Nov 1-7

This week was very stressful because I have a championship meet for cross country, a make-up test for Mr. Jackson's class, and a chemistry test! I was disappointed when I found out that I ran the exact same 2.95 mile time as the week before and when I got home, I was very tired and it was hard to focus and study for my English test and Chemistry test. I was relieved when my English test got pushed back to Monday and I didn't like how I got a B- on the chemistry test because I thought that it was pretty easy.

Oct 25 - Oct 31

This week was pretty boring except the fact that Halloween was on Saturday! I didn't dress up as anything during school or Halloween because I don't really like costumes. Halloween was fun because I got to hang out with a lot of my friends. I started trick-or-treating a little but then I decided I didn't want any more candy, so i just walked around with my friends as they continued trick-or-treating.

Flame Test Lab

Yesterday, we did a a lab that involved fire and an element. When we put an element over the Bunsen burner, the flames turn into a different color depending on what the element is. Later, we were given an element without the name and we had to guess what element it was. It was very cool how flames could change colors depending on the element. My favorite color of the fire was green. It was a very fun lab because we were able to play with fire.

Chemistry 10/12 - 10/16

This week in chemistry, it was very confusing. I didn't understand any of the radiation or nuclear decay stuff. In chemistry, we watched an Einstein video about how energy can be converted to mass and mass can be converted to energy and in E=mc^2, c is equal to the speed of light. On Friday, we played a game to help us review for our nuclear test and then I understood everything.

Radiation And Cross Country

We learned about radioactivity this week. I'm really confused about this section because I missed a block day to go to a cross country meet. This caused the week to be extremely difficult for me to keep up with all the things that are going on in chemistry. It is very confusing when I go into class and we go over things that I've never heard of before. The cross country meet was very hard but i surprised myself since I did so well.

Chemistry

This week in chemistry, we continue to work on our element project and my element is Phosphorus. We basically took notes almost every night and reviewed things such as the number of protons, electrons, and the atomic number is always the same. We watched videos such as the Powers of Ten and a little of how certain elements react. We did several worksheets throughout the week that mainly has to do with elements. We meet up in the library this Friday and will finish the element project.

Music Video

The music video that we did about how to convert was fun but our group wasn't very enthusiastic about it such as some members of our group not even trying to open their mouths to sing. I think that our group had a hard time because a lot of people in the metals group are shy and didn't want to even face the camera. I thought that our group could've done a better job at the music video but overall it was alright because we only had about two practices before the actual filming.