Museum and Art Gallery Trip

Lucas pointing at an old part of machinery

Rereahu with an interactive site

On a sunny but cold winter’s morning R11 and R13 hopped on the bus to go to the museum.  Once we got there we got into our groups. There were 3 groups, red, blue and black. 

When we were with Wendy in the museum part we learnt about the rock called Greywacky.  We also learnt about how the world came together.  She told us that how NZ was once in the ocean.  Rocks from the mountains have fossils in them that show they were once underwater.  We also saw a model showing how farmers used to irrigate the land using borderdykes.  But the farmers found that this way of irrigating took away the good soil as well.  Now farmers use pivot irrigators that sprinkle the water on more finely.

When we were Ruth we learnt about different kinds of rocks. The rocks were out of volcanoes.  They were sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous.    Sedimentary rocks are squashed rocks made out of metamorphic and igneous rocks.  They are found deep under mountains.  Metamorphic rocks are found in the volcano, and are then uplifted to the surface as the overlying rock has been eroded away.    Igneous rocks are hot rocks, they are found in volcanoes.  Some people got to hold one with a fossil in it. One even had an amethyst in it.

At the art gallery part we saw different kinds of art.  Some were very popular.  We weren’t allowed to touch the art.  We watched a video about being deep under the sea and sea volcanoes.  While we were watching the video the second time we could draw sea creatures and what we could see at the bottom of the sea.  There was coral, fish, sharks, eels and a number of different sea creatures.

At the end we went into the foyer to get ready for the bus.  There were lots of poppies people had made.  We said, “thank you” to the teachers who had taught us so much and headed back to school.

A shared story by Room 11