Letter Writing and ANZAC Day

We had been learning to write letters.  We've been learning where the address goes, where to put the stamp, how to address who the letter is to and from and how to sign the letter at the end.

We had been learning about ANZAC day and had been reading some stories about the Gallipoli campaign.  We also read a great (but sad) book called Jim's Letters by Glyn Harper.  It's about two brother's who write each other letters during WWI. One brother is at home on the farm and the other is away at war on the front line, fighting.

We had to make some letters to pretend we were family members writing to each other during the war.  We first made some paper look really old by using coffee and tea stains, we got some old stamps images and then some nice poppy images to make our display and letters look like they had come from Gallipoli where the poppies grew.

Here are some pictures of our display.