James Martin Anzac Task

James Martin

Who is James Martin? James Martin was the youngest Australian anzac soldier, he was only 14 when he joined the army; he was the youngest Australian known to have died in World War I. He was one of 20 Australian soldiers under the age of 18 known to have died in World War I. His full name was James Charles Martin, although he was rather called Jim. His date of birth was on the 3rd of January 1901, and died on the 25th of October 1915, James Martin was born to Amelia and Charles Martin in Tocumwal, New South Wales. His father was born Charles Marks, in Auckland, New Zealand. At war, after suffering mild symptoms for about a fortnight during which time he refused treatment, he was evacuated to the hospital Glenart Castle 25 October 1915 after he developed diarrhoea. He died of heart failure that night, at the age of 14 and nine months, and was buried at sea the next day. At the time of his death only Martin's parents and his best friend, Cec Hogan who was himself only 16 knew Martin's real age.

James Martin Letter

Thank you again for letting me coming to war. It hasn’t been so bad but I am hoping it will finish soon… Not that it will. The Turks are still about 70 yards away from us, don’t worry I am doing splendid over here. I don’t like the conditions it is so muddy here, although I should have seen it coming. I am surprised I have not fallen yet however I am suffering some minor injuries but I am coping. At the moment currently I am not able to tell the time, in fact I don’t think anybody does, I might ask my mate a bit later… For now I will hope for the best, especially when it comes to my duty to guard watch the base while fellows rest. I am eating a stale biscuit right now, it is the only treat we get! But it is better than nothing. I kind of wish I chose not to go, although it feels good to fight for your country, right? I'm not sure about the other guys but it is getting very tense in the trench, fights have been picking up over who is doing what duty, it is doing my head in! I don't think they realise that they probably won't see daylight tomorrow, guess we'll wait and see. I don't know how much but I am guessing 16 men have died already, hopefully be the 17th, anyway, send the family my love and I hope for the best, stay in touch soon!

Sincerely, James

Menus

This week we have been making menus in maths. We had to create kiwiana food and had to make prices for every meal we made. Some tasks we had to do were adding some meals together and we had to times it and figure out the answer.

New Zealand Notes Research

We made a slide show on the New Zealand Currency, we did the five dollar note, the ten dollar note, the twenty dollar note, the fifty dollar note and the one hundred dollar note. We also made our own two hundred dollar notes.

Quick Write

This week, we were doing a quick writing task. We had a maximim of 10 minutes to complete this. In it we had to include 5 words that were the complete opposite of what was happening in the picture. The words were, fun, run, billings, unicorn and santa. The focus in this was getting ideas down, the picture was about explosions. Here is the photo and my piece of writing.

“Santa Unicorns! That’s all I ever want” yelled Mr Billings “well actually I wish I had hair” he pulled a face, I can’t wait to do the fun run thought Mr Billings; it will be sooo FUN! That night the fun run took place near a construction site about to be finished, “I know I will bring my favourite car because it will be fun! Thought Mr Billings. That night Santa arrived at the showdown of the fun race to give presents to the kids at the fun race, “Aww I want a present” Yelled Mr Billings so loud everyone heard him, even Santa. Mr Billings started to cry very loudly he got Cary (HIS CAR) and started the engine, this fun run is a DUMB RUN!!!! Yelled Mr Billings with fury as he rammed Cary into the fun run, explosive TNT and explosions were everywhere lying down blowing up every second, fortunately Mr Billings did not survive, neither did Cary.

Cyber Safety Word Cloud

We watched a video about Patty on Youtube. In this video a girl was being very mean to Patty, saying horrible things to her face.

The message about this was: If you wouldn't say it in person, why say it online?

Here is the Tagul I made.

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Maths Place Value - Wishball

The other day we did a maths game online which involved subtraction and addition of place value. A number was randomly drawn and we had to add this or take this away from one of the place value. We had to reach a target number using addition and subtraction in less than 20 turns. there were different modes you could do. We could choose from whole numbers to thousandths.