This year's CBCA Book Week had the theme Find Your Treasure. At Our Lady of the Way, our Library was decked out pirate style, including treasure maps, a treasure chest and an interactive model ship. For our Italian lessons, this prompted an opportunity to spark the students' intrinsic motivation. So how can teachers spark their … Continue reading Ahoy There Me Hearties!
Tag: Italian studies
Repetition And Rhyme: Years 3 & 4 Italian Puppet Shows
“La ripetizione è la madre della memoria” (Repetition is the mother of the memory.) Rhyme and repetition are key features of children's stories. We used stories to reinforce language learning in Years 3 and 4. Year 3 students learnt to read, speak and understand the script for the story of “The Little Red Hen” – … Continue reading Repetition And Rhyme: Years 3 & 4 Italian Puppet Shows
“Learning is fun!”: Year 5/6 Italian Restaurant Experience
Setting: Learning in Year 5/6 Italian lessons, Term 3: “The Italian Restaurant” The students worked in groups, researched how many dishes are served in a typical Italian meal, created names for their Italian restaurant, wrote menus and wrote invitations to the Principal, APRE, Librarian and their class teachers. Students presented their learning in their groups, … Continue reading “Learning is fun!”: Year 5/6 Italian Restaurant Experience
