Ashhurst Memorial wall

Yesterday we went with room 15 to the Ashhurst memorial wall to conduct observational drawings of all the wreaths laid around the wall. Everyone gave this a good go and produced fantastic results! I am really impressed with some of the key words room 16 have come up with associated with Anzac day. Examples are:

Freedom, life, hope, hero, battle, survivor, love, families, lost, famine and trust.

Well done room 16!

We made ANZAC Cookies!

We had so much fun today making ANZAC cookies! The children were put into four groups and needed to follow the instructions of adding and mixing their ingredients. It was fantastic to see how well they all worked together. Once the biscuits were in the oven we needed to make labels for our packages. I was very proud of how well this exercise turned out - and amazingly not that big of a mess!

A visitor from the NZ Army

Today we had a visitor from the New Zealand Army - Sgt Mathew Hannah. The children found this an extremely rewarding experience and asked loads of questions. Mathew spoke to the children about what ANZAC meant to him - being a soldier, the importance of poppies and some general ANZAC knowledge. A big thank you to Sgt Hannah for taking the time and being with Room 16.

Welcome Back

Welcome back to term 2!

This week we have been focusing on ANZAC day. We have been making poppies, completing ANZAC art, constructed a class wreath and learnt lots of associated key words to do with ANZAC day.

Tomorrow we are making ANZAC cookies and are having a special visitor from the NZ Army. I will be putting photos on in the afternoon :)