Civil War Commercial and Monday 12/13/10

Today has been pretty busy. I have spent most of the morning working on my final project for Spanish. I had to form a question (Using the questions I asked in previous modules) and write a paper on that question. I am working on the question, "Are Quinceaneras popular in the United States." So far I am getting the answer that yes, Quinceaneras are popular in the US. A Quinceanera is a ceremony and party for a 15yr old girl's birthday. It's similar to a sweet sixteen but often more extravagant and more closely resembles a wedding that a birthday party. The girl will have a ceremony in a Catholic Church and then have a reception. Experts say that the Quinceanera can be traced back about 500 years to Mayan Culture.

The rest of the day I spent working on a commercial I made with Mira and Alex. I edited the movie in Windows Movie Maker. Our Prezi Civil War Project is really long and we decided to make a commercial to present instead of the actual Prezi. Our commercial promotes our Prezi. In our commercial, Civil War Superhero saves the day. :) I've posted it below, check it out!

Literary Response 1&2

I am reading the Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe. The genre of this book is realistic fiction/historical fiction. The book alternates between time periods. In this book Connie uncovers he past. Connie learns about her family and the importance of it. The setting of the book alternates. Both settings are in Massachusetts but in different time periods. Connie's time period is modern day but the time period of  Deliverance Dane occurs in 17th century Salem Massachusetts. Connie is the main character in this book. She is getting her doctoral degree in history. Connie encounters conflict in trying to uncover the secrets of Deliverance Dance.

Thursday 12/9/10

Today we had a change of scenery here at OH! HMH was using our space today for meetings and we had to relocate. Instead of having a day off we decided to hold school at Panera Bread in Pier Park. We have had a lot of fun working in a new area. Today I completely finished my Geometry course--I got an "A" and am really happy about that. I worked mainly on Biology today. I worked on the study guide for the semester exam. I also had to call my teacher for the DBA over the material in that course. This weekend I plan on finishing up that course by taking both of the tests. All next week I am going to devote to Spanish 3. I have to take my module 4 exam, and then finish up my project. I also have to take the semester exam that accompanies that course.

Today because it is a fun day we get to go to a movie. Seacrest Dental is paying for all of us to go. The High School and most of the Middle School are going to see the movie Unstoppable! I haven't seen it yet and I am excited to.

Tuesday 12/7/10

I got a lot of Biology today! I am almost done with the semester. I only have my semester exam to do. I am finished with Geometry. I am almost finished with Spanish too. I did both of my module tests for Biology today. I completed my Spanish collaboration debate yesterday. I had to contact two people from my class and we had to have a "debate". We had to debate over if schools should have uniforms or not. It was actually pretty neat to contact them. I finished my rough draft for my Civil War PBL paper this weekend. I will post the link at the end of this blog. Half of the school was gone to Disney for a few days and it is nice to have everyone back. I am excited for Christmas! I have to finish all my classes before the holidays though.Click Here for my Civil War Paper Rough Draft

Monday 12/6/10

Hey guys! Today had been pretty good and productive. I started out the day with working on my biology project. I had to collaborate with another person in my Biology class. We are working on genes and traits right now. My partner and I had to flip a coin to determine the inherited trait of the person we had to draw. I drew the picture and I have to scan it and send it to my partner. I also resubmitted some of my math assignments to raise my grade. I have an 89 right now and I really need to do well on my semester exam to raise my grade. I am taking that right after school. I am also doing my Spanish collaboration this afternoon.

Friday 12/3/10

Today I was pretty productive in my collaboration for my different classes. I worked on my spanish debate with my classmates. Also I did a practice segment exam for Geometry. I also found a partner for my Biology project. I am working on getting my PBL project published to the Internet. The file format is not working very well. This weekend I am hopefully going to finish up Geometry. Today in music we learned a new song! I am going to put a Youtube link to the song. It's called "Better Than Revenge" by Taylor Swift. The song comes off her new album called "Speak Now". :)

Monday 11/29/10

Today it was nice to get back into the routine of school. We worked a lot on PBL today. We did this really cool  way to discuss our Frederick Douglass book. We all worked on a Google Document and answered questions on the book and commented on each others answers. I am moving along in my classes and I am excited to be done with them soon.

