Pearsonal Blog Dec.19- Dec.22

This week was a very short week because of winter break. On Monday we had a tone of time to finish up our outlines for our water presentations. After then we went down to the art room and got to work on our scratch of drawings. I think mine turned out pretty good. I’ve done them before but they always had the picture already traced out on the black- top of the paper. This one was a little more difficult but I love a challenge, especially in art. Tuesday we received about 15 to 20 minutes of work time to go over and change anything in our presentations before we presented them that day. We had some difficulty posting it to the PowerPoint slide on Google docs. Ours wouldn’t open, from clicking on the link. When it came time to present it all worked out because we just logged into our own account that it was saved on and opened it up from there. I think we did a pretty good job too. I thought we really showed and explained the point we were trying to get across to everyone. Also on Tuesday Mr. R came back, I think it was a bit of a shock to everyone, but we all just welcomed him back and went on like nothing had happened. I’m pretty glad he’s back, before when he was gone the social studies part of the academy was going downhill, I think. On Wednesday Mr. R explained to us what we were going to be doing for our final project for Academy. I thought it was pretty cool and also very creative. I like how we get to create whatever project we want all by ourselves. I think this is going to be very fun to construct. On Thursday we went into Mr. M’s room to finish up our crystal lab that we started about a month ago and also write a reflection relating to ours. Then we went back to the Academy room and this guy that I’ve never seen before or herd of, that was Mrs. Millers sub, gave us a lesson on commas. He was absolutely hilarious. I wish he was one of our academy teachers for good. He just made learning about commas so fun and I really thought that even though I was having fun and laughing, that I really learned about commas. Before I really didn’t understand them and never realized why we really needed them when writing. After the half hour of him teaching us about commas, I really understood. He’s awesome and I hope he comes and subs more for our Academy class!

Comment on "The Burden Of Thirst"

I feel so great full that I have to accessibility to clean fresh water whenever I want it in my own home. I can use the water whenever I please but usually I use it or leave it running when it’s not necessary. Reading this article really made me think about my water consumption and how I don’t really take it for granted and just think that everyone has it and it’s really nothing big. They said in the article that we averagely use about 100 gallons of water every day. That got me thinking, if we cut that down even by 30% we could be saving so many people’s lives in other countries. People in Africa, they only use about 2 ½ gallons per day. I couldn’t believe how they survive on that little. I drink about that much in 4 hours on a hot day.  I think that we Americans really have to be more conservative with the water we consume. Imagine if we did we could be saving so many innocent lives out there especially in Africa. The children in these places such as African do not have it as easy as we do and sometimes I think that people don’t really think about that. Women in African, they have to walk miles and miles just to get a gallon or two of water from a not so clean river and then tiringly, hall it back to their homes. I feel so bad that these women when there so young they have to drop out of school just to take care of their family and get them water. I think it’s so sad that hundreds of African children and adults dye from diseases in these unclean rivers that they are drinking from every day. I really don’t think that we should be debating over whether we should be drinking out of tap or filtered water and how witch one would be healthier. They are both so much healthier and safer than the disgusting, unclean; unhealthy and unsafe water that people from other countries drink from every day. I very glad that there are some organizations out there that are making a statement about this problem and are actually doing something about it. Instead of just staying home and running water for 5 minutes strait just to brush their teeth and just feeling sad for these people. Instead they are going out and helping there country and trying to make things better for those people. I think we should stop fussing about these water conflicts and which would be healthier or not I think we should go out there and try to help the people who don’t even have a glass of water when they really need one. Imagine how many American lives we could save!

Personal Blog Dec.12- Dec. 16

In academy this week we were mostly finishing up the projects for all of the subjects. On Monday we all got to work on the periodic table activity that’s on Google docs. I learned about half of this periodic table stuff last year so I found it really easy. Though some of the info, I have never learned, or heard about before. Then the last half of the day in Academy we got to work on our speech Outlines for English. We just had to fix a few things in it; otherwise it was pretty much finished. On Tuesday in art we were finishing up our final touches on our posters for our water presentations. My group didn’t have that much to do because the first day that we had to work on it we got it completely finished. We just had to fix a few things on the poster like the words and the translucent 3D water bottle that we put on the poster. Truthfully I thought that ours was the best because of the variation of color and shapes on it. After then we got to pic a black and white picture off of the internet. We are starting to do these scratch off drawings and I picked to do a baby snow leopard. I’ve done them before but have never done them the way we are. It should be lots of fun once we get started and moving. After art that day we received more work time for our water presentations. Wednesday we had to complete parts 3, 4, and 5 for our periodic table activity. I only had time to finish 3 and 4 so had to do 5 and home for homework. After just like the other days this week we got work time for our water presentations. Except for Wednesday we didn’t have as long of a period of time to work on our water presentations because at 1:30 the president of Hartland Water Works came to present us with some info that would help us with our water projects. I found what he said pretty interesting some of the stuff I never knew about water. At the end he answered some of our questions that we had for him. It was pretty interesting were Hartland gets its water from, what they do if the water all of a sudden becomes contaminated and also how the hole water thing works around Arrowhead. On Thursday we all split into 3 groups, one went to the Delhart water and Sewer Center, one got to meet Mr.Libscomb and have him answer questions and the last group went and stayed in the art room and worked on their water posters. Mr. Libscomb was very informative, I lost my groups questions just minutes before he came so we made up new ones and he answered them very well and thought out. On Friday we got to finish up our periodic table activity on Google docs. Then we had to take the test for the parts that we had finished. I didn’t finish the Google doc periodic table activity in the time he gave us so I have to take it online. This week I would have to say was a pretty fun week, lots of new things we’ve never done before, and lots of progress made in our projects in all the subjects!

