The Museum Visit

This morning room 16 went to The Ashburton Art Gallery to look at our Maori past. We learned about the different stones they used for different reasons. We also learned about a big tree that was used as a meeting place and navigation. Most of it was about navigation and constellations up in the night sky and how to use them to navigate. We also had to write a small short-story about how to get somewhere to somewhere else at night using the stars (mostly the pot) as a compass. Somebody's story went something like this: start at the start of the path and walk 50 paces along the path and I forgot the rest. At the very end, just before we left, we had a flight crew challenge, we had to get together in our flight crews and make some sort of picture by lying, assorted, on the ground. Our flight crew was the first to finish, we did the European (we were the European flight crew) flag and another group copied us because they didn't know what it was and they didn't have any other ideas. We won.

By Oskar