Weekly Blog

Monday: Today I was really tired, because this past weekend was a really fun but also very tiring. Anyways, today we started with our daily science starter which was two questions and i got one of them wrong but I then understood why I got it wrong because Mrs.G explained it to the class. After that we found out that we have a test on Thursday. After that we did some more notes on the soil notes. Then we got a new lab to analyze our soil that we brought in. I am working with James A. We got the first two sections done today. 

Tuesday:Today we started class with some questions about the whole unit. This was pretty easy for me because I have been studying 
for the test that we have on Thursday. After that we we got into our groups and we started working on the lab. Since James and I finished the first two sections yesterday, we started with the 3 section, this was about the texture of the soil and figuring out what the is made of. After we finished that we started on the 4th section which was putting the soil in a graduated cylinder and putting water in it , then we will wait for tomorrow to see if the layers will spread out and settle. This will allow us to find the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and other substances that are in the soil. James and I then moved on and we microwaved the soil to dry it out and see how moist the soil was. That was as far as we got today.

Wednesday:We started class with our daily science starter which was talking about and identifying the different soil horizons.I feel like I have a good grip on their topic because I have been studying and I got all of the answers right. Since we have the test tomorrow, we studied for the first part of class and it was mostly Mrs.G asking us questions about the unit. We spent about 15-10 minutes doing this and then we spent the rest of the class time working on our lab. Then class ended. 

Thursday:Today was the big day! We took the test and I got tripped up on some questions, but I think that I still did a good job. The test was smaller than I though that it would be but the questions seemed a little bit more harder. The short answer questions were pretty basic questions, so I think  did a good job on that. For the rest of the class we just blogged and worked on our homework. 

Friday:We didn't start with our science starter today because there was none. After that we went over our test and I saw that I made some careless errors. I got a c on it and that is better that what I used to get, but it is not the best. I want to try and do better next time. After that we did our seed lab and we didn't have anymore seeds germinate. So we just put them in the strainer and Mrs.G will put soil on top of them later. Then we watched a movie about our next unit. That was all we did today. 

Improvements:I could improve on my studying habits and applying myself more to the task. This week wasn't bad.