Week #10

Learning Log for Week of November 2nd - November 6th

My favorite thing this week was going to the Museum of Curiosity and

going to the Rainforest exhibit. 

Homeroom:

This week for homeroom I worked in Khan Academy.  I earned more points and helped me with my math.  I got to do some math that I had never done before when I clicked watch video, that was really cool.

Math:

This week in Math I I finished my Lesson # 22 from Math-U-See.  It was Multiple-Digit Division. It was hard, but I was able to get it done. I like doing the Math on Brain Pop and Khan Academy.

English/Language Arts:

This week in my through the wardrobe class, we talked about story telling and how to tell a really good story. We got to watch a video and then we had to find a fairy tale that we wanted to tell and we had to do our best to be engaging.  You had to try and use different voices as you were telling the story.  I picked Rapunzel story. We are reading the book, The Horse and His Boy.  I have book club next week and we are reading A Wrinkle in Time. I like it because it has a little bit of everything: romance, mystery, adventure, and fantasy.

Science:

This week our science experiment was "Action-Reaction," We took a dollar bill and we tried two experiments. The first was to have someone else drop the dollar bill and count how many seconds it took us to catch the dollar bill, and then the other we dropped the dollar bill and we counted how many seconds till we caught the dollar bill.  Each time we dropped the dollar bill and caught it, we were faster because our mind sent a single to our arm that we needed to catch it.  We also talked about inertia and how an object that stays at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion.  We watched a video of an experiment where they put a glass of water and then a pin tin over the glass and then set an empty toilet paper roll on top of the pie tin and then set the egg on top of the toilet paper roll.  Then the scientist backed away and used his hand to knock the pie tin off the glass. The egg dropped straight down into the water, it was awesome. I started a new program called "Tinker Crate." It comes in the mail once a month and I get to work on different things, this month I get to work on learning about bones and joints.

Tech:

This week in digital photography, I don't have an assignment due.  But I am working on my next assignment, it's on lighting.  Now that it gets darker so much earlier, I am having to see what kind of lighting works best at night. I still like taking lots of photos of my baby brother Griffin and sometimes I take photos of my other two brothers too.

Choir:

This week in choir I started practicing my solo in "Silver Bells." I got it downloaded on my mom's ipod and listening to it a lot to help me practice.  We have a concert in three weeks at the Festival of Trees, we are all getting really excited!  

Dance:

This week in Dance I learned a new combination. A combination is a mini dance choreographed with different dance moves and set to music.  We also did a lot of jumps.