Report about Friday

 On November the 6th, Room 4 and Room 1 went on a field trip. My room, (Room 4/Year 4) went to Margaret Mahy Playground to get into our groups for the trip, eat morning tea and have a play. Margaret Mahy had a big, towering, shining silver slide with enormous green hills which had small little chameleons that you hold onto while you use all your might to get up to the slide. There was a ginormous net that you can see right as you enter the playground, but it is covered by a wood platform that had a big slide that had a faded green colour all over it and unnecessary graffiti on one side of it. 

The slide is all twirly and it is pitch black when you go down. There is only light when you reach the very end. After everyone  finished playing all of us headed off to Turanga, the library in town. It was so big that it looked like it was heading up to the clouds! When we entered we were greeted by a staff member that welcomed us in. All the adults headed upstairs so we followed. There, we saw a whole pit of different coloured lego. It looked as though all the lego had been dumped in. 

There was a small slit in the wall that everyone went in. There were big containers that were shaped like lego and they were all different colours. There were roughly 5 or 6 tables. All the year fours choose a table to work at. There was a staff member that told us what we were going to do. Our challenge was to build a native bird out of lego. I built a Kiwi. After that we had free time and I did lots of things including;

Going down the slide at the play area

Looking around

Went inside the little tree where you could read

My favourite part was the couches/beds. They were pillows that were foldable. You could lay down on them or you could fold them into a couch. I made a bed out of it. I just layed there, staring out the window behind me

Once our time had gone up playing at the library,  we walked to the museum. When we entered the museum there was a cave that was a golden beige colour. It looked like it had never been polished once! There was a guy that told us to put our bags in little compartments. After that we sat down as the guy told us what we would be doing. It started to get a bit loud so he took us to another place which wasn't so loud. He told us that we would be playing some games that the Māori played. The reason why we were doing this was because games were not invented in their times. Māori had to use things they could find outside to try to entertain themselves. 

After that, the guy said that he would take us to his classroom. In his classroom it had TV's that Māori used and lots of other things they used. There were also games that Ancient Egyptians made. There were games like snakes and ladders there too. Those games are very old. After the lesson we got picked up on the bus and picked Room 1 up. It was such a fun day.