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Ciao!

I have done an Animal Rights P4C today with Katie. I definitely wanted to go to this workshop the minute I heard about it because I really love animals and I believe that they should have all the same rights as a human. First of all Katie read us a short story about a boy who was treating his dog really badly because it wouldn't jump through a hoop of fire! That's really cruel. I really enjoyed listening to the story because it showed me how animals are really treated. After that we discussed what humans need to survive and no, not all the luxury stuff that we 'need' if that's what you're thinking, but what we need to survive. Such as

• Food 
• Water
• Oxygen 
• Shelter
• Warmth

Then we had to think of the things that dogs need to survive. I found that what they needed was pretty much exactly the same things as what humans need. Katie then played us a wee snippet of the movie 'Babe'. We then had to think of the good things that was happening to the animals, like they weren't in cages they were running around freely. Then we had to think of the cruel things that was happening. That was the part I didn't enjoy so much.

I really enjoyed this workshop and I have one more thing to say...

I LOVE ANIMALS!!!!

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One of the things I did at Enrich today was the Ridiculous Key workshop with Katie. What we did, was Katie said a ridiculous statement, like the whole world had the same timezone, and then we had to come up with the benefits of this statement. This is some of the things I thought were good about...

Whole world had the same timezone

• If you go overseas you wouldn't get jet lag. 
• If you wanted to call someone overseas you wouldn't have to figure out what time they'd be awake, because it would be the same time over there as it was here. 
• If you wanted to go to Australia for a holiday and you wanted to plan what you would do at what time, you wouldn't have to figure out what the time would be. 

Only had to go to school once a week

• You would pretty much get a never ending holiday if the day you went school was a public holiday. 
• It wouldn't cost as much to go to school.
• We'd get to do lots more things with art supplies because usually the teacher would have a certain amount of art supplies and they'd have to make that last over a whole year. If they only had to make it last over say 40 days then that would mean we get to do a lot more stuff. 
• The electricity bills wouldn't be as high.
• We would get more sleep because we could sleep in most mornings. 
• We could get more friends over. 

There was a no shoe policy

• You wouldn't have to buy shoes or socks.
• You wouldn't have to buy products like 'Gran's Remedy' to keep our feet from smelling!
• It would be good for all the manicure and pedicure places because if people's feet were on display, they'd want them to look nice and pampered up, so they'd go to those sorts of places.

I found this workshop really interesting and a lot of fun! 

 

S.C.A.M.P.E.R

Hi everybody! Today I did a S.C.A.M.P.E.R workshop. I have told you about what this is in my past posts.

Substitute

Combine

Adapt

Mega/Mini

Put to other uses

Eliminate

Reverse

We had to think about how we could improve Invercargill environment and town using these 7 things. Sarah and I thought that we could S.C.A.M.P.E.R Wachner Place. We didn't have to use all 7 letters. Just the ones that we thought could make an improvement. This is what we thought:

Substitute graffiti for fun pics for your family to look at.

Combine a tree house with a tree.

Adapt it to a picnic place by putting some picnic tables in as it's right next to Hell's Pizza.
Adapt it to a play area by putting in a swing set.

Minimise the stage to make it more kid friendly.
Magnify the gardens.

Put to other uses by making it a picnic place for your family to enjoy.

Eliminate the concrete and add some grass in.

We didn't think we could reverse anything.

I had great fun doing this and I hope we can make these ideas into reality.