Weekly blogging 1 - December 10, 2009: -Today i got shocked so many times by touching something that was metal. I got shocked by touching my laptop, and another person. I probably recieved static electricity and it traveled from me to the laptop. At that time, my hair was staticky and it was up and to the sides. I think that was why I got shocked a lot.
Weekly blogging 2 - December 24, 2009:
-I got some eye shadow makeup and I looked at the ingredients of it and I saw an element of the periodic table of elements. Some of the elements i saw was Titanium Dioxide, magnesium stearate, iron oxide, calcium carbonate, and tin oxide. Those were the minerals that were in the eye shadows.
Weekly blogging 3 - January 14, 2010: -I was just looking through my planner on the back and i saw facts about the solar system. And i just learned that each planets are over a million miles away from the sun. For example, mercury is 35,983,095 mi from the sun.
Weekly blogging 4 - January 21, 2010:
-This morning I ate reese's puffs cereal and it when I poured in milk in it, the milk color was clean but after awhile, the milk color started to turn like chocolate milk because of the reese's puffs color. What I saw was a chemical change because you cannot change the milk color back.
Weekly blogging 5 - January 28, 2010:
-After eating and drinking and getting full, I burped. A burp is just gas. People just don't swallow food or drinks, they also swallow air at the same time, but not that many people notice that. After swallowing those three gases, they need to get out and you burp. I recently learned that the esophagus is the tube for food that connects to the back of the throat to the stomach out of the mouth as a burp.
Weekly blogging 6 - February 4, 2010: -Today in 5th period, it was band and I play the flute. Playing an instrument is apart of science because you have to breath in and breath out. You breath in oxygen so you could catch a breathe and breath out CO2. Our hearts pump the oxygen-rich blood through the body so we could be able to do stuff, like play an instrument. And also, while playing the flute, I had to read off of a music sheet. My brain then grows and functions well because I was able to play the instrument at the same time while reading sheet music left to right, up and down. My brain had to remember the fingerings to the flute as well. I also had to listen to other instruments to keep the balance of the band. So hearing/listening, remembering, and reading are what I have to do everytime I'm in band playing.
Weekly blogging 7 - February 10, 2010: -Today after I got home, I decided to eat some ice cream. I grabbed the chocolate box out of the freezer and I couldn't scoop it out because the ice cream was too hard. I waited for awhile then I forgot about it. I think I waited for about 5 minutes or so then I went to the kitchen and checked on it. It was melted a little on the top part but when I started scooping it, it was easier. Once I got the ice cream into my bowl, I got a lot and I couldn't finish it that fast so the ice cream melted and it looked like it turned into water. So ice cream can transform from a solid to a liquid easily if you do not eat the ice cream in time, meaning it will melt because of the heat and time.
Weekly blogging 8 - February 13, 2010:
-When I went to go visit my cousins, they were playing baseball outside the backyard. I joined in. By the time I was up to bat, I held the bat at the bottom of the handle. And the top of the bat goes up to where my head is. This is science because the baseball bat is an example of a thrid-class lever. The force is where I hold the bat, and the load and resistant is where the ball hits the bat at the top. When the ball is pitched, I have to be ready to hit the ball. I would have to time it because I can't hit the ball too early or too late. I get my resistant at the top of the bat and that is when I get a good batting.
Weekly blogging 9 - February 25, 2010:
-So I was walking up the stairs in the 8th grade building and I noticed it was a simple machine. What kind of simple machine is it? It's a inclined plane. Its a inclined plane because one end is higher than the other. And inclined planes are flat surfaces that tilt with one another. I also used a knife to cut ham which is a wedge.
Weekly blogging 10 - March 1, 2010: -This morning I straightened my hair when I got out of the shower. But I blow dried it first for a couple of minutes. My hair still wasn't dried completely though. Since I didn't have much time, I just straightened my hair even if some strands were wet. I did that and when I straightened the part where it was wet, there was smoke going up and making the straightener make those staticky That was because water is a conductor of electricity/heat which made the straightener make staticky noises and caused the smoke to go up because of my wet hair which still had water.
Weekly blogging 11 - March 9, 2010: -I was chewing gum and I was thinking if it was either a physical or a chemical change. It was a physical. Its a physical change because although chewing it got smaller, the gum itself didn't change. Meaning the appearance changed but the ingredients in it did not change.
Weekly blogging 12 - March 12, 2010:
-Today in science, we were doing a lab in our lab groups. Jessica, Karina, and I were given a nail with 4 color wax on it, a candle that was lighted, tin foil and a clothes pin. We were trying to hang it above the fire so the heat would rise up to the nail and melt the color waxes. So we held the nail sideways with the clothes pin above the fire about 2-3 inches and after about 10 seconds, it started melting slowly the first color wax which was the blue one. Then when the first color wax was melted, it went on to the next and on and on.
