Weekly Report -- Week 10 - 10/27/2017

Language Arts - I wrote a short story about two boys in my journal entry for the week. One was The Chosen One and the other was the Dark Ninja. In my Speech & Poetry class I made some notes about what supplies I needed for my Demonstration Speech. I am going to demonstrate how to make a soda can camping stove. I made a prototype. I read a little bit of The Death Cure. I watched the second movie in The Maze Runner series. It was completely different from the book.

Math - This week for math I finished Hands On Equations Level 1. I also did some more Xtra Math Facts.

Makerspace - I finished my cardboard sword. It turned out really good. I also made a sheath for it.

Art - I am still working on my paper mache dragon. Painting it is taking forever because it is so freaking big.

Science - In my Uzinggo lessons I learned about joints. There are two types of joints: immovable and moveable. The types of moveable joints are ball & socket joints, hinge joints, pivot joints, and gliding joints. We also went to the Chemistry Magic Show at BYU and it was awesome. I loved all the explosions and the fire.

Other - Nothing else really to report this week.

My cardboard sword and sheath

Weekly Report - Week 9 - 10/20/2017

Language Arts - I am still reading The Death Cure. I did my TTRS lessons and also wrote my Writing Skills assignment on Demonstration Paragraphs.

Math - I did some more in Volume 3 of Learn Math Fast. I worked on more Hands On Equations level 1. I did XtraMath math facts. I also played Knock-Out and Muggins Math with my mom and brother.  I also did some Khan Academy practice of concepts I have been working on.

Makerspace - I started over on my cardboard sword because mine had kind of gotten messed up since last week. My new one turned out better but I couldn’t bring it home because they wanted to keep it to show other classes. I hope it doesn’t get banged up again like my last one!

Art - I worked more on my paper mache dragon. I didn’t finish yet.

Science - We made slime for science. Three batches. I also did Uzinggo lessons on velocity.

Other - We went to Hee Haws for a field trip with one of our homeschool co-ops. For part of the time, there were hardly any people there so we got to go down the slides a lot without having to wait in line.

Me in the corn pit

Going down the slide

On the big slide

On the wagon ride

On the swings

Weekly Report - Week 8 - 10/13/2017

Language Arts - This week I wrote a paragraph about the differences between the Maze Runner movie and the book. I also did my TTRS lessons and some spelling review. I did a Friday Freewrite about how much I hate Friday Freewrites. I read more chapters in The Death Cure.

Math - This week I finished up Volume II of Learn Math Fast and started Volume 3, Pre-Algebra. I started working on Hands On Equations level 1. I worked on math facts on XtraMath. I am SO CLOSE to having all of my times tables green.

Makerspace - I worked on my giant cardboard sword some more. I worked on the blade and making the edges of the sword. I wasn’t able to finish it this week because we ran out of tape.

Art - We worked on our halloween art projects some more. I am making a dragon out of something that is kind of like paper mache but it is more clay like. It’s something my teacher mixed up herself.

Science - We learned about elements and compounds and how you can take a compound apart into its individual elements but elements can’t be taken apart or turned into different elements. This is called The Law of Conservation of Matter. We watched Ted-Ed and BrainPop videos about the Law of Conservation of Matter and some other videos about making and breaking up water molecules. And we made gold! Ha ha, just kidding. That’s impossible. In my Uzinggo lessons, I learned about DNA structure and how there are four nitrogenous bases. I learned about the double helix shape and how DNA is in chromosomes and how chromosomes are in the center of cells in the nuclei. We also learned about what makes leaves change color in the fall. It is because they stop producing chlorophyll since the days get shorter and it isn't worth it to the tree to try and photosynthesize during the shorter days, so they stop putting energy into the leaves. As the chlorophyll breaks down, we can see the other pigments that the leaves have in them.

Other - In my co-op cooking class we decorated cupcakes. In Survival Skills we practiced using compasses. I have to write a 3-5 minute demonstration speech for my Speech & Poetry class. I am going to demonstrate how to make a can stove. We went on a walk along the river trail up Provo Canyon to see all the fall leaves.

Week 7 - 10/7/2017

Language Arts - This week I got to have a day where my only school was to read! I am reading The Death Cure (3rd book in the Maze Runner series). I also got to watch the Maze Runner movie. It was quite a bit different from the book. I wrote a journal entry about getting to spend time with my aunts when they were in town last weekend. I also wrote an example paragraph.

Math - This week I finished percentages and did a review of Negative Numbers. I also practiced math facts on XtraMath.

Makerspace - I got to bring home my FrankenToy and my notebook. My FrankenToy has a bear head on a dog body, with an extra leg sewn on top of its head kind of like a unicorn horn. It has a light that flashes in the middle of its forehead. There are the parts of a toy phone inside so it makes lots of weird noises when you squeeze it. It turned out cuter than I meant for it to. For our next project, we started making stuff out of cardboard. My first project is a big cardboard sword.

Art - We started working on a halloween art project. I will post a picture of it when we bring it home, probably next week or the week after.

Science - We didn’t have time for a group science lesson, but on Uzinggo I learned about orbits and how the size, velocity and angle of the objects determine how the orbit will go. I also learned about energy sources and renewable vs nonrenewable resources.

Other - I recited the poem Skeleton Parade for my co-op Speech & Poetry class. We made zucchini muffins in my co-op cooking class.

Weekly Report - Week 6 9/29/2017

Language Arts - I wrote a short summary of The Maze Runner. I finished up All About Spelling level 3 and am just doing review until we are ready to get the next one to start. I was finally able to get Death Cure from the library (book 3 in the Maze Runner series) to read and so I am reading that. I also was able to get the movies for the first two books and am excited to watch those.  I also did a paragraph and supporting details assignment from my Writing Skills A book.

Math - I did lessons on calculating percentages in Learn Math Fast. I also practiced my XtraMath math facts.

Makerspace - This week we took apart toys and put them back together in different ways to make FrankenToys.

Art - I am still working on the colored pencil project of a pistol.

Science - This week we read some from The Story of Science and we also learned about the three methods of heat transfer--convection, conduction, and radiation. We watched a Bill Nye about Heat and also some other Youtube videos about heat. We drew a diagram that showed the different methods of heat transfer.

Other - In my cooking class at co-op we made stir fry. It turned out good but I like it better when we make treats! In my speech and poetry class we had to write poems about an item that mentioned all of our senses. I did a poem about a cracker.

In my diagram:

Radiation is the heat coming up from the fire through the air

Convection is the heat in the water molecules, causing the hotter molecules to rise

Conduction is the heat traveling through the pan and into the handle. I made my handle look wood, so it isn't a very good conductor, but if it was metal, it would get really hot!