Our Thoughts about ANZAC Day

Byron thinks ANZAC Day is a sad day because it's about soldiers who passed.
Sabastyan said he thought it would be very sad if your brother or sister got killed.

Maddy knows it's a sad day to remember all about all the soldiers who died.

Amelia is going to the dawn parade in Ashburton. She said that sometimes your feet get numb from standing still.

Brooke is going to the Dawn Parade with her mum to remember the soldiers that went to war.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow.

The dead soldiers are talking in this poem. They died and were buried in Flanders feilds. The feilds got bombed really bad!     New Zealanders and Australians fought there.
Brooke Jayden Maihi Rose Zara

Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori

The poem is about how the soldiers felt about war. They didn't like it at all. It makes us feel sad because they had to walk through mud and other terrible things. Soldiers fought and died. We learnt to say some Latin too.

Amelia Mary Riley Todd

For the Fallen

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.

Our poem was about remembering the soldiers who went to war and also didn't come back. Our group thinks it's sad because we know about people who didn't come back. A man who had been a teacher at Hampstead didn't come back.

Anastasia James Maddy De-lyna Cohan

We read Harry and the Anzac Poppy and The Anzac Puppy. 

Harry's great granddad went to war and wrote letters to his daughter. She read the letters to Harry. Her father was wounded and then a few days later was killed. They got a letter saying he was killed.

Xanita and Joshua

The Puppy story is sad because Lucy gave away her puppy. Sam a soldier saved the puppy and called it Freda. Freda was a hero. She killed a lot of rats. Shalyn and Byron

We got facts about World War 1

480 000 Allied troops took part in the war. Over  200 000 were killed or wounded. Koby and Shalom

We read a book called Lest We Forget. It was about how we remember soldiers from lots of wars at the Dawn Parade on Anzac Day. Mia and Connar

We made a wreath by each making a poppy. We drew crosses and made them into the number one hundred. 

Zara put our wreath by the Roll of Honour during our special assembly for Anzac Day.

Adventure Based Learning!

Connar said we were trying to make the letter H out of our class. It was hard because the H was odd because one person was in the wrong place.

Mia's thoughts.  The whole class enjoyed doing ABl and doing letters on the ground. You had to buddy up to do shapes.  It was fun doing heaps of shapes because you had to try to do the shapes yourself first. If you could not do it you had to buddy up and do the shape together.

Maihi liked that everyone was working together and we made a lot of letters. 

Amelia thought it was a lot of fun. You had to move around so everyone could join in. 

No! I'm not sleeping on the job. I have the very important job of helping to make letters, laughed Jayden.

I was patiently waiting for my group to finish the letter S. They needed help with sorting out their curves.