Week 24

 For my writing I am incorporating another sentence type in my paragraphs. In Math this week my lessons were on the quadratic formula. We found some supplemental videos to watch because it is kind of complex and my mom wanted me to have a good understanding of what is behind it. 

I had to come up with a project plan for welding. The project I am going to make is a bottle tree for the backyard because my mom really wants one.

In geography we learned about Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Eritrea. 

My cat likes me the best

Week 23

 Still on quarantine from attending classes at the high school due to COVID exposure on the basketball team. I did a couple of welding assignments that were online, but obviously didn't do anything in class. I am doing my physical therapy for my knee. I guess I have patellar tendinitis. It is annoying. I attended the Zoom meeting for the eSports club. I hope it works out with my schedule so I can participate. I really like playing SmashBros. I watched the inauguration of President Biden. In Geography we learned about Egypt, Sudan, and South Sudan. It wasn't that long ago that Sudan and South Sudan became separate countries. I tried a couple different things to record a video of popcorn with my GoPro. Unfortunately I can't do a lot of active stuff with my knee right now so I am having to think of other things. 

Weeks 19-21

 We had basketball practice the second week of break. We had a game versus Wasatch. We lost. I have been doing my physical therapy exercises and my knee is doing better but it's not totally better. 

In American Government I learned about how voters decide and what influences them. In different studies it was noted that the political views of someone's parents have a a big part in what someone's opinions will be. Also sometimes people vote only based on what they think of the person running and not so much which party they are. 

I cut out ten more ornaments because one person who ordered five wanted ten more because she really liked them. I need to get ribbons on them and then we can mail them out. 

Week 18

In Welding I was working on converting a logo to an ornament to sell but it didn't end up working. So I decided to make these Jeep grill ornaments instead. My mom shared them on a JeepCrew Utah group she is in and I sold 21 of them already! So that has been one of my main projects this week. I went in a couple times to the shop after school to work on them.  I made almost $200.

I went to a physical therapist this week to get started with some exercises and stretches to hopefully help with my leg/ankle/knee pain. I have a bunch of exercises to do on my own, too. 

Week 11

 This week I learned about mixtures and solutions in science. I learned about salts. There are a lot of different kinds. When you mix an acid and a base you get a salt. 

In government I read about bureaucracy and bureaucrats.  Bureaucracy is not one of the main branches of government, it is the people who work in government but aren't elected by the people. 

In math the topics I covered this week were systems of equations. This is mostly a review. The other stuff was also mostly review, including power rules for exponents and getting into factoring quadratic polynomials. 

On Friday I went with my friend Heber to a bike skills track up Provo Canyon. It was fun because we got the whole track to ourselves because no one else was there. It isn't that long of a track, maybe a quarter mile. It is a bunch of dirt ramps and jumps and berms. We were there for about two and a half hours. I took my GoPro so I could get some video footage to work on editing. 

I carved Kirby on my pumpkin for Halloween

Picture is kind of blurry. 

 

Week 10

 I did my lessons this week. I had my first quiz in my new math program and got 100%. Friday I ended up spending most of the day helping my dad put the new roof rack on my mom’s Jeep. It was pretty involved and also ended up requiring a few trips to the hardware store. But it is really nice and sturdy and will be really useful for skiing this winter. We also got me fitted for my own ski boots now that my feet are done growing. We moved the Volkswagen vanagon into the workshop. It is my sister’s project and we are going to help her with the body work. It isn’t as involved as what we will need to do on my mustang so it is a good project to learn on. My dad and I went took shopping as well and got quite a few things we will need. I’m excited about the air compressor powers tools. They are really powerful. We watched the presidential debate. 

Week 8

 We won our football game this week so that was nice. Only one more game. Football season feels really short compared to basketball season. We had practice three days and the game on Tuesday. 

I got my Algebra 2 program all set up and did the first two lessons. They were mostly review material from Algebra 1, definitions and terms and stuff. They changed the layout of the lessons which is nice because they were taking a long time to submit the problems and reload and the new setup is quicker to submit. 

We got chicks this week. It is pretty fun to watch and hold them. 

I read more in March. I did a few assignments for my American Government class. I practiced bass. I was supposed to have a bass lesson this week but it didn't work out with my mom's schedule so we will just skip this one and have one in two weeks. 

My dad hired my brother, my friend and I to dig holes for trees he wants to plant this fall. Our soil is really crappy and hard and full of rocks, so it has been a lot of work. 

Week 7

 I got this video finished last week after we had already submitted my log so here it is.

 Mountain Biking at Sundance

This week I finished my Algebra/Geometry Part 1 curriculum. I got a few days off before I start the next level next week. 

I read more in March. I did some writing. 

In my American Government class I learned about the various ways that bills get proposed and the process that they go through to get passed and become laws/legislation.

I helped my mom stain the wood for the chicken coop this week. I played on the freshman team for their football game this week. We actually won the game. The score was 49-6. 

Week 39

L. Arts: i did another article reading and did a bullet map of it. The article was about the meat shortage caused by the coronavirus.

Math: I did more proofs this week. I don’t like them at all. The main one was on drawing lines that are radii of circles and proving that they are the same length as other lines. I took a quiz.

Science: I learned about resistors and how they restrict the flow of electricity. Also about different types of circuits like a series and parallel.

History: Butch Cassidy was born in Utah in 1866, as a kid he learned to ride a horse, fire a rifle, rope a cow. In his late teen years he worked as a rancher. After that his first crime he stole a pair of jeans and a pie, he left an IOU on the shop counter with the intent of repaying the shop owner. After that is was lots of crimes and heists. Butch robbed trains, banks, mining company's. His final moments were in a bank after a failed robbery, he and the Sundance kid were surrounded and we're being shot at from all sides. The most likely story is that after putting his comrade out of his misery and then took his own life as to not be caught and put in jail.

Welding: only assignment this week was to fill out a teacher evaluation so I did that.

Sports conditioning: this week was just a chance to make up any missed weeks. I did go on a backpacking overnight trip though. I also went hiking with my family.

Drone: Canvas class. 

My mom thought this was a funny picture to take

We drank a lot of sparkling water while we were out of town

At the trailhead for Cascade Falls

Butch Cassidy's childhood home

When I got back into town, my cat didn't want to leave me alone

Backpacking trip

Goblin Valley

Week 38

L. Arts: I read an article about increased internet demand during the pandemic and the challenges it creates. It also mentioned the broadband gap for the 15% of rural households that don’t have high speed internet. I marked the keywords and made a Mindmap of the article, then summarized it orally.

Math: I took a quiz. I learned about the two step proofs for lines crossing in a circle and lines tangent to a circle.

Science: Science has just been working on mini house, Ive finished all the walls and the lighting. Not sure if it will have a roof but it's pretty cool already. It was fun to build and learn about how real houses are made.

History: History was about president Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was the president that got the Panama canal built. He is also the first president to receive the nobel peace prize.

Welding: I had a quiz on different types of welds. He had photos and we had to identify them.

Drone: I turned in my obstacle course video. I worked on some of the other videos.

Sports Conditioning (PE): This week I kept working on my goals from last week. I decided to just do a certain number of reps rather than time how many I could do in a minute.

These were my favorite tulips at the Tulip Festival.