Hello science nerds!!! ;)

Hello youngins. this week in science we put together an experiment within our tables focused on the physical, behavorial, and relationship traits of the cockroaches (icky!!!) the first 2 class periods we were coming up with the elements of our experiment, being a question to answer a hypothesis, prediction, and actual test. we also shared with the class our experiment and test andd helped each other fix the problems with the test and kind of fix our question so it was more detailed or relevant. my group was me maggie zeke and stephen s. our question o answer was what is their prefferred environment. our hypothesis was room temperature since Mr. Finley keeps them just in the back of the classroom. our test was to have a tray with under one side ice and the other a hot plate (those things can get HOT man!) and in the middle nothing so it was just room temp. then we would the cockroach in the center and the first time have it facing the hot. then cold, then room temp (it was a different bug each time). we would time the cockroach or 15 seconds and consider whichever part it stayed on for about 15 would be what we recorded, when we recorded we put down the temperature range.
sorry that was kinda confusing, i have to get better at keeping my thoughts in order :)
lastly we did presentations about our experiments, if you havent done yours yet heres some advice: only put small phrases in your presentation and use those to explain in detail with your mind and voice instead of just reading.
so we also got back our marking period grades, our project grades, nad our test grades. i did do well on all of those which i was very happy about because i worked hard for those grades i earned :)

i thawt the experiments were quick and alot easier than doing a lab report, if i had to change one thing about it i maybe would have asked for more time on the experiemt but most of all the presentation.

be careful with hot plates

appreciate your friendly neighborhood spiderman

listen to jason mraz songs (they are good for the soul) :)

give me many hugs

enjoy you sunday and the very summer like weather (a litle pressent from global warming)

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in joy,
Kelso <3

camp speers

i really hope we really did have to do this bcuz i hate extra work :P plus id feel like a total idiot...lol so here we go...
we went to camp speers
it was fun
woooooooohooo
i am terrible @ archery
i shot the fence, the thing that holds the target, and the woods among other things.
here is what i learned

i learned about the pitcher plant. its a carniverous plant, like the venus fly trap, that gets its name from being shaped like (youll never guess) a pitcher.

i learned that in a bog things cannot decompose

to tie on to that we also learned about the bog man which is very very creepy D: the story is that they were taking out the bog so they cut down all the trees and people would bring home fire wood from there and some guy found a human hand in his (aaah!) and then they discovered the monk (cuz like i sed nothing can decompose) and they found out that he haqd been clubbed on the head and had eaten holly (poisonous!) and had probably been part of some sacrifice or sumtin. and he had everything but his bones because the bog like eats calcium or something....creepy

i learned how to make a good fire (allow lots of oxygen)

and how to make a good shelter with stuff in the woods. EI: wood and leaves. no duh

well, now that i have shared with you my wealth of knowledge, i am going to leave you...plz, dont cry (-_-) ;)

i will leave with this, spiderman is flippin AWESOME!!! ;)

HUG!!!

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this sciencey week...

this was a really intense week of science :) we started off with turning in our projects, which i REALLY hope we all did well on! then come thursday there was test!!! we worked on it all period thursday but the majority of the class did not finish so we also had friday. I just finished cuuuz im in school right now ^_^ anyway, the test wasnt super easy but it wasnt really hard either. the thing im sure i did worst with was deffinently the meiosis mitosis stuff :P im really bad with that!!! anyway, to prepare me and a ton of other people went in to the study session wednesday morning which helped very much and i suggest going to those whenever you can even if you rthink you get it. we also started something this week that i couldnt hate anymore!!!!!!! we are doing observations on these huge disgusting cocroaches!!! so first of all let me tell you the notes we took on observations:

observation
+backround----> identify date, time, temp
+things we see ----->discuss in words/descriptions
+any 5 senses ----> NOT taste!
+microscopic observations as well as macroscopic
*microscopic: can not be seen with the baked eye, very small
*macroscopic: can be seen with the naked eye
+Identify pattern, trends, answer questions
+drawings

ok now that weve got that, here is what we did: each table was a group and we got this bucket thing containing the hideous creatures!!! each table got a huge one (eeew!) and a baby one. the babies were pretty much the really fast ones and the big ones just pooped and stuff. some of them tried to escape the bucket and the petri dish even. can i just say i think puttong them in the petri dishes is cruel? also bcuz they could suffocate if left on there too long. :( i dont like them but i wopuldnt want to hurt one either. juuust sayon. so yeah im pretty sure the only person more scared then me was steve s. lol. but yeah they were disgusting. the scariest part of all this is that one got lost. it is missong and i could be anywhere. i am so freaked out, and im not even kidding!!! when i find out who lost the cockroach i will hurt them! jkjk. ^ ^ but yeah, one really is missing.
so anyway, we spent the class observing them. here are the observations, me steve, maggie, and zeke got.

•the shell looks like wood
•the shell looks like its made of a bunch of sections
•the tops of the legs are white
•they can stick (meaning they stuck upside down to the top of the petri dish and can climb up things)
•they have six legs
•the legs have spikes
•the baby is lighter
•the bug is lighter on the bottom
•antena
then we made a cute little picture ^_^
those are only some bcuz of course i am so smart i forgot my notebook :P
so only some people could touch the bug, and even less could hold it. ellen is pretty much crazy bcuz she was carying it around in the palm of her hand!

ellen im sorry but you are crazy.

i cannot touch it, zeke had it in the petri dish an inch away from me and THAT made me scream.
i cannot touch it, i can barely look at it bcuz i HATE those big bugs. i hate dragonfly, those big flies, but most especially cicadas!!! i really only like ladybugs to be honest. but yeah.
so that was our excting time with the cockroaches. that i hate, you know in case i havent sed that enough times lol.
but yeah.
well, it is now that sad time when i have to leave you :( sooo
bi bi!!!