Visiting the Museum

 We went on the bus to visit the Museum. It was in the old post office building in town

We were learning about how to keep food fresh for longer. This is a Maori kete used for collecting food. It is made from flax.

Mrs Beautrais showed us ways Maori people used to store and cook food in the past.

We pretended to heat up water with hot stones to cook food. We used a wooden shovel to lift the hot stones.

Plants that were dried and hollowed out were good storage containers for keeping food in. They were like the preserving jars or containers we use today.

Some of these pumpkin like plants were really funny shapes.

We looked at lots of fresh food and what it looked like when it was dried in a dehydrator. We did this back at school as well. The food tasted sweet like lollies.

Yum! We got to eat some.

 This is what the food looked like in the dehydrator.

 This is what the food looked like dried.