Term 2 is underway...

Inquiring into

For the first 3 weeks of term 2 room 4 are inquiring into New Zealand's role at Gallipoli. We began our inquiry last Monday by exploring how New Zealand became involved in WW1. 

We watched a series of animations about the landing at Gallipoli that was told from the ANZAC's perspective as well as the Ottoman's perspective. 

Afterwards we discussed the following questions

• Why did the landing go wrong?
• What challenges did they face because of where they landed?

We recorded our thoughts about what might have happened differently if the soldiers landed where they had expected to. We also recorded key words under each of the following themes related to Gallipoli: Challenges...Confusions...Bad luck...Solutions. Finally we used what we had learnt to draw a picture of what the landing may have looked like.

Literacy

During our writing sessions we have been creating scripts for fitness video clips that we can use on wet days. 

We first of all talked about the steps we would need to undertake in order to create a video clip. We then decided upon the best order to do the steps in. 

We have almost finished our fitness video clips so stayed tuned to see the finished product.  

ANZAC ceremony

On Friday we commemorated the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli by holding a special ceremony at school. 

Members of the New Zealand Air Force spoke at the event and each member of room 4 was given the opportunity to lay a paper poppy next to a cross that recognised a fallen New Zealand soldier.