Week #4

Learning Log for Week of September 20th - 25th 

My favorite thing this week our field trip to the apple farm.   

We got to pick our own apples and they had a few pumpkins 

we could pick and see where they make their apple cider.

Homeroom:

This week I played and listened to brain pop junior. I played the game "construct a sorus" with my sister. We learned how they lived and what they looked like.  It was a fun game.

Math:

This week in Math I learned more with money.  I learned how to write and read money.  When we went for our field trip to the apple farm I got to pay for the apples, I had to figure out how much money to give the girl.

English/Language Arts:

I wrote each day in my journal book. One of my entries was about our field trip to the apple farm. I am still working on my Ghost in the Attic Book. Kaz and Claire found Cosmo the go while they were outside trying to solve a ghost detective mystery. 

Science:

After learning about the water cycle last week. We went to the park one day and talked about the different clouds in the sky.  We laid down on the grass and looked up at the sky and named the different clouds of cumulous, stratus, and cumulous nimbus clouds.  The stratus clouds moved the fastest in the sky.

Tech

I built my spinner top.  It was cool, it could spin really fast. I put in the codes for music and to make the top spin.  It was a little easier to build I thought than the dancing birds.  I am excited to build the monkey next.

P.E.

We had soccer practice Monday night and Wednesday night.  We did not have a game this week. But at practice on Monday night we had a small game and we wont.  I started using my goalie gloves and I am thinking about goalie practice.

(I am in the turquoise jersey)

Week #3

Learning Log for Week of September 14th - 18th

My favorite thing this week was Geography 

and learning about the Earth's Atmosphere.

Homeroom:

This week I played and listened to brain pop junior.  I watched videos on American Symbols like the liberty bell, the bald eagle, the american flag, and the statue of liberty.  It taught me that we need to respect these things because it shows us that we have our freedom.

Math:

This week in Math I learned how to skip count by 5 and that a nickel is 5 cents.  I starting learning about money and where the decimal point goes.  Also how to read the amount of money and how to write it.

English/Language Arts:

I continued writing in my journal this week.  My favorite thing I wrote about was a run that my sister and I went on with my mom one morning.  We went running around our neighborhood and I drew a picture of my black running shoes.  I finished my reading book, "The Haunted Library."  We now know who the library ghost is, it's Claire's Grandma!  She pretended to be a ghost so that more people would come to her library.  Because Claire and Kaz figured out the mystery, they made up their own detective agency called "CK ghost detectives." I started reading the second book called, "The Ghost in the Attic," this book I hope is about how Kaz finds his family.

Science:

This week we talked about is physical geography.  It is made up of atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere. Atmosphere is the air around us.  Without the atmosphere the sun would burn us to death and at night we would freeze.  Atmosphere protects us.  The atmosphere gives us air and water.  Lithosphere is the study of land and hydrosphere is the study of water, because hydro is water.

Tech

I built my dancing birds, it was fun.  I made them tweet, chirp, and spin.  There are buttons that you can build and have them do different things to program them to do.

P.E.

We had soccer practice Monday night, but then Wednesday night they canceled because of the rain.  The mailman brought my goalie gloves this week and I am going to use them the next week for my games.  I had soccer shoot outs on Friday night, I learned to block and kick hard.  My game went well....it was 4-6...we were winning most of the game, but the last part of the game one of the players from the other team came running and made two goals.  

Week #2

Learning Log for Week of September 7th - 11th

My favorite thing this week in school was reading my book.
I also liked taking my Unit 1 math test.
 I earned some money from getting 100%
 on the test so I could buy my soccer goalie gloves.

Homeroom:

This week I started working with the different programs in homeroom.  I really like brain pop junior. I like watching videos, especially the one where I learned about weights and the one on measurements.  I watched a video on how to write paragraphs that can help me with my next report on the history of soccer.

Math:

I was able to take my Unit 1 test.  This week in math I learned to add multiple digits, skip counting by 2 and 10, and regrouping. I helped my mom bake cookies and learned about different measurements in the kitchen.  

English/Language Arts:

I did my journal writing each day this week, one day I wrote about soccer and then another day I wrote about my blanket and drew a picture of it.  I kept reading my book, The Haunted Library, I am on chapter 8. We still don't know who the library ghost is, but I think it is Kaz's brother Finn.  I checked out the second book in the series from the library.

Science:

This week we talked more about different vertebrates. I also got a lady bug land kit, I couldn't find a lady bug, but I was able to catch a fly and I put peas in it from him eat, but then I let him go after a few hours.  I want to catch a bee.  We learned about invertebrates before we did vertebrates, so I wanted to see the different parts of the insect up close.  I want to buy a microscope so I can put things under it to look at.

Tech

This week I started working on my lego class. My first project is Dancing Birds and I am excited to finish the project.  My legos came with a CD instruction, but my computer doesn't play CD's so my dad and I are trying to figure out how to download the instructions to the computer. We got a new camera for my sister's digital photography class and I have been able to look at it a little bit and see how it works.

P.E.

It has been fun week in soccer. This week I had soccer practice Monday and Wednesday.  We had a game Thursday night, it was a tie.  On Friday nights they do this thing called soccer shoot outs.  This was the first week so me and my little brother went.  We have to practice shooting the ball into the goal. After soccer shoot outs I got to go to sports authority and get a mouthguard because you are 8 times more likely to get hurt in the mouth in soccer than football.  I earned the money to pay for it from working in my grandma and grandpa's front yard.

School Begins.....

Learning Log for Week of August 17th - September 4th

My family and I started school this week and I am happy to start again.
I like school and I am excited to start My Tech High this year.
I am especially excited to start my Robotics class this year.
My favorite thing we did this week was science.
Here are a few more things that I learned:

Homeroom:

I learned about the different programs that I can access and use help for.

I am excited to use some of the programs this year.  I liked introducing myself to the other students and hearing back from one of the teachers.

Math:

This week we started using the program Math-U-See and I am on the Beta level.  I worked on learning Place Value, Sequencing, and Inequalities. Math is my favorite subject. It came with blocks to help me learn and I like building with them while I do my Math and after I make up designs.

English/Language Arts:

I worked on my hand writing this week.  I practiced each day writing two different sentences.  I started reading a new book The Haunted Library, it is my first chapter book and I am excited to read it and check out the second book.  My dad helped me learn how to write a letter, I wrote my Christmas letter to Santa. I learned about what a letter should have in it.  I started a journal and each day I get to write what I am learning.

Science:

This week we talked about the Earth and how it is made up of the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.  My sister and I tried experiments using coconut oil when we baked brownies all by ourselves! We learned about the 5 classes of Vertebrates: Mammal, Fish, Reptiles, Amphibians, and Birds.  We went on a field trip to a museum and I learned about what a dinosaur life was like and how they became extinct.

Tech

I am excited I get to start my Robotics Class and I opened up early.  I am going to try and build an amphibian robot first. I used my mom's phone and made an i-movie with my little brother, it was about mountain biking. Because I really like mountain biking and my brother Cole just got a new bike so I made a movie about our two bikes.  I helped my mom start and design this blog for my learning logs.

P.E.

I have soccer practice twice a week and one game each week.  We lost our first game 2-5 and the second game was 3-4. Soccer is my favorite sport because it is really fun and i like to try to make goals.