Keeping Ourselves Safe

This morning Constable Kate visited us as part of Keeping Ourselves Safe.

Special places

Today Room 1 and 2 began our unit on Special Places. We walked down to the site where the Baptist Church used to stand and experienced the of 185 Empty Chairs that commemorates the lives of those who died in the earthquake on 22 February 2011.




Chris the Minister explained about the 185 square metres of grass and the 185 Empty Chairs.








We spent two minutes in silence to pray for those who died.




We then walked across to the river and looked at the sculpture that commemorates those who died in the Twin Towers on 11 September.




















Both places are special to the people of Christchurch.

Patterns of Five

Using the Cuisenaire rods we tried to make patterns of five. This is what it looked like....
















We are now making patterns of 12.....

Lisa from the Library

This term we had a visit from Lisa, the librarian. She read a Margaret Mahy story to Room 1 and Room 2.




We looked to see what was behind the chair.







We threw feathers up in the air and tried to catch them.



We enjoy your visits, Lisa. Thank you.

Penguins

With what we discovered about keeping warm, we designed a penguin with things we thought would keep them warm.

How do animals keep warm?

We joined with Room 1 to see what effect blubber could have on animals in cold places.
We put some iced water in some bowls. Then we made two sets of gloves. One was just one plastic bag. The other was made from two plastic bags with lard between the bags.
Next we put our hand in the single bag and put it in the bowl of iced water.



"It's freezing," said Ethan.



Then we put our hand in the bag with the lard. "It's warm," said Ethan.

Himanot tried the same.....


"It is still warm," said Himanot.

We thought that the water might have warmed up so we tried with just the single plastic bag again. It was still freezing.

Keeping Warm

We are looking at how thing keep warm. We put some hot water in some different sized containers and took their temperature over about 15 minutes.



We wondered about Goldilocks and the types of bowls the bears used and why the porridge in the different bowls was a different temperature.