Anzaz Harry's war

W.A.L.T create a scene based on Anzac Harry's war by using LEGO or materials we have at home.



For my reading today, I wanted to make a scene of harry working with a horse.

I mostly enjoyed making the soldier and decorating the scene. For decoration I grabbed some grass, rocks and a tree branch that I found on the ground and I used it for a bush.

Have you ever made something like this before? What Anzac story have you read?

Anzac day poster!

W.A.L.T Discover about Anzac day and then create a poster about it. Here's my poster!
For reading today we had to watch a video about Anzac day and then to create a poster about Anzac day and what we learnt. On this poster I have explained what Anzac day is, why its celebrated, and some background info about it and I also added some photos.
I have learnt a lot about Anzac day this week and I would love to learn so much more about the Anzac's, as I feel like they're our hero's.
I found out today from my Mum that many people bake Anzac cookies on April 25th. This is because these biscuits were sent by wives, mothers and women's groups to soldiers overseas because the ingredients in them do not spoil easily and the biscuits keep well during the long boat journey to our brave soldiers.
Have you ever tried baking Anzac cookies? How do you celebrate Anzac day?

ANZAC Ted

Our reading class for today was to create a ANZAC ted on google drawing. For literacy this week we will be focusing on ANZAC day because ANZAC was on the 27th of April, 2020.




I have written a story about ANZAC ted and I'd like to share it with you.

Ted was a solider in the war, he fought very hard, so he could come home safely to his family. The last war he had fought in was World War 2, he was not expecting a World War 3 to happen until 2050's or somewhere around there. He had a family of 3, Lilian, Lilian's mum, Ashley, and their dog, Charlie. He was very happy and spoilt Teddy. Until July 13th, 2020, 7 AM, everyone in the house was asleep, until Ashley hears a knock at the door... she looks at her phone and thinks "Who's knocking at my door at 7 in the morning?!". She just goes back to sleep thinking its a random person at her door that will go away. She quickly drifts back to sleep not thinking nothing of it. She then wakes up to the noise of Charlie barking like crazy and the person at the door knocking again. "Ugh!" she grunts as she gets out of bed. She slips her slippers on and carefully sneaks past Lilian's room and heads to the stairs and to the front door. Before she unlocks the door she decides to look out the front window in case its someone dangerous. She then sees at man in his 30's standing at her front door wearing a Camo jumper, pants and hat with some black boots. She immediately opens the door to ask this man what he wants, when she opens the door she is greeted by the man, "Hello Ma'am, I'm Dan and I was wondering if Ted lives here?" "Yes, is something wrong?" She replies. "Well I don't know if you've heard but, a World War 3 is happening and we need Ted now." He sadly says. Ashley then starts crying, "Sorry Ma'am, I know its hard.." He says in a sad, deep tone. "How long will he be gone for?" She asks. "Around 4 to 5 years." She starts to run upstairs to go get Ted, while running upstairs she sees Lilian and Ted walking to the stairs, once Lilian see's her mum she asks "Mum! Whats wrong?" She then responds saying "I'm so sorry, Ted is going to World War 3, today." They all started to cry. "Time to pack Ted's bag.." Ashley said. Ashley and Lilian headed down stairs while Ted packed his bags, while packing he found a photo of him and Lilian and wanted to take it with him, so he did. Once Ted was done packing he then walked down stairs to the front door. "I'm done.." "Okay, Ted. Its time to go." Dan said. "Bye Ted.." Said Lilian and Ashley. "I'm gonna miss you so much Ted, see you soon." Said Lilian. "I will too, bye Lilian." Said Ted, he then started to walk away with Dan. He then hoped in a car with Dan, then Dan and Ted drove away to the airport where they will fly to enter in the war.

To be continued!




Have you read ANZAC Ted before?

