Bully Free Week Poster

Bully Free Poster for Bully Free Week!

Last week it was Bully Free Week! It was all about people not getting bullied or people trying not to bully for a week. Here in New Zealand Bullying is sadly very common. Our task for the week was to create a poster and share it with everyone so people are aware of what is going on in New Zealand. My favorite part of making the poster was when I was able to gather all of the information that I needed to create the poster. When I finished the poster I had to give it some colour which was also one of my favorite parts. On Bully Free day my friends and I dressed up in pink to celebrate the day where there is no Bullying at all. Can't wait for the next Bully Free week next year!

This is my Poster!

Letter To Family: ANZAC

My ANZAC Letter To My Family

For our Literacy Contract this week we had to pretend we were an ANZAC Soldier, fighting in the War. The letter went like this:

Dear Family

I am in Gallipoli now and its dreadful. The people around me are amazing. They are just like me, fighting for freedom for our future generations. I cannot explain how dreadful it is here and how much I miss you. I can't hear anything as the bombs fly over me. I am starving, tired, and thirsty. Sleeping is horrific, its noisy and Worms, Rats, and Grubs keep crawling over me in the night. My thoughts of home give me strength, for I think about how safe you are away from here. Please take care of yourselves, I love you so much.

Love Soldier Dad. 

This was, in my opinion, pretty hard to write because I have never experienced stuff like this before and I have no idea what it would be like fighting in the War. I think the best part was researching all of the things that soldiers had experienced in the War. This was one of my favorite tasks.

By Poppy

                 

Australians at War Task

Australians at War By Poppy

For our ANZAC Booklet Tasks, we had to learn about the Australians who fought in the following wars: WW1, Vietnam War, Iraq-the second Gulf War, and the Korean War. I learnt a lot of things that I did not know. I learnt that Australia was part of the British Empire and they fought for them in WW1. My favourite part of the research was looking up stuff about the Vietnam War. This was interesting to me because I did not know anything about the Vietnam War and it was very interesting. What I disliked most was probably trying to find the correct websites, because some of them did not contain the right info that I needed. It was very interesting learning about this and I hope we are able to learn more about this in the future.

                     

ANZAC Day Diamante Poem

ANZAC Day Words Of War By Poppy

This week we have been learning about ANZAC Day. We have little ANZAC booklets that have tasks for us to do. There was one called Words of War. Part of the task involved us looking for a poem about the ANZAC soldiers. The Poem that I chose was one called the Red Poppy and it went like this: 

The Red Poppy is a symbol

To simply show we care

For all our fallen heroes 

A loss we all equally share

The Red Poppy is a symbol

For to many we have lost

In every conflict of war

Their valour was at cost

The Red Poppy is a symbol

Wear it with pride for them

As each and every year goes by

We shall remember them. 

It was a very moving and emotional poem that I really liked. My Favorite part of the poem was the end where is says 'We shall remember them'. The reason I used this poem was because it was very easy to work with the questions. I can't wait to celebrate ANZAC Day next year even though it is a sad time.