ANZAC Day

It is very important that all of us remember the sacrifices the hardship and the devastation that war causes. 

We need to instil in our future generations how hard war is on families, countries and our economies. 

I have some books below that I recommend as well as two apps you may like to share with your grade. 

I have this pack in my store for K-2 students.

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or 

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It gives some background notes about ANZAC Day. I have also suggested books to read – 5 books

Word Work - How many words can you make? - Venn Diagram on flags 

Work on Writing - My thoughts about ANZAC Day - Recount ANZAC Day March - A wreath - Symbols

Reading - Only a Donkey – list animals

- My Grandad Marches on ANZAC DAY – character map, story board and beginning/middle/ending

- Small share book

Craft  - Directions and a template to make a flag

I have started a pack for Year 3/4 which will contain some photo writing prompts, a word wall template, cooking task, making paper poppies and a look at the symbols associated with ANZAC Day 

I have over the last few years gathered a few books about ANZAC Day and highly recommend you find them in your library - or like me check out your local bookstore. 

This one is my latest purchase....

There are also two apps that I would highly recommend

This one is called Gallipoli and has video, old articles, tasks and medals to gather. It is also free from our ABC.

The second one is called Remembering Them. 

It gives you access to real records all over Australia as shown below. 

Even our Foundation (Prep) students need to have an understanding about ANZAC Day. 

We have created this pack just for our very young students so that they can engage in an understanding of what this day means.

This pack will help you to explore through reading, writing, craft and cooking why ANZAC Day is so important to commemorate with our young students.

Click here to see this in our TpT store

or on our website

Reading and Writing anchors

We are loving our word wall this year. We use it everyday. The words help us in writing and reading and add to our vocabulary we use each day. 

The word wall toppers can be found by clicking here or on the images. 

Here are my Daily 5 cards that we use to show what each group are up to. 

They are a freebie in my store - scroll down and click on the cover image or preview. They are in different sizes for different purposes. 

As school has only just been back for six weeks - we are still consolidating our tasks and next week we will introduce choice.......

Updated Learning Intention Tags

I have added an extra set of tags with topic specific clip art. 

If you already own it, you can download the updated file straight away at no cost to you. 

This is a great way to have learning visible in your classroom and make your learners accountable for tasks. It is a great way to bring all your grade together at share or reflection time. 

The display of the learning Intention makes your learning sequence clear and everything relates back to that and there is no confusion as to what learning needs to take place. 

The Learning Intentions make goal setting more streamlined and related to relevant assessment. 

Here is the link 

CVC and Medial Sound Tasks

I have a group of kids that needed to work on CVC words this week and revise those tricky medial sounds. 

These tasks have come from my CVC word pack