Monday 11/15/10

Today was a pretty normal day. Mira and I actually got pretty far on our PBL project. That means that I have quite a bit of FLVS to do tonight. I am actually getting pretty far along in my classes and I am almost done with the semester! I am furthest along in H.O.P.E. and then Geometry and Spanish are tied with a 74% completion. Biology comes in last with 55% completed but that's just because I didn't realize I had to do the regular tests as well as the honors tests. Today we had the second part of our Frederick Douglass discussion. We had an awesome debate but we ended up tied! I am really excited for my PBL project to be completed.

Wednesday 11/10/10

Today was a pretty good day. I got pretty far on my PBL projects. This morning I took my module three Spanish test. If I get a perfect score on my essays I will get a pretty good grade. I also did some math today. I am working on angle bisectors, medians, and altitudes of triangles. Today we also got our writings back from Mrs. Sylvia. I have a few corrections to make and I can't wait to meet with her to go over it all. Kickball was pretty intense today. We've gone back to our old teams, The Butterflies of Hope and the Dominators. Today the Butterflies of Hope won! Which is great for them because they haven't won in awhile. I am having fun reffing the games. Well, that's it for today!

Monday 11/08/10

Today was pretty productive and a great Monday! The day started out with two whips, which were pretty funny actually. I started out working on a few Geometry assignments and a few biology assignments. I scheduled a few DBA's with a few of my teachers. We then had brain break-- everyone played Tongue and Blob Tag. Then it was PBL time! I am working with Mira and Alex on an Abraham Lincoln project. We are looking into his actual opinion on slavery at the start of his presidency opposed to his opinion on slavery towards the end of his presidency. Then was kickball! I love watching it! After that I came back upstairs and the High School had music. We practiced a few of our old songs and are working on TNT by ACDC which McKenzie is singing. :)

Literary Response #3

I have just finished the book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the book! I even watched the mini series. I also really felt like I connected with Jane in the book. Even though Jane and I have nothing in common I really felt like I understood her. Jane Eyre is  such a great love story, but it is also really mysterious. This book definitely made me feel. I felt everything that Jane felt; I was able to feel her hurt, and more so the love that she had for Mr. Rochester. It was put across how difficult it was for Jane to leave Mr. Rochester after they couldn't be married. To me Jane is a strong character. She has confidence, but her one flaw would be not letting  other people into her life without extreme caution. For awhile she refused to let herself love Mr. Rochester, she would even tell herself that he didn't love her, how he couldn't love her. She had so much love for him she returned to him at the end--even when he was blind. Overall this was a great book.

Monday 11/01/10

Today was pretty busy. We focused a lot on our PBL. This morning I started out by working on Spanish. I have to to a collaboration with other students throughout the class, and we have to work on a debate. I had to decide which side my team would be taking (affirmative or negative) and I had to come up with strong opinion statements. I also worked on Geometry this morning. Right now I am learning about triangles and learning how to prove them using several different postulates and theorems. We are starting weak one  of our PBL cycle and I think that the cycle will be very affective help me stay more focused. We started with choosing our essential question for our project that we are going to be doing on the civil war. I am probably going to work in a group with Hunter, McKenzie, Mira, and Alex. We also are starting our literary analysis papers on our novels that we personally chose. ( As you know I chose Jane Eyre). We played heads up seven up during brain break which I could play! Kickball was fun to watch today and I have spent most of my afternoon working on Geometry. Music was really fun and we started working on a new song, "Back to December" by Taylor Swift!

Civil War PBL Project

The high school is going through the first week of the PBL cycle. Right now we are choosing our essential question for our Civil War project. The high school girls are thinking about doing the project together. We might do the project in separate groups and then come together or we might just do one big project together.The question I am thinking about exploring is:

" How did Abraham Lincoln's decision to change his view on slavery affect the outcome of the civil war?"

