Kia ora, and Welcome back to my blog! Earlier in the year my hub and I went to Margret Mahy! It was so fun and we wanted to share our expirences with you so we made a trip recount. I hope you like it! Have you ever been to Margret Mahy Playground?
Introduction: On the 20th of May 2021 on Thursday, Tumu hub went on a thrilling trip into town. Tumu town trip. Shortly after the school day began, we all hopped on a bus, grabbed our parent helpers
and sped off to the best experience ever! Riding in the bus, all we would do is chatt about
what we think we would be doing with an excited expression on our faces. After a bumpy
but short bus ride we were finally here, at Margaret Mahy Playground! It was empty, all for
us. We got out of the bus lined up, and waited for what was in store for us.
My favourite part of the trip was when me and my team, Mānia, went with Mrs Bryce
to look at the mats, but during that time we got to feed the eels. In Māori, eels are called
Tuna. But I also have another favourite thing, and that was of course riding the waka down
Avon river. How could anyone forget? The Avon river in Māori is called Ōtākaro. We
practiced what we would do on the waka and when we finally got on we had an eugsting,
but amazing time. “ He ha, he ha. ”
Something I learnt was that Tuna likes to eat other small fish like shrimp. We didn’t have any of that kind of food though,
so we just fed them cat food. And thankfully they liked it. We fed them on a small white plastic
spoon. When they got close enough to eat the cat food, they would open their scary mouths and
swallow the small chunk of cat food whole making a small hissing sound. They were quite shy
and would hide under the dark jette in the freezing water, but every so often they would slip their
head out when it was quiet and gobble down the food we gave them. Whenever they would hiss
and eat their food it would scare many, and some of us would scream, but when we screamed it
would scare the Tuna and they would hide back under the cold dark jette. Wow, they looked scared,
how could we help them?
The thing I found the most interesting was that a song could be carved and written in a pathway, in Māori! Maybe when we go to school we could
make up a school song and put it in a pathway too! Mrs Carney got out her phone and we started
listening, we started understanding the song, even though it was in Māori. There were pictures next to
that, so we got out some crayons that the teachers brought with them, and some paper, and we did
some rubbings with the carved pictures next to the song.
This trip has helped me with my PBL because in Victoria Square I saw many inspiring pou’s and statues with meaningful words on them which we
could make one at school and put it outside the office! Pou’s are Māori carvings made out of wood.
There was also a humongous flag pole with a tiny, lonely little New Zealand flag flapping in the wind.
It was all so high up that even looking at it can make you dizzy. Maybe we can make our own school
flag.
