of%20london!!s.mp3


If you are a teacher, you can go to my page at the top of the screen FOR EFL TEACHERS: LONDON - CLIL PROJECT.
Bye,

Clare - the Witch

What's the weather like?

Hello, everybody!

What's your favourite weather? My favourite weather is stormy, of course: I like to fly on my broomstick in a stormy sky! I'm very romantic! And yours? Click here and vote:

Scroll down a bit and find a video on weather - a bit slow and boring, but useful.

Here match the pictures and the phrases:

 Listen to the weather forecast and drag the weather symbol to the flag of the Country on the right - you have to be quick: in case you are not... click Play sound and you can listen to the speaker again.

A weather maze:

First review the vocabulary clicking Review, then play Game 1 or Game 2 (listening only exercise):

Match words and pictures:

An easy picture test for you:

Now try this quiz on weather - I warn you, you might find some words you don't know, but do try to think and answer!

And now play hangman:

      Well, now I'be better go: it's spring, the weather  is sunny and warm, so I can take my broom and..... WHOOSH! off I fly!

Clare - the Witch

Johnny B. Goode

Hi, everyone!

Thanks to Caterina, who is learning to play this beautiful song by Chuck Berry on her guitar, we watched this video today, taken from the film "Back to the Future", starring Michael J.Fox

Click on the guitar to print the song lyrics:

Bye,

 Clare - the Witch

La guerra di Piero

Hello, everyone.
We read a poem taken from the great song by the Italian singer and songwriter Fabrizio De André at school last week. Listen to the song and sing along:



Click the poppy if you want to print the song lyrics:

Bye,

Clare - the Witch

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

More PowerPoint presentations from Chiara Mantegazza

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

Oh Freedom

Hi, everyone!

   This week we talked about slavery in America and about the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution for the abolition of slavery, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1865; we watched this video and listened to the spiritual "Freedom":

"We shall overcome!"

President Lyndon Johnson (1965)

Then we talked about racial discrimination and Martin Luther King, about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that outlawed discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex or national origin and we watched this video:

“…all men are created equal.”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Martin Luther King (1963)

We discussed a lot about these topics and some of you want to read books and watch films about them now! I'm glad you're interested in this subject.

Clare - the Witch