The Museum Visit

Last Monday we went to the museum. First we got off the bus & into the reception area. We went into the monthly gallery & we met a woman called Amy who was going to show us around. We looked at photos of Arrowtown people from 150 years ago. Then we chose a photograph to draw. We used some tea bags and dabbed the stuff in the tea bags onto the paper to make it look old.

The next room we went into was the room with all the old pianos and then we sat in a semicircle. .Amy gave out some stuff to some of us. I got to hold a bone & Joshua got to hold some grapes. Next Amy put out a timeline & we had to put our stuff onto its age mark. I think the bone went on the 1800 & under mark.

We went down to the old Arrowtown area & the first place everyone went was the old man on the long drop that says, “Oy! Go away! Can't you see I’m busy!”

The last area we went into was the old school classroom. Amy got out some old slates and told us to practice writing fancy A’s, B’s, C’s and D’s.

Finally we walked back up to the reception area & got on the bus & went back to school.

My favorite bit was when we were drawing the pictures & dabbing the teabags on them.

Please E-mail me & tell me your favorite bit about the museum.

Some classes did not do the drawing & teabag thing.

There might be some photos on the Lakes District Museum Arrowtown Site.  

By Samuel Alexander Clark.