The Soldier who never returned poem

There’s a bottle of beer in the Waiho Forks bar,

From the rest on the shelf it stands out like a star.

For its shape is old fashioned and it just might be purple

And the label proclaims that its “Ballins Four X”

It was bought a long time ago by a young soldier brave;

On his final leave home, these are the instructions he gave.

“Don’t break it or sell it, just keep it in store,

And we’ll drink it when I come back home from the war.”

He was killed overseas on the Island of Crete

When they battled it out with the German elite.

There’s a headstone but nobody knows where he lies,

If he sleeps his last sleep ‘neath the sea or the skies

But the bottle still remains at the Country Hotel,

A memorial stands to a soldier who fell,

And travellers and locals take time out to think

Of the soldier who never came home for his drink.

And somehow a glow by the bottle is shed

As poppies surround it and edge it with red,

For each Anzac Day there’s a new one to put there

And they lie like a wreath round that bottle of beer.

There are many stone cairns scattered over the land

But I wonder how many are polished by hand.

Though the cap is all rusty and outshines the chrome,

As it waits for the soldier who never came home.

We have been learning everything about the soldiers who fought in the World Wars. We have been learning how to skim and scan and get information from stories and poems.Our Learning Intention is to find the main idea in a poem.

Writing a Narrative - Jessie and Juanita

“Get off the road!” shouted the man in the taxi. James was on his morning jog on a busy road, not caring about what he was running into such as the cars. As he was running he turned his back and saw a man standing on the edge of the bridge wanting to jump.

As James saw the man he ran as fast as he could  trying to save the poor old man’s life, but sadly he was just an inch away too late. The Scotland Yard ran to the scene wanting to know what happened. James sprinted, thinking he would get arrested. He hopped onto a motorcycle driving fast, over the limit anyway. “What will happen to me if they think it was my fault?” he said to himself. They chased after him wanting to know why he ran..

He went home thinking that no one would ever know it was him sadly the Scotland yard   knew. He had no choice but to skip town. He said his last good bye to his family and he said I love you and went on the run. Little did his family know, that James would never return.

He left the city and his family had no idea about it. All they knew was he was being “awkward” around them. They knew something was up so they followed him. Sadly they lost his tracks and they never saw him again.

These past 2 weeks for writing we have been learning how to write an narrative using TOPES-Title,Orientation,Problem,Explain,Solution,Mood words, HCSP-Hook,Character,Setting and Problem. Our Learning Intention is to write an narrative story,my partner Juanita and I were writing about a man being innocent but he was blamed for the event.

Mathletics

Today for maths our maths teacher Mrs Donaldson had a game for us named mathletics. My partner Cecillia and I worked with Ana and Victoria we all worked as a team. The game went like this you had to hold a piece of paper that had math equations on them, then you had to run all the way to the end of the court and run back then you had to answer the math equation. When my partner and I got stuck we asked our neighbor/friends  if they could help us. The 3 groups that came 3rd,2nd,1st  were Evelyn and Juanita they came 1st then went Mia and Zahra they came 2nd then finally Cecillia and I came 3rd, but our group was just an inch away from Ana and Victoria.

Current Events - Auckland Buses Strike Jessie

This afternoon LS2 go into pairs  and given an  instruction. Today we were learning about the Bus Strike in Auckland City, we were learning everything we learnt from article's and video's about the bus strike in Auckland. Our learning Intention is to Identify the 5 W's of a Current Event, we had to think about the 2 Point Views clearly so that it was a correct statement. This is an Link to the article.

Quick Write Rotation - Jessie and Afu

Last week our writing group were split up into 2 pairs. We were learning how to use mood words in our writing.My partner and I were choosing which one we should put on our blog so we chose the Dark Shadow gaining on us. Our Learning Intention is to understand how our choice of words create the mood of the story.My partner and I when we had to change our writing we used DRAFT (D-Delete,R-Rearrange,A-Add,F-Fix,T-Talk.)

Planning a Narrative Story.

This week for writing we are learning how to plan an narrative story. Our Learning Intention for writing is (To write a plan for a narrative story.)For our learning we used TOPES and the 5 W's for our planning.

Rounding Code Breaker - Jessie

This week our maths groups worked on a code breaker which means to unlock the words with the numbers. Our learning Intention was to round whole numbers to the nearest 1,10,100,1000.

PBS Flag Vote

This is a DLO  about the PBS flag votes. I created a graph to show the statics of the votes. I explained why I think most students in PBS voted for the current flag.