The Australian Gold Rush
By Lily, Luke & Mahrae
Year 5 have been learning about the Australian gold rush, we also went to
Belgenny farm to find out more about the Gold Rush in Australia. We had a good experience and we had a chance to get to dig and pan for gold.
Firstly we all met the tour guide and went to the town hall, and he told us the generation of the gold rush. After that, we pretended to be shepherds and rounded sheep. When we finished we checked their skin and sure they were healthy. We also had to check their teeth. We learnt that if they have four big teeth you half it and that is how old they are. Then we heard a bell ring, we ran to it finding a man saying that the Gold rush had just started and we went to the bank to get our fake money and licence to dig and pan for Gold. Next, we got ourselves into groups of 5 or 6 and put our money together, then we went to the shop to buy all the things that we needed (shelter, food, pans, buckets) and we bought our shelter first (tents) and built it up using pegs. After that we got to make some damper buying all the things we needed and while we waited for it to cook we went for a ride in a wagon, (but we had to pay) and we went to a river to pan for Gold. We found lots of Gold there and it was very fun too. We also went to a place where you could dig for gold. Then we ate our damper, weighed our gold and Ashleigh, Georgia, Mikayla and Clare won the gold weighing competition. So then we said our goodbyes to Belgenny Farm and also we got to keep the fake gold.
Angelica
ReplyDeleteGreat blog post Lily, Luke and Mahrae. I had lots of fun there.
Lily
DeleteI agree too that we had a lot of fun at Belgenny farm, it was a wonderful experience to have and to feel like we were actually in the gold rush period!!
Wonderful blog post Luke and Mahrae, I really enjoyed panning and digging for gold at Belgenny Farm.
ReplyDeleteThe excursion was unbelievably fun, I learnt so much. Great blog post Lily and Mahrae!!!
ReplyDeleteI had a good time at this excursion. It was fun and I learnt a lot.
ReplyDeleteGoing to Belgenny farm was fun and it was interesting finding out how the miners lived. And good blog post.
ReplyDeleteTracey
ReplyDeleteGreat blog post Luke and Mahrae! Its fun to find out how the miners do in the 1851's, it was a great experience at Belgenny Farm. All the panning, eating and digging, it was FANTASTIC!!!
Great Blog Post Luke, Lily and Mahrae about our amazing day finding gold and what they did during the Gold Rush.
ReplyDeleteI had a great time at the excursion and enjoyed panning and digging for gold.
ReplyDeleteI had fun digging the most because you didn't get wet and dirty like we did when we panned for gold instead.