Outdoor games

For the last activity we got to have a little fun playing some outdoor games. Before we could play a kind lady told us some rules and showed us how a few of the games works. My favorite game was the stilts. It didn’t take me long to be able to walk in the stilts because I could easily remember how the lady said to use it. There was a photo thing where we could put our heads in and I really liked it so I asked out teacher is she could take a photo of my friend and I, which is the photo on the top left corner.

Butter making

The third activity that we had was butter making. In a jar there was cream and we had to use a little tool that was like a egg beater. Using that tool we had to turn the handle for the cream to be churned. We ended up creating a beautiful block of butter with our school logo to indicate that we had made it. Also there was a song that kids would sing long ago while they were churning which was:

Come, butter, come!

Come, butter, come!

Peter’s standing at the gate

Waiting for a butter cake

Come, butter, come!

However instead of Peter the children would put in their own name.

School in 1847

The second activity that we did was going to a school from around 1847 - 1850. What fascinated me was that the school actually was a real school from back in the day. The desks were also from back then. Placed on the desks were things that we needed to use to write. I had a lot of difficulties using the little rock as a pencil but I did end up finishing what I wanted to write. In the school we learnt about how our teacher lived when she was young. Her life back then sounded like it was really hard.

Old toys

On June 27th 2017, the senior side of the school visited the Howick Historical Village. There were four activities that we had to go through. Since there were many students we had to break up into 4 groups. The first activity my group went to was old toys. I enjoyed playing with many of the old toys. I loved how none of the toys needed any batteries or a switch, it was all wood and rope. If I could I would choose my favorite however I just loved them all.