M&M Experiment

This week I was surprised that Mr. P gave me two student of the month forms.

 This week I learned that  some color M&M dissolve faster than other. I learned this from the experiment we did.

No, I have not done anything like this in school . However,out of school I have done something similar.  You know how on easter you color eggs? Well, one year for easter I put a food color tablet in water that is meant for coloring eggs. This process was faster than the M&M's dissolvement stage. 

 My hypothesis was incorrect  and didn't match my result in my project. My hypothesis was that lighter M&M dissolve faster than dark. Then we did the project. After the first one dissolved I saw that its color was green. I had thought that yellow would dissolve first.

This week when we were doing are experiments no one had the same conclusion Why you may ask. Well this we all had different  variables. Such as different water levels, different M&Ms, different place meant, etc.

This is why we didn't have the same answers.

If I could redo my work this week I would make my steps more specific. This is so anyone can understand it. I think I was unclear with my work. If I don't do this it would be hard for someone to do this themselves. That is why I should have been more clear.

Sienna's Severe Weather Project Reflection

Severe Weather Project Reflection

This week we finished up are Severe Weather Project Reflection. We did the board game option.

This week I learned that I need to keep track of my work. Or in other words I need to learn how to make a good time plan for each assignment I do. It was very hard this week to do that with to major project due the same week! So that is what I thought was hard. Next time I will try to improve this skill.

This week I felt very rushed. I think I didn't think out my plan very well to juggle two assignments. After I got all the cards done I was not as stressed. Then I was very excited to make my game board. In my opinion I think it was a success.

This week my partner did basically everything the same as everyone else. The one thing that made it different was that we had chance cards in are deck. Not everyone had chace cards so that made it special. I really think that it made the game more enjoyable. So that is what we did slightly different.

A goal I would like to set myself next semester is that I keep track of my time. I would have been lease stressed out. This will help me stay more organized.  This week I have not done this as well as I could have. This Is what I want to improve on.

Natural Disasters Board Game

Natural Disasters Board Game

This week we started an assignment on natural disasters. I had pick the board game option.

 Before we started I only knew a very little amount of information on this subject. Now I have learned about drought, hurricanes, etc. To be more specific I had learned that drought happen most commonly in the USA. For example we are currently in a drought in San Jose.  The drought we are in is not as severe as the ones we've had before.

This week I learned that  I am a better learner when the project uses visual. That mean a project that we look at articles or websites for. I noticed this when I was looking up the information on the websites that you provided for us. This helped me better understand confusing concepts. One confusing part of the project was when we had to find how to be Safe and how to prepare.

Cartoon of Water Cycle 12/5

Water Cycle Cartoon

This week we played a water cycle game. Then we wrote a story about the water cycle in process.

This week the resources that was the most helpful to me was the game we played. This game gave us the basic layout of our stories. I hope we use games more often because they helped me understand the project better. This game was cool, because it was random. You never knew what you'd be getting. This was by far my favorite resource overall.

I loved this project. It let me show my creative side more than your work side.  I liked how Mrs. Garcia made a game out of it instead of just having us write the same stories. I honestly liked it all and I have nothing negative to say about it. Overall, I liked the drawing part the best. I hope we can do something like this again!

Weekly Blog on my letter

Weekly Blog

This week was very short because of our break for Veterans Day. Then when we got back we started our letter to Mr. Cuttatree.

The resource that was the most useful this week was the draft paper for the letter to Mr. Cuttatree which we filled out.  It had the basic ideas on it so we just had to make it more diverse on the letter we wrote. The letter would have been 10 times harder without this draft so I'm glad we had it. So this was the best resource I had. This draft was a great starter on my project.

I thought the work this week was pretty hard. It would have been harder without my draft. I liked that we got to start very quickly and use all the info we already had.  I think we had a great amount of info. This was a great thing to get to do.

Letter to Mr. Cuttatree

 Dear Mr. Cuttatree,

I am writing to you today because you are building the Uppity Resort. I think it is a very bad idea. There are always affects in every situation I see you do have positive ones .   These affect are like giving people jobs. There are also non positive effects as well.

Here is a reason. There is a lose of animal effect to it. Even ones that we don't know are even there. If people keep deforestation up than we will have no more animals left. Deforestation will leave animals with no homes, food, and water.

There is also the loss of water that comes from it. The rain forest rains because of the multitude of trees in the area. Trees help along the rain cycle. So from cutting down trees we get droughts.  So cutting trees down often will make us have not as much water.

Then thee is the loss of  substantiating regrowth. So think of it this way . When the trees are cut down you kill a lot of younger trees in the area . So there are two effects. One is that the trees will take even longer to regrow, than also sometimes the trees don't even grow back.

So in conclusion it is a very bad idea to build your resort. It will effect 3 thing animals,water supply, and  regrowth.So as you can see there are always positive an non positive effects in every situation. This resort will harm the world around us and cause many problems for the environment. Mr. Cuttatree I think you shouldn't build your resort.

The Rain forest's importance

The Rainforest

All organisms can have a big impact on the rainforest. An example is the red eyed tree frog ,which I learned about this week.

I started this project with alot of info  that I already knew. Like where Red eye tree frogs live which is in the rain forest. However, I did not know all about the red eye tree frogs at first.  Something I didn't' know was that they are nocturnal, which means there active at night. Another interesting fact I learned is that they are carnivores, or meat eaters, as well. Finally didn't know that If the red eye tree frog was gone that the whole ecosystem would be off balance which would cause overpopulation in its prey and overpopulation in its predators.

I liked the work this week because we learned about the importance of every animal's role in an ecosystem. I also liked that we got to learn about an animal and what it does to the environment. Then we got to figure out what eats it as well.

Meanwhile we learned new and exciting facts about creatures. Then we got to make a food web chart of what eats what and who eats who. After all this week  my  favorite thing we did has to be that I got to learn the importance of every organism  and that I can make a difference in the rainforest as well.