Buongiorno a tutti!

Firstly I want to say a big “grazie!” to the students who have written a comment on the SSPS Italiano! blog. I have been so impressed with your enthusiasm for learning Italian and the effort that you have put in to write a comment on the blog. Some students even wrote a comment in Italian. Bravi!

If you would like to write a comment, just follow these simple steps:

1.      Click on the blue/purple “comments” at the bottom of a post.

2.      Write your comment/question in the box that appears.

3.      Select “Name/URL” in the drop-down box menu next to “Comment as:”

4.      Type your name then click “continue”.

5.      Click “publish”.

I look forward to reading your comments!

This week we have begun exploring our sense of touch (il tatto) with mystery touchy-feely bags. We have learnt many adjectives to describe the objects in the bags. The older students have been adding to our adjective poster with words that they have found in the dictionary themselves. Here are some of the words that we have been using:

duro	hard	piccolo	small
morbido	soft	grande	big
soffice	fluffy, soft	spugnoso	spongy
rugoso	rugged, wrinkled	fibroso	stringy
ruvido	rough, coarse	gommoso	rubbery
liscio	smooth	appiccicoso	sticky
caldo	hot	elastico	elastic
freddo	cold	tondo	round

Try making your own mystery bags at home with your family and using these Italian words to describe the mystery objects!

Next week we will continue investigating il tatto, learning about how our sense of touch works. We will do an experiment to see if we have the same sensitivity all over our body or if some parts of our body are more sensitive than others.

A presto!

Stephanie.