Personal Blog

This week I would have to say was a pretty fun week. I loved that it was so short, but I mean who wouldn’t. I loved watching and listening to all of the presentations on Wednesday to the school board. I found all of the info very interesting and a lot of it I did not even now. My partner was not at school on Wednesday so I didn’t get to have a station for my topic that we studied and compared. Instead I got to be a greeter which I would have to say was pretty good at. I was sort of scared when I found out that I was possibly going to have to present without my partner but it worked out and I had a lot of fun. Listening to all of my classmates present I found out that a lot of them are actually really knowledgeable and they really did a great job presenting. They knew exactly what they were going to say and new all of their information so well. I was very impressed I don’t think I would have been able to do that good of a job if I would have had to do that. I was very excited for the weekend knowing that I had 2 extra days off of school. It turned out to be an awesome weekend and it felt so good to sleep in everyday until around 10. I got to trick or treat two days in a row. I think I’m good for candy for another year. My family and I counted all of our candy from this weekend and we have 468 pieces!

Pearsonal Blog

This week we finished the Acceptance book which personally was the most boring book ever I mean I absolutely do not like reading but I mean I would have rather read about something else than about college students going to school. We also worked on our presentation to the school board which I think wasn’t that bad of a project. It’s just that it got sort of confusing on what exactly we were supposed to say in some parts of the letter but otherwise it was pretty fun to collect all the info.

This past week I have had a tremendous amount of home work every single day. I feel like I have so much more pressure when I get home from Academy then I do from any of my other regular classes. We keep getting more and more projects given to us and less and less work time for them all. It becomes really difficult at home to go from one project to the next and to the next. I think the well 1 or 2 projects maybe at a time would be a little more reasonable than 4 or 5. It’s been really tough trying to quickly finish all these projects. I could do an absolutely amazing job on a project if you guys wouldn’t give us 3 at a time and would give us more time in class to work.

This week im really looking forward to the short week! I hope it goes a little better than last week went and I hope we get more work time for the next projects that would really help me out a lot!

Personal Blog!

     

I would have to say that this week was a pretty fun week. I really enjoyed going to the Apple store on Thursday. I think really thought that I learned lots by going to the apple store. I got so many facts about the two products of apple that we are comparing, that I think my partner and I are all done with researching. I also really enjoyed going to the food court to eat after the Apple store. Other than getting sick from the Chines food that I ate there it was a lot of fun getting to just chill with your teachers and your classmates. During this week I really liked how much work time we had. I really thought that i got a lot done compared to other weeks in Academy. Also i thought it was really cool that we got to comment on our classmates projects before they handed them in for a grade. I had never done that before and i thought i really helped my partner and i out with how to make our project better. I also thought that it was really nice of the teachers to give us until Thursday to fix up any mistakes in the project like the resources, analysis, graph and ex. The only part of this week that i didn’t like was on Wednesday the testing day because i didn’t feel like i really accomplished anything in academy with such a short class time. The one thing that I thought maybe the teachers should address again is the rule about work time that there should be no one getting up and walking around and there should be now yelling. Especially if someone is taking a test because the days that i had to make up tests or there was a test in academy, people would start talking really loud. I’m usually a really slow test taker and i need it really quite in order for me to do well on a test. With everyone talking it was super hard to concentrate. It would be really great if the teachers could just tell the students to quiet down and actually enforce it because if you only tell them once they won’t stop. Over all this week has been really fun and I’m kind off starting to like this Academy class and maybe thinking that this might be for me after all.

Product Testing

The purpose of the product test was to determine which slipper ( Snooki or Wal-Mart) keeps your feet warmer for a longer period of time.
 https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Ad9WYTURms0LZGhqOGN2cDlfMWRjcGJoM2hw&hl=en_US

Halie's Weekly Blog

This past week my partner and I have been working really hard to try to finish our project but we have been struggling to do so. Every day we would conduct our experiment and then when we collected our data there was some sort of problem. Monday we had collected all of our data from only our Snookie slippers because i had forgotten my cheap Wal-Mart slippers at home and all of that data was accurate. On Tuesday we did both of the slippers and then someone unplugged our Temperature Prob. before we were able to collect any data. Wednesday we conducted the experiment again on both slippers but then after we were all done and all our data was collected the teacher told us that we did it wrong and he wanted us to do it completely different way. Finally on Thursday we tested the slippers again but the first time it didn’t work so we had to do it 2 times and just got all of our data written down before the bell rang. So as you can see we have not been able to accomplish anything on our project throughout this whole week since we had no data. I don’t exactly understand why the teachers didn’t tell us beforehand that we were doing the experiment wrong instead of waiting till we had finished and then telling us to do it over again. This week id have to say was the most stress full of all the weeks so far i really was over whelmed with all of the homework that i had from other classes and plus all of these achieves, reading and this project and on top of all of it volleyball every night after school till 6 and my coach won’t let me miss practice even though they told us that school work comes before volleyball. My season of volleyball is finally over so now hopefully i won’t be as stressed and i will be able to accomplish more out of school and in school. Overall this week has been pretty tough for me!

Personal Blog

I thought that this week was a pretty hard week compared to others. We got this brand new project introduced to us. We had to find two different products and had to compare them to each other through a controlled experiment. My partner and I have had a pretty hard time this week with trying to find the products that we want to test. On Tuesday we had an idea and we all ready to start going on the experiment until the teachers told us that it wasn’t good enough and that we had to pick something harder to do. But then there’s a group of two guys that are doing the same thing that we were going to do and the teachers said that they were fine which I don’t exactly understand. Then we tried to figure out new products to test and each time that we thought of one that we really liked and wanted to do there was always a problem with it. It got really frustrating after a while but we finally found an idea that we could do an experiment on. Thursday was when we finally started to get rolling finally. It’s going pretty good right now and we have been accomplishing lots, which was an upside. This Academy class I’m not really getting a feel for i don’t know if it’s the projects or the teachers or what it is. If i got to change something about this whole week i would have to say the teachers and explaining things more i feel that i can only talk to one of the 4 teachers to help explain cause the rest whenever they do i have no clue what they are saying. I’d have to say i did learn lots and am now getting a hang of some of these websites finally but this week was definitely one of the most confusing and hardest weeks.