Ye Olde Life

Year 1 students went to Bundoora Farm Heritage Village to get a taste of the "good ol' days". Here's what they said about it:

On Thursday the Year 1s went on an excursion. When we got inside we ate brain food. We saw emus. We played on the playground. I went to put my bag away. I went to see how they made horse shoes. Then I went to see how they made the hay. We got to be the horses. I went to see in the olden days how they put the bags in the horse cart. We got to do it. We went to see a house. We had to find a toilet and a heater and a TV. I wrote my name. I got to do the washing. It was fun. I got to go in a school. I liked how we did the work. I liked the games. When we finished our lunch we played tiggy. I liked the game.

Aila

We saw some emus in the park. Then we saw some kangaroos. Then I ate my banana. Then we went to the old farm and we saw things that are old. Then we went to an old school. Then we played games. It was fun. Then I ate my snack. Then we looked in the old room and we saw an old toilet. It was a basket! Then we try washing. Then we try some printing. It was easy! Then we saw some printers and that took 5 minutes. Then we try pulling things. Then we went back to the bus and went home.

Ho Lam

On Thursday 11th of May, I went on an excursion to Bundoora Farm. All of the Year 1s had fun. First, Mitch’s group went in a house. We got to clean some farm clothes. Me and Ella got to spin the wheel that has four sides. Me and Ella had fun spinning the wheel thing. It went really fast. Mitch’s group was the first to go with the teacher. Her name was Mrs Keybottom and Luca got the strap and Jay got to wear the Dunce hat. Jay had to put his nose on the board. I got the answer right because everyone else didn’t stand up but I was the only one. It was a very, very, very, very fun day.

Hayley

On Thursday, we went to Bundoora farm. First we ate our brain food. After we played on the playground then we saw emus. They ran fast. We also saw an old school. Nick said that if we talk we will get the strap. Tye got the strap. Nick got Tye then we heard that Nick was banging the wall. After that we had lunch. After we played tiggy. For half an hour I was ‘it’ once, then I tagged Xavier D. After that we looked at the church. It was very old. After we went on the bus.

Xavier K

On Thursday 11th of May, I went on an excursion to Bundoora Farm. I got there by bus. When I went to the Heritage Village, I went in the school. We couldn’t talk there. At the school I did work. Girls couldn’t sit next to boys. We couldn’t even whisper or if you do whisper you will get the hat. Or you will put your nose against the black board. Then we played games. One was throwing the boot. The other games were horse shoe games. You have to throw the horse shoe on the pole. Then I got back to school on the bus. It was a long way back.

Bonnie

On Thursday 11th of May, I went to an excursion. We went on the school bus. We went there because we were learning about Past and Present. There were old houses. We went to the old school. It was very little. At the school we wrote our names on a piece of paper we learnt how to wash clothes in the olden days. We ate brain food.

Prabhjeet

On Thursday we went on an excursion to Bundoora Farm. We saw some emus. We saw them run. We had our brain food. I had an apple. It was red and juicy. We also had a bit of our snack and a little play on the playground. I played on the swing and the spider web. Then we went to have a look at the olden day stuff. There were olden day houses and there were no TV’s because electricity was not made. We learned how to wash the clothes. They did not have a washing machine. We also did vacuuming and sweeping and we got to turn the milk into butter. It was very fun! We also did printing. We also did some other activities. We did Hula Hooping and we had to throw the boot as far as we could and we had to throw the rings on the sticks. On the way there we went on a bus. We saw the olden day school. We did a little bit of work. We only did two pages.

Diya