Reflections - January 11, 2011

Today was our first all FLVS day with the new schedule. I think the day went really well and I have an open mind about the upcoming weeks.
This morning I started to work on a chemistry lab. I worked on this for most of the day.
At kickball today the Butterflies of Hope completely killed the Dominators. The score was 16 to 1! It was a good comeback from yesterdays loss.
After I was done with  my chemistry lab I started an algebra test.
Ms. Sylvia came in around 1:45 to talk about the most common errors in our papers and ask her any questions we had about our Civil War papers.
During the time that Ms. Sylvia was at school some people were testing the fire alarms; they were going off for about an hour or so! it was soooo loud!!!!!
Today was a pretty good day and I want to say welcome to the OH-Institute family Cale, Chase, Taylor and Joanna!

Reflections - January 5, 2011

I woke up at 8:00 today when I normally wake up 7:15 I had to rush to get to school and made it at 8:45. The Whip this morning was if you had a magic wand what would you use it for. I said to get all of my school work done so I could start second semester. After community time I got right into algebra 2. I had to email my algebra 2 teacher to help me with a math program called Geogebra since  it was not working. Because I for this I wasted an entire morning block trying to figure out how to fix the program. At Brain Break today we played Heads Up 5 Up. After Brain Break I started a chemistry lesson which made no sense to me. I did some practice problems on Double and Single reactions and then started the assignment. I got about half way through when lunch rolled around. After lunch I finished the chemistry assignment and unfortunately I got a bad grade on it. I then started on a Latin assignment and I have to translate 3 paragraphs from Latin into English. Not fun. We then had scary story time. Now going to clean and go home to work more on school. I am really tired of only doing school. Everyday all day is school! I can't wait until summer!

Daily Goal - January 4, 2010

My goal for today is to complete 2 H.O.P.E. assignments, 1 chemistry assignment, and 1 algebra assignment.

3rd Block Self Direction Rating/Reflections - January 3, 2010

In this block I finished an algebra assignment and finished reading and taking notes on a Latin lesson.

Self direction rating:
8 out of 10
I wanted to finish the Latin assignment to the lesson that I read in this block but we had a high school meeting.


I feel that the 3rd block was the most productive block for me. I think this is because everybody energy really died down when Taylor and Cale were not in the room with us. I felt like we were all really excited to have them here and when they were out of the room everyone went into a normal work block.

2nd Block Self Direction Rating

I completed the assignment to the lesson that I read in the first block and finished reading a second lesson in Algebra.

Self Directed Rating:
7 out of 10
I finished an assignment and finished another lesson. I wanted to finish my second algebra assignment but that did not happen.

1st Block Self Direction Rating

This morning I planed out my week on the Google calender and printed it out. I also completed a lesson in Algebra 2.

Self direction rating:
6 out of 10
This rating means that I got some work done but I was hoping to start the assignment for the lesson I read. I believe that I did not reach my goal because everyone is very hyped up with the new students here and being back together again.

Self Directed Means...

Being self directed means to be an independent learner. Being able to work without someone holding your hand and guiding you through every step every time. Being able to set and meet your own goals.

Daily Goal:
My goal today is to finish 2 H.O.P.E. assignments, 2 Algebra assignments, 1 Chemistry assignment, and 2 Latin assignments.