It is 2-19-13 and we are starting our fifth mystery Skype! Our greeters are greeting the other class now we are going to have some sharers that come up and share some things about our school and class. Now we are figuring some stuff about there classroom. Cool! They have a classroom pet. We have a lot in commnon. OK, now we are finished introducing ourselves so we are going to start asking questions. We let them ask first "Does the Rocky Mountains go through your state?" our response. "NO" our question. "Are you guys in the United States?" their response. "Yes." our follow-up. "Are you east of the Mississippi River?" their response. "No." their turn. "Does your state border a body of water?" our response"Yes" "Are their deserts in your state?" our response. "No."our question "Are you south of the Colorado border?" their response. "No." their question. "Do you border an ocean?" our response. "No." our turn. "Do you guys border an ocean?" our response "No." their turn "Does your state border another country?" our response "No" our question "Does your state border Canada?" their response. "Yes" our question. "Does your state start with the letters M through N. The questions go on. We figured out that they live in Minnesota! We asked them if they are in the south part of Minnesota. We are trying to ask general question until we narrowed things down enough to get to their school the quickest. This classroom is trying to guess our state still. They aren't being very specific. Now the class is getting specific. Yah!! They got it..Illinois! After a few questions they are getting pretty close they just guessed if we were in Chicago. We are also getting close we are trying to guess what county they live in. The other class is very polite and is giving us a clue that they live near the St. Croix River. We are still confused on where their county is. We are continuing to ask questions but the other class is running out of time so we are going to ask two more questions and then stop . Let's see if we can get it......Ah Yah we got it they live in Washington County, we couldn'y see it . Now they are officially out of time so we are going to tell each other our schools.

    Today we are starting our fourth mystery Skype! To start we have some greeters that greet them. After that we have some sharers that tell some things about our school! It seems that they want to share some stuff to. Wow! this class has a lot of cool things about their class and school. Now we are starting to ask each other questions. We are a couple questions in. Their question "Does your state border a great lake?" "yes" their follow-up Do you live in south America" does your state border Iowa" "yes" "do you live in North America" Do you live in Montana?" "Are you south of the border of Iowa?" "do you live in Missouri "yes!" Do you live in the united states?" yes" "do you live in the Missouri border?" Does your county start with the letters A-L?" "DOES YOUR county with the letters a-g?" "Are you landlocked?" "No" "do you live in Illinois?" "do you guys live on the south side of Missouri?" No. their turn "Do you live in Chicago" response no. its our turn" Do you guys live in the north region of Missouri?" Do you guys live in the southern half of Illinois?" No" Does your county start with the letters a-c?" Yes" our follow-up question. "Does your county name start with the letter a?" no. their turn "do you guys live in Shaumburg?" "no" "Does your county name start with the letter c?" yes. our follow-up."Is your county Clinton?"Do you guys live in Joliet?" "no." our turn. "Is the second letter of your county a?" no. their turn. "Do you live in Blimington?" "No" Is the second letter of your county l through o?" "yes" "is the second letter of your county name o?" no" "do you live Wakegan?" "no""do you guys live in Clark county?" "no." "do you guys live in Oakland?" no." "is your county name two syllables?" no." their turn. "Do you live in Elgion." "no" Do you live in Clay county? " "Yes" .I couldn't catch their question             "do you live in Evanston?" "no. The questions go on for a while. "Do you guys live in Highland park?" "no>" "is your city or town name a-l?" "Yes" our follow-up."is your towns name a-g?" "no" "Do you live in Gary?" "no" we gave them a hint that they were close with Evanston. "Is your city name Halt?" "Do you guys live in liberty ville?" "do you guys live in Carney?" No" Do you guys live Grenville?" "no" "does your city start with an l?" "d o you live in Arlington heights?" "yes!!" good for them. their follow-up. " Do you go to the school near a shopping center?" "No" our turn."Does your city name start with h through j?"no. " are you guys in the Arlington heights school district. We are each getting close. "do you guys go to Riley elementary?" "do you live in Kansas city?" Yes!!" YAHH!." are you in the southern half of Kansas city?" "no." "Do you go to Riley elementary school?" "no." "DO you guys go to  public school?" Is you school in distrcict 23?" No. "do you go to greenbrier elem. " No. close."Do you guys  go to district 74?" "yes!" "is our school name the letters a through j?" "yes." their turn. "do you guys go to Windsor?" "no." Is your school start with the letters a through c?" "no." "Do you guys go to Paton?" "no." they are getting close. "is your school k through 5?" "Yes." Is your school name to words?" "No" Does your school start with the letters a-m?" "NO." "Is your school name a-o?" "Do you guys go to Westgate?" "    YES!!!" " Does your school start with r through w?" 'Do you guys go to shoco?" "Grace-more elementary??????" "YESS!!!!!!!!!!" yahhhhhhhhhhhhhh this was a lot of fun!:):)

