Matchbox craft

Today our group was a small one. We looked at some matchboxes that Miss Bland made to remember her great uncles who were in the war. Each one was different because it told a different person's story. We tried to see if we could understand what their stories were from the pictures and symbols on the boxes. 

Joe recognised the blood and bullet holes and knew that the soldier had received gunshot wounds. 

Lorin knew that a soldier had been a tunneller because of the picture he saw on the box. He also recognised that the soldier had both Australian and New Zealand connections because of the flags used. 

Aaron knew which soldier had met an untimely death from drowning because the matchbox had a ship on it. 

Ivo recognised the Red Cross on the box and knew that the soldier had been admitted to hospital. 

Each boy decorated their own matchbox with pictures of things that related to the person he was researching. Ivo put a picture of Anzac Cove on his box and a picture of the hospital tent because his soldier got really sick while serving on Gallipoli. 

Aaron and Lorin used pictures of horses on their boxes because their great uncles were both troopers. Lorin added an old Canadian flag and an old photo of cows too. This was to represent the fact that his great uncle was a dairy farmer and that he married a Canadian woman. 

Joe included a photo of an old World War 1 bakery in his box because his great grandfather was a baker during the war. 

Our matchboxes are not quite finished. We want to finish them at home with our families, then we will bring them back to school to be displayed with our research.