The Heart of the Matter - Reggio Discussion

Lochlan started the discussion by saying... "We shouldn't have a broken heart, cause it's a new cathedral."
The conversation continued...
Oscar: Hearts were broken because of the earthquake but now they are
not cause the cathedral is new. What if you missed the words?
Travis: the broken one will make people sad.
Laura: I think its fine, maybe we could change the words to we did fix
this.
Zane: I don’t know why we need a heart.
Alara: We would put something along the lines of kia kaha let’s build our new city together. I saw that in the
red zone.
Zane: What will we do then cause we have fixed the thing.
Laura: I don’t think its fair on Natasha. She spent ages on the broken heart.
Molly: We can keep the broken heart & have a picture of the old cathedral above it.
Josh: With the broken heart we are stuck in the past.
Molly: Don’t you want to remember though?
Josh: Yes cause its been there for years.
Travis & Conner: Its life move on...
Josh: we could have a full heart.
Oscar: maybe on one wall we could have one broken heart and the old cathedral but then on the other wall we
could have a full heart
Natasha: Put the whole one on the wall rather than painting another one.
Emily: You could have one half full and one half crushed.
Zane: you could put it around the rose window.
Oscar: that would look weird
Alara: Emily’s idea is good but you don’t want to forget the past.
Josh: But we are not talking about the earthquake it’s about the cathedral.
Oscar: We need to say kia kaha because we don’t know what we will go through in the future.
Zane: maybe we should start now!
Oscar: Maybe we should draw up idea’s on the board and put names under the idea’s we want and have a vote.
6 children go to the whiteboard and get started.

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September Earthquake

It was 4.35am and I was fast asleep then all of a sudden my bed started shaking.I was still half asleep and then I realised it was a earthquake. I started screaming and then my dad picked me up and cared me to the door frame. when I got to the door frame,the earthquake had finished and I saw my mum at the door frame with my sister under her door frame. We all stood under the door frame for about an hour while still having aftershocks. My mum and dad went to get a torch and we stood for another 15 minutes still under the door frames with our touches. We all went into mum and dads room to sleep.when we woke up we went to have a look at the damage. were broken pieces of glass off mums vases that her gran gave her. we went to have a look in the in the the pantry and we couldn't even open the door because everything had fallen on the floor -what a mess with food broken crockery and it smelt. there was a shelf in the in the garage and it had buckets of paint and it fell on dads truck.luckily only one bucket opened but there were lots of dints on dads truck. Later on that Saturday Natalie my friend came around with her dad.her dad spread chicken manure on our paddocks in a big. Natalie and I were talking nonstop about the earthquake we still had no power and they said we were going to have another big aftershock so we packed up including our dogs and left for Ashburton to stay with our Nana.