Pearsonal Blog Dec.5 to Dec.9

This week in Academy I was very busy every single day! In every single subject there was some kind of activity that was planned. Science and Social Studies I would have to say I did the most work in. In English and art we also did some work but not as much. On Monday this week in Art we were finishing up our videos, which I thought my partners and I did a pretty good job with. The only problem factor about the project was that we had such few time to complete. Every day we only had about a half hour to 45 min to work on it and the day that we had work time on it all the teachers for Academy were in meetings. The problem with that was that we needed to interview them for a part of the movie. Also in art this week we glazed our crystal clay boxes. I wasn’t able to because I was doing another project at the time but hopefully there will be time next week to. I’m very happy about the way it turned out just in the structure and after I glaze it, it’s going to look even better. We also started doing this poster project to present with our social studies project. We got a group of 3 and I think that my partners were very helpful when coming up with an idea in how we were going to make the poster look. The program that we are using to make this poster is really neat; I’ve never used or heard of it before. On Tuesday everyone took a walk to Bark River which I was not able to participate in because of a bad stomach ache. I was very disappointed but was glad that I stayed back because I wouldn’t have been able to make it to the river.  From what I heard from my classmates; it was very cold and tiring. Also many people were very irritated because well everyone had to fill up a gallon jug full of the river water and then had to carry there one back. Some people made others carry theirs for them and they also made them fill it up in the ice cold river because they didn’t want to touch the water. The reason the teachers wanted us to carry the water back was to show us what it was like for people who live in different countries that have to carry their own drinking water miles and miles every day. I definitely would not want to do that every day. Everyone said that it was very heavy to carry back and I would think it would be hard to do that for a longer walk or all the time. I am so very great full that I live in a place that has running drinking water and that we don’t have to walk a miles to get water. I am looking so forward to finishing this project that we are doing for Social Studies. My group is the Water Bottle Association; I think we have most of our info in our PowerPoint that we are creating. The only problem is that it doesn’t meet the time requirement of 8 minutes yet but we also need to do our outline. So that might make it a little longer. I’m so excited for next week because we get to interview different people who work in the community to find out more information on our topic. This was, all in all, a great week from beginning to end!

Pearsonal Blog Nov.28- Dec.2

This week in academy we did lots for fun things. I thought that this week was the most hands on and most fun week that we've had in a long time. In art we were finishing taping our little movies about the Academy and what we do in it. My partners and I are completly not done with ours. We only got to interview 3 out of the 4 teachers that we wanted to and we havn't filmed all of the different scenes that we wanted to. Every time that we get the chance to film anything the teachers are always in meetings.
This week in science we were working on the periodic table and working with the elements. We were learning about the parts of the elements atoms like the; protonse book was probubly the; nuetrons and electrons. We had to do this paper and answer questions on them. I had already learned all of this stuff from 7th and 8th grade so i found it prety easy to do.
In english this week we were finishing up our Of Mice and Men book. I thought that the best book I have ever read from school. I was always so interesting, there were never any dull parts when I read it. The ending thought really wasnt what I exspected, I thought that they were actually going to live the future dream that they kept talking about. I really thought that they were going to get a house and live of the fat of the land. when george killed him I was really sad and I had my mom read the last chapter and she cryed. My aunt has down syndrom and she acts like that all the time; isnt able to remember things and sometimes gets really mad and it sort of scars you. I just kept thinking at the end what I would do if my aunt killed someone and what the different posibilities would be. I really felt a conection when I read the book which I have never felt reading any other one befor.
In social studies this week we were just learning about rivers and how important they were. Some of them I didnt realize were soo important to the people that lived around it. I thought that it was very interesting what we learned in social studies this week.
This week I would have to say was a pretty good week. I really learned lots about the didfferent parts of the atom and the rivers constribution to the people. Also I forgot to tell you that we got to watch the movie Of Mice and Men if we were all done reading our book by friday. I finished mine on wednesday so I was in the clear. We didn't get to finish the whole movie on friday but what I'v seen I thought was preety good. Lots of my friends who have already seen the movie said that it was sort of lame and they said that it was really borring. At first, in the first half an hour it was kind of borring but got more interesting once they got there job on the ranch. Lots of the parts of the book werent in the movie and also some of the characters were not what I excpected them to be or look like in real life. Such as lennie, they said that he was a big man and when I heard that in the book I was thinking that he was this big fat guy. Also the black stable buck I didnt think would walk with such a hunch back. Other wise the rest of the characters were portade just as I thought they would be from reading the book!