Weekly Report - Week 5- 9/22/2017

Week 5 9/22/2017

Language Arts - I worked on my biography project a little. I also did a Writing Skills lesson on Giving Conditions using “if” and “unless” sentences. I finished The Scorched Trials and we put the next book on hold at the library. We also put holds on the movies of The Maze Runner and The Scorched Trials.

Math - I did Division of Fractions on Math Antics this week, as well as practiced my multiplication facts on XtraMath. One day I did some math activities on Uzinggo about statistics and representing data with picture graphics.

Makerspace - We brought toys that had some electronic or mechanical components and took them apart. I took apart a little noisemaking toy telephone for little kids.

Art - I am still working on my colored pencil pistol project.

Science - We did a lab where we calculated the density of different items using a kitchen scale to measure mass and a graduated cylinder to measure volume. Even though the density of water is stated to be 1 g/mL, that is only under certain conditions. Our water density was closer to 0.64 g/mL. We also made boats out of aluminum foil and had fun figuring out good shapes and designed and seeing how much they could hold. We learned that something will float if it can displace water equal in weight to its own weight. We watched a Bill Nye on Buoyance and a How Things Work on Floating, as well as a couple other videos on YouTube. We watched a Density video on BrainPop as well.

Other - We had a park day with one of our co-ops this week. My other co-op was fun. In Speech and Poetry we did an activity where we pulled an item out of a bag and had to try and talk about it for one whole minute. It was harder than it seemed. My climbing class at Momentum was really fun again. And my Hamilton class was interesting. We learned about George Washington.

Here are some of the boats we made.