Term 4 Week 3

WOW The has the year gone quick or what!
Its all ready Term 4, Week 3 and we only have 6 more weeks before the end of another year!
I would like to know what you have enjoyed this year!
For me it would have been making food in cooking for technology! Man the cookies were so good!
So write a comment and tell me! 

Armistice Day

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when I say Armistice Day or Remembrance Day?

Well for me it’s the ending of World War one and it reminds me of the 56,000 New Zealand
men and woman that were wounded or had died serving for Great Britain in World War 1 
as some people like to call it The Great War, that was one of the most disastrous events in 
human history. It has been told that Armistice Day is at the 11 hour of the 11 day of the 11 month 
at 11 am, but it actually got signed 6 hours earlier at 5 am. This year is the 94^th anniversary 
was signed.

Several countries remember the people lost during the First World War. As respect you’re 
expected to stop for two minutes at 11 am on the 11^th of November and remember the people 
that had lost their lives at the war. As the Armistice was an agreement between Germany and 
England, both sides had to stop fighting, although the terms of it made it impossible for 
Germany to restart the war. Germany was ordered to give up 2,500 heavy guns, 25,000
 machine guns, 1,700 airplanes and to give more submarines than they actually had. They 
were also asked to give up several warships. If Germany broke any of the terms of the
Armistice signing then the fighting would begin again with 48 hours warning.

On November the 11^th 1919, Present Wilson proclaimed November as the first memory of
Armistice Day with the following words: “ to us in America, the reflection of Armistice Day 
will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of these who died in the countries service and 
with gratuide for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and 
because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and 
justice in the councils of the nations…”

As a week before the Armistice, on the 4^th  of November 1918, New Zealand troops had 
been involved in the successful recapture of the French Town of Le Quesnoy. The attack 
cost the lives of about 90 overseas, including 24,115 in France, 23,541 in England and 4,451 
in Egypt.

As a remembrance of Armistice Day some people like to say this poem,

They shall grow not old,

As we that are left grow old,

Age shall not weary them,

No the years condemn,

At the going down of the sun,

And in the morning,

We will remember them.

After the Armistice of 1940, the carriage was taken away and later destroyed and buried 
in 1945. The site of the signing of the 1918 Armistice itself was completely destroyed at 
Hitler’s request although has since been restored. In 1940, Adolf Hitler made France sign 
an Armistice with Germany in the same railway carriage after the country had come under Germany.

Brass bands and decorated floats led the wat as returned soldier, school children and 
crazily costumed performers marched along main streets carring banners and flags. Public
officials gave earnest speeches and crow gathered to celebrate the end of four long years
of war.

I’m glad today that New Zealand is not involved in a war like The Great War because 
there would be people that I know and love involved in going off to war. My great, great
, grandfather went to war and received a medal for his bravery. My Uncle has his medals 
that he received. Even though it is an honor to have his medals in our family I am pleased 
none of my relatives have to go and fight.

I think that armistice Day is so important to New Zealanders because of all of the New 
Zealanders, family members and people that you known, that were killed in the Great 
World War, I also think that it is important because it I a world wide experience that 
has effected everyone on matter how old or young you are or how much you know about it.
 Another reason is because we need to remember all the people that have helped and fought
 in the Great World War and served for our country.

  

   

     These men are marching to war.

By Kaitlin Wilson, Wilson School, Year 7.

Term 3 Reflections

Something I am proud of:

Getting an Excellence award in the Science Fair, because we are following it up by cleaning Marshalls Creek banks with two classes.

Something I need to work on:

 I need to work on writing, because it doesn't have many adjectives in it.

Reading Goal:

To break up big words, because I don't know most of them.

I can achieve this by breaking up words and sounding them out, using syllables.

Writing Goal:

To work on my proof reading, because I keep on missing little things.

I can achieve this by reading through my work and double checking it.

Maths Goal:

To learn my 6x, 7x, 8x times tables quicker, because it takes me ages t figure them out.

I can achieve this by practising them over and over again.

THE OLYMPICS!

WOW The Olympics was AWESOME I wish it would keep on going for ever!
My best friend Charlotte and I have keeped an eye on Mark Todd and Andrew Nicholson in Equation. It has been great fun cheering them on!
I would like to know what your favourite thing was about the Olympics!




  

This is the Olympic New Zealand Equation team!
from right to left is Mark Todd then Andrew Nicholson

My Pets!

These are my pets Cruze (PONY) and my Ginge (cat)

This is my pony Cruze looking up his head!

This is my cat Ginge who is sitting on a
post that is about 2m high!

POEMS

Last term we were learning about Poems.
We had to do ether an I Am poem and three little poems or four little poems.
I did an I Am poem and three other little poems.
So here are mine that I did. I did a I Am poem and three little poems. So this is one of my poems! it's about yellow!

THE ORVILLECOPTER!

Miss Brown found a funny picture about a cat that is a helicopter and she said that we had to write about it, so here here it is. (This story is from the cats view.)

One dark stormy night I was strutting a long the top of a fence. Just then a stranger picked me up and took me into their huge gray wheely thing it was bigger then I had ever seen! It had little seats BUT a huge bowl kind of thing in the back with what looked like had heaps of giant brown cat biscuits!
YUM! The stranger took me to his giant box and feed me, Until one day I was crossing the road to see my best friend Jazz when somebody came a long the road with their wheely thing and ran over me. I only heard  a screech of the brakes and the sound of people crying and I only saw black  NEXT thing I knew I woke up I felt fine at the time but when I tried to walkI fell over instead I didn't know what was going on! Next thing I knew I was flying!

SPEECHES

At the moment we had been learning about Speeches, we have to do a speech that tries to convince people to do something or to not do something. My speech is about  Why you should bungy jump!
When I'm done my speech I will ether take a video or write it on my blog.