ANZAC DAY

What we think we know about ANZAC Day ...

People sat on the hills with guns and when the boats came they shot the soldiers - Reagan 

We remember people from the army - Connor 

What we know now ...

ANZAC is the acronym for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps.  

April 25th 1915 was the day the ANZACs landed in Gallipoli Peninsula (now known as ANZAC Cove) to battle the Turkish Army during World War 1.

In NZ we celebrate ANZAC Day on the 25th April and this year it is the 100th anniversary of the troops first landing.  

More than 11 000 ANZACs died on the Gallipoli Peninsula, despite being there for only 8 moths (that's more than 1 000 ANZACs a month who died while fighting for peace and freedom)

The original ANZAC biscuit was known as an ANZAC wafer or tile.  It was part of the rations given to ANZAC soldiers during World War 1.  They were included instead of bread, because they had a much longer shelf life.

The last surviving ANZAC, Alec Campbell, died on May 16th 2002.  

What we want to know ...

Where did they place all the bodies of the dead soldiers? - Reagan 

This video is a tribute to American service men and women, as well as those from other nations, who fought side by side with them to restore peace and freedom in the troubled regions of the world.  As they fought and died together, let us remember them together.  



We have a field of rememberance at RSS.  

AT THE MARAE

On Tuesday room 2 and our buddy class Poutokomanawa, along with room 8 and 14 visited Te Ahu A Turanga Marae in Woodwille.  A fantastic time was had by all.   

Here are some photos from our day ...

READING

Oliver's mum loves his enthusiasm for reading.  He told her last night he had to read his book twice, because that is how he will get better. 

Today Charlie read his book over and over again, because he knew the more he practised during 'read to self' time the better he would be. 

TOHORA NUI SINGING

Every Friday Tohora nui sing together.  You can find our favourite songs on our blog.  Just click the 'our songs' tab at the top of our posts.

We love singing ...

READING

The boys using the magic pen from our rainbow reading programme.  The pen helps by reading the book to us.  We can also point to seperate words and it will read those too.  This is an activitity that we really like!

   

BUDDY CLASS

Today we met our buddie class. 

Here we are with our big buddies.  

BUDDY READING

We are learning all our routines.  Today we squeezed in buddy reading before swimming, while drinking our milk.  Fiona was impressed!  

GEOMETRY

We are learning all about shapes.  We know how to describe shapes by counting their sides and angles.  Our favourite game is guess the shape.  We have to ask three questions before we can guess the shape.  It's very challenging, so that means we're learning.  

Sandi has got us cutting out lots of shapes.  We wonder what we will be doing when we have finished cutting.  Sandi says we are very good at cutting - we are the very best that she has seen.