Te Papa Museum For EOTC week 2016

Te Papa Museum

On Wednesday the year fives and sixes caught the bus into Wellington to go to Te Papa’s Museum. Once we got there we sat outside and ate morning tea. We finished eating so we went into our groups because we got split up into groups before we went to Te Papa. We walked inside and we put our bags in cages and we got given an activity sheet. Our activity sheet was about finding stuff about the māori times and drawing māori patterns. We went exploring the museum and found a lot of interesting stuff about the war and the māori times.

We went to this discovery centre where it was a little play ground for little kids in the museum. There we had to do something on the activity sheet like we had to draw a pattern. After we drew that we also had to draw Māori tattoos on a body on our activity sheet. After that we left that discovery centre and went exploring the museum again. While we were doing that we found a object that was on our activity sheet so we completed that part of the activity. We were walking and we found Miss Hills group waiting for the tour that Miss Smith was doing. We were ready and able to go in so we went in and Miss Smith told us about this guy named Te Rauparaha and that he had six toes like a taniwha. After we finished that we went down to the entrance to meet up with everyone else. We got our bags out of the cage and sat down. After that we ate lunch outside and then we hopped on a bus and went to a place called Sound And Vision.

Sound And Vision

Once we got to Sound And Vision we got off the bus and lined up outside ready to go in. We walked in and inside was a cafe. We walked past the cafe and there was a man welcoming us into a room which was like a movie theatre. We sat down and got comfy because we were going to be sitting for a long time. The man Introduced himself and asked a few questions. After the questions he put on a few videos for us to watch. Some of the videos I didn’t really understand because there were no sound just pictures, but the man explained what the picture was saying and the story behind it. He played more videos and some of the videos had a sense of humor. He also explained what some of the videos meant.  We were watching videos about the old Wellington times and what Wellington looked like back then. Half way through we got to stand up and have a stretch and then sit back down. A few people were sleeping during the videos as well.

After the videos we left the room to hop back on the bus. We walked through the cafe quietly and we jumped on the bus to take us back to school. On the way back Cyrus, Rita, and I were playing a game called sweet or soar. When we got back it was nearly home time. We got off the bus and said thank you to the bus driver. We walked to class then we went home. I thought it was fun at the museum because I learnt interesting facts about the māori times and it was fun exploring with my friends.