Museum

PLANNING PAGE.

INTRODUCTION:

WHAT: went to the museum

WHO: Rooms 5,6,7,8. Parent helpers were Lisi and Harriet.

WHEN: Wednesday 12th September 2018.

WHERE: Auckland Museum, The Domain.

WHY: Our inquiry topic is about natural disasters, so went to see the volcano room.

HOW: bus.

PARAGRAPH 1: GOING THERE

• Did the roll and go into groups - went to the hall. Our parent helpers were Lisi (Lily’s mum) and Harriet (Reigns nana). Mrs F talked to us. Got on the bus.
• Morning tea, put our bags away, museum people told us the rules.

PARAGRAPH 2: GROUND FLOOR

• Ancient stuff - century, clothes
• Maori court - waka, treaty of waitangi, weapons, greenstone, taniwha, tattoo, Marae took a picture. Take our shoes off. Bone. taiaha.
• Pasifika stuff  - Moana boat, Tonga sign photo, touching the water.

PARAGRAPH 3: FIRST FLOOR

• Volcano room - shaking, screamed, laughed, rock statue, pumice, obsidian, basalt, lifting up the rocks, musical rocks hit with the hammer, fake volcano and ash cloud, Pompei lady, lava bomb, lava tree, lights flickered, watching the news,
• Weird and wonderful - kids playing with bones, turtle shells, spiders, kiwi, coloured, cool camera thing, stairs with bean bags, soft animals, fake bats.
• Dinosaur room - shark hanging from the roof, bones, fossils, eggs, cave, birds, bats. Took a class photo. Kiwi. wetas. Insects. Snakes.

PARAGRAPH 4: TOP FLOOR

• War stuff - weapons, massive torpedo in a fake submarine, guns, gun noises playing, lots of names of people who died in the wars, aeroplanes - Spitfire and a Zero. prime ministers and presidents pictures. Hitler. World war 2 - benghazi, alamein, allies and axis. Badges that people wore or they earnt. Telephones that you could listen to people talking.
• Butterfly room - coloured butterflies, took a photo of kids with the wings, getting hungry and tired.

PARAGRAPH 5: LUNCHTIME AND GOING HOME

• Met down in the lobby, waited for the other classes, went to the field, ate our lunch, played games.
• Went to the bus at 1.30pm.
• Came back to school  - arrived at 2pm.

CONCLUSION: HOW I FELT

• Exhausted but had a really good day.
• My highlight was…..

WRITE HERE:

On wednesday 12 of september we went to the museum for our inquiry natural disasters. Room 5,6,7,8 and parent helpers came the museum was in the city we went there on a bus everyone was singing tongan songs. Then when we got there we had to tell the man at the museum the rules the first thing we went in was olden day furniture. we looked at the plates and cups they had pictures on it that people looked like in the old in days.

Next we went to the maori place there was a big canoe

Green stones carving and all other maori stuff it was cool there i went and slided under it while no one was looking then we got to go around the red poster it was alright cause we could come back the other side.

Then we went to all the pacific stuff we saw a little village and pretended like it was fortnite there was a couch that we could sit on cause we were bored of walking around we saw a little boat with fake water with glass over it then we went to the toilets cause everybody needed to go

Then we went to a play room where u can colour play and rest upstairs after when we finished that we went outside on the field to play games we all were racing then the bus arrived it was a very cool day.