Gruffalo Rewrite | Writing

The Gruffalo story included the Gruffalo's favourite food, where the animals live, and what animal they're.

In the original Gruffalo story book, the snake lived in a log pile house and the Gruffalo's favourite food was scrambled snake.

The snake has been swapped out for a crocodile. The crocodile lives on a shore side, the Gruffalo's new favourite food is crocodile shake.

LI: To write a narrative.

Risk Assesment | Inquiry

In this activty, we built an idea of the possible risk, hazard and consequence. We also created a safety action plan that could help in a situation.

First, we discussed what risks and hazards are. Our idea was that a hazard is a something that can cause harm to people, properties or the enviorment. A risk is the chance that a hazard can cause harm to people, properties or the enviorment.

Next, we made the safety action plan. We thought of a simple activity that can take place in the school. We wrote down the year level, the number of helpers, the numbers of students and the location of the activity. We also noted down the consequences, the hazard or risk, how we could prevent the consequence, the person who is responsible for the hazard or risk and the emergency plan.

I found this activity challenging because it was hard to come up with many consequences and emergency plans. The objective of this activity was to identify the likelihood of a risk and hazard to happen during an activity.

LI: To assess risk with a simple activity.

Setting Description | Writing

Setting descriptions describe what places looks like, smell like, feels like and sounds like.

To describe places look like use adjectives like dark, scary, frightening, big, small, long and short. 

To describe places sound like use adjectives like chirping, noisy, quiet, silent and deafening. 

When describing what places feel like use adjectives like jaggered, smooth, bumpy and flat. 

When describing a places smell use adjectives like fresh, stinky and smelly. 

The four senses can give reader a better understanding of the setting.

LI: To write a setting description.

Risk Assessment quiz | Inquiry

We learnt how to identify the levels of risk. We also learnt about assess likelihood.

First, we learnt about the five levels of danger. They are: low, likely, possible, elevated and extreme. Assess likelihood is to assess how likely it is that someone is exposed to the hazard.

After that, we rated 15 scenarios by the levels of risk. Then we discussed the consequences that can occur by the scenarios.

Lastly, we wrote down our own scenarios and rated the potential risk level for other people to try.

I thought that this activity taught me about the different danger levels of different scenarios.

LI: To asses the liklihood.

Inferring | Reading

In reading I learnt about fact and opinion. During this activity, I learnt how to infer using prior knowledge.

Firstly, I wrote about fact and opinion. Facts are events that happened. Opinions are the inferences we make using facts.

Next, I wrote down things that the character did in The Gruffalo story. Next I wrote down the inferences we made using facts.

Finally, I created a character trait using some adjectives I came up with in my inferences about the characters.

I now understand that to get an opinion I have to use the clues and keywords.

LI: To infer.

Statistic Investigation | Maths

Time is a continuous sequence of events.

The median is found by organizing a set of numbers from least to greastest and finding the number that falls in the middle, but if there is an even set of numbers, the two numbers are added and then divided by 2. For example: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. The median would be 7.

The mean is found by adding a set of numbers together then dividing the total by how many numbers there are. For example: 7+8+9= 24. 24 divided by 3 is 8. The mean would be 8.

The mode is found by organizing the set of numbers from least to greatest and then finding the number that appears the most. For example: 5, 6, 7, 7, 8. The mode is 7 because 7 appears the most times in the number set.

They measured how long a paper plane would glide for in the air. After they measured the length of their activity, they turned their times into a mean. They also found the median and mode for all of their times.

LI: To investigate units of time.

Statistic investigation

Time is a continuing sequence of events happening.

The median is found by organizing a set of numbers from least to greastest and finding the number that falls in the middle, but if there is an even set of numbers, the two numbers are added and then divided by 2. For example: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. The median would be 7.

The mean is found by adding a set of numbers together then dividing the total by how many numbers there are. For example: 7+8+9= 24. 24 divided by 3 is 8. The mean would be 8.

The mode is found by organizing the set of numbers from least to greatest and then finding the number that appears the most. For example: 5, 6, 7, 7, 8. The mode is 7 because 7 appears the most times in the number set.

They measured how long it would take to bounce a basketball 50 times, 5 times each. After they measured the length of their activity, they turned their times into a mean. They also found the median and mode for all of their times.

LI: To investigate units of time.