Kate H's homework challenge

For this challenge I have choosen
To help families in christchurch community after the earthquake. While school was closed i did the following to help. 1. Baking day- I baked for family friends who had a loved one missing in the Pgc building. - I helped nana bake for the student army and the farmers army. 2. Cat food- I used my pocket money to buy a tin of cat food to donate to the homeless cats appeal. 3. I raised $15.00 doing ( bob a job) for the red cross Christchurch earthquake appeal.

Teacher skit 1

Emma's puppet show

Inquiry Unit

Over the last couple of days Room 2 has been doing a variety of activities around the Christchurch Earthquake. This has included:

• liquefaction experiment
• looking at photos and video of the damage to the city center.
• learning about building design 
• learning about how a building gets constructed.

From this learning the children have decided they are going to apply use this new knowledge to make a difference to other people's lives by redesigning the CBD. The children are very excited by this.

This will become a major unit of work for the rest of this term and next term. Our aim is to redesign the CBD so that it is an earthquake resistant city and submit our ideas to the Christchurch City Council.

This unit has a real focus on on Science and Technology. The CARE Value that we will be integrating as part of this will be Community. The deep understandings that will be developed throughout the unit are:

1. Understanding the cause of earthquakes can help us to be prepared for their effects.
2. We can participate and contribute in the wider community to make a difference

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School newsletter

Newsletter 8

Inquiry

For our inquiry we learnt about our Christchurch earthquake. One of our activities was to experiment with liquefaction.
Here are some of the photos we took.

Leaf building

We hade to a design a building that we wanted to see in town