We decided after we had sorted and graphed our finds that the living stream at Jack's Paddock was healthy and full of life.

Some of the more interesting finds were a freshwater crayfish, water beetles and water spiders.  No eels unfortunately!!  But we were fascinated by the sandfly nymphs. Kind of attached worms,that undulated slowly.

Visit to Maitai River.

As part of our Living Stream Study we visited Jack's Paddock,which is almost up to the dam on the Maitai River. With Mel (educational officer at DOC) we explored the site. Nobody fell in!!

We were all very surprised by the variety of river life we found. 

The children spent an hour and a half, lifting stones and examining their finds.

Nicki told us all about the materials that clothes were made of, in the 1840's.  Clothes were made from linen, wool, cotton and silk.

if you were rich you would most likely have a dressmaker. The dressmaker would make your clothes or you could order clothes from London. There was a lady named Mrs Greenam, she was wealthy (rich) and her clothes were mostly made from silk and linen. If you didn't have much money your clothes would have to be made  by yourself.  Maybe out of wool or cotton.    

Unpicking the past exhibition

We were invited to go and see Unpicking the Past. We learnt that people valued there clothes in the 1840's.   They would recycle their clothes and pass them down to younger brothers and sisters.

Their mothers and their grandmothers and big sisters made their clothes.  Material was very expensive and it took a long time to make the new clothes by hand.  Solmaz

Our adopted ship, Enterprise.

Enterprise berthed at Port Nelson on Sunday morning. We have emailed Skipper Lee and the 40 sailors during the trip and are really looking forward to catching up with him on his trip off.

We are really excited about our new hoodies. Everyone is getting a black hoodie even Judi.

Next time the ship comes in we hope we get invited for fish and hoki or even ice cream with Skipper Lee (because he is mad about ice cream) from Solmaz, Tanisha, Isabella and the Nelson Room kids

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