Respect The Sea

One day Jack, a little red snapper was swimming around in the sea. His parents had told him to stay away from the boats but as usual Jack didn’t listen. Above the water Alex was looking for a snapper for dinner. He had taken his boat out to the place he knew the fish swam. 

Alex didn’t care about the fish. He just wanted to cook some up for dinner. He didn’t care if the fish he caught were too small. He didn’t care if the fish he caught were too big, he just took them off his hook with his bare hands. Alex only wanted a nice meal.

His friends used to get angry with him because they knew it was important to think about the size of the fish you took from the sea because if they didn’t do this the fish won’t be able to breed. That would mean there would be no fish to catch in the future.

Not using a wet towel to hold a fish will damage its scales which can make them get sick or die.

If Alex remembered to measure the fish he caught he would know it was important to put undersized fish like Jack back in the sea, but he didn’t. Jack had been hungry and had seen the bait but unfortunately he didn’t see the hook. The next thing he knew he was up! Fish don’t do that so he knew he was in trouble.

His scales felt very dry, he couldn’t breathe, why didn’t he listen to his parents. Suddenly he felt a splash of salt water, the splash became bigger and soon all his scales started to cool down and he could breathe again.

Alex had a big grin on his face. He knew he was having fish for dinner that day. Alex didn’t follow many rules but he did know that if he filled the bucket with salt water the fish would stay fresh. Alex was a greedy fisherman and caught way over the limit if seven snapper a day. As he started to make his way back home the fisheries police decided to check how many fish he had caught

Alex went straight to jail because he couldn’t pay the big fine for having too many fish. The police put Jack back in the sea just in time. He knew he had a lucky escape and decided that this would be the last time he ever tried to eat bait.

Leap Of Faith - Narrative

Leap Of Faith

The sun had setted and then out came the moon, it shines over me and my friends. All around us it began to get darker and darker as I imagined in my mind what it would be like to be enjoying the night flying. Tonight I was going to fly for the first time, I felt very nervous. I was afraid to take my leap of faith.

A strong gust of wind blew behind me, then I started to shake a lot. That's when I told myself that I was scared to fly for the first time. I felt more nervous than before. I just wanted to get rid of this feeling, so I put one leg up and then a gust of wind blew at me slowly. My talons were shaking and that's when I was starting to freak out. I knew I had to be brave so I told myself that I can do it. I held my breath and leapt off the edge of the branch, and dived into the blank sky. “I did it I can fly now, I am not afraid to do this anymore”.

The wind picked me up, then I spread out my wings like an angel. I felt the icy air on my feathers, it reminded me that I needed to control my wings. So I started flapping them to get the icy air off my feathers. I couldn't believe what I was doing, for the first time I started to control my wings to be able to fly. I was so amazed at what I did. So I set out looking for my favourite snack.

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This term we have been learning how to write narratives. I have written a narrative called the Leap Of Faith. By doing this, it helped me put in more powerful words in my narrative. I really enjoyed this activity because it helped me improve my skills at writing narratives. Next time I want to make sure I add more information in my narrative.

Baby Bear

LI: To brainstorm a narrative.

LI: To plan a narrative.
We learn about the baby bear and we had to do Orientation, Problem, Event,Solution and title.
We learn want is Orientation. Orientation is like what,where,when,why,who,how and the problem is like something bad happened and the event is like the mum bear think first and save baby bear and the solution is like there went back home and then the title tell us what about the story.