Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

What a wonderful year we have had in The Landing!
You can be proud of all the learners have achieved in 2016.
We hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a happy and relaxing holiday break.
Kind regards
Helen Denny and Suzanne Nilsson

All About Colour

We made a graph about our favourite colour in maths and talked about this ... what a lot of learning we did about how to read the information on this.

Then we wrote stories about our favourite colour. We needed to tell people about the colour and why we liked it best.

My favourite colour is red, because it is like lava in a volcano. It is also the colour of blood.

Rylan

Blue is my favourite colour because it makes me remember the sky.

Ryan

Red is like the ladybirds up in the trees and like red ice-cream. Yummy ice-cream. It is yummy stuff!

Judah

I like brown because the red-nosed reindeer is brown. It can fly.

Kane

Red is like a volcano and a heart and sunburn and blood.

Dillon

Orange is my favourite colour because it’s like the steaming hot sun and a scary tiger.

Lakai

Orange is like the leaves falling from the tree in autumn. I help my Dad brush the leaves away. It looks beautiful, like a tower. I wonder if it will be autumn again because I like autumn.

Andy

Carnival of the Animals

We have been enjoying learning about the wonderful piece of music, Carnival of the Animals written by Saint-Saens.
We have listened to the music, looked at a beautiful app on the ipads about the story and then we choose a character to write about.
Just read our great stories!

I am the angler-fish. I have a light on my head so I can see my prey.
Ryder

I like the swan. It is gliding on the lake. It is paddling softly. I like it.
Sophie

The lion is roaring because he is happy because he is pouncing in the parade.
Summer

I am a cuckoo blue bird. I am hiding from the foxes and I am hiding in the bushes.
Ollie

Tortoises are very, very, very, very slow. They did not just live when humans did. They even lived when lizards and dinosaurs lived. Then dinosaurs turned into fossils. Fossils maybe scary to you, but even poo can turn into fossils. Fossils aren't scary. I'm a tortoise which can turn into a fossil! The long ago tortoise end! Blurb: Read this book, then you will turn into a tortoise or a fossil! Blurb end!
Joel

I was in a lake. Guess what came across the lake? A green turtle. It came out of the lake. It walked in the land so slowly. Do you know what the slowest animal in this country is. It was my best day!
Andy

I'm a big and furry turtle. I like to eat leaves. I like to drink water. I like to chew my shell. Well, it is hard.
Dillon

Grrr! I am a lion. I like meat and I like people. My lion is hungry. He wants some lunch! (Part One!).
Ryan

I'm the swan. I'm pink and I am in my pyjamas. It is night time. I'm gliding across the Saint-Saens.
Emma

When I got home there was a lot of kangaroos messing up my home. I felt worried. I could not get inside because they were blocking the door and it was hard to open the door.
Judah

The Most Precious Thing ...

We wrote some stories about the most precious thing in the world.
(We have been learning about money in maths and were talking about how you can't actually buy many things that are truly precious).
Here are some of them for you to enjoy.



The most precious thing in the world is ... my fluffy dog, because it follows me and it likes me and it is so precious.
By Lakai

The most precious thing in the whole universe is ...
Friends! Because otherwise there will be no love, which means there will be hitting, fighting and other bad stuff. The good end.
By Joel

My cochlear implant is very precious. I do not want to break it - under the water or throw it on the ground. It is so clever. It helps me to hear.

By Natalia

The most precious thing in the world is brushing my teeth and going to sleep and I call my Mum to read me a story please.

By Moral

My dog is special to me because she is beautiful. I pat her too. I love her, to bits.

By Jessica

The most precious thing is a hidden diamond in a cave that has got blood and skeletons. When I had the diamond I ran away because when I had the diamond the skeletons came back alive.

By Liam

More From the Junior Athletics

Our media team, of senior students, do a great job of taking photos of school happenings. They did an amazing job of recording the Junior Athletics - so couldn't resist adding a medley of photos for you to enjoy.

 

Junior Athletics

We all had lots of fun during the Junior Athletics. There was lots of fun, laughter, striving to do our best and pride in our accomplishments. Even the weather co-operated!

Looking forward to seeing you all on Tuesday

We are looking forward to seeing all the wonderful learners in The Landing.
As you will have seen from the school website all our buildings have been checked and are fine, so we will be all set for our learning.
We hope you have had a quiet, restful and uneventful day.  (We all like those sort of days!).

You may already have seen this excellent advice from Nigel Latta, but here is the link if you would like a look.  (I think avoiding being saturated by the media is good advice for us all!).

http://www.goldfishwisdom.org/parents/coping-with-disasters

AquaGym

Thanks for all your support with the children attending AquaGym.

It has been a busy, fun and worthwhile week (and we are sure many of the children in The Landing will have slept well!). 

We have been impressed with their water confidence and skills. These have all increased as well, with the daily lessons. 

Swimming continues next week, so remember togs, towels and bags.

Special Visitors To School!

On Wednesday 26 October we had some special visitors visit The Landing.
5 baby rabbits!
They were 4 week old Flemish Giant bunnies and belonged to Willow.
We all enjoyed giving them a wee cuddle.

I loved seeing the bunnies.  They were cute.  They were soft like petals.  I love bunnies.  They were warm like hot chocolates.
Nyah

Swimming Reminder

Thank you to those folk who have already paid for swimming. We appreciate those generous donations that have also come in also.

Life Education

We had a lovely couple of sessions visiting the Life Education caravan and meeting Harold the Giraffe.

We talked about the things that make us happy and healthy (our Hauora value).

Then we learned about our special  invisible bucket and how we can be bucket fillers - for ourselves and other people.  We learned that if we are bucket dippers to others, our bucket gets dipped as well.

We also learned about empathy and "walking in someone else's shoes".

It's okay to feel (sad / angry ...) but we can't be a dipper.

Sulking / dipping doesn't solve the problem.

We have lots of valuable activities and learning we will do to follow-up from these sessions.  

Welcome Back

Welcome back to Term 4!
We hope you have had a happy and safe break.
We have lots of exciting things planned for this term - and first up we have Life Education visiting.
Just a reminder - Term 4 is a sunhat term.  (In anticipation of the warmer weather!).

Cultural Day

We had a great day at the Cultural Day.
We looked at all the different cultures the learners in The Landing identify with.  It was fun looking at the map, seeing clothing, listening to music and hearing stories.
We tried lots of different types of bread!  Yum!!

Look at our painting!

In art we have been painting.
We have learned about the primary colours and how when we mix them together we get secondary colours.
We have also learned about tinting and toning.
We creating these great ice-cream cones by starting with one colour and then tinting it two shades and toning it two shades.
Here are some of them on display in our office foyer.
Yum!!

House of Bricks

We had great fun learning with lego at the House of Bricks session.
We had to estimate, measure, compare and design all sorts of creations.

With many thanks to the very kind parents in The Landing.  Your sentiments and thoughts were very much appreciated.