ANZAC is a day celebrated every 25th of April every year. It has been celebrated since 1922 and is still going. ANZAC day is one of the longest worldwide event! On ANZAC day, we wear poppies because those were the first flowers to grow on Flanders Field battlefield. These flowers also grew between soldiers’ graves.
When the war was over, someone would play “The Last Post” on the trumpet. This song reminds the soldiers to wake up and go home. It is also calling out to the souls of the soldiers who died in the war, that they will come back to reunite with their families.
NZEF (New Zealand Expeditionary Force) joined in with Australia and the word “ANZAC” was born (Australian New Zealand Army Corps). Australia and New Zealand fought in Gallipoli fighting the Turkish soldiers and Germans. When the soldiers came back from war, %50 of the soldiers were killed/injured.
On the 24th of April, our school did a little liturgy at 2:15 and made small speeches about symbols of the ANZAC (lemon squeezer, poppies, etc). After we said the prayers, the children stuck on crosses into the ground. When they were done, the rest of Room 8 poked the ends of the sticks of the paper poppies into the ground and all left to go back into our classrooms.
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