war hero homework

Room 5 students were given a task for homework to find out about a war hero. We were given a piece of paper each which told us the name of an animal or person we had to reaserch. Some of of them were ;John Simpson, Anne Frank, Edith Cavell, Simpson's donkey, Caeser the dog and Sir Charles Upham. We had one week to complete this task. Some of the things that we had to find out were, when they were born, when they died, family history,  which war they were in, their part in the war[s] and our opinion of them.
 On Friday there were lots of creative ways that people had presented their information. Maddison showed her information on a grave that she had made.
By Kaya and Morgan

Pontoon technics

Yesturday Room 5 students had a task to make a pontoon with the technics. We had to design it so it could carry soldiers from their battle ships to the shore. We had to remember that it was very hot so we needed to add a shelter. We also needed to think about shelter from the Turks bullets. The pontoons had to be able to fit at least 40 to 50 soldiers on it. Some people added paddles so that the soldiers could row themselves to shore. Other people made paddle boats.
By Morgan and Nikau

ANZAC Poems

ANZAC DAY

Today in Room 5, we wrote some poems about the war in Gallipoli. Here are the poems that two groups composed.

1.   Shells! Shells! that's all I hear.
"Gas masks on!" yells the sergeant.
I aim
I fire
I kill,
We call for reinforcments,"Take cover!" There are too many.

2.  Knee-deep mud
Poison-gas shells
Endless fire
Explosions!

3.  Sitting in my trench
All I can think of is going home,
Longing for peace and my family,
Clean clothes
Warmth
Milk in my tea
And a comfortable bed.


DAWN SERVICE
Dawn Service
The service in the dawn
For all the people who have been drawn
To remember the soldiers,
Fought and died.

The dawn service
An important part
ANZAC Day,
When we put our wreaths to lay.

The flags fly at half-mast
As some say their last
Farewell.

The poppies still grow,
The bag-pipers and buglers blow.

April 25th
A day to think about
The people
Who died and fought in the wars.



 

GATE challenge

On Wednesday a group of Year Six and Seven students, [including Morgan, Crystal and Corbyn from our class] got together to complete a maths challenge. Our challenge was to figure out the link between Fibonacci, sunflowers and Palazetto Dello sport stadium. We found out that the link between the three was all to do with the Fibonacci sequence. Mr Fibonacci was a mathematician and found out the sequence that he invented normally always occurred in nature. The pattern of a sunflower's inside follows the sequence.

 
 After we had found the link between those three things we had to add two more things onto the list. The two  that we added to the list were roses and pinecones. We shared with Room 5 after we had finished.

 At two O'clock children from other schools including us shared on a video conference, what we had found out in the challenge.


Pine cone.

  Find the similarities betwen these!

The Forces' Bus

Today Room5 went to the Forces bus at the Forces bus we saw videos and it showed us what you could do in the future in the Army, the Navy, and the Airforce.

As you can see in the pictures there was a boat and personnel wearing medals.I'll tell you about the boat first. Jono is the driver and Crystal, Chloe and Holly are the passengers.
The medals were awarded to Cpl. John Goodwin. They are the Operational ServiceMedal and the General Service Medal, Soloman Islands [the green one]. In the videos there were troups playing different sports such as swimming, rugby and badminton.
Also in the video we saw troups taking part in activities such as helping on Peacekeeping  missions and practising combat exercises.
The Forces bus was really awesome!

by Corbyn and Crystal