How to train your dog to close a door

Dogs are very smart, loyal and beautiful animals, they’d do anything for their owners that treat them nicely and with care! I’m going to be explaining to you ‘how to train your dog to close a door’ and I’ll also give you some tips along the way. One of the best ways to teach your dog, big or small is to put some non-transparent tape or a sticky note, that is a different colour to your door, and stick it on your hand. If you want to do it this way, keep reading… you take one of your dog's favourite treats and hold the treats in the opposite hand where the tape or sticky note is. You then want to come up with a word command for your dog, here are some suggestions: Close, door, touch, push, etc. Once you come up with your command, you want to say your command with a voice that is clear enough for your dog to understand and hear clearly. When the tape or sticky note is on your hand, you want to hold your hand in front of your dog's face, not too close. If the dog is not interested in the tape or sticky note, you can smear a treat on it so it smells, the dog will then sniff it. Once you say your command, if the dog hits it lightly with their face you then give them a reward, which is a treat, you then keep repeating this until your dog knows that tape or sticky note is what awards them the treat, you can start moving and positioning your hand in different places, this might be tricky for your dog so you need to be patient, remember it might not happen in all one day. It’s very, very important to be patient with your dog, if your dog doesn't react to the command immediately, wait around 5 seconds before saying your command again. If you keep repeating the command over and over again very quickly, your dog will just expect you to keep repeating the command again, and again and will just ignore you. Once your dog knows how to lightly push on the tape or sticky note, even after moving positions, then you’re ready to move onto the door. Stick some tape or a sticky note underneath your door handle high or low enough so your dog’s face can easily touch it. Once you stick your tape or sticky note to your door, you then point to the tape or sticky note while saying your command first with the door closed, when they touch the tape or sticky note you then reward them with a treat, once they know that their supposed to put pressure on the door, you can move onto doing the same as last time except with the door open. I recommend opening it a little bit but now too close to the door frame. Even if your dog pushes it a little bit, still reward them with a treat, if they manage to push it all the way so the door shuts, give them a jackpot. A jackpot is where you give your dogs around 2-5 treats. I recommend giving your dog 2 treats when they get a jackpot or when they close the door all the way. After your dog has gotten good at closing the door, you can slowly open the door more and more. When the door and the door frame is at a 90 degree angle, you can now start to challenge your dog. Open the door a little bit, not too far, not too close to where the door frame is, and only reward them when they fully close the door, when they don’t fully close the door, wait a few seconds before repeating your command or pointing to the tape, sticky note or door. Be patient and give them a second, because they might figure it out them self. Over time your dog will start to realise that when they hear the door close, that’s when they know that they're done, and they’ve done good. When they know that they have to fully close the door, you can open the door fully, like before, and then try to get them to close the door fully again, they probably won’t get it first try (depending on how fast your dog learns), so keep trying! Remember to reward them when they fully close the door and if they don’t close it full just say your command, point to the tape, sticky note or door after 5 seconds. Thank you for reading this and I hope you will try this with your dog (if you have one) and I wish you the best of luck!

Zentangle Art

W.A.L.T draw Zentangle Art


For the past week, Tui Whanau have been doing Zentangle Art. This is my Art ------>

Here is some steps of how I did it.

How I did this:

Step 1: First I traced a sea animal


Step 2: I then did some Zentangle designs on my animal, don't make your designs to small!


Step 3: Then go over your Zentangle art in Vivid.


Step 4: Cut your art out


Step 5: Get a piece of paper and you can dye and design your background whatever you want!


Step 6: Wait for your background to dry


Step 7: Once your art is dried, you can then glue your art on your dyed paper.




What I enjoyed most about creating my art was... dying the paper, it was satisfying and fun to do! I loved exploring different colours and things I can do. With my dyed art, when I was done I did little splashes of different colours on each colour. It gave this really cool blending sort of effect.


What I found most challenging was... doing my Zentangle art. Most people were at step 3, while I was still doing my art in pencil. I also found doing the vivid hard cause I made some small designs so it was hard to go over them and still make it look good. I did enjoy the process still and I think I did OK.


Have you ever heard of Zentangle art (Before this)? If you had would you like to do art on it? If you followed the steps I gave you, and make you own art, what colour would you use for your background?

Explanation Writing

W.A.L.T write an explanation about bees.

This term Tui Whanau has been learning to write an explanation writing. Here is my writing piece...

How bees make honey

Bees are very hardworking. Did you know that bees have to suck two million flowers to produce only one pound of honey?! That's what you call hard work. Bees also flap their wings two hundred times a second? That's impossible for a human to do!

Bees like collecting nectar in spring, cause that is when flowers bloom. How they collect nectar is by finding a bloomed flower, and the bees suck the nectar out, by using their tongue which is called a proboscis, it's like a straw. It then goes into their honey stomach and then they keep repeating this process until they feel full in their honey stomach.

While they travel back to the honeycomb, which normally takes around 7 days - 2 months so the nectar and the protein has time to mix together in the bees stomach mixes, which it then converts into honey.

When the bees come back to the hive. The honey is then placed into a honeycomb and the bees then flap their wings as fast as they can for the honey to dry out. They then cover it with wax to keep it fresh.

Once the bees are done filling the honeycombs, a beekeeper just has to farm the honey from the hive, put it in a jar, and sell it! That is how honey is made. What I learnt making this is that bees are extremely hard working and a human just has to go to the store, take a honey jar, put it in their basket, trolley, etc, and then pay.

I am most proud of is how I explained the explanation, even though I didn't do the best at planning, so I had very little information, but I tried my best to make it readable, not confusing Things I need to work on is... making the writing more eye catching and not boring, not rushing the writing and making it more complex.

Did you enjoy reading my blog? Do you like bees? Have you ever wrote a explanation?

Bob Ross

W.A.L.T write about one of our favourite artist.

Bob Ross is one of my favourite artist. He was 52 years old before he died of Lymphoma on the 4th of July 1995, which is very sad. He was born on 29th October 1942. Before he passed, he did calming tutorials on YouTube. His videos were about him showing you beautiful paintings hes painted and you can follow along and paint your own one, painting techniques, how to paint things that look hard, and more! You'll have to watch him to see more things he does. Bob has 2 children, Morgan Ross and Steven Ross. Bob Ross has a wife (now ex wife) Called Jane Ross, but she sadly die of Cancer. Bob Ross' current wife is now, Lynda Brown. It unknown if shes still alive. Why Bob Ross is one of my favourite artist is because I love his personality, its very calm, peaceful and wholesome. How I found out about him is because I found some of my mums old paint brushes she used, and I asked her if she used to paint. She replied back saying "Yes, I used to follow tutorials of Bob Ross.", and that's how I found out about him.