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 * Homework task - South Canterbury Museum **

//Written by Sophie //
===//On one of the sunny beautiful sunny Tuesdays in March, the Smith and Church and the Ricoh room went to Timaru's South Canterbury Museum to learn more about the early settlers of Canterbury. //=== ===//I learned so much more. Like that some of the rooms on the ship were under the deck with all the food, they only had dry food on the ship and they had cows,sheep and chickens running around so they could kill and eat them. When the Early Settlers came to New Zealand there was nowhere to sleep so a man let them sleep in his barn of wheat. //===

//At the start of the day we all came to school just as if it was a normal day. //
===//Then Mrs Ross told us what to do before we went, like sharing a bag with a buddy, bringing your pencil and inquiry book, bringing your lunch and lining up by the Short Street steps to get read to hop on the bus. After that we were all on the bus and read for a ONE HOUR bus ride to Timaru it was a long ride but it was worth it. We all had something to do on the bus some talked, some listened to their I Pods and some even slept! //=== ===//We finally got to Timaru and met our tour guides who worked at the Museum. We went to one exhibit and another and another, There was just so much to do it was very interesting. We had lunch on the hill outside and then we rolled down it until we got to the bottom. We then had the rest of the tour around the Museum my favourite exhibit was probably seeing what they wore back in the early settlers days, there was some beautiful frocks. //=== ===//Some of the exhibits were about how they caught their food, how different dairy farming is from today, what school was like and about the wheat and wool that they produced. //===

//I loved the visit to the Museum, I will definitely be going back one day. [[image:IMG_0898.JPG width="333" height="256"]] //
===You're a motivated young lady Sophie. I'm glad you enjoyed the museum and that you are keen to have another visit. I'm sure the educators would like to hear that! Perhaps when we have finished our write ups about the trip we should send them a link to this page so they can read all about room 14 students thoughts. Mrs R. :-) Good idea:-) ===

Timaru Trip by Charli The two classes went to the Timaru Museum on Tuesday the 29th March. We went because the classes were starting new inquiry about the 1800’s. I learnt that there are hard and soft mattresses. My favourite bit was going to the museum and seeing what they use in the olden days.

Thank you for taking us to the Timaru Museum, I enjoyed the trip. I also want to thank the parents for looking after us at the Timaru museum. I liked the trip to the Timaru Museum. I enjoyed the trip to the South Canterbury Museum. Thank you teachers for booking the trip.

TRIP TO TIMARU Written by Tessa

On Tuesday 29th March room 14 and room 11 of Ashburton Borough School went to the South Canterbury Museum in Timaru. We went to this amazing place because we wanted to know more about our inquiry ‘Canterbury early settlement’. We left at 9:00 and our long boring journey begins

We finally arrived in Timaru at 10:00am and we were put into groups with the parent helpers Mrs Spicer, Mrs Cleland, Mrs Hefford and Mrs Hogg. I was with Mrs Cleland.

Our educators for the day were Wendy and Keely. They showed us around and explained lots. We were stunned about how much they knew about Canterbury early settlement.

I learnt that machines like the washing machine, electric shearer. And milk bottles were very different back in the day. I also learnt what a giant moa looks like and what they used to use at school. We use biros they used feather ink pens. We use books, they used slate boards. We use whiteboards, they used blackboards.

My favorite exhibit was the colonist (rich person) boat cabin. It was my favorite because I got to experience what it was like on a boat, where they had to put everything, where they went to the toilet and how they emptied it and where they put their clothes. It was also my favorite because we done a stage scene and I was in it as Lily.