A long holiday

25th March at 8:00 Wednesday was the day we started lockdown learning. It felt good to sleep in late

and work at home!  I did my priorities my teachers gave me until 9:55 and waited for the google meet

to start. The google meet started and the teachers told us what to do. The topic for this week was

Anzac day. There were discovery activities and hands on activities. In each one there were ten

tasks and you had to complete at least 5.

I finished 1 discovery activity and 1 hands on activity and so on. We also made Anzac biscuits

which are fascinating and they only lasted 2 days, so we made more and this time they only lasted 1

day. The week went so fast that before I could believe it, it was already week 2! Lockdown learning is

fun because the tasks were easy to complete but we didn’t have lots of resources because of Covid-

19 and my mom thought that it was simple. WE had to stay in lockdown for SO LONG because of

Covid-19! (It was actually fun at home so I wanted to stay at home when lockdown ended but I

couldn’t). 

The 2nd week was animal kingdom and you had 4 choices. These were the choices: African Big 4,

Reptile, Sharks and Big cats. I chose African Big 4 because I come from South Africa. We got a

choice to make a flipbook digitally or on paper and I chose digitally. It took me half an hour. The 2nd

activity I did was Mystery Animal. Mystery animal is where you had to ask the animal a question so

that you could guess which animal it was. My highest score was 3 guesses, the questions went like

this. “Do you have fur?” I asked. The animal said yes

. “Can you be kept as a pet?” It said yes, then I asked, “Are you a dog?” Then it said yes and I won. 

Before I knew it, it was the last week and it was Story time. Story time wasn’t as fun as all the weeks

and the best priority you could do was a digital breakout. The lockdown learning, or as I call it, the

long holiday was really fun, but my brother got sick on Thursday when we went to get wood but he

got sick so he ended up infecting me on Monday and I had to stay at home on Tuesday till the next

week. Anyways I was so used to being at home I almost forgot to go to school, but I got ready in

time. To be honest, I didn’t really want to go back to school. But my mom and dad said I had to go to

school. Lockdown learning was really fun and I’d rather do lockdown learning than normal school.