Big Day Out

What a fabulous day we had on Friday - despite the weather. Q Zealanders' behaviour was outstanding, as usual. Thank you to Kylie, Dianne and Raewyn for helping us out. Hopefully you enjoyed it as much as the kids and I did!!

We started at the Science Centre where we enjoyed looking closely at the Tangata Whenua exhibition. Mrs T designed a great activity sheet to keep us busy. Kara managed to draw the entire carving of the Okatia legend - probably 4 metres high? It was really interesting to find names like Vautier and Hokowhitu and Te Awe Awe, and to discover they weren't just made up to name parks and streets.

Our next stop was the City Library, where we were able to chill out in the Basement and Children's zone. We found out that the library had four copies of Piggity-wiggity Jiggity Jig, but they had all been issued. Nancy got out 10 books to read over the week end and Konrad had his library fines waived!

The sun came out for us as we left the library after lunch to race around the Square. I went with the Hearts - Matthew, Tim, Logan, Sam, Kara, Max, Ash, Nancy. Miss Bradshaw had designed a cool scavenger hunt and we were able to find all but one photo. We found out from Miss Bradshaw that it was a tiny sticker on the back of a seat! I was really impressed with Logan's observational skills and I thought Nancy, Matthew and Tim used great tactics. Most importantly the Hearts worked really well as a team and everyone made a contribution.

After the hunt, Jim and Lauren limped back to the Art Gallery with the rest of us who didn't have sore ankles and possibly broken toes. We were able to look closely at John Bevan Ford's exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Estelle and Brianna spotted the fact that many of his works contain cloaks and we discovered that they symbolised protection. Of course this connected with the cloaks we made earlier in the week with Mrs McCullum. I found out later that the three tall carvings by the Council building in the Square were also carved by John Bevan Ford!

We are going to have a go at making a small, but highly detailed picture for our Term Two portfolio cover in the John Bevan Ford-style. Here is a link which might help: http://www.exhibitionservices.co.nz/exhibitiontours/show/john-bevan-ford