NZ ANZAC Day Pack | New Zealand ANZAC Day Activities | Years 4-6

Bring ANZAC Day to life in your classroom with this purposeful and engaging resource designed especially for students in Years 4 to 6. This comprehensive ANZAC Day activity pack offers 15 versatile learning tasks that can be used as a sequenced mini-unit or as stand-alone lessons.

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Crafted to help students connect with the meaning and significance of ANZAC Day in an authentic, age-appropriate way. Most importantly, it has been created to teach students about the importance of ANZAC Day in New Zealand.

Whether you’re introducing the history of ANZAC Day or diving deeper into its emotional and symbolic meaning, this pack provides a rich mix of creative, reflective, and curriculum-aligned tasks—saving you hours of prep time while making learning meaningful for your students.

What is included:

• Coloured Lapel Poppies
• Black & White Lapel Poppies
• ANZAC Day Bunting
• The ANZAC Ode
• 'What ANZAC Day Means to Me'
• National Anthem fair cloze passage
• ‘The Red Poppy’ info sheet + 3 differentiated research tasks
• The Gratitude Poppy reflection task
• In Flanders Fields Poem Study:
  • Poem display version
  • Annotated version
  • Definition match activity
  • Comprehension questions
  • Postcard response
  • Poem/Prayer/Tribute writing task
    
• #AnzacDay themed BLM
• Procedure writing: How to make ANZAC cookies
• Differentiated crack-the-code maths tables - 3 versions
• ANZAC-themed lined writing paper
• BONUS: Exit Ticket + Student Tags
• Teacher answer guides

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How to use it in the classroom:

• As a week-long ANZAC unit or series of lessons
• To integrate reading, writing, history and maths
• As part of a commemorative classroom display
• To promote empathy, gratitude, and national identity
• For individual work, small group collaboration or whole-class discussions

 

❤️ What teachers are saying about this resource: ❤️

"Fantastic resource! Very helpful for ANZAC activities. Students loved them!" Candice

"It saved my time and was an awesome fit with the class, who enjoyed using it" Bronwyn

"Excellent resource! Thank you!" Abby

"This pack has everything you could need!" Alyssa

 

We are passionate about helping teachers here at Rainbow Sky Creations. We hope you and your students enjoy this resource.

Thanks for visiting.

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