Hello, How is your day? I hope you have a nice day. Today I am going to talk about when my hub and I went to Margaret Mahy. I learnt a lot about Margaret Mahy but mostly Victoria Square and there were alot of things that I did not know about Margaret Mahy. It was a lot of fun at Margaret Mahy. I hope you like it. Enjoy.
20/5/21 my hub and myself and the teachers went to Margaret Mahy. We had to learn about the Waka, the Margaret Mahy playground that I had fun with, Victoria Square Tuna and mats and I learnt a lot and I had fun playing. The first thing that my group had to do was feed the Tuna then we had to ride the Waka. Next we had to walk to Mrs Brown to learn about Victoria Square and last but not least we had to learn about Margaret Mahy.
My favourite part of the trip was learning about Victoria Square because I didn’t even know that the name Victoria from Victoria Square was actually named by the Queen, Queen Victoria and I was so, so, so, surprised and I didn’t even know. I also learnt about the pou and Maori designs.
Something I learnt was the Margaret Mahy playground. I didn’t even know that there was a song like a real song, etched into the story arc. The chant is about the first Ngai Tahu people arriving in New Zealand. I was surprised like the most surprised in the group.
The thing I found the most interesting was the Waka, I never knew that the Māori people traded their goods to other people and that's why they used Waka and my mouth was hanging on my face.
This trip has helped me with my PBL because I never knew that there were maps around the Town and pou skechers so I can bring some of the stuff to St Francis of Assisi so people know that we are a school of Aotearoa.
Waka: For the waka we had to ride a waka and let me say that my arms were tired and burning so we jumped in the Waka with oar and it was heavy. So we had to do about 3 or 4 laps around Avon and we had to shout out “HE HA!” when we had to move our oars and let me say that my thumb was red like the red book that I use for maths, it got hit all the time. When we jumped out the waka I was sweating a little bit.
Tuna and mats: So for the mats they were stuck in the ground. We had to learn about what the meanings of the mats and of course I learnt what I meanings of the mats are then after when we were finish we get to feed the tuna but there had to be 6 people to feed the tuna’s and I was not the first 6 that get to feed the tuna. Well the 6 people that got to feed the tuna we had to play at the most popular playground and it was my turn to feed the tuna, the first group of 6 did not see any tuna but when it was my turn we saw 2 tuna’s and it was so cool.
Victoria Square: So we had to walk to Victoria Square and when I saw peoples faces they looked tired when we got to Victoria Square. Our activities were that we had to look around Victoria Square and there were things that I didn’t even know about when we were done. We got to eat and eating is one of my talents. 3 to 4 minutes later we had to draw a pou and that is one of my talents and then we were done.
Margaret Mahy: So for our last thing we have to do is go around and look for stuff and it was fun, we get to learn about the tiles and we get to do some art and I really love it.
So have you been in a waka before in Avon river? But if you haven't you should.
