My experience at Motat | |
Hook Sentence/s Introduction - What Why When Where How Paragraphs ...Use time connectives... On Sunday Early in the 10am To start with First After Then Next A while later Eventually A bit Later Suddenly Eventually 50 mins later Near the end Finally Summary... Feelings Thoughts Inspiration | Ppsshhhhh! The bus lowers, we all hop off in our. We’re finally at MOTAT! The sun is shining so bright that my face, neck and back burn. Fortunately a breeze hits me. On the second back to school the senior syndicate of Waikowhai Primary School were lucky enough to visit Motat to learn about toys and machines and how they function. To start with, we were first welcomed by the two educators that will be our educators for the day. The educators then lead us to an enormous, echoey and humid dome. The educators introduced themselves and one educator was called Melissa and the other was called John. They also explained about the rules in Motat and how to behave. We all had our small individual groups then grouped into 3 larger groups that were called class 1, 2 and 3. Each individual class will be doing different things at different times in our small groups. My group included Joshua Cossey and is mum, Me, Hilary, Chase, Lily W and Devesh. They told us what we were going to be doing in the day in our class groups. We then put our backpacks down and had some morning tea. The first thing we were going to do today is the parent lead trail. We went to stop number 2 first and everything in there was so cool. There was this cool chair that you had a rope and you had to pull yourself up. One chair had three pulleys and the other had four pulleys. I tried out both and the one with four pulleys made it so much easier to get myself up. The sign said that the one with four pulleys is easier because if you had a 100kg bag and you pulled it with three pulleys it would be 33x3kg, but if you had four pulleys it would be 25x4kg so it would be more easy and convenient. On the other side their was this seesaw type of thing except that it had a place for someone to stand and three ropes for you to pull at. We figured that the more distance you have the more convenient it is. Beside the seesaw there was a arm wrestling kind of machine that had a big wheel on a side and a small wheel on the other. It was super hard to control/move because it wouldn’t move as soon as the big wheel holds down. Time was up and we moved to the next thing to do on our list. The Tram! My class, class 3 gathered up so that we could together as a group to the tram station. We waited for a bit on the bench at the station. After a few minutes the tram finally came. We had to wait for the other people to get off first before we could get on. We all hopped onto the tram and got seated comfortably. The tram started and the whole of the duration was bumpy/wobbly but super fun. At halfway the driver stopped and told us about the Melbourne, Sydney, England, Wellington trams etc. The driver then switched sides of the tram to drive back where we came from. Unfortunately we had to get off the tram because time was up. My favourite part of the tram ride was when the team crossed the road. I know it isn’t that interesting but it super cool to watch. 10 minutes later we headed back to the white dome to have lunch. When everyone finished their lunch we headed off to the places we needed to head to. Our next stop was to go to the educator’s room. The educator picked us up and lead us to the room. The room was well air-conditioned so it felt really in there because it was pretty hot outside. Melissa started with the old and precious table that had stuff that you couldn’t touch. She started off with Sunny Jim. She said “ sunny Jim is very special because he is over 100 years old.” There were oohs and ahhs when she told us about it.. Melissa also told us that you couldn’t get Sunny Jim at stores, you had to buy a box of Sunny Jim cereal and there would be a coupon at the bottom of the box. You would then send that coupon to the shop and the shop will send it to you in a few days. I could imagine myself opening the box and finding Sunny Jim in it. I would probably be so happy that I would shout to my mum and say “Mum mum I got Sunny Jim! Then she moved to the other tables and introduced everything on them. “Now free time! And remember no touching of the toys on the old days table” called Melissa. I first went away to look at where the things on the table of toys old and new that could move. My 2 favourite toys out of all of them was the the strange doll that could grow and shrink her hair in the twist of an arm, and also Sunny Jim. My day at Motat was absolutely amazing! I hope my mum and dad will take me to Motat again. Now I can’t wait till I get home and tell my parents all about my experience at Motat. |
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