Field trip to the museum

We went to the museum on Monday the 16 September 2019. First one of the men (Anthony) from the museum told us a story about a Taiga fa who kidnapped a girl because he wanted to marry her. She said no and wanted to go home because she was already married. The tangafi and the woman's husband started fighting. Here is a photo of him telling us the story.  

 

We are now listening to Anthony talk about  Maori gardening tools. The shovels are way different  to what they  are now. It was quite interesting. Did you know that the Maori made baskets from bark? Anthony showed us one of the actual baskets that was stored in the cabinet at the museum.Did you know that back in the olden days the elderly had to try the medicine because they thought they would die first anyway!?

Next we went into the secret classroom that is in the museum. We got to chisel some wood and to use a drill but it was not a real drill. It was one were you had to pull in out to get it to drill a hole. We also got to chop some wood to try make the shape of a canoe and cut some wood out with some Pomona. We also got to smooth  some rocks on a big rock and with water. The  last activity in the classroom  was trying to make smoke and only two people have done that before and no one has ever made fire. Here is a photo of the classroom.

Know it was lunch time we ate our lunch then we got to play in a tree and round the water fountain we tried to climb the highest in the tree and we played other games as well. 

Then after that we were aloud to have a look around the museum. we got to play some quizzes they're about animals. we all got a ride on the Antarctic sleigh. also got to look at some of the antarctic animals. 

After that we went back to school on the bus. when we got back to school it was time to go home. It was a really fun day. 

What would your favorite part be in the museum?