Auckland Museum @ Panmure Library

We went to the Panmure Library and met Mama Piri & Tau from the Auckland musuem & Ruth from the library.

First we were told a story about a rat and an octopus.  The whole story is about a rat, who drifted into the ocean a log, found an octopus and cried for help to it.  The octopus agreed to help, but the rat needed to pay back.  Then they went to land, and the rat didn't pay back and scrathched octopus's head while it's on it.  The octopus was very angry and he swear he'll eat every rat he sees.  That is why the rat-shaped octopus catcher works.

Then we did some coloring, Ruth was the judge and she choose 4 girls and 4 boys to win the prize. Next we made these skirts made out of brown paper and had a fashion show with 2 boys and 2 girls.
At last we said goodbye, and walked all the way back to school again.

My favourite part was making the skirts.

Newspaper Report

PBS C3 Party

PBS pupils enjoying their hot chocolate

On the 9th of November, Saturday, 11.00am-1:30pm, PBS (Panmure Bridge School) had a party designed by C3 church, which is totally free.  The party is opened to PBS pupils and their families, friends, and anyone involved with PBS. The party was made for pupils to have fun and take a break from school work.   The party foods included Mr Whippy, drink station (which provides Hot Choco, Flat white and cappuccino), popcorn, sausage sizzle, candy floss, lollies and pancakes.  The party activities were bouncy castle, pony rides and free accessories.  The choir, kapahaka and ukulele group performed on the stage, and the pupils seemed to enjoy the pro wrestlers. The C3 church members handed out number stickers and they drawed the prizes for big boys toys.  The girl in the photo, right, wearing purple won one of the prizes.  “It is totally awesome!” commented one of the pupil.

Bruce Potter Visit

kAHA the KEA

Yesterday Bruce Potter came to our school to visit.  Unfortunately, half of our school went to rugby.  We came to the hall early in the morning, about 10:30.  He talked to us about drawing.  He illustrated two books, Penny the prolific pooing cow and Kaha the kea.

He sang us songs about those two books.  Our time is up, we got back to class.

After morning tea, I went to the school library.  He taught me how to draw horses, and you can start shading without the outlines.  He shade a face of a man, it looks so real!  I drew a horse with huge eyes.  He gave me his E-mail and R8 children came to interview.

Des Hunt visit

Des Hunt Visit

The author Des Hunt came to visit us today.  He used chemistry and physics to teach us about writing.  He made it interesting and fun.  I learnt that you need a very good hook and you need a question or something to go with it to the next paragraph.

Netbook reflection

My name is Mengchun, I’m a year 5 student at Panmure Bridge School, my class is room 7, my teacher is Mrs Miller.

The things I like most about my netbook are you could work faster and the teacher can set you fun activities on Studyladder and Sumdog.  Only I can go on my netbook because I have my own password and I can go on websites to help me with my homework.

Sometimes my netbook doesn’t work probably because the internet is slow and my mouse doesn’t work so I have to restart it.  I can’t play games on my netbook or go on facebook or youtube.

The unusual thing about my netbook is that you can have a special drawing tool.  This is my netbook reflection.