The Zoom Catch Up Meetings today are:
Amelia, Jorja Molly, Fletcher, Benson and Stella at 11am
Adam Kaden Mitchell Taina Davey and Samuel at 1pm
Lewis Austin and Brooklin at 1.30
Lily Nevaeh and Ava at 3pm
Well done, Fletcher. You had a good reading lesson yesterday on Zoom. Davey solved the puzzle and Lewis answered all the questions about Anzac Day correctly. Ruby and Jorja have been creating scenes with Lego.
Kaden made a pompom creature.
Mitchell, you are working hard with your family on the farm. Well done.
We read some more Letters from the Trenches yesterday. Well done, Lewis, Ella and Ava.
December 6, 1917
Dear Thomas
I am on the front line in the trenches shooting down enemy soldiers with my rifle. Our machine gunners' are getting shot as fast as they can fire it's not looking good for us. I'm really hot and tired. I can't do anything right now I feel sick as well. The gun fire is making our soldiers mad. I can't wait to see you again and get out of this fighting and killing. Wait our soldiers are pushing finally were making some progress. Two days later we have taken the out post we have got our supplies back were trying to call for reinforcements for the next wave of enemy soldiers. But we can't get a signal they might of cut the line before we arrived here. We just sent out a squad to search the area and we just started eating the foul rations that they have given us corned beef and tea that looks like living sludge. The next day we got in touch with reinforcements, two days later they arrived. The same day when the next wave of enemy soldiers came. This is the end of the letter can't wait to see you again Thomas. From Lewis.
December 6, 1917
To My dearest parents,
It has been several months now it's cold and windy. How are you all. I'm fine. I've only gotten a couple of grazes but i'm fine. Hows Autumn I heard it's quite nice. I hear it's my brothers birthday today this might be a day late but tell him that I said happy birthday. I miss you all so much and I wish I was there. I have to be quite we are sleeping and I'm in the front line so I have to be ready asap. It's not nice and it's scary. Don't worry I'll be back in five months. Best wishes your dearest daughter Ella.
December 6, 1917
To my dearest .... Mummy
I'm writing this to you from my nest. The food here is vile. It's always stew. Can you help cook tacos for me and send me the first flower to blossom?
It's horrible here. I'm constantly climbing over dead bodies in muddy clothes and I haven't got shot yet but I'm sure it's coming. I've had to pick up my friend's body. Ick.
I love you.
I hope to see you soon.xxxxxxx.
Austin and Brooklin painted poppies and Lewis did some Anzac coin rubbings.
Austin, Brooklin and Kowin are keeping themselves safe behind a bunker.
Lots of you are solving the puzzles. Well done, and Ella showed us the best things about last week.
Study Ladder
Ruby, you got just about every thing right in Fractions. Well done. I've set you the next set. Have a go at them.
Lewis, your results are very good. I have set the next level for you in Study Ladder.
Fletcher, your Fractions work is coming along well, too.
EPIC Reading Well done those of you who are reading every day. Remember to visit your Reading Folder in Drive, open your Reading Folder and enter more of what you are reading in your document that you have already started, called Reading From Epic. Insert a new slide, upload a photo of the book you read and put in the 100% Certificate. If there wasn't a quiz at the end, write a short summary of the book and your response to it - your opinion about it.
The TV2+1 programme is very good, especially between 11am and 2pm.
Keep working on the ANZAC Day tasks that are further down this page. I look forward to you looking at your videos, pictures and tasks that you are posting on Seesaw, and well done to those of you who are posting comments on each others Seesaw pages.
Easter Egg Hunt Stories
Ella, your Easter Egg Hunt is an excellent piece of writing. Visit it, taking note of a couple of things you can learn there, then upload it to Seesaw where everyone can read it. Chloe, how is your story coming along? Ruby, you have made a good start to yours. I look forward to reading more.Lewis and Thomas, go to your Home School Learning page in your Writing Folder in your Drive. There is some learning there for you to do. Ava and Chloe, visit Notifications in your Seesaw, fix up the ANZAC Day questions and resubmit them.
Letters From The Trenches
December 6, 1917
My Dearest Brother Reubin. Hope you are doing good at home. It is really cold, dirty and bloody, unlike home. I do not like this type of environment. I have been sleeping in tents and trenches. When I sleep in the trenches, I lie on the ground and, most of the time, I wake up with a rock in my back. When I sleep in the tents, it is very crowded. I sleep on a bed with no mattress but a small green thin blanket. I have to use a shotgun to hurt other people which I do not like to do. Hope your comfy at home, not like here. There have been a lot of lead gun shots that hurt my e
I have to go, my free time is up. Hope I'll come home soon.
From Brooklin.
To My Dearest Brother Kowin.