Weekly blogging 13 - March 24, 2010: -Today in science, me and my partner Hoang-dung finished with our waves venn diagram, we were supposed to visit "newtonsapple.tv" and pick any video. I picked "Popcorn" under "Chemistry and Food". The video was about how the popcorn kettle pops into popcorn. The kettle turns into popcorn from steam. That's because of the water inside of the kettle heats up and turns into steam. The kettle has about 14% of moisture in it. As the kettle heats, the liquid inside the kettle turns into steam and the pressure of the steam makes it pop like an explosion. Where does the white part of the popcorn come from? It comes from the starch molecule in the kernel. It just needs heat and steam in order for it to pop. Theres a reason why when the popcorn pops, it doesn't explode into pieces. The starch molecules are all attracted with each other and stay as one popcorn. Weekly blogging 14 - March, 2010: -In MTI today, we were reading about Lightning. How lightning forms, what happens when they occur, and all of those stuff. Since lightning was electricity, it was made up of electrons, neutrons, and protons. It said something about the cloud or ground having a negative or positive charge. It was either one of those. Weekly blogging 15 - April 8, 2010: -Today I wore a black jacket outside when it was sunny and a bit warmish? But it was mostly windy and cold. While I wore the jacket outside when it was sunny, I was beginning to feel warm inside. Then I realized that dark colors like black attract heat. That’s because they absorb heat better while light colors like white reflect heat better.
Weekly blogging 16 - April 12, 2010: -Today it was volleyball tryouts. I started bumping the volleyball to my partners; Keyona, Ashley and Genessa, When one of them threw the ball to me, my arms reached out then I made sure that when the ball landed on my forearms, I would get the force from my legs so the ball would go up properly and where I was trying to bump it at. I couldn’t swing my arms up because then the ball would go behind me. Instead, I had to lift my legs up and keep my arms still. So I get my force from my legs then my arms.
Weekly blogging 17 - April 28, 2010: -Today in science we did an activity about the moon. I learned that as the moon rotates, it changes phases. The moons first phase is at the new moon which means it is not showing at all. Then it goes to new crescent, first quarter, new gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter and crescent then back to new moon. The moon finishes its rotation around the earth about one month. Then starts all over again and finishes the process. So days and months in earth are based on astronomy in space. A year in earth is when the earth rotates around the WHOLE sun.
Weekly blogging 18 - April 29, 2010: -In science we learned about solar and lunar eclipses. At first I thought that the solar eclipse was the sun as an eclipse since solar was another word for sun but it was actually a new moon going into the earth and the sun. There were interesting websites about them. Like one had a map of future solar eclipses coming. To me, Lunar eclipses aren’t as exciting as Solar eclipses because Lunar eclipses have a combination color of red, orange and brown but a total solar eclipse are fascinating because when the moon gets into the suns shadow, it glows around the moon.
Weekly blogging 19 - May 14, 2010: -Today in my 2nd period class, and I look up at the wall and see a reflection of MC and the bulldog, since the blinds were rolled up. On the wall, I saw a lot of little stuff moving. I’m not sure how it got there since there wasn’t any on the window. All I knew that it was heat because probably the sun (thermal energy) got to the window and made it warm and that was how the moving stuff got there. I think that those stuff are obviously invisible and I think are heat molecules. Weekly blogging 20 - May 18, 2010:
-I learned on the reading MSP today, that LED molecules make up your whole television screen, computer, etc. LED molecules emit light when a current passes through it. No wonder when I was little I looked in the TV and saw little dots that made up the TV screen. There are probably more than 100,000 LED molecules I’m guessing.
Weekly blogging 21 - May 28, 2010:
-This morning for breakfast I ate rice krispie’s. They were so tiny. Once I poured milk in it, it started snapping, crackling, and popping because of the air bubbles that are trapped inside of the rice krispie. So then they begin exploding out when milk gets poured in. Also, the rice krispie absorbs the milk when it gets poured. That’s why I run out of milk in the cereal fast, it gets soggy after because the cereal absorbs the milk.
Weekly blogging 22 - June 5, 2010: -Today I was with my cousins and I saw that right after my baby cousin had drank his milk, he went right off to play and he looked so hyper and playful. But after a few hours, he was tired and didn’t look so playful. His dad had given him another bottle of milk for him to drink and then when he was done drinking it, he went back to playing. So he gets his energy from his milk and/or food/drinks.