Friday 10/29/10

Today was music filled! Mr. Mark from the Telluride Mountain School came and visited. We had two hours of music today we actually learned two mew songs. we learned an ACDC song and also "I Love Rock and Roll" by Joan Jett. We talked about ways that we needed to improve our music hour. It was all really productive. I love music and am glad that I have the opportunity to go to OH. All the scarecrows are up for our fundraiser tomorrow for Halloween. We have worked non-stop these two past afternoons to get them all done. I am so excited to actually go and look at the finished products!

Wednesday 10/27/10

Today was a little crazy! We are getting a ready to make the scarecrows today and the moms have been coming in and out of the school with supplies. So far we have raised over 2,000 dollars for our service learning trip! This morning I started on some Spanish and Geometry, I also resubmitted a few lessons. We did the usual brain break games and then watched an 11 min video on education. It was really cool! I think the perspective that the speaker had on education was dead on. I have to go make scarecrows now so sorry for the short blog today!

Here is the video that we watched: RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

Literary Response #2

I am reading Jane Eyre and I have to say that I am really enjoying the book. I am about halfway done with the book now and I am going to give a summary. This book takes place in the mid to late 1800's and so far has had three major setting changes three times. When we first meet Jane she is about eight years old and lives in her cruel aunts lavish house (Gateshead) in the English countryside.Jane Eyre is an orphaned headstrong confident young girl who has experienced no love her life. So far she has made a few friends but none that fill space that a young child needs to feel from a parent. Her aunt is cruel to her and sees Jane as a burden that she cannot wait to rid herself of. Jane has three cousins who are not kind to her and are particularly fond of hitting her. While at Gateshead Jane grows fond of the house-maid Bessie. Bessie is kind to Jane but not like a loving mother. Little Jane is always accused of doing the naughty things that her cousins do; her aunt seems to have enough of Jane and confines her to the red-room. The red-room makes quite a negative impression on Jane because it is said that the ghost of her dead uncle dwells there. Jane "experiences" the presence of his ghost after she is locked in the room for hours and is reduced to fainting. The doctor is sent for, Jane tells him of her unfair treatment and Jane is sent to Lowood Institute by her aunt.

 We next transition to the Lowood Institution for poor young ladies. Mr, Brocklehurst is the head of Lowood and not liked at all. He accuses Jane of being possessed by the devil. He required that all the young ladies at Lowood be dressed in a dismal manner and not fed well. He believes that by doing this to the girls he will harden them and rid all the young girls of the devil. Mr. Brockelhurst hypocritically goes so far as to cut off a girls naturally curly hair because it is not "modest and plain" when his own wife and daughters walk in with beaver hats and curled hair! Jane makes a few good friends while at Lowood: Helen and Miss Temple. Helen is also headstrong like Jane and she passes away when Jane is young. Miss Temple is a teacher at Lowood and generally looks out for the girls and makes sure that they are health. Whenever the girls have a bad breakfast she tries to sneak them food. Miss Temple befriends Jane and takes a liking to her. While at Lowood Jane excels in her studies and becomes head of the class. A board of benefactors are appointed to Lowood and take better care of the girls while Jane is at the school. After Jane finishes her studies, she becomes a teacher for two years; at age eighteen she decides she wants to leave Lowood. From age ten to eighteen she had been confined to the school and has hardly ventured from its walls. Jane puts an add in the paper at the hopes of becoming a governess. Jane gets the call and is appointed the position of governess to a little girl near Millcote London at a house called Thornfield.

Jane describes Thornfield as less in grandeur than Gateshead, but she believes that she will be happy as a governess. Upon arrival at Thornfield she meets the housekeeper, Mrs. Fairfax, who is an older woman and who welcomes Jane to the house with kindness. Thornfield is owned by Mr. Rochester who at this point in the story is the seemingly mysterious guardian of a little girl named Adele Varens. Adele is a little French girl who was brought to the English countryside by Mr. Rochester. Adele was also orphaned like Jane. At this point in the story Jane is very happy at Thornfield at is impressed by Adele's scholastic skills.

So far major conflict in this story is Jane not being loved and wanted. She also conflicts with her aunt and Mr. Brocklehurst quite a bit.

