Charlie's W1 D1 BA1

Bonus Activity

Write a letter to a friend or family member to tell them that you are going to visit your country of choice. In your letter, please tell them where you are going, why you have decided to go to the particular country and how long you will be away. Feel free to invite them to join you, if you’d like!

Dear Mother

I will be traveling to Chile this month so do not be worried about me.

I was also wondering If you would like to come. They have lots and lots of beautiful scenery

for us to go and see. Chile may beutiful but chile is also extremely relaxing, Hope you can

make it.

From Charlie

Week 1 Day 1 Bounce Activity by Ashleigh

Bonus Activity

Write a letter to a friend or family member to tell them that you are going to visit your country of choice. In your letter, please tell them where you are going, why you have decided to go to the particular country and how long you will be away. Feel free to invite them to join you, if you’d like!

Dear Mom,

I want to travel to united arab, because this country is special Arabia create numbers that the world is using and also united arab is create by 7 different little countries, so that you can visit seven different cultures in one country. I think I am going to be away for ten days to visit diffent part of Arabia (maybe, if I have time) I am pretty sure that I will have fun and you are welcome to join and we can have more fun!!!


From Ashleigh
17/12/16

Mayas letter to John key

Maya

81 Tihi St

Stonefields School

AUCKLAND

John Key

Prime Minister

Parliament Building

Wellington

New Zealand

6160

17 March 2016

Dear John Key,

My name is Maya and I am in year 4 at Stonefields School.

firstly

why do they have to change  the flag just because australia thinks so. I think that the flag that they have doesn't suit them they should make it orange with yellow kangaroo on it or something so we can keep our flag.

secondly

why do they have to change  the flag just because australia thinks so. I think that the flag that they have doesn't suit them they should make it orange with yellow kangaroo on it or something so we can keep our flag.

finally

I think that it is not fair that australia is making us change our flag just because they got their flag before we got our flag and I think that there flag does not really look like it represents their country.How does there flag represent there culture I think that they should have a kangaroo on there flag because they are the only country in the world that has a kangaroo.

Yours Sincerely

Maya

Pativai's Letter to John Key

(Pativai)

81 Tihi St

Stonefields School

AUCKLAND

John Key

Prime Minister

Parliament Building

Wellington

New Zealand

6160

17 March 2016

Dear John Key,

My name is Pativai I am an year 6 and I go to Stonefields School.

I strongly believe we should change the flag because of the three reasons I am going to be explaining.

Firstly, I think we should change the flag because it is an original flag of new zealand and no other flag has other colours of designs like us. We should change our flag because of the fern in our flag there is no other flag that has an fern on it. We need an new flag because of our old flag it was simple and when we have our new flag we have a bright colourful New Zealand flag.

Secondly, I think we should change the flag because of all the culture from new zealand has been put into this flag. I think we should change the flag because of the fern and the colours in the flag for example blue is representing the south pacific. I think the flag should be changed because of it mostly representing new zealand, for an example the fern represents the sport in new zealand.

Thirdly, I think we should change the flag because it would be really nice to have an sports sign on our flag now it can represent the fitness and the gold silver and bronze that the spots team has been winning. The flag can represent our old flag too because the blue can maybe in some way represent.

I really think that we should change the flag because of the three reasons that I explained to you.

Yours Sincerely

Pativai

Carmen's Letter to John Key the Prime Minister

When I heard the name John Key I started to panic "what should I write?" but I got there in the end. 
Hope you enjoy reading my letter   :-)

Carmen .A.

81 Tihi St

Stonefields School

AUCKLAND

John Key

Prime Minister

Parliament Building

Wellington

New Zealand

6160

17 March 2016

Dear John Key,

My name is Carmen ,I’m a year six girl at Stonefields School. I live with my family in

St John's in Auckland.

I strongly believe that the New Zealand flag should stay the same for the following 3 reasons.

Firstly, the New Zealand flag has lots of memories of the Anzac War like how people died to protect New Zealand under the flag, so we could have a better world without war and disturbance to New Zealand. Also my sister is a brownie/girl guide and it means so much to keep the original flag as it is.

Secondly, the current flag suits New Zealand perfectly, the blue comes from the sea/ocean.

The Union Jack image represents how we used to be a part of the British empire. The southern cross represents the stars at night that watch over us and guide us south.

Finally I know the flag referendum would cost over $26 million. I know it’s not much for you, but think about the homeless they don't have as much money, and cancer, think about that. They need money, don’t get me started on a rest home oh boy they need money and hospitals, doctors, schools, kindergarten lots of other places that I probably don’t know about yet.

That's why I think we should keep the original flag as it is. 

Yours Sincerely Carmen A

Ashleigh's letter to John Key

Dear John Key,

My name is Ashleigh I am Year 6 girl at Stonefields school. I know if you want to change flag you need to use lots of money, but most people in our school want to change the flag, some people said we need to change our flag because Australia has copied our flag, some people said we shouldn't change our flag because that is wasting money.

I think we shouldn't change our flag because this flag has lots of history and you also can see the England flag inside our flag, so I think this flag is talking about where New Zealand has come from.

The new flag has symbols that represent New Zealand. However, the current flag, also represents our country. Some people said Australia is copying it, by just adding one star in the bottom of the flag but it still different, so this is why I don’t want to change our flag.  I know there is lots of people who want to change our flag but also lots of people don’t want to change our flag. I also don’t want to change our flag.

I was wondering why most of people in New Zealand want to change our current flag, I think this flag is better than the new flag. We already changed the New Zealand flag 100 years ago, so we are wasting money (26 million) to change our flag again. If we change our flag New Zealand’s history is going to have to start again.  

Yours Sincerely

Ashleigh

Letter to John Key by Shanya

For writing we had to write a letter to john key for the flag referendum. First we had to complete a Y chart, on the Y chart it says "What I know." "What I think." and "I wonder." Then we had to write the letter that the teachers have given us (Template).

Dear John Key,

My name is Shanya. I am a year 5 girl at Stonefields school. I think that we should change our flag.

My first reason is that us, and Australia only have a difference by one star on their flag. There are so many countries in the commonwealth that don’t have the union jack, but their are only 4 more countries including us that do have the union jack.

Secondly, by changing the flag people don't  get confused between our flag and Australia’s flag. The new flag is much more unique than our current flag, because what is the difference between Australia's and ours that really shows.

Thirdly I wonder the impact on people when we change the flag. I also wonder about how many dislike or like the new flag.

Yours Sincerely

Shanya R