ANZAC Day!

The ANZAC ceremony was on April 25th on Wednesday. We have ANZAC day to remember the soldiers who fought in the World war one and, World war two. In World war one, thousands of soldiers lost their life. When we first started the ANZAC ceremony, it started in 1916 

We wear poppies on ANZAC day because the red poppy is a symbol of war remembrance,when the war was over. Also people like to wear poppies on ANZAC day to show respect to the soldiers who went to war and sacrificed their life.  

An Amazing Trip To The Auckland Museum!

 On Wednesday this week, room 10 and room 9 went to the Auckland Museum to look and learn about ANZAC and war. I was very excited to go to the Museum because I could see what soldiers used to fight.




When we arrived at the Museum, it was amazing. I saw a tower that was made with Lego and other cool things. Before we explored the Museum, we had to hear the rules about the Museum. After that we could go look at World War one & World War two.
When we went exploring in World War one, I saw a lot of soldiers who went to war but they died. It was interesting looking at the soldiers who went to war because, at the bottom I saw why they died. 

Then we headed over to World War two and explored there. I went through where the sacks were, and I saw something I'd never seen before. It was the first time that I saw a grenade, all types of guns and some knife that soldiers used when they went to war. 
While Kate !and I were exploring World War two, we came across a letter that the soldiers used to sign up for the Army. Also we found letters that soldiers wrote at war. Their handwriting was hard to read because it was fancy and very neat. 

I had a great time visiting the Auckland Museum because I got to learn more that I didn't know before!

Soldiers Who Fought In The War

Bravely, soldiers shooting to save their lives
Bravely, helping their team mates who have died

Bravely, fighting to protect their country
Bravely, crying when they are hungry

Bravely, marching as they wear their uniforms
Bravely, making their families emotional.

Sun Sonata Poem

Yesterday my reading group memorised a poem in your journal. The poem that my reading group memorised was called Sun Sonata by Elizabeth Pulford. Our poem was pretty short so we had enough time to memorised the whole poem. It was fun memorising a poem and putting in our own actions as well. Here is our poem that my group memorised with Kate, Agueer and I in the video!

Making Poppies For Art!

Today room 10 made ANZAC poppies for art. Miss Misela showed us how to create the ANZAC poppies before we got started.

When I was doing the ANZAC poppies, it was a bit hard because when we cutted out our poppy, sometimes the pieces that we cut out will fall into little pieces. The first instruction that we had to do was, fold the red piece of paper and cut it out, and then fold one of the red piece of paper.

Now we had to cut petal of a poppy on the folded piece of paper. When we opened up the piece of paper, it is shaped as a poppy. Then we did the same thing to the other half of the piece paper but when we finished cutting our petal of the paper, we opened up our paper and cut one of the petal's and glue one side to the other, so that it looked like tea cup.

Next we gave our poppies to Miss Misela to put the stick through our poppies. After Miss Misela put the stick through our poppy, we had to cut out a small strip of black and red paper, to glue it around the bottom of the poppy and for the top. Our poppies looked amazing when Miss Misela sticked them in a plastic cup to stand them up. 

I had an great time making poppies for art. It was a bit hard but I got better and made my poppy look beautiful!