Margaret Mahy Trip

             Town Trip

On Thursday me and my hub went to Margaret Mahy playground at 9:30 and lined up we started to look at the traditional māori mats. 

The  same person wove the mats. There were 13 of them and we only could look at 3 of them. After we went to go on the waka. First we could play then they had to call us in and there were two boats we went second and we where saying hi ha hi ha and we turned around alot. At the end we singed E minaka ana but then we had to get off. We went to Victoria Square with Mrs Brown and we looked at the statues of James Cook and Queen Victoria there where lots of water fountains there was fountains that looked like a dandelion. There was a water fountain that shoots water out of it a few times. Then we looked at the pous. The pous talked about what happened in the māori times. Then we went back to Mrs Carney she talked about the stories. We had to do a treasure hunt around Margaret Mahy playground then we went to trace the māori stories written around the playground. We feed the eels after that and one of them nibbled and pulled the cat food off the spoon. 

My favourite part of the trip was feeding the Eels because the two Eels where fighting to get the cat food but one of them nibble the cat food of the spoon.

Something I learnt was that I didn’t know that the māori people used the waka to trade at the market.

The thing I found the most interesting was that I didn’t know that female eels are bigger then male and they don’t know there gender till they're 10 years old.

This trip has helped me with my P.B.L because I learnt a lot about Margaret Mahy playground and it made me more interested in Margaret Mahy playground and made me want to go there more often.

What was your favourite part of the trip?