week of october 19th

At the beginning of this week we had a test!!!! FUN!! On Tuesday we dissected cow eyes!! I was the only one in the class that hardly went near the eye.. it was kind of gross if you ask me.  It was also very interesting to see what it was made of.  I can't really describe it to you in detail but what i can tell you is that there was this goo that came out of the cow eye.  There was also this clear ball that came out after we cut the eye open.. that was PLEASANT!!! ewww no it wasn't.  On wednesday we started a new unit.  MOTION.  At the beginning of class we made cute little paper telescopes.  Mr. Seagan held a ball in his hand and walked across the room.  We found that even though the ball itself wasn't moving,  it still was in motion because Mr. Seagan was in motion and he was the one that was holding the ball. We learned that the initial orientation was where the ball was to begin with.  We found out that one way to tell if an object is moving is if we look at the backround and see if it is changing.  If it is changing then it means the object is in motion, or it is moving.  To know if an object is moving or not you would need something to compare to.  On thursday i was absent... darn... i hate missing my favorite class!!! hahahaha anyway....  On friday we started a lab or an experiment type of thing.  We used an electric car.  We had to test if the car sped up, slowed down, or stayed the same as it traveled along a straight, flat surface.  I predicted that it would stay the same speed the whole time. Then i tried to mark where the car was every second... i found that it stayed at the same speed through the whole test.  SOOOOOOOOOOOOO the main subject that I learned this week was MOTION.  motion is so important because mostly every living thing moves in some way or another.. and it is something that we do ALL the time ( even when we are sleeping).  We breath all the time and that means we are constantly moving.

K bye

KATHY:)