I hope you are doing well. In the war, it is very wet. Sometimes it is sunny but most of the time it is raining. I wish I was with you next to a fire roasting marshmallow. I wish I had a better meal. I don't like the stew they give me every night. The stew smells like and tastes like rotten eggs and it only has three ingredients, under cooked meat, potatoes and water. We only get stew twice a day. I really miss you but have to go to sleep.
From Austin.
December 6, 1917 My dearest .... Theodore
This is the first time I've gotten to write to you. It's very boring and scary here. I only have a little bit of rest time, and then I have to do chores. I have to dig up trenches, and clean them. We usually move from trench to trench. I'm not eating food I would usually eat at home.
It's scary because, whenever you hear a gunshot, you think it might hit you if your head is above the trench. There is also no electricity.
I'll write to you again in a couple of days. From Thomas
Great letters boys! Ava has solved the Apple and Banana Puzzle, Davey has solved the Rubrik's Cube and Fletcher has been busy using reusable shopping bags to make poppies and attch them to Harvey, the sheep's fence, to show solidarity with all the people passing by who remember and are grateful to all those who have gone before us and have kept us safe and free.
Lewis has shown us what he enjoyed about last week and Ava told us what ANZAC means to her. Lots of you worked on Fractions in Study Ladder, Ella and Nevaeh completed their practice on xtramath. Some of you went to xtramath, but your practice wasn't completed. Keep going until the man says, "You are done." Thomas worked out the maths puzzles on his Home School Learning page. When you go back to this page, Thomas, there is a lesson waiting for you about BEDMAS, or you could share a google doc with Davey, because Davey knows all about the Order of Operations now.I am looking forward to seeing what you are doing this week. Last week, Kaden baked a cake, Riley shared some excellent writing and Mitchell made some elephants.
As usual, begin each morning with prayer, getting dressed, washing, eating breakfast, cleaning your teeth, and doing your morning chores to help around the house.
Exercise:
Today's TV2+1 Learning:
10.50 Junior Project
11.10 Middle Literacy (Age 9-11)
11.20 Middle Science (Age 9-11)
12.20 Aotearoa History
12.40 Senior Science (Age 12-15)
1.10 Senior Maths (Age 12-15)
2.15 Senior Project (Age 12-15)
2.45 Daily Diary
During this week, you will be finding out about the special day held at the end of this week, ANZAC Day. Use these resources to help you understand more about ANZAC Day and how important it is to New Zealanders. Listen to this video to find out about ANZAC Day, then click Activities in Seesaw and answer the questions.
If you want to find out more, visit this website, NZ History.
Listen to the story, Harry and the Anzac Poppy. Harry is finding out about his great grandmother's father who went to war when he was younger and wrote letters every month to his daughter. His daughter is now a lot older and she is telling Harry about the letters that her father wrote while he was at war.
What was it like for the soldiers in Gallipoli? These photos will give you some ideas.
Imagine that you are a soldier in the trenches in Gallipoli. Write a letter to someone at home. Remember to say what you are doing and how much you miss your family and how much you want to get home. Click on Activities in Seesaw to get started. Before submitting it, make sure it is easy for us to read because your spelling is correct and, as readers, we know where to stop at the end of a sentence because you have used fullstops correctly.
I found this very good poem for you to read. Hopefully, you'll be able to access it.
Fractions - This week, I have set some fractions work for you in Studyladder. Remember to work on xtramath, as well.
Create a piece of ANZAC art and upload it to Seesaw.
Create a Wordfind or Crossword, using words associated with ANZAC Day.
Using recyclable materials, design and make a 3-dimensional model of the Gallipoli peninsula.
Design and create your own ANZAC poppy using materials that you have at home. Display it in your window to show solidarity to others in your neighbourhood.
Create an ANZAC poster. Fill it with powerful images and words.
Create a gingerbread soldier.
Build a World War 1 bunker, using blankets, cushions and chairs.
Bake some ANZAC Biscuits - find a recipe or use this one.
Spend 5 minutes sitting quietly. Play The Last Post (video below). Write words that come to mind while you are listening to it. Write them in Activities on Seesaw.
Create a Diamante Poem about ANZAC
A Diamante poem looks like a diamond. The first line is 1 word that names the topic.The second line is 2 words that describe the topic (adjectives). The third line is 3 verbs ending in ing, The fourth line is 4 nouns (naming words) about the topic. The fifth line is 3 words about the topic. the sixth line is 2 feeling words about the topic. the seventh and last line is a word that means the same as the topic word. An example is:
Gallipoli
Quiet, Dark
Waiting, Fighting, Shooting
Trenches, Guns, Soldiers, Troops
Damage, Injured, Died
Lost, Cold
ANZAC
Puzzles of the Week:
If you find that one easy, try this one.
How about this one?
Create a Lego scene to honour the fallen soldiers
Miss Conception Film Competition
Song of the Week
Dance of the Week
