Generations Apart : Poem about Strange Times🐴🐬💙🐆 Learning outcome: To record the experiences of West Coast children from the past 100 years in order to create a History of West Coast people during times of difficulty and challenge - this will be turned into a book to be kept in local museums and at Shantytown.

Strange Times 

Going to school

Makes me very cool 

Learning new stuff

Is never enough 

I will do my best

I won’t give any less

Writing my work must be neat

It is such a pleasure to complete

Maths and sums are such a bore

But it just keeps on getting more

Having a best friend 

Makes my heart feel good at the end 

Playing outside 

Where no one ever hides 

Eating my lunch

You can hear me munch 

Doing Jump Jam is so much fun 

It is for everyone 

Hearing the bell ring at the end of the day

Makes me wish that I can stay

But now we are stuck at home

With no teacher, so alone

But mum jumped in to teach

Now life is a peach

Having her help me

Makes me want to be more of an amazing me

But still doing maths is such a bore

I want to close my door

Baking stuff everyday

Makes the missing go away

Playing games here and there

Where’s my card? Where where where?

Not going out is strange

But I have many toys,  quite a range

Readings my books at night

Makes me dream that I am a knight

I do miss my friends

Luckily Virtual meetings never ends

I wonder when school will start

I think I’m getting really smart

Wash your hands often, stay clean

You know what I mean

But for now I will stay home and I’ll stay safe

So that Corona virus will not make a wave.

By Karmi 10 years old  

Year 6 

Karoro school, Room 7