Christchurch Earthquake Recounts on Glogster

For the last few weeks, we have been looking at different articles and video clips of the Christchurch Earthquake.  We spent some time thinking about how scary it would have been for the school children during the earthquake.  We imagined ourselves in their shoes and wrote a recount about the earthquake experience.  We published them on an online tool called 'Glogster.'  Please visit the student pages on our wiki to have a look at them. To see the full view version of it, you must put your mouse over the word 'Glogster' and click on 'View Full Size.'

Here is a sample of the recount written by Paige, Kate and Kaitlin:

Red and Black Day

Today was a special day for New Zealand.  We declared this day the Red and Black Day to remember all the people who have suffered from the tragic earthquake of last week.  The day is signified by the colours red and black because those are the colours that represent Christchurch.


Our whole school dressed in red and black today to participate in this important event.  We all had to donate some money to go towards the Christchurch relief.  Some of us brought extra money so that we could give more.


At lunchtime, we had many parents and even teachers who brought some of their tasty baked goods to raise money.  We also had the school council organise face painting.  We raised over $3,000.  We are very proud of ourselves today. 

Our principal, Mrs Parr, in red and black

Mrs Wakefield's enthusiastic participation of Red and Black Day

At our school assembly

C for Christchurch!

Christchurch Earthquake: 2 Minutes of Silence

Today at exactly 12.51pm, the entire country of New Zealand spent two minutes of silence to remember the victims of the Christchurch Earthquake last week.  Today was the one week anniversary of the devastating event.  Before the two minutes of silence, we looked at some posts written by children who experienced the earthquake in Christchurch.  We also looked at some video clips of the city.

During the two minutes, our class put our heads down and sent out prayers and thoughts to everyone who was affected by this tragedy.