My reflection on the Academy 11-25-11

This week was short, we only had three days. We presented our skits for science in front of sophomores.  I took my first test for Of Mice and Men. It was a very short week, and nothing really happened.

My reflection on the Academy 11-20-11

Last week of the academy was really fun. In art we made clay crystals. I really love working with clay, it's really fun! Then we took a test is science and worked on our skits, in social studies we worked on our project and we took a test. For Ms. Miller we took a retest and read our books Mice and Men.

For our books, I have been reading and doing the study guide but I didn't know that we weer supposed to highlight things in the book. I'm pretty far in it but I didn't highlight anything, I don't want to go back and read it all over again. I wish she told us before we started to read, and I know that it was probably on a Google docs but I don't always go on my computer. 

I think if we are assigned a project or reading a book, that the teacher should put the information on one document instead of three or two.

My reflection on the Academy 11-09-11

So far this week of Academy has been a little tough. On Monday we were in Mr. M's room right away, we did an experiment. Then we went to the Academy room and took the test on the two chapters we read for social studies. After we took the test we went to Ms. Millers room and worked on a project. We all went down to the Academy room to see how we did on our tests. Everyone failed except for Drew and Emma, I am being really honest right now, I did read the chapters and study them but it was so boring and hard to read I forgot what I was reading and it was hard to memorize everything. So now we have another test on Friday on the same chapters... so now I really have to get myself to get into this book. 

On Tuesday we were in Mr. M's room all day because we had to do a lab that would take like 3 hours... I was partners with Benji. That was a bad idea but I didn't pick partners so not my fault. Then the lab was frustrating because I needed directions on what to do but we had to do the project all on our own with our partners and I had no idea what to do, then Benji was really hyper so that was more frustrating. Then Aubrey saw that I was struggling so she helped me and Jace (her partner) kept Benji busy so we finished the project right as the bell rang. Today we are going to the art room right away... I hope it's a good day!

My reflection on the Academy 11-03-11

This week that was really last week wasn't terrible. We got a book to read for social studies, we had to read chapter 3 and 4 then we had a test on Monday about it.  We started doing a lab in science and in Ms. Millers class we are doing a group project about a book we are going to read called Mice and Men. In my group I have Sebastian, Benji and Alex. We are the Biographers, we are researching facts about Steinbeck ( the author of Mice and Men) and about his past.
I have been having troubles with my group because they are all guys and all they want to do is play video games. I was trying to find the answers to the questions on the data bases all by my self and it was really hard. But at the end of the day Benji stepped in and helped me find the answers and he also made the power point. Also Sebastian and Alex picked out the color for the power point.

My reflection on the Academy 10-28-11

This week only had three days of school! It was nice and simple. I really needed the extra days to sleep in because I was really tried.
On Wednesday three groups that didn't do the letters but they presented to the school board about their research and what they found was the best technology to use in school.

My reflection on the Academy 10-19-11

This week was about two weeks ago. I'm am late writing this because I forgot. Well that week we worked on our letters to the school board about technology. When we went to the Apple store I colected data about the iPad 2 and the McBook Air. We did this because we are starting a new program at our school called the one to one program. It's about having each student have there own piece of technology instead of using math books, reading books and other subjects's books. The technology I thought would be better was the iPad 2 because it's fast and easy.
That week was a chilled week, it wasn't that hard! I liked that week.