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!