Towards the end of Term One and over the last couple of weeks we have been learning about World War One and the ANZACs.
We have the start of a beautiful wall display which we will add some descriptive writing to.
But this week we started using the School Kit called Walking with an ANZAC. https://www.walkingwithananzac.co.nz/
"There are 32 items inside the box your teacher has found. Each item carries a very different story. It is important that before you begin you know that each of these stories is real. Nothing in this box is made up or pretend. Each item belonged to a person that attended a school in New Zealand, just as you do today. How much or how little you discover of their story depends on you. What we can promise is that the story is out there waiting to be discovered. This website will give you great clues that you can use to find the pieces of the story behind your item. We hope you love the journey as much as we have."
So far we have started by generating some questions about our item and our soldier.
Lots of the learning we have done has been about other people. This learning is helping us to see that these ANZACs were real people, with real families and real lives. In some cases their lives ended tragically during the war.
Here we are creating our questions with our research partner:
We also created a 3D display board for the wonderful posters from School Kit.
What incredibly, powerful learning! We were so lucky to be able to learn from such an incredible resource. Every time to see an 'old' person, you might just have more respect for them...maybe they were one of the ANZACS who sacrificed so much for us.
ReplyDeleteP.s. your display box is cool :)