Hallo, we are the 3°B of the Gandino school of Bologna, we hope that you like our story!

Hi! I'm Amerigo Spaghettoni, the new teacher!

In Venice, Marta arrived in a new school, but it wasn’t as she had imagined...

Her classmates didn’t like studying, they were very bored and during the lessons they looked out

from the window, slept or counted the minutes to the next break; the teachers were desperate so

the Principal called a very special teacher: Mr. Amerigo Spaghettoni.

He was a very strange teacher: he always had with him a bizarre flowery suitcase.

Day 1

The students arrived at school: they had a music class.

The new teacher arrived in the classroom and he took out some musical instruments from his bag :

a violin, a cello and a guitar.

When he started to explain the parts of the instruments, in the classroom spread a good smell, the

scent of the instruments wood.

The students could smell it and suddenly they found themselves in a beautiful wood in the Alps, with all kinds

of birds singing together like in an orchestra and the students understood the beauty of music and

the harmony that it can create.

Day     2

The next day there was a history class; all the students were expecting to live a new adventure

with Mr. Spaghettoni.

Amerigo opened his bag and took out from it a horn with gunpowder inside, a gun, a spear, a

sword with the shield, a helmet and a bow.

Students were flooded by a war metal smell and they found themselves immersed in historical

battles, the teacher’s desk became a Medieval tower and they felt like knights 

fighting to defend their king.

Day 3

After history it was the turn of Art.

The teacher took out of his flowery suitcase some bowls with colored powders. Their smell filled

the room bringing the boys back to the time of the studios of ancient Renaissance artists.

Day 4

On Thursday, Spaghettoni opened his science book and began to talk about the pollination of

flowers, suddenly the students smelled a beautiful sent of flowers of all kinds, and Marta, who

suffered from allergies, also made a big sneeze.

Day 5

At the end of the week, all students were enthusiastic at the idea of going to school, they wanted to

learn more, to live new adventures in other times and places. The last class of the week was an

English class.

Spaghettoni took an English book from his flowery bag and, all of a sudden, the room filled with the

smell of a rainy day in London and the students, who always felt shy speaking English, became

confident and started a fluent conversation in English.

Finally, it was time for Italian, the smell of the salt of the Mediterranean sea could be sensed in the

classroom, and the students were suddenly eager to bathe in the fresh water and get some rays.

After some days with Mr. Spaghettoni, the students were happy and satisfied, the desire to learn

and know was reborn in them and Marta was happy again, even if she missed her friend Alessandro.