Friday!!! 10/22/10

Today was a pretty fun day!! We started out with a community meeting and we did a Whip again today. We then went straight to work. I worked on Spanish this morning. In the module of Spanish that I am working on I am learning about the Cuban missile crisis and Cuba's relationship with the United States. I also resubmitted so lessons and worked on some math. At brain break we played Silent Speed Ball, Jackpot and also (drum roll) BLOB TAG! Now of course, I can't really play these games but it is still fun to watch. :)

During lunch some of the middle schoolers teacher came and visited the school while we played kickball. We came back from kickball and then went to music. The high school was working on some songs for our concert on November 14th. Then I had a check-in email with Mrs. Amy. Sorry for such a short blog today but my literary response is coming after this.

Wednesday 10/21/10

Today was very productive for me and for the OH community. We started the day with an early 8:15 Scarecr-OH Lane meeting. We talked about what we would say when we went around the the businesses to ask for donations to fund our service learning trip to Costa Rica. We got our flyers and posters together to be ready to head out and walk around Rosemary and visit all the businesses. We then had community time and did a whip. The whip today was, "If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?" I chose a horse because they are fast and are free. After that we had FLVS time. I worked on my Spanish and got a lot done in that subject. At 10:00 it was time to head out of the school and visit the businesses. I was in a group with McKenzie, Alyssa, and Olivia. We were assigned to go Wild Olives, Amavida, Bombora, The Cottage Rentals Agency, and Solace Day Spa. One group took the Scarecr-OH that the students designed as a prototype around to the other buisnesses in Rosemary. Then two of the other groups went to Seacrest and Seaside to ask for donations for our service learning trip. It was all so exciting to open up to the community about our school. We are also excited to make the Scarecr-Ohs for all the businesses to put on Scarecr-Oh Lane. Our fundraiser is going to be Saturday October 30, and will be in conjunction with the usual Rosemary Halloween Party. For the OH ScarecrOH fundraiser there will be prizes for the winning Scarecr-OH. Our total amount of money raised today was $870! WOW!!!

After everyone got back from the fundraising excursion, we had Lunch. Today was tennis, but I can't go with my hurt knee. I found out that I have officially torn my ACL and I am getting surgery in four weeks. I have to do physical therapy until then and then I have to do physical therapy after my surgery. The recovery for my surgery is about four and a half months. To fix my ACL the doctor will take the Achilles Tendon from a cadaver and atatch it to what is left of my ACL. What is cool is that the incision from the surgery is only one centimeter and the rest is scoped. During tennis I worked on Spanish, Geometry, and H.O.P.E. After everyone got back we discussed lots of things but we mainly talked about our successes with the Scarecr-OHs After that I finished my Geometry and then started writing my blog. I was listening to everyone debate about the kickball teams. One team is actually ordering jerseys! I can't wait until I can play kickball again!! Tomorrow is Friday and then it is the weekend! Make sure to come to the OH bake sale which is the same day as Scarecr-OH Lane.

Monday 10/18/10

Hello Again! Sorry that I haven't written in a while, I have been at home because of my knee. I sure am glad to be back at OH though!! Today we had some special visitors. The men who created the program that the elementary school uses for math visited and talked to us. It was a great experience and we learned a lot about math and how it builds on itself. Mr. Mike, who is from China shared part of his life story with us and his appreciation for education. I have been interested in Chinese and he actually taught us a few characters which actually related back to math.It is always fun to make global connections and learn new things. After that I met with Olivia's grandmother, Mrs. Silvia who is a college English professor and book author. We worked on my writing project for Hybrid Cars. I learned LOTS of things about writing. One thing that she said that especially caught my attention was that the English language is totally different in writing from the spoken part of English. I had not previously learned that and I am excited to apply that to my future writings. I am thankful that she came and spent time with the High Schoolers to show us the fundamentals of  writing. I am ready to turn in my final project and cannot wait to have my first PBL done. I promise that the link to the paper will follow soon! I worked on the paper until lunch.

I miss being able to play kickball, but I found that it is still pretty fun to watch everyone. We had to make new teams, but I think that they are fairer than the last ones. I hope that I will be able to play again soon. I'm not sure of the other teams name, but I know that Connors team is NO MERCY. Haha. There are a lot of people here on fall brake so we have to be careful not to hit pedestrians and bikers...

