Yuri's Diary by Jayden and Jonathan

Photo by Bluesnap/ Free Use

Vostok 1 was starting to move and I felt nervous, scared and very excited to blast off into unknown. My chair was shaking. I heard over the radio, “ready for blast off!” I shouted back “YES SIR!” I really was proud to be a part of the Soviet Union.

I slowly opened my eyes that had been shut tight the whole way up and looked out of the window in front of me. I saw the clouds, oceans and land that made up earth. It was an incredible sight. I still can’t believe no one else has seen this picture!

The rockets boosters detached from the Vostok 1. Time for landing was getting closer,. It got intense and the rocket was falling down quickly. My job was to survive this mission so I had to pull the lever for the re-entry, also known as the escape lever. As my parachute opened I heard a soviet voice say “Hello are you there?” Our conversation went something like this:

“Hello?”

“Thank goodness!” This was followed by loud cheers as I was the first man to orbit the earth and return safely.

This week we read about Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the earth. To show our understanding of the story Jonathan and I wrote Yuri Gagarin's diary entry for the 13th April 1961, the day after he survived the first manned mission to space.

Kiwi can

This weeks and terms topic is Integrity, Integrity is making right choices even if no ones looking. An example is having to tell the truth when you did something wrong. What I found it interesting is that we got to find out what the meaning of honesty and Integrity. This photo of my role play shows to be honest and to give back the stuff you don't own to the owner of it.

Tech

Today for tech I almost finished my work today. The wood work that i'm doing is a  piggy bank and in order to make a piggy bank is to make a box. The work was amazing and I got lots of help doing chezils because they were hard to control.

Procedural Text

For writing me and my partner wrote what is a procedural text and what it does. If you want to write a procedural text you need a set of instuctions and materials to make it. me and my partner found out that a procedural text is  steps you can follow to make or do something interesting

Collage

Last week we went to camp and it was really fun. When we came back we were exhausted and tired but then the next week we thought of having a camp celebration but first we made thank you letters for all the teachers who went to camp with us. One of the camp celebration were a collage on what we did in camp.

World War 1 Transport

This week Marieta, Mele, Pua and I learnt about Life on the Transport Ship for World War 1. Together we all worked collaboratively to find information about the Transport Ship. In World War 1 there was a Transport Ship that took the enlisted people from New Zealand to Egypt ( which was there base ). I learnt that over 550 nurse died at war. It took about 6 weeks for the soldiers to get to Egypt. Each one of us received different roles to do. While Mele and Marieta were writing the 5 w's and H, Pua and I were finding images and information about the Soldiers. We added the source links for the sites and images we used. Each group was to present their shared DLO's, which showed others that we were gaining your researching skills.

The 7 Continents

Today me and my buddy learned about continents of the World to build our general knowledge and to work collaboratively together. Did you know that Asia is the biggest continent?. There are seven continents in the World.