Weekly blog (Feb 16 to 20)

Monday: Today I felt really tired and I just wanted to go to sleep, since we just had a 4 day weekend. Today also seemed liked a slow day. We did our daily science starter which was about our unit to unit two. Then we did a can experiment, we put a certain amount of of water in the can so it would stand up by itself on the corner of the can. This unit is mostly about gravity, we wrote some new equations in our cheat sheet. The new equation is weight equals mass times gravitational acceleration. After doing that we took notes on our new unit, since we didn't have a lot of time left we only took notes on the first slide. After, Mrs.G let us spend 15 minutes to finish our vocabulary homework. That was all we did today.

Tuesday: Today I was not as tired as I was yesterday. We started off with our daily science starter. It was about the notes that we took yesterday. After that we took more notes and we talked about more of our unit. In some of the note taking I zoned out a little bit, but I still understand it. Then we talked about our next lab/project. It is about making a catapult that would shoot three different objects. But first to get our minds into thinking about air devices, Mrs. G showed us a video that was calling pumpkin chunkin. The two videos that we watched we're funny and educational. Since I am in Science Olympiad and one of my events is air trajectory, the project will be easy for me. We got our lab sheet but all we did was write our group members names. I am with Lauren and Kyler. We also drew a diagram and figure it out what materials we would bring tomorrow. I think that this project is going to be fun. That was all we did today. 

Wednesday: Today was a good day because we work on our catapult product more. First we did our daily science starter then we worked on our project. Our our science starter was about yesterday's notes and most of the vocabulary. After doing that we split into our groups and we work on our project. We had to bring class anything that would be helpful for our project. My group started building the catapult, we are using hot glue, popsicle sticks, rubber bands, cardboard, and spoons. We didn't exactly build the diagram that we drew on paper yesterday. Since we came to science class with new ideas, we put all our ideas together and we formed one good idea. We didn't finish it yet, but we started to hot glue the possible sticks together. Then we thought about where to put the rubber bands so we would have enough kinetic energy. Then we had to end class.

Thursday: Today was a fun day because we got to test our catapults and make some tweaks on it. After we get our daily science starter which was about unit two and gravity we got your groups and we quickly started on our lab. We put some more popsicle sticks on it and we got to launch stale marshmallows. After doing that for a couple times we tweaked it. We support the spoon and we added a couple more rubber bands, we also decided to make the spoon I did different angle because when we shot it the marshmallow hit the ceiling. Tomorrow we still have to add a couple more things on and then will be done. That was all we did today.

Friday: Today we did our daily science starter then we finished our device for the catapult lab. First we did our daily science starter, which was about free falling and that there is no air resistance when an object is free falling. After that we worked on our catapult, my group had to make finishing touches and actually replace a spoon. Since we tested it a lot , we actually broke the spoon! Today we were assigned two different test, shooting to go into the bowl,and knocking over a tower of plastic cups. That was all we did today.

Improvements:
I could improve on not zoning out and I could also improve on making notes. I zoned out a little bit when we were going over some notes so I should definently improve on that.