Science Lab (5-31)

Jonathan 1                                                                                                                        Writing

Science Lab

        In this science lab, we did a continuation of the last one. We started out with a sheet of data showing how many bears survived with pollution in their habitat. Again, this was for 5 generations in each test and with multiple tests, each time the pollution growing. We then made a line graph out of the data and discovered that the bears went extinct in all the tests except for one. After that, we answered some questions about the data but the big question was what our recommendation was. I saw that at 17% pollution, the bears were not affected too much. For that reason, my recommendation was too lower the pollution to about 14%. That way, the bears would not get affected, but they would also not overpopulate. I thought this lab was a great way to get us thinking about how pollution affected habitats and population.

The Sea of Monsters

The Sea of Monsters

(book 2 in Percy Jackson & the Olympians)

Rick Riordan

279 pages

Percy, a demigod hero, has found out that the one safe place for him during the summer, Camp Half Blood, is under attack and his best freind, Grover, is in danger. He then finds out that this is because someone poisoned a magical tree that protects the camp, and Percy is determined to find something to fix it.  Also, Grover tells Percy (through a dream) that a cyclops, who has a fleece that can heal the tree, has captured him. Percy, with his friend Annabeth and his cyclops half brother Tyson sets out to free Grover and get the fleece.

Will they save Grover and the camp in time, or will all be lost?

The Lightning Thief

The Lightning Thief

(book 1 in Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

Rick Riordan

377 pages

A 12 year old boy, named Percy, has just found out that all of the the ancient Greek gods from the myths are real! He also found out that he is the son of one of those gods and is being accused of stealing Zeus's master bolt. The gods fight over who took the bolt and Percy's friends suspect that Hades, god of the Underworld, is responsible.With two of his friends, Annabeth and Grover, Percy sets out to the Underworld to find the master bolt and prevent the gods from starting WW III.

Science Lab (5-24)

Jonathan 1                                                                                                                       Writing

Science Lab

       I had lots of fun in today's lab. It was a game where we were finding out how pollutants affect bears. Red plastic bears signified the real bears and blue plastic bears signified the pollutants. We had to have 10 bears and 2 pollutants in a bucket. We pulled two out at a time, until they ran out, for 5 times. If you pulled 2 bears, they survived. However, a bear and a pollutant means the bear dies. Finally, if you get 2 pollutants, a pollutant is added next time. Also, at the end of each time, the surviving bears go back in the bucket (plus a baby for each pair) as well as all of the pollutants. Once, completing, it is all repeated, except with more pollutants each five times. It was amazing how much bears got affected because at the end of my last 5 times, all the bears died out! 

Science Lab (5-10)

Jonathan 1                                                                                                                       Writing

Science Lab

      Today's lesson was very informative. We still were on the subject of petroleum products in our life. The first thing we did was reading an article about the dangers of having so much plastic in your body and some ways to test for it. One specific method motioned was testing on rodents. Then, we read about many plastic products that are in a kitchen We had our own little picture of a kitchen so we found those items and circled them. It was really interesting to know that the only thing that could not be plastic in the room was the door nob. We also listed all of the plastic items that we used in our life and the number was mind boggling! To counter that, we listed five things to reduce our interaction with plastic. This lab was defiantly an eye opener and made me realize all of the plastic in my life.

Computer Lab (5-3)

Jonathan 1                                                                                                                      Writing

Computer Lab

       This time, on bitsize, we did English. The sub-sections included reading, writing, and spelling and grammer, although I only got a chance to do reading. The games and test for reading were deduction,  dictionaries, poetry, and finding information. One thing that stuck  out for me was poetry because there was a rich "baby" rapping the poems and it was entertaining. I also learned some new terms through the tests. Overall, doing bitesize was a lot of fun and hopefully it will stick with me for the tests (although I think it will).