Tuesday, October 12, CM2 students went to visit two museums: the exhibition "Pierre de Caen" in Normandy Museum and Caen Memorial.
The first visit is a result of the stay in England last year, whose theme was the stone.
Origin of Caen stone
Caen stone was formed when France was covered with water it 165 million years ago, but 3 islands with the Armorican massif. A tropical climate prevailed, with temperatures between 20 and 40 degrees. There were lumps of sand which filtered the larger sand grains that have formed over time, the Caen stone.
Lucia Livet and Clement James
There are 3 modes of extraction:
First mode: air open.
To extract the stone in the open, as you dig if you cut steps. The disadvantages are that by choosing this method, disorient you around and you damage the stone.
To extract the stone gallery, you have to dig underground galleries. The dangers are that if you make too thin columns between two galleries, the ceiling collapsed.
Third mode: extraction wells,
The method consists in a well to directly reach the Caen stone without disfiguring the landscape, or damage the stone. You need a winch for raising the stone quarry to the surface.
Constant Marion and Cathy Marie
Use of Caen stone
Caen stone is a stone easily worked and durable. An engraving in the exhibition, men sawing a stone in front of the church of St. Peter, as we would saw a branch.
Many buildings were built with this stone houses, castles in France and England, churches like the Church of St. Peter, and more recently the front of the Caen Memorial.
We have also seensarcophagi, columns, aqueducts, .. and lots of things finely carved.
sculptural tools: picks, hammer, drill bits, hand saw ..
Matteo Finel and Joannie Guérif
What is the common point between Creully and the Tower of London?
Last year we went to England. We saw the Tower of London, built with stone from Caen and Creully by William the Conqueror. We also visited the quarries Stone open on Dartmoor. We saw the stone rails to transport the rock. The convoy was pulled by horses. In Exeter, the stone could then be transported by boat; this type of transport had the advantage of being faster and cheaper.
Leo Texier and Lucie Bidot
Summary of the book "Otto, autobiography of a teddy bear" Tomi Ungerer We studied this album classroom in September. Otto, a small teddy bear, describes his life, between 1930 and today. is a fantasy story but one that speaks simply and movingly real historical period: the persecution and deportation of Jews during the Second World War.
This period needs to be clearly explained to children and u not visit the Caen Memorial seemed appropriate. CDR.
begins visit
The tour begins with the origins of World War II: the crash at the New York Stock Exchange October 24, 1929 and the global economic crisis, Hitler came to power 30 January 1933 (he became the first chanchelier Berlin), the invasion of Poland .. then the declaration of war in September 1939. Finally, Hitler won the war easily and arrived in Paris in May 1940 ("lightning war").
Chateigner Simon and Naomi Colleville
The French government now sits in Vichy. Therefore, he collaborated with the Nazis, including persecution, deportation and extermination of Jews.
From Persecution elimination
We arrived in the Memorial Hall, entitled "Genocide and Mass Violence" which evokes the elimination of Jews, gypsies, .. origins of the extermination camps in Europe. In France, as in other countries defeated by Germany, the Jews must wear yellow stars on their clothing left from 6 years.
They were first persecuted: they no longer have the same rights as others. Then the anti-Jewish laws succeed and become increasingly harsh, racist textbooks are even published ... Then they will be deported to labor camps or confined in ghettos. Then they will be systematically eliminated (the "Final Solution"), shot and buried in mass graves or gassed in gas chambers in concentration camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec ...
CDR
Animation "a child during World War II"
We entered a room of the Memorial to attend this movie, presented by Cinzia, who became the space of one hour a child during World War II. Here is his story:
is a girl called Suzanne and everyone called Susan, she was 9 years old in 1939. One day his father had to go to war. So, Suzon and his mother, to protect themselves, the uncle went home Suzon in a small suburban village Caennaise at Cagny.
But the Germans were able to go to Caen! A few days later the armistice was signed and the mother of Suzon returned to Paris to work.
A Cagny, she went to school with his gas mask. When the siren sounded, she had to go in a trench. In lieu of physical education, she collects beetles (which eat the apple ground).
On June 6, 1944 Canadians, British and Americans landed to liberate France. Suzon returned home. She learned the deportation of his neighbor David she would never see again. At the end of the war, the Red Cross told them that his father was released from prison, he was healthy, and he would return soon. She was then 15 years, she has not seen her father for 6 years and fears he no longer recognized.
Trofimczyk Clara, Stephan Tocqueville, Hugo Vallerend Ludivine and Savary.
Suzon went to school with his gas mask. Gaëtan Bourdais tried.
Lucia tries to grind with a coffee grinder.
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