After lunch and kickball I worked on my H.O.P.E. collaboration with Hunter. For the collaboration in H.O.P.E. you have to contact a person in your class and grade their project. Hunter and I got lucky because we have the same teacher and are able to work on our project together. Nathan also has our same teacher. It is nice to be able to work face-to-face with students although virtual school is wonderful. After that I worked on Spanish. I learned about Cuban Dominoes. In the Cuban version of dominoes you double the dominoes. Well, that's all folks! My literary response on Jane Eyre is going to follow.


Jane Eyre Literary Response 1


Already in previous blogs I have told you all that I am reading a book called Jane Eyre. This Novel is by Charlotte Bronte and published in England in 1847. The 1800s are my favorite time period and I have taken an interest in reading novels published in that Time period ever since I read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Charlotte Bronte was born in England and had six siblings of which three were writers (including Charlotte) and have published works. For an extensive biography on Charlotte Bronte please see here http://www.online-literature.com/brontec/. This novel is generally considered a Gothic romance.

The main theme in Jane Eyre is her quest to find true love, but also find her place in the world. Jane was orphaned at a very young age and she has trouble feeling like she belongs. Family is a major theme in Jane Eyre along with love, religion, and social standing. I am very excited to delve more into this book!

Monday 10/11/10

Today was very successful. I got A TON done! Mainly, I got a lot done because I tore my ACL and I can't do anything and I have to sit on the couch away from everyone. I did Geometry and Spanish this morning. I did a few lessons in Geometry and in Spanish I did my review. I have DBAs (Discussion Based Assessments) for both classes tomorrow evening. I can't do brain break activities anymore so I watched everyone play Team Blob Tag and Steal The Bacon. After we came back I worked on the new PBL that I am doing on the Industrial Revolution. I am doing two short stories from the different perspectives of girls in that time period.

(Here is the link to the Hybrid Cars project that the High School did before I forget
http://docs.google.com/a/oh-institute.org/present/viewid=dg6cf489_28cfrg99fg&revision=_latest&start=0&theme=blank&cwj=true)

I am excited for this project and I hope that it turns out! I had to work during kickball time today because I am hurt (The Denominators lost fortunately), and I did a module 2 Geometry practice test. I did pretty good on it and I think I am ready for the real test which I can take after I do my DBA with my math teacher.

After lunch was music, and the high school band worked on getting the notes and chords for "Dirty Little Secret" by the All American Rejects. It's funny because the All American Rejects visit the beach here a lot (I haven't personally seen them here but I know lots of people who have. I thought that us doing their song is kind of coincidental. :) After music I came back and worked more on Geometry and then I worked on Biology. I learned about biodiversity today. That's it for today! See you tomorrow.

Thursday 10/7/10

This morning at 8 o'clock we had a fundraising meeting. We talked about how we can revise our mission statement to better explain what it is we are going to be doing in Costa Rica. We want to make it more tangible, and meaningful to those who will donate for our trip. We watched last year's Panama video and it was really inspiring and it made me very excited to go to Costa Rica. I especially look forward to helping the school children who are less fortunate that we are here at OH. After that I finished my Biology project from yesterday and I worked on H.O.P.E. Then we had brain break. We had a Leap Frog relay which was pretty fun! After that we came back into the school and I worked on my Geometry. During our PBL block I continued writing my paper on hybrid cars. I am in the middle of writing it and the rough draft is due tomorrow. I will post the final product soon. While I was writing we talked about the books that we are going to read for our Language Arts credit. I am going to read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I am very excited to start reading it! :)

This is Jane Eyre! Cannot wait to read it! :)

After lunch we had tennis today. We had to warm up by running the lines of the court and then sprinting. We then worked on our serving. We are going to have a tournament soon where we will play the other kids at OH. I cannot wait for that, it is going to be super fun!

