My ANZAC Art

My Soldiers Tale

Remember This, Don't Forget It

Look at us all, exhausted and hurt, coughing around non-stop.

Our muddy bodies, we feel like doing is, crying and sleeping, we are not able to move or anything.

Pulling myself out to safety, not stopping any of the way.

I see the trench over there I hear my tummy rumbling, I keep going while I fight the pain.

Im sitting here watching all the men.

They all look exhausted and can hardly move.

We all have cuts and bruises all over our bodies and our boots have gone missing.

By looking at everyone's faces I know what they want to do.

“Gas, gas, poisonous gas, put your gas mask on now, there is gas all around here!”

We all put our gas masks on, we hear a noise, it sounds like someone is calling for help.

He is choking and coughing, and falling to the ground.

But when we went to help it looks like we are too late, he has already gone.

Where has everyone gone, all I can see is smoky clouds of poisonous gas.

I can here my friends but I just can't see them, I can see a little but I can't see a lot.

I still can't see through these smokey gas clouds, I hear conrad trying to get air.

I reach out to help him but I can't, we hear him gurgling, choking, coughing, then it went silent.

This is the worst thing ever to be doing.

It is not nice, he is wriggling around, vomit or something is coming out of his mouth.

There is blood coming out in all different places, this is not nice at all.

Please say I don't need to see this ever again.

Yuck, me and my group are pulling this wagon with dead men in it.

They all look disgusting their pale skin and all the blood in their mouth, ewwe.

He just spat blood on one of my group mates, It was not disgusting.

Would you like to do this.

At war it is not nice ,not at all, the bleeding, mud, rats, everything you don’t like.

People are crying and missing their families, at night that's all they do cry.

At least 300 people die a day, and it is not nice to see all the blood coming, it is so upsetting.

Do you still say that it is glorious to die for your country, well it is really not.

By Mia

HNI Device Expectations

This is my HNI Device Expectations poster

WANTED POSTER

This is my WANTED POSTER

Porotiti

For Kotahitanga Week we made some Porotiti.

A Porotiti is a maori instrument.

Theses are the instructions:

here is my one:

Homework

This is my homework for this week:

Keep or Change the flag

These are my reasons to Keep or Change the NZ flag:

Introduction:

This year between the 3rd - 24th March New Zealand will be having a referendum ( which is where everyone in that country votes ) about changing or keeping the flag. If you want to vote you have to be 18 and over. We have already had the first vote now it is the second vote and it is down to two flags the flag we have now with the union jack and the new flag the flag with the silver fern on it. If we change the flag we will not be part of the commonwealth so it is very important decision to make.  

History:

History is the key to keeping us together. The NZ flag was adopted in 1902. The flag we have now is the third flag we have had. The four stars on the flag represent the Southern Cross. This flag we have now was took to war with all of the soldiers and hundreds died under this flag. We have won the rugby world cup three times with flag. Even if we do change the flag we will start a new history with it.

Keep:

Take a chance and keep the NZ flag. Instead of changing the flag we could use all of the money on something more important like giving some to charity or fundraising schools or more important things. We took the flag to war how special is that we don't want to take that away from us. And lots of soldiers died under the flag how sad is that and if we change the flag that will be all gone. The flag has been in our country for generations why change it now. Please say yes and keep the flag!

Change:

Change the flag because we care. We should change the flag because it is getting too old and we need a change. The flag is too similar to Australia's flag. The new flag is more NZ not britain. It would look better on uniforms. It is more NZ because it has the Silver Fern. We need a change because we need to we have had that flag for too long we need to change it is about to time we change the flag and have a new one.

Conclusion:

I think we should change the flag we have had the old flag for too long it is about time NZ express them self and change the flag with a bit more NZ on it!

Food Tech

Here is what we made.

Four people were selected ( 2 boys and 2 girls ) to make a pizza but our cooking teacher chose the ingredients. 

Author's Purpose

This my P.I.E about dogs.
I chose dogs because I love dogs they are so cute.
We had to write something to Persuade people about dogs, something to Inform people about dogs, and something to Entertain people. 

Crab Soccer

Here is a new game we learnt called Crab Soccer.

 It's easy all you have to do is wait for number to be called out, walk how a crab walks and try get a goal.

Here is us playing:

 

 Gold Book Goals For Term 1 and 2

My gold book goal for terms 1 and 2 is to my gold badge for technology and half of my sports badge for netball. 

I will achieve this by being nice and listen in technology lessons and get to practices and games on time.

By the end of the year 8 I hope to have achieved my honours badge.

Identity Collage
This week we made a collage about ourselves with cut up magazines.
Here is my one

Sunsmart!

In assembly we talked about sunsmart to wear a hat all the time and put on some sunscreen! 

Technology

Food tech with Mrs Basstett
First technology lesson, we made kebabs.

Cyber safety

We created a world cloud about cyber safety and what people feel like when someone says something mean. In class we watched a video about a girl who stood up and said mean things about her.

My goal in reading is to try and read before bed.

To achieve this goal I need to have a book ready on the side of my bed. 

The people that will help me are my parents.

My goal in maths is to improve in my maths

To achieve this goal I need to practice at home

The people that will help me are my teacher and my parents

My personal goal is to do more art 

To achieve this goal I will do lots of art at home

The people that will help me my parents