SSR Selfie

This week I have read a book called "The Gruffalo" This is a fiction book which means everything in this book is not real. 

This book is based on a mouse who makes parts of a fake creature who ends up being real.

 I had to write down 3 things that happened, one of them were The mouse describes the gruffalo.

Then we had to list three or more new words we learnt from the book. There was no new words in the book because I knew most of the words.

I found this book fun because it has different animal and a creature who has interesting body parts. 

Basic Facts Boxes

Basic Facts Boxes is an activity that challenges others to solve maths problems of all operations quickly. 

There are two challenges within the Basic Facts Boxes: Speed Demon Challenge and Brain Box.  I 

completed  up to 10 

Daily Routine

This week we wrote a recount of our daily routine.

First, I chose a day of the week to write a recount on.  I chose Saturday.  Then we wrote down key phrases and words that relates to our daily routine such as: 'brush teeth' or 'eat breakfast: cereal or pancakes'.

Then we turned those key phrases and words into proper sentences using past tense.  Words like woke, walked, first person words such as I, me, us, we and the structure TREE.

Next, we proof read our work to make sure our recount includes the title, a reveal, events, and an ending.  There should be four paragraphs for the events, each paragraph telling what happened before school, at school, after school and after dinner.

Art Collaboration

 For art, we re-created the gruffalo cover as a class. We learnt new skills during these past few weeks colouring in the art work.

Firstly, we started outlining the parts with black. The second technique we learnt was how to colour in the tree trunks. To do this we coloured all the tree trunks in brown. Then we started shading some parts of the tree trunks and then started blending it with the brown.

Lastly, we learnt how to colour in the leaves. To do this I coloured all the leaves in green. 

Safety Plan

 For inquiry we checked out the hazards, risk, and consequences that could happen during making a fire and smores.

First, we discussed different hazards and risks.  

Next we wrote it down,  A hazard for the fire is the fire itself and the consequences are getting burnt.

Then, we discussed some consequences that could happen.  

Consequences can be how can we prevent it, whose responsibility is it, and the emergency plan.

Mr Ogilvie lit up the fire and then demonstrated how to roast the marshmallows.  After he demonstrated we made our own smores.

After, we made another safety plan for making the smores with the fire.  We repeated the same process but wrote down different hazards, risks and consequences.  Then we made smores.

 LI: to demonstrate prior knowledge.

Rounding

Rounding is a math strategy that uses addition & division strategies. Rounding means making a number easier but keeping its value close to what it was. The answer is less detailed, but easier to use

Addition and division are both operations that are used for rounding. To round, the person needs to find the mean, to find the mean get a set of numbers like 5,7,1,9,3 and then add them altogether which would make 25. Then divide them by the amount of numbers there are which makes 5.

Rounding can help people get better at adding and dividing. Also at understanding how to round numbers in to 1 decimal place.

L.I. Investigate units of time

Governing Topics

Governing topics or policies are actions that political parties want to put into action when they get into power. The two most important topics to me are Health & Education.

Health is keeping people healthy to stop spreading the sickness.

Education is how the government should be spending money on schools.

I chose these two topics because education is very important to me because Im still in school & health is important to me because I can stop myself from getting sick.

LI: to choose important governing topics by summarising all topics.

Risk Assesment

This activity was about making a safety action plan.

Firstly, we revised what hazards and risk's are and what the risks levels were.  Hazard is an object that can cause harm.  The risk is the chance that the object will cause harm.  The risk levels are: low, likely, possible, elevated & extreme.

Then, we wrote our own safety plan on a simple activity.  We wrote down what the activity was, the class level, the number of helpers, the number of students and where the location of that activity.  For every 10 students, there is one helper.

Then, we wrote down the answers to the following questions: What could go wrong, How could we prevent it & whose responsibility is it.

LI: To assess risk with in a simple activity.

Rewrite Character | Writing

A rewrite of a narrative gets ideas from the story and changes them to make a new story that go's with the storyline of the original story.

The fox was changed to a wolf because they are similar.  The underground house was changed to a den.  Instead of the roasted fox the Gruffalo's favourite food is wolf ice cream.

Rewriting a narrative can help with coming up with new creative ideas.

Making Connections

Connections are similar ideas between the reader's experiences and the text being read. The three types of connections are text to self, text to text and text to world.  

Text to self connections are when something in the text reminds the reader of an experience.  

Text to text connections happen when something in the text reminds the reader of a previous text read.

Text to world connections are larger connections that a reader brings to a reading situation
LI: to make connections.

Static Investigation

Time is a continuing sequence of events happening.

The median is found by organizing a set of numbers from least to greatest 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 the units of times.

Time

Time is a continuing sequence of events happening.

The median is found by organizing a set of numbers from least to greatest 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.

Hazards & Risks

My group learnt how to identify risks and hazards.

First, we discussed what hazards and risks are.  Hazards are something that can be used to cause injuries or pain, and risks are the possibility that something will happen to cause harm or pain.

Then, We focused on finding four hazards at home, four hazards at school, four hazards in sport and four hazards in our community.

After that, we worked on identifying the risks that the hazards cause.  We put our understanding of each risk and hazard into a google slide.

The google slide shows what the hazard is and the risks that the hazard can cause.  The hazards that we put for school are:Bookshelf, Glue gun, Being late, Not completing work, and some others.

The purpose of this activity is to understand the risks that hazards can cause.

LI: to demonstrate prior knowledge.

Character Description

A character description creates an image or picture by giving information of the characters appearance, experiences and personalities.

The appearance description tells about what the face, hair, body, and the clothes look like.

The experience description gives information about where they live, their friends and family, their interests, hobbies or talents, their secrets or special achievements.

The personality description explains what kind of person they are, what they say, what makes them different or interesting and how they behave.

The purposes of writing a character description is to practise visualising a character, and practise using literal and figurative language.

Visualizing

Visualizing creates an image by understanding a piece of text

The Gruffalo story activity describes a certain part of the gruffalo story so that others are able to visualize and draw that part of the storyline using their understanding.

To visualize, readers sometimes start by reading or listening to a text or description, so that it gives them an idea of what kind of image to create in their head that follows the information they have been given.

Visualization is a useful  tool in reading so that others can create an image.

LI: to visualize parts of the story.