After tennis was design. We talked about the OH website. Each student at OH is going to have their own webpage that is part of the main one. We are each going to get to design our background. Our background has to relate to the design elements and principals that we have already had classes on. Mrs. Dana surpriser the high school girls by saying that we are going to be able to go to a local salon to learn the design principals of makeup. I am really excited for that! i worked more on my writing after design. Tomorrow is Friday! WOHOOO!

Wednesday 10/6/10

Today was a pretty normal day, but nonetheless it was great like always! :) Today during morning meeting we did a whip. A whip is when you go around the room and everyone answers a question. After that I worked on H.O.P.E. and Spanish. I was very productive and got A LOT done. We then had brain break. We did this game where your team will form a circle and hold hands. A ball is then placed in the center of the circle and the whole team has to try to pick up the ball without letting go of each others hands. Then of course we played blob tag!

We had lunch and then an extra long kickball game. The Dominators won! WOOOHOOO! We won 6-4. It was great because we were able to play 2 more innings. My team did great and I can't wait until Friday. I hope that we will be able to win again.

After lunch and kickball was music. Our band decided on a new song, "I Love Rock and Roll" by Joan Jett. We got pretty far and everyone is trying out a new instrument. I am singing. Oh dear, well see how that goes...:) After music I did Biology. It was a pretty good day.

Tuesday 10/5/10

Today I worked on FLVS in the morning. I worked on Spanish 3 and then H.O.P.E. I also had a H.O.P.E. DBA, which is a discussion based assessment. For a DBA, you call your teacher and they quiz you on the module that you have been working on. After that we had brain break and we did relay races and then blob tag. For the relay race we played Hop and Run. Each person on your team either runs of hops around a shoe and the first team where all the players run of hop wins. Blob tag was fun like always! After brain break we had our PBL block (Project Based Learning). In high school we are individually working on a paper that will go along with our original question about hybrid cars. We worked on the introductions and the problems that we had with writing them, if any. After that was lunch.

After lunch we had tennis! Tennis was fun like it always is and it is nice with the weather. We worked on doubles    playing. We also have tennis team after school today. Can't wait!

After tennis we had design, and we had too draw a self portrait. It was pretty fun and when we were all done we had to guess whose drawing was whose. Throughout the year we are going to continue drawing self portraits and compare them with the ones we have already drawn. Right now I am going to go work on more Spanish and turn in my DBA assignment for H.O.P.E. See you all tomorrow! :)

Friday 10/1/10

Today is FRIDAY! We have had a pretty awesome day with just the high school because elementary and middle school were at on a field trip. This morning started out with the whole school going next door and checking out the design for the new school website that Mr. Tim has designed and it is really cool. After the other kids left to go on their field trip to see Chef Nelson, high school had FLVS time. After we worked for a little while we went outside for brain break. We played Dodge Ball today an it was interesting... I don't know if we are going to play that again. :)Then Mr. Randy showed us some Dodge Ball videos.  After brain break we had more FLVS time and I worked on my Spanish 3. Then we went to lunch.

Since there was only 8 people here we had a small kickball game and it was pretty fun. On the Dominator's was Me (Leah), Hunter,  Jordin, and Mr. Randy. On the Butterflies of Hope's team was McKenzie, Nathan, Shanna, and Mason. We tied the game up 18-18. Hopefully next time the Dominator will win.

After lunch and kickball we had music. The High School band worked on the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. We are getting the song down pretty well. We then worked on the song "You're Not Sorry" by Taylor Swift which sounds pretty amazing. Hunter is singing both songs and she has an excellent voice. After music we had some more FLVS time and I worked on more Spanish. The high school got into a very heated debate about our cleaning wheel. We couldn't decide on who would be the supervisor. Today is also Elle's birthday and she is 11. Sweet Jeni's provided cupcakes for us. Well, that's it for today! I will be back on Monday for another reflections on OH. :)

Thursday 9/30/10

Another great day at OH. Today at 8 a.m. we had a student fundraising meeting. We talked about a mission statement; what it is and how we can apply one to our Costa Rica trip in May. Everyone in the school will work on a mission statement for the Costa Rica trip and will will then pick the best one or combine a few of them. Mira and I worked this afternoon and came up with this;


"To immerse ourselves in the unique culture and language of a different country while enriching the community, experiencing new adventures and conserving the environment at home and in Costa Rica." 


