June 13

Our classroom looks just the same as when we left it.  It even looks quite tidy.

June 13

Today when we started to do our handwriting about 1pm, we all "experienced" a 5.5 aftershock.  We all got under the desks and waited while our relocatable stopped shaking.  We all went out onto the field with everyone else.  We all remembered not to yell and upset other people. We are all OK. Our Mums, Dads and extended families came to pick us up from school.  When nearly everyone had gone, about 2.20pm we had a bigger aftershock, we all sat down on the cricket pitch. 

Here are some photos of what it looks like round our school.  It is all rather wet! We are all safe which is the main thing.  And guess what? That spelling is going to get marked.

Don't forget to look after one another and have lots of hugs.

Our New City

Campbell is going to build a new city.

Our new, new Room 6

This is where our new relocatable classroom is. We love it.

Road fixers.

It is exciting getting too and from school these days, as they are fixing up the roads.

New, new Room 6

Our new new Room 6
We hope to move in at the end of the week.

The new Room 6.

The old classrooms

Not much left of our old classrooms.

Postgate School

We have written to Postgate School in Wellington to thank them for all the presents that they sent down to us.  Thank you Postgate School. We loved them.

Toby and Campbell are in "The Press".

Today Campbell and Toby had their pictures in "The Press". 

Demolition of our classrooms.

Our classrooms continue to be demolished. I think that they are "open air classrooms"!!!! And the trees have been cut down. 

Home school

Today we did home school, it was fun. I got to do reading, writing, circle time and maths. We got breaks. It was fun on our first day. The teachers were my mum and Aunty Kym. In my class is Alex, Nicky, Ollie, Seth, Taylor, Summer, Matthew and me. Jacob and Kendall are starting tomorrow.We brainstormed ideas for writing about the earthquake. I played a game of bingo and I came first. I had to add numbers. We did silent reading today. Break was long as. Home school is awesome.

6.3 earthquake

On Tuesday there was a big earthquake. School was very damaged. It was a 6.3. It was centred in Lyttelton. Lots of people cried but I didn't. Alison's car sunk so we had to walk home. It was cool walking in the sand. It was sticky and you can sink in it. When we got to my house we discovered all the cracks in the driveway. We went to seth's house to get some stuff and when we were in the car we felt an aftershook. then we went to Kym's house. We saw the brick wall was broken and fell over. Then we went home and Seth left. Alex Nicky Ollie Kym and Stu came over and stayed the night. Nana ,Miriam and Hector stayed the night too. Today is Sunday. by Toby

Different people express themselves in different ways.  Some people who are deaf express themselves through sign language.  Hayley is showing us how you can do this.

Earthquake

Earthquake

Emerges energetically
Afraid of the shaking
Rocking all night
Tragic in the air
Horrifying sights
Quake beginning
Unexpected event
Aftershocks keep rolling
Knowing things are wrong
Earthquake is here

By Sophie

Earthquake

We have been learning about inferences, when we are doing our reading, and we like looking at the cartoons in the paper.  We have been looking at the ones about earthquakes and we know exactly what they mean because we can make connections with them and we have lots of prior knowledge about earthquakes. Making inferences helps us understand what we are reading. We also think that it is a good way for people to express themselves.

Earthquake

Milly wrote this at home soon after the earthquake.


Early Saturday morning we had an earthquake.  It woke up a lot of people.  Some people slept through the whole thing.  I got a huge fright and so did other people. I heard on One News that there has been about 300 aftershocks.  Some houses are badly damaged and homes are destroyed to pieces and pieces.  Hopefully people are not badly hurt.  The grounds are lifted and roads are cracked and power poles are falling. Some people are stuck at home but at least people can do other things like board games. Some streets have got water on the roads and roads are badly damaged.  One News is saying it will be over soon.  Cars have been covered in bricks.

By Milly 

Earthquake

Emergency busy
Aftershocks still hitting
Road came up and bumby
Terror everywhere in Christchurch
Hard earthquake
Quake damage houses
Unexpected earthquake
Aid kit people buying
Kats terrified running away
Electricy off

By Dathan

Earthquakes

We have been learning more about earthquakes.  We have been thinking about all the words that describe earthquakes and how we feel about them. We have been expressing our ideas about earthquakes by writing about them.  Olivia tried to guess what the next earthquake would be.

Liquefaction

We did some liquefaction experiments to show what happens to the water and the sand when there is an earthquake.  During a quake the squeezing done by sesmic waves happens very quickly and the water does not have time to flow out of the way of the sand particles.  As the particles try to move closer together they push on the water which pusches the sand up.



I think it was really good because it showed what some of the people had been getting around the town. by Keely.