Here is Quin's recount of our trip to Pataka museum. We all had such an interesting and busy day out.
The other day we went to Pataka museum. We saw so many different kinds of art. I saw flowers hanging from a wall. After a while we stopped for morning tea. Then we had to cut up into groups. Each group split into four groups. I started with dressing up. I was a summer boy.
We time travelled back one hundred years. We dressed up in old clothes.
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| The red table |
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| The yellow table |
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| The green table |
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| The blue table |
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| No smiling! |
Then we changed groups. We were in the washing group first. We had one turn each with ironing. We carried a 3 pound metal iron and put it on the stove, then we put it on the cloth.
We had to rub the cloth on the cleaning board. After that we used two rubber rollers and put the cloth between them.
We changed groups and we used the slate boards to write on with slate pens. When we finished our writing we had to put the boards on our heads.
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| This is what we had to copy |
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| Hettie showing off her writing. No smiling! |
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| Hard work copying the writing |
3 comments:
What a wonderful recount of your trip to Pataka Quin.
I enjoyed seeing you use all sorts of things that people would have used from such a long time ago. It looks like it was a lot of hard work for people to do jobs like washing the clothes and ironing them. I am glad we just have to push a few buttons now to get our clothes clean.
Mrs Salisbury
This looks like so much fun Room 6 and also reminds me of all the old family photos when I was growing up.
We enjoyed seeing the photos of the kids dressed up. Good work not smiling, that must have been hard! Amelie and I talked about how her great-grandma still has an old style washtub in her laundry and that they washed their clothes in an old copper. There were 6 kids and 2 adults. Lots of hard work!
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