Tuning In - Term 2

As part of our Tuning In to our Big Question 'How do Fossils give us clues about life from the past' Two Awesome visited Te Manawa.

Te Manawa on PhotoPeach
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ANZAC: Writers Notebook

These pieces of writing have been published from some of the students Free Writing books.

Free Writing is based on an image or text which is visible on the whiteboard first thing on the school morning.  Each student has five minutes to write about whatever comes into their head using the information as inspiration.

This was the image on Tuesday morning ...

Hello?   Anyone in here?  Of course there is because it is a cemetery, but I actually know who is here.  I know it is a soldier from a war because it is a poppy.  I do not know which war it could be, war 1 or war 2?  What war could it be I wonder?                                                               Charlotte

Poppies are pretty.

Poppies are red.

The flower is an ANZAC flower.             

Anneliese

No, I don’t want you to die.  Wha, wha.  Oh why did this happen?  This is so sad.  I want you back, please come back to life.  I don’t even know why they did it.

Here you go, here are some poppies for you.                   

Ajae

Why, why did you have to die, all those people that I don’t know.  Stop with the violence.

ANZAC Day is reported on the news.  Someone is going grave to grave and crying and he doesn’t even know these people.

Tess

ANZAC Day.

Red poppies by a stone.

That person was probably in the war.                                  

Austin

ANZAC Day, not a really good day.  The day we remember that the people in the war died, not cool.  My Granddad was in the trenches too, it’s a good thing he didn’t die.

I wonder why the war started?  I wonder what it would have felt like for the people in the war?                              

William

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ANZAC Day

Two Awesome created a wreath made from newspaper and branches, the poppies were cut from red paper and had the centre drawn on with a Sharpie.

Austin marched alongside his Policeman father during Dawn Parade, Palmerston North proudly holding Two Awesome’s wreath.

This wreath was later placed by Austin at the base of the cenotaph.

Thank you to all those from Room 2 which attended ANZAC Day in remembrance of those that have fallen.

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Clay yourself

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Gymnastics!

Gymnastics

I felt absolutely nervous as I walked through the doors of the gymnastics arena in Wanganui. I did some stretches which we call, conditioning, (not the stuff you put in your hair though!)I felt achy, sore, tired, and hungry.

I felt like passing out and flopping over on the ground!

As I started my first apparatus, I had forgotten my routine! I had to go back and ask I felt so embarrassed! Finally, I think I’m ready now I mumbled to myself in my head. And before I knew it, I had finished with a score of 13.500 out of 15.500! Well done I heard my coach say enthusiastically. I felt proud, I felt like I was on top of the world! I still had 7 more apparatus but I tried not to think about that. By 9

o'clock I had finished. I felt nervous until the lady called me first! Victory was mine! ( for once.)

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