Wool Week Excursion- Wednesday 3/6/24

On Wednesday at 9:30 we hopped on the bus and started our journey! After fifteen minutes which felt like fifteen hours, we finally got off the bus and went to this little white tent and started to learn about wool. Straight away they taught us about all these types of sheep and wool like Merino and crossbred sheep! It was cool, we learned about how sheep’s wool is greasy, soft and fluffy!

Recess time 11:15

At Lunch we got such a treat. There were brownies, fairy bread, chocolate and everything you could ever ask for. But anyway, after we were over dreamland we went to another little white tent.

Crocheting 

We went to Crocheting next and we were making BFF bracelets out of wool. (We kept them to ourselves) I was struggling to make one. I was struggling so much that I made three loops. People wondered “How in the world did she make THREE loops?!” But after my monstrosity we had lunch.

Lunch   1:30

We had lamb buns.

After Recess 2:00

After some delicious recess, we stayed outside to look at a guy and his dog doing some herding and how it's better to use a whistle instead of your voice. I think it just scares them more because of how high and loud they are. But after we watched him do his herding, he brought out the cutest dogs and PUPPY ever! The puppy's name was Brownie and she/he was so adorable! PS: Very fluffy too, I kept wanting to hug it to heaven.

Shearing 2:30

After the cutest puppies in the world left we went to a shed and saw a man with a sheep called Sassy Susan. We watched him talk about the sheep for about let's say twenty minutes? After that, he shore the sheep and showed us that the belly was the greatest wool out of all the sheep's wool that they had on!! But then after that we had to go home on the dry, nice, warm bus and had a safe trip home.

The End :)

Report by Lily Coggan