ANZAC Activities!

Since ANZAC Day is coming up our class was set to do some ANZAC Activities while at home due to COVID - 19. In these activities we had to make different DLOs for the activities that were set and we had to post 2 from the activities that we have completed. There were 8 activities that needed to be done. 

The first activity that I did was to try and come up with a creative way for people to still acknowledge the ANZAC´s  because since the COVID - 19 has spread very quickly and we can´t go into big groups all ANZAC services were cancelled. So I decided that we should dress up in red on the ANZAC day! I made this poster on Canva.

Here is my poster.

Another activity that I did was 10 items that I would miss if I were a soldier having to go to Gallipoli.  Here we had to give detail about these 10 items that we would miss if we had to leave. So I made my poster on Piktochart for this one because it´s a big space that can be used when Canva is a very limited space if you want to just use one box and fit it in. 

So here is my poster! 

Something I found hard with making these is on Canva I had a bit of trouble with the space and it was a bit hard trying to fit in everything. Something I found hard with my other poster was trying to make it able to read what was on it because I wanted the background to have a war theme but you couldn´t really see the writing properly so I was trying to see what I could do for that. 

Something I liked with making these poster was doing all the fonts and the backgrounds and just designing it mostly.

I hoped you liked my blog post and remember to stay home,wash your hands daily and don´t touch your face!!!

Maori Dictionary

Kia Ora Everyone!

 This week because of COVID - 19 all schools have had to lock down which lead into online school. We have been doing all of our school work at home and for RE we had to kind of make a glossary for some Maori words and make a DLO for it. We had to also think about SISOMO again which is Sight, Sound and Motion so if someone has a disability with hearing we have to think about how they can get the message so I made a DLO using Piktochart and used Screencastify to record my voice while showing my DLO still! 

I have been sick through the week and I have a sore throat so I had to keep redoing my Screencastify but I was ok with this!

Here it is. 

Do You Know What An ANZAC Mascot Is?

Kia Ora! 

These few weeks we have been learning more about ANZAC Day and writing about how it was and reading stories. This week we have been reading and learning about ANZAC Mascots which were animals that soldiers brought to war for many different reasons e.g comfort.

This week we were given 2 activities and the first one was to make a DLO (Digital Learning Object) on what we have learnt about how mascots were used in the war and the second was to make our own ANZAC Mascots and we had to show how it could help the soldiers while they are fighting in the war!

I put all of these things in a slideshow because it all related together and it was easier to do.

Something I enjoyed with making this was definitely tracing my Mascot because it was so CUTE!

I didn´t actually struggle with anything and enjoyed doing all the tasks!

Father Francis Vernon Douglas

Kia Ora! This week and last week we have been learning about two priests named Father Maximilian Kolbe and Father Francis Vernon Douglas. There were two readings that told us about the lives of them and how they died and there was one video for Father Maximilian Kolbe. After we had read both of these or watched the video as well then we had to pick one to make a DLO for. I chose Father Maximilian Kolbe.

In the DLO we had to answer 4 questions that were given to us, the questions that we were given were ¨Who was he?" ¨What was his cause?¨ ¨ Who did he upset and why?¨ "How did his work of love lead him to death?¨

Something that we had to think about while we were making these DLO´s was SISOMO which stands for Sight, Sound and Motion and so if someone has a disability with their vision we have to be able to make something where they can still understand it so I used Voki which is a website where you can write things into the text box and there is a person that reads it out!  

I wasn´t able to fit in my answer for the last question because it only allows 600 characters in the text space so my answer to ¨How did his work of love lead him to death?¨ Answer : He was lead to death because he wanted to stay and be by his peoples side while they were fighting and he wouldn´t say anything about them while he was being tortured and kept quiet the whole time¨

Something that I found hard in this was trying to summarize my answers myself without using words that aren´t mine. 

Something that I enjoyed was using Voki and playing around with it because there are so many different types of characters that you can choose from!

ANZAC Diary Entry

WALT use descriptive language

This week for writing we wrote a diary entry for being in the war and in the diary entry we had to be really descriptive with our writing. We used an attribute chart to help us with our writing and give us more descriptive words to use. We had to write words for see, hear, location, movement and temperature!

At the beginning of this we read a book called ¨The ANZAC Violin¨ Written by Jennifer Beck and Illustrated by Robyn Belton. This is where we got our theme from! We could choose a place that we would write about like being on a boat or being hit and what we did. My writing was being on a boat.

Something that I enjoyed about writing was the descriptive words that we had to put in, and something that I found hard was trying to come up with exciting things to write about.

I hope you like the writing!

As the ocean crashes against the boat a nauseous feeling overcomes my body threatening to burst at any moment but I do my best to contain it. Looking out to sea the unsteady swaying of the boat is not helping at the least to make me feel better. BOOM. The deafening sound of bombs going off takes away the feeling of nausea and everything else. A freezing sensation travels up my spine as I follow the direction of the next bomb firing down.

 The next bomb pulses the sea and the boat starts shaking recklessly. The restless howls of bombs ache my ears each second of the ride and I try blocking it out but the screams seem to be getting inside my head. I give up. I'm faced with the feeling of nausea over again and my face turns light green. Trying my best to tame the feeling for just a few more minutes it's useless. I feel something chunky and wet climbing up my throat at a high speed. I sprint as fast as I can to the nearest window but itś too late. The substance bursts out like lava flowing from a volcano onto the floor. Nonstop.