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Wednesday, 22nd February 2012
"Say chesse!"...or should it be chopsticks!
Makarewa Year 6 students spent a day and a half exploring Arrowtown's history during their annual school camp. Students experienced Miss Gray's classroom, were locked up in the Old Gaol, compared life in the 1800s with life today, examined artefacts, panned for gold as well as exploring the Chinese village. Here they learnt about the life of the Chinese - the small one roomed huts they lived in, the clothes they wore and the food they ate.
We hope you enjoyed your visit to us and look forward to hearing about it on this blog!
Comments (9)
Thank you Rachel for a lovely time at camp.We really enjoyed it.Leah and I really enjoyed doing gold panning because we found gold and we also really enjoyed looking at the artifacts in the museum.Our favourite artifact was the huge greenstone .Thanks again Leah and Janaya.
Thanks heaps Rachel for all the help you gave us. We had a really awesome time learning about the artifacts and the Chinese Village.Thank you for teaching us how to gold pan. We had a really awesome time:)
Thanks Rachel for the wonderful time giving cool activities and showing us around Arrowtown. We really liked it when you locked us in jail.Thanks for teaching us how to gold pan. We had some awesome fun.The coolest artifact you showed us was the green stone it was very big :-) oh and the Mary Cotter tree I hope we got a bit of good luck.
thanks Rachel for all the facts you told me they were great.
Hi thanks for a great camp Rachel . I really enjoyed gold panning, looking at all of the amazing artifacts and being locked in the gaol. I really enjoyed the historic walk and going to the Chinese Village.My favourite artifact was the greenstone.
hi Rachel thanks for the good time I enjoyed the 1800s school thing it was funny and scary but I loved it I . I asked my parents if we could stay in Arrowtown for a holiday and if they say yes we will come to the museum and i will come and say hello to you we could go gold panning again .
Thanks for the awesome time on camp Rachel.Me and Ronan enjoyed going down to the Chinese Village.We also enjoyed gold panning.I thought the museum was very interesting especially the old school house.
Dear Rachael Thank you very much for letting Room 1 learn about the Museum and the Chinese Village, It was very interesting and fun! I mostly liked the 1800`s School House, Also Gold panning was great fun to, Thank you for finding my gold! I liked learning about the historic houses and the Mary Cotter historic tree!
Hello Rachel how are you?.Thank you for showing me all great things that l've never seen before.My favourite thing was in the olden day school . l had a great time.l found you very scary at first.Olden day school is not for me.
By: Holley on Monday, 27th February 2012 @ 14:11:15