-Today i got shocked so many times by touching something that was metal. I got shocked by touching my laptop, and another person. I probably recieved static electricity and it traveled from me to the laptop. At that time, my hair was staticky and it was up and to the sides. I think that was why I got shocked a lot.
Weekly blogging 2 - December 24, 2009:
-I got some eye shadow makeup and I looked at the ingredients of it and I saw an element of the periodic table of elements. Some of the elements i saw was Titanium Dioxide, magnesium stearate, iron oxide, calcium carbonate, and tin oxide. Those were the minerals that were in the eye shadows.
Weekly blogging 3 - January 14, 2010:
-I was just looking through my planner on the back and i saw facts about the solar system. And i just learned that each planets are over a million miles away from the sun. For example, mercury is 35,983,095 mi from the sun.
Weekly blogging 4 - January 21, 2010:
-This morning I ate reese's puffs cereal and it when I poured in milk in it, the milk color was clean but after awhile, the milk color started to turn like chocolate milk because of the reese's puffs color. What I saw was a chemical change because you cannot change the milk color back.
Weekly blogging 5 - January 28, 2010:
-After eating and drinking and getting full, I burped. A burp is just gas. People just don't swallow food or drinks, they also swallow air at the same time, but not that many people notice that. After swallowing those three gases, they need to get out and you burp. I recently learned that the esophagus is the tube for food that connects to the back of the throat to the stomach out of the mouth as a burp.
Weekly blogging 6 - February 4, 2010:
-Today in 5th period, it was band and I play the flute. Playing an instrument is apart of science because you have to breath in and breath out. You breath in oxygen so you could catch a breathe and breath out CO2. Our hearts pump the oxygen-rich blood through the body so we could be able to do stuff, like play an instrument. And also, while playing the flute, I had to read off of a music sheet. My brain then grows and functions well because I was able to play the instrument at the same time while reading sheet music left to right, up and down. My brain had to remember the fingerings to the flute as well. I also had to listen to other instruments to keep the balance of the band. So hearing/listening, remembering, and reading are what I have to do everytime I'm in band playing.
Weekly blogging 7 - February 10, 2010:
-Today after I got home, I decided to eat some ice cream. I grabbed the chocolate box out of the freezer and I couldn't scoop it out because the ice cream was too hard. I waited for awhile then I forgot about it. I think I waited for about 5 minutes or so then I went to the kitchen and checked on it. It was melted a little on the top part but when I started scooping it, it was easier. Once I got the ice cream into my bowl, I got a lot and I couldn't finish it that fast so the ice cream melted and it looked like it turned into water. So ice cream can transform from a solid to a liquid easily if you do not eat the ice cream in time, meaning it will melt because of the heat and time.
Weekly blogging 8 - February 13, 2010:
-When I went to go visit my cousins, they were playing baseball outside the backyard. I joined in. By the time I was up to bat, I held the bat at the bottom of the handle. And the top of the bat goes up to where my head is. This is science because the baseball bat is an example of a thrid-class lever. The force is where I hold the bat, and the load and resistant is where the ball hits the bat at the top. When the ball is pitched, I have to be ready to hit the ball. I would have to time it because I can't hit the ball too early or too late. I get my resistant at the top of the bat and that is when I get a good batting.
Weekly blogging 9 - February 25, 2010:
-So I was walking up the stairs in the 8th grade building and I noticed it was a simple machine. What kind of simple machine is it? It's a inclined plane. Its a inclined plane because one end is higher than the other. And inclined planes are flat surfaces that tilt with one another. I also used a knife to cut ham which is a wedge.
Weekly blogging 10 - March 1, 2010:
-This morning I straightened my hair when I got out of the shower. But I blow dried it first for a couple of minutes. My hair still wasn't dried completely though. Since I didn't have much time, I just straightened my hair even if some strands were wet. I did that and when I straightened the part where it was wet, there was smoke going up and making the straightener make those staticky That was because water is a conductor of electricity/heat which made the straightener make staticky noises and caused the smoke to go up because of my wet hair which still had water.
Weekly blogging 11 - March 9, 2010:
-I was chewing gum and I was thinking if it was either a physical or a chemical change. It was a physical. Its a physical change because although chewing it got smaller, the gum itself didn't change. Meaning the appearance changed but the ingredients in it did not change.
Weekly blogging 12 - March 12, 2010:
-Today in science, we were doing a lab in our lab groups. Jessica, Karina, and I were given a nail with 4 color wax on it, a candle that was lighted, tin foil and a clothes pin. We were trying to hang it above the fire so the heat would rise up to the nail and melt the color waxes. So we held the nail sideways with the clothes pin above the fire about 2-3 inches and after about 10 seconds, it started melting slowly the first color wax which was the blue one. Then when the first color wax was melted, it went on to the next and on and on.
