Howick Historical Village

Last Thursday, Room 16, 17 and 20 went on an amazing bendy bus to Howick Historical Village to learn about the 1850s. When we got there we saw some old fashioned women.  Brooke

When we came off the exciting bus, we went to the first activity. It was making butter. Then we got started. We stirred a butter churn. We sang the butter song. It goes like this …

“Come butter, come

Peter stands at the gate

Waiting for some butter cake

Come butter come.”            Siobhan. 

Next the lady washed the butter so it can last long time and it is clean. Then she put a cloth called muslin over the jar. She took the butter out of the jar. Next she tapped it with some things called butter hands.   Karanbir

We put the butter onto crackers. It was delicious. Next we went to the play area. We played with some toys.  I played with the diablo. The diablo was something that we had to throw up and we had to catch it on the diablo string.  Demetri

Miss Hill showed us some games. I played with the walking blocks. I nearly went for long but I fell down. I didn’t hurt myself.   Stacey

We played horse riding, skipping with a rope, swords with the round things and ring toss.  Kaiila

We played Spot the Difference. We had to search for certain items in every house that were different from what we used in everyday life 100 years ago. There were items such as a hot water bottle and glasses and we found an iron.      Okusitino

Next we went to Victorian school. All of the boys and girls lined up first. We had to wipe our feet on the mat. She checked our hands and nails.  Karanbir

We wrote with a charcoal on a slate. I learnt the 5 times tables.   Jagrith                

                                                                                                            

Next we went on the bus to school. My favourite part was Spot the Difference because I liked looking in all the old houses.  Demetri