Flax Picking

Last week, my class Room 19 and some of the kids from Room 20 had an opportunity to go down to the Omaru Creek and pick some flax to make some putiputi (flowers). We walked a short distance to get there because it was really close to our school.

As we arrived there we sat down in the shade and our teacher (Miss Tito) told us some rules of what we should do to the flax and what we shouldn't. She said, "you should never step on flax, never cut them on rainy days or night time, never ever cut the baby flax or the whole bush will die. Also if you cut all the flowers  that grows on the flax bushes all the native birds in New Zealand will die.

After that we started cutting the flax and then we ripped the sides of the flax and then we put the ripped sides under the flax bush so that nobody steps on it. Later we came back to school and started making it it was really hard to follow, I was struggling a lot but then Miss Tito helped me and I was onto it. Then suddenly Miss Flavelle (one of the office teacher) came and called me to go somewhere.


    Pictures of what we did.