Week 27

Welding: I finished my rose. I passed off one of my welding techniques.

Language Arts: My writing lesson was about how a lot of the time you just have to start writing. You can’t expect to have a fully formed thought before you write it. Just write a word and then write another word. Still reading 1984.

Math: I took the quiz. I did the next lesson which was about the Volume of Right solids with holes and total surface area.

Science: I did the unit review.I started chapter nine which is on kinetic, potential, and forms of energy.

History: It was about the industrial revolution. It began in 1793 when Samuel Slater built the first spinning mill for cloth and fabric.

Sports Conditioning: We had our last basketball game of the season on Monday. We lost by 3 points. In class we did some weight training.

Tech (Drone videography): Canvas class. I took some photos and got them on my computer for one of the assignments. My laptop only has one USB port so I had to get a port adaptor from my dad so I could connect the drone's drive to my laptop. It took a few days to get all the parts gathered and working because my dad has a lot of the stuff at his office.

You can hear Clive on the guitar in this sneaky video Mom took from the other room

The rose I made in welding.

It's galvanized steel so that's why it is shiny

Week 26

History: I learned about the War of 1812. Nobody really ended up “winning” because things were pretty much the same as at the beginning of the war, but the Native Americans definitely were the losers, as they lost territory and many of them were killed fighting on both sides.

Science: This week my curriculum had me review some every day to get ready for the quiz.

Language arts: I had some extra basketball and other activities this week, so I just did more reading for language arts. I didn’t have a writing lesson.

Math: The lessons this week were kind of challenging. The material was simplifying algebraic fractions, properties of circles and angles, radical expressions, addition of like terms, and area and surface area of various shapes/solids.

Welding: Mr. Money showed us how to make the roses. I started making one. You have to cut a bunch of circles that you then form into petals, then you stack all those up and use a bolt to get them to stay together. Then you weld that to the barbed wire that you use for the stem.

Sports Conditioning (PE): Our basketball season ended. We had a couple games. One time the other team didn’t show up so we just played a full-length scrimmage amongst ourselves. In sports conditioning we did weight training.

Drone: Canvas class.

My grandma, me, and my dad at the Utah Symphony. I got new fancy clothes to wear and everything.

Week 25

History: I read about George Washington and how sense he was the first president he made some of the rules/traditions. One big one was that he decided that you should only get to run for two terms. I watched Crash Course U.S. History #10 which talked about Jefferson's presidency, the Louisiana Purchase, and also what happened to the US vs what Jefferson hoped would happen with regard to the US being an agrarian based economy.

Science: I learned about worm gears and how they have ratios just like normal gears. One unique thing about them is they can change a very fast motion into a much slower one without needing a really big gear.

Welding: We did a bunch of worksheets about welding because we had a sub. On Friday I worked more on a welding type that I’m having trouble with. It is on a really thin sheet of metal, like 1/8th inch.

Language Arts: One of my writing lessons this week was about the importance of realizing that your writing isn’t you. It is just something you created. Even if you write something and it isn’t very good, that doesn’t mean you aren’t good. The other lesson was about how you can really write about anything, so we took the letters of our first name and came up with a word that started with each letter and then wrote a couple sentences about two of them. I did “cat” for C and wrote a bit about what I like about cats.

Math: My lessons this week were Subtraction of Like Terms and Multiplication with Algebraic Expressions. I also had a quiz.

Sports Conditioning: Had a basketball game. My foot was bugging me during practice one day so I went to the trainer. The next day it wasn’t hurting, so that’s good.

Drone: Canvas class.

Week 24

History: learned about how our government was created and and what all the different branches do. Also about the different articles of the Constitution and what they talk about.

Science: Learned about how gears, pulleys, and levers can all grant a mechanical advantage. I calculated pulley ratios and learned about how different ratios give you different advantages. For example, a bike might have a 1:2 ratio, where one rotation of the pedals gives you two rotations of the wheels.

Math: Doing simplifying fractions with variable powers. Also went over addition of like terms.

Welding: Working on my T fab weld. This weld is used to build stuff. I cut metal on the saw.

Drone: Canvas class.

Sports conditioning/basketball: our team won our first game last week. We had four games altogether. It was a full week. In class we did the usual weights and cardio work.

Language arts: still reading 1984. Did two more Writing Course lessons.