❤️Italian❤️

❤️   C I A O   A   T U T T I !  ❤️  

(Hello Everyone!)

❤️ EXPRESSION OF INTEREST ❤️ 

AHPS C A R N E V A L E ~ ITALIAN CARNIVAL 2023

We are very excited about hosting another Italian Carnival next year on Tuesday, February the 28th, 2023. This time, we are looking forward to making it BIGGER and BETTER! This means, we hope to put on a real carnival, with costumes, food stalls and a lot more activities. We will wear costumes all day at school and run our usual classes, have a costume parade, enjoy some classroom Carnevale activities, and have a 'Carnveale Learning Street Party' officially run from home time to 4:30 after school.

*Therefore, we are reaching out to families in our community who run a food business professionally. If you have an official food business and have a food handling certicate, and would like to set up a food truck/ stall for our Italian Carnival, we would love to hear from you! 

Also, any musicians are welcome to come and perform some music. We welcome music of all cultures, as Carnevale is a celebration of life! 

Please contact 

michelle.napolitano@education.vic.gov.au or write to us via Compass if you are interested in joining our celebrations. 

We are also extending invitations to all of our school community - including past students of AHPS. Please come and join in the fun and catch up with some of your old classmates and teachers!

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***Tickets will be on sale at the start of next year!***

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We are very excited about our current unit of work - ANDIAMO AL MERCATO!

Students in years 3-6 are building their vocabulary all about food and food markets in Italian. They have created their own market stall ideas which include a creative name that they have translated into Italian, their own design of a shop logo and sign, a food item list of Italian vocabulary, and scripts to assist in their roleplay conversations.

Students in years 1 and 2 have been building their vocabulary of different foods in Italian and practising basic conversation skills, as well as beginning some understanding of the many different ways to say 'the' in Italian and how to match the definite article to masculine, feminine and plural nouns.

Students in grade prep have been learning to write basic conversational words and practising numbers, certain foods, and revising Italian alphabet single letter sounds (such as, vowel sounds are always short,) and blends (such as, ch= 'k' in Italian, and ce/ci = 'ch').

All students are currently undergoing assessment of their Italian vocabulary and grammar skills, and there has been a lot of success 

and many celebrations of learning. 

Well done!

❤️🏆 AHPS BRISCOLA TOURNAMENT #4🏆❤️ 

Our next tournament date will be Tuesday the 18th of October.

*If you are interested in purchasing your own deck of Italian Playing cards, they are sold locally at Santino Continental Grocery store in Lalor, and they are also sold at ‘Cibo’ - the Italian Deli at Craigieburn Central, across from Coles. 

❤️  D  U  O  L  I  N  G  O ❤️ 

Don't forget about D U O L I N G O - the free app that can be used on any smartphone, tablet or PC! Duolingo supports learning a language of your choice, through fun writing, speaking and listening games, and with encouraging rewards! It helps to build your Italian vocabulary - but you can also explore your home language, English, or another language of your choice! Learning languages improves your overall literacy skills. 

❤️ I  T  A  L  I  A  N     C  L  U  B    2022! ❤️ 

Every Friday lunchtime at 1.40pm, students are invited into the Italian room to enjoy the Italian Community Library (which has a variety of English, Italian and bi-lingual books about Italy and Italian facts, as well as picture books and folktales). There are also Italian videos and cartoons, Italian word games, colouring and writing activities, and of course - Italian Playing Cards and Briscola. Come and join in! 

Buon Divertimento! (Have fun!) 

Thank you to students, families and staff for your support. 

Grazie Mille, 

(Many Thanks) 

Signora Bec and Signora Michelle