Week 3 - Where can we go when we can't go to the Hukanui Marae?

Room 10 were already to go to the Marae on Friday but there was a Tangi, so we had to change our plans.  Instead we went to the Hamilton Gardens. 

When we first arrived we got to have a play on the playground. We went to Te Parapara (the Maori Garden) and Kapa Haka performed for us as well as some lucky visitors.  After they performed we had our kai.  We did sketching of patterns, carvings, items from nature and one other thing we chose. 

Then we got to explore the Gardens.  We went into the Italian Renaissance Garden followed by the Indian Char Bagh Garden. After this, we walked around Turtle Lake and found our buses waiting to bring us back to school. 

At the end we were all really tired, sweaty and hot.  The people who had never been to the Gardens really enjoyed visiting the gardens.