After the meeting we had FLVS time for the first 90 min. block. I worked on Spanish 3 and Geometry. After that we had brain break. We played Tongue, and Team Blob Tag which was pretty intense for a game tag. :) After brain break we had our second block and for part of it I worked on Spanish and for the second half of it the high school worked on the group PBL (Project Based Learning). The high school PBL is on hybrid cars. We reviewed our projects and looked for hybrid car experts to send the projects to. We are all making separate power points in teams that  relate to the same initial question. I worked with Nathan and our sub questions are;

"How many people drive hybrid cars?" and "What would happen if everyone drove a hybrid car?"

I will post the link to the project soon for you all to read.

We had tennis this afternoon and it was great like usual! Again, it is sooo nice to have great weather to play in. After tennis we came back to the school and watched Channel One. I was so excited that it actually worked and didn't lag behind. We then had some FLVS time for about an hour and then we worked on our mission statements. We are now going to clean and my job is to sweep and vacuum the community room. We'll leave at 3:30 and come back tomorrow. :) Tomorrow is FRIDAYYYY!

Wednesday 9/29/10

It's awesome that the weather is cooling off! It has been another great day at OH Institute. Today we did more ITBS testing--this time we worked on math. We are done with the testing until the spring when we will all test again to show improvement. After the testing we had brain break. We played Blob Tag which is pretty much my all time favorite game! One person is it and each time that they tag someone they link arms with that person and the team goes and tags more people. It's especially fun when Blob Tag is played in an area with small boundaries. We also played Steal the Bacon. After brain break I worked on my Biology until lunch.

After lunch we played KICKBALL! We tied in kickball. We (The Denominators) are going to beat the Butterflies of Hope next time! Kickball is what most of us look forward to each day. Mr. Randy and Mrs. Amy love to watch our kickball games.

After kickball we came back and had more FLVS time. We cleaned and then had end-of-day community time.

Tuesday 9/28/10

Today was a pretty busy day. First off, the weather is actually starting to turn nice! I didn't feel like I was walking into a oven outside with shorts and a t-shirt this morning. This morning the whole school did ITBS testing, (Iowa standardized test) and we worked on the reading and vocabulary section. Tomorrow we are going to work on the math portion. After the testing we had a long brain break; we played Steal the Bacon which is a pretty fun game. You split up into two separate teams and each person on each team has a number. Like one person on team A has the number 1 and a person on team B has number 1 too. When your number is called you run and steal the "bacon". (We used a shoe.) The team with the most points at the end wins. Mr. Randy made Steal the Bacon extra fun today by calling the numbers in funny ways. Instead of calling number three for example he called out the square root of nine. :) After brain break we did FLVS until lunch. I worked on my Spanish 3 during that time. We went to lunch and then we had TENNIS! Tennis was really fun, like always and it was especially nice because of the weather. After tennis we tried to watch Channel One News but it was really lagging today. I love Channel One and was really disappointed we didn't get to watch it! We then went on to work on more FLVS and I worked on more Spanish 3 and Geometry. After school today we have tennis team, and GLEE is on! I am so excited! :)

9/21/2010

Today was awesome at OH Institute. I worked on my Florida Virtual school this morning. I worked on my biology, geometry, and I did my character sketches for my mental health project in H.O.P.E. During Brain Break we played Duck, Duck, Goose which is one of my favorite games! After Brain Break we started on our PBL (Project Based Learning). The high school is working on a collaborative project; our question is "Are hybrid cars really better for the environment?". We are getting pretty far along in our project.

We went to lunch, and then at twelve thirty we went to the Rosemary Beach Racquet Club for our tennis lessons. Tennis is always fun, we did drills and singles matches. Mira beat me in our match. :) At the end of practice we played Jail, which is a great tennis game.Thank you to coach Jonathan for the lessons!  

After we got back from tennis we had our design class. We watched a video from Beatlejuice to give us inspiration for the days project. For the days project we listened to music and we drew monsters. We played a different song for each monster. We then learned that we are going to send one of our drawings to an artist for their interpretation!

It was a great day!