Weekly blogging 13 - March 24, 2010:
-Today in science, me and my partner Hoang-dung finished with our waves venn diagram, we were supposed to visit "newtonsapple.tv" and pick any video. I picked "Popcorn" under "Chemistry and Food". The video was about how the popcorn kettle pops into popcorn. The kettle turns into popcorn from steam. That's because of the water inside of the kettle heats up and turns into steam. The kettle has about 14% of moisture in it. As the kettle heats, the liquid inside the kettle turns into steam and the pressure of the steam makes it pop like an explosion. Where does the white part of the popcorn come from? It comes from the starch molecule in the kernel. It just needs heat and steam in order for it to pop. Theres a reason why when the popcorn pops, it doesn't explode into pieces. The starch molecules are all attracted with each other and stay as one popcorn.
Weekly blogging 14 - March, 2010:
-In MTI today, we were reading about Lightning. How lightning forms, what happens when they occur, and all of those stuff. Since lightning was electricity, it was made up of electrons, neutrons, and protons. It said something about the cloud or ground having a negative or positive charge. It was either one of those.
Weekly blogging 15 - April 8, 2010:
-Today I wore a black jacket outside when it was sunny and a bit warmish? But it was mostly windy and cold. While I wore the jacket outside when it was sunny, I was beginning to feel warm inside. Then I realized that dark colors like black attract heat. That’s because they absorb heat better while light colors like white reflect heat better.
Weekly blogging 16 - April 12, 2010:
-Today it was volleyball tryouts. I started bumping the volleyball to my partners; Keyona, Ashley and Genessa, When one of them threw the ball to me, my arms reached out then I made sure that when the ball landed on my forearms, I would get the force from my legs so the ball would go up properly and where I was trying to bump it at. I couldn’t swing my arms up because then the ball would go behind me. Instead, I had to lift my legs up and keep my arms still. So I get my force from my legs then my arms.
Weekly blogging 17 - April 28, 2010:
-Today in science we did an activity about the moon. I learned that as the moon rotates, it changes phases. The moons first phase is at the new moon which means it is not showing at all. Then it goes to new crescent, first quarter, new gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter and crescent then back to new moon. The moon finishes its rotation around the earth about one month. Then starts all over again and finishes the process. So days and months in earth are based on astronomy in space. A year in earth is when the earth rotates around the WHOLE sun.
Weekly blogging 18 - April 29, 2010:
-In science we learned about solar and lunar eclipses. At first I thought that the solar eclipse was the sun as an eclipse since solar was another word for sun but it was actually a new moon going into the earth and the sun. There were interesting websites about them. Like one had a map of future solar eclipses coming. To me, Lunar eclipses aren’t as exciting as Solar eclipses because Lunar eclipses have a combination color of red, orange and brown but a total solar eclipse are fascinating because when the moon gets into the suns shadow, it glows around the moon.
Weekly blogging 19 - May 14, 2010:
-Today in my 2nd period class, and I look up at the wall and see a reflection of MC and the bulldog, since the blinds were rolled up. On the wall, I saw a lot of little stuff moving. I’m not sure how it got there since there wasn’t any on the window. All I knew that it was heat because probably the sun (thermal energy) got to the window and made it warm and that was how the moving stuff got there. I think that those stuff are obviously invisible and I think are heat molecules.
Weekly blogging 20 - May 18, 2010:
-I learned on the reading MSP today, that LED molecules make up your whole television screen, computer, etc. LED molecules emit light when a current passes through it. No wonder when I was little I looked in the TV and saw little dots that made up the TV screen. There are probably more than 100,000 LED molecules I’m guessing.
Weekly blogging 21 - May 28, 2010:
-This morning for breakfast I ate rice krispie’s. They were so tiny. Once I poured milk in it, it started snapping, crackling, and popping because of the air bubbles that are trapped inside of the rice krispie. So then they begin exploding out when milk gets poured in. Also, the rice krispie absorbs the milk when it gets poured. That’s why I run out of milk in the cereal fast, it gets soggy after because the cereal absorbs the milk.
Weekly blogging 22 - June 5, 2010:
-Today I was with my cousins and I saw that right after my baby cousin had drank his milk, he went right off to play and he looked so hyper and playful. But after a few hours, he was tired and didn’t look so playful. His dad had given him another bottle of milk for him to drink and then when he was done drinking it, he went back to playing. So he gets his energy from his milk and/or food/drinks.