The sun was gradually vanishing from my line of sight, hiding behind the towering trees as the moon began to take its place in the sky. As I looked down I saw how high I was and was a bit nervous. My talons gripped the thick bark tighter than usual as I was looking down and anticipating the thoughts of my first flight, which was taking place tonight. 

I watched my family as I questioned my mother “is it time yet?” “she murmured a quiet “yes,it is time”.  I drew my wings as I was ready to fly. I flapped my wings. But I realized I couldn’t move my body as if time took a pause, the fear inside of me was too much for me to even move. 

My mother watched me and realized it was not my time yet.  She spoke softly “Maybe another time”. I drew back my wings in disappointment as I watched from afar, as my family flew off one after another.

I watched my family as I questioned my mother “is it time yet?” “she murmured a quiet “yes,it is time”.  I drew my wings as I was ready to fly. I flapped my wings. But I realized I couldn’t move my body as if time took a pause, the fear inside of me was too much for me to even move. 

My mother watched me and realized it was not my time yet.  She spoke softly “Maybe another time”. I drew back my wings in disappointment as I watched from afar, as my family flew off one after another.

Everyday after that moment I tried and tried, and grew my confidence being able to jump but still failed to flap my wings within the ideal time. I gripped my talons one last time as I was about to give up, I had the constant thought of this was gonna be it and this was my time to fly.

My family saw my struggle and supported me, especially my mother, she spoke with confidence “believe in yourself and fly like the wind”.  I drew in my wings as I was thinking this was the time, the time for me to fly. I let go of the bark and started flapping my wings and I realized at last, my talons were finally off the bark, I looked beneath

me and finally saw me hovering above. I moved forward, gaining more speed.  I looked at my right seeing my family but to the left I saw my mothers face filled with happiness, I was proud and thankful of myself and my family for helping me build up the courage to fly and soar through the sky.

Mrs Anderson read us the book ‘First Flight’ by June Crebbin. We talked about the narrators point of view and used a Gemini Gem to prompt us to think more deeply about what the story might look like when told in the first person.

I enjoyed using the Gem because it helped me with my words and my grammar for the paragraph.

We read about Dame Naida Glavish, a wahine toia who choice to greet callers with “Kia Ora” instead of “Hello.” Her one action led to a massive change in New Zealand’s cultural identity.

We think Dame Naida Glavish was an agent of change because she stood up for her rights to say Kia Ora when calling people. Which is changing.

LI: To collaborate to create a piece of art

For this task LS2 drew leaders back in the day, our leader is Jonah Lomu this task was about collaborating and learn to work with people you didn’t really know – you might need to talk about being a leader, listening, sharing ideas and compromising. Something I learnt from this was to collaborate with more people. 

For this weeks inquiry task, we learnt about social influence and how it can effect people not only by friends in real life but by social media aswell, for example the Dubai chocalate trend. It was a trend where a pistachio paste was put into a bar of chocolate and people bought it because it was trending. I wrote in my DLO how we can be effected by the social media and what it is. Check out my DLO to see what it is.

For reading we were learning about Johnny Pohe and his great escape. Johnny Pohe was a pilot that taught people and fought in wars, one day he got caught and was sent to prison camp in Germany. Him and other people that were caught in the prison made up a play to make three tunnels Tom, Dick and Harry. Dick and Tom were exploded and abandoned and Harry was the last standing one, they waited for a moonless night to escape. Once that came they went for the opening and went into the tunnels, due to a delay only 200 people were supposed to make it out but only seventy six escaped, and three escaped safely. For this task we made the pros and cons of being an escapee or staying inside the prison. Check out the DLO my group made.

This week we went to Tech, the tech class Im in is the sewing, in sewing for this year we are focusing on making tote bags with our own designs. I chose a special design that represented Jesus. Today we mostly focused on planning and making, right now I am at the making stage where I continue to make my tote bag design. Check out this photo to see what we did.

For this weeks Maths focus group 1 learnt about Prime and Composite. A prime number is a number that is only multiplied to one and its self and only has two factors. Factors are the multiplication that makes up the number, while composite is the opposite which can be multiplied by other numbers to create it. Check out this DLO me and my group made to help other have a better understanding.

For this week’s Maths , Group 1 learned how to do the division algorithm long and short. We figured out a way to solve the quotient but using the standard division method. Writing numbers in vertical with the bigger numbers on top. While you’re dividing the numbers, keep track of the remainder to make sure the problems have been solved correctly, using this method can let us have a better understanding. Check out this DLO me and my group made.

This week, me and my group learnt how to round numbers and the decimals otherwise known as tenths, hundreths, and thousandths. People use rounding to make guesses about numbers and to make maths problems easier to solve. Rounding numbers in maths helps you estimate numbers and it makes calculations quicker and simpler. Rounding numbers, in maths is really helpful. Check out the DLO my group made to give people a better understanding.

In maths we previously learnt about lowest common multiples, in order to get a lowest common you need to have 2 numbers and work out all of the number they can multiply into, and when you find a first match between multiples, then that is the lowest common. Check out the DLO my group made to get a better understanding.