Today in class we finished our Lit. Circle books! In my group we read Half Magic by Edward Eager. Half Magic is about some kids named, Jane, Katherine, Mark, Martha and these kids want an adventurous life but that was not happening at all. The kids were having a boring plain life is what they thought. Suddenly on an ordinary day Jane found a charm. Later that day they found out that this charm was magic only half magic. This charm might just be their ticket to the life that they have always disired but, through their wishes they found themselves in the middle of defending against a king.

    Today in class we are beginning to start our fourth Mystery Skype. It seems like a lot of Mystery Skype but it doesn't really seem like it. We are still learning new things about this 21st activity. Communicating with another class in a different place, it is really fun! OK, now we are going to start  We just called the other class a couple of times, but they did not answer any of the calls so we have to wait a little bit.  The class has not been responding so we are just going to move on to another subject. Hopefully the class calls back soon:(:(

    Today we did an experiment on how difficult it can get when breathing. For this experiment we stuck different size straws doing different activities. The first trial was just sitting down (trying to relax) with a big sized straw in our mouths. Then we walked in place withthesame size straw and after that we did jumping jacks,while trying to breath through a straw!!! It was really difficult. Next we changed the size of the straw to a itty bitty tiny straw. With this straw we only sat in chairs because wee did not want to passout. The most difficult activities to do with the wide straw was, walking in place, and diffenitly jumping jacks. We started to breathe really fast trying to catch some air and some people said that they got dizzy. I think that the causes of these results was how big our breathing source was. We breath through our mouths with the help of our larynx but the size of our straws was letting air pass through our body really slow. Though it was hard breathing with the wide straw it got even harder with a thinner straw half the size as the wide one!! Breasthing through that straw was so difficult that we just did one activity so that we did not hurt ourselves. I think that I breathing rate changes when you are active becasuse you get used to breathing at a faster rate that your body soon adjusts to the fast pace. When you are inside all day playing video games or watching TV or something like that your breathing pace it always at a slow resting pace becuase of the very low effort that you need for these type of activities. Your body will soon adapt to that slow pace, and when you are forced to run it starts to gat very hard to breath and you tend to run or walk slower.

We are doing passion time in our class. This is a new activity that Mr. Solarz has made up. Passion time is where you can read, do research or just learn more about your passion! It is really fun.

Today we worked on a organizer

We are researching the Human Body and the first unit is about the muscular system. This expieriement shows how that a muscle is always working in your body. 

(3)The reason people who learned a skill or trade had to be an apprentice before getting hired was that the master of the profession wanted to make sure that the apprentice was good enough at the profession before they made the decision to hire anyone.(4) I think that I can do this job because I like to build a lot of things and I have had experience with my dad. I think that if my master teaches me well I will be able to build a lot of things by the time my master is done with me.

    Today in class we did an experiment on how muscle fatigue works and what happens when muscle fatigue occurs. For the experiment we took normal clothespins and pinched the clothespins as much as we can in 30 seconds. After that we record how many squeezes we did in our science books. We did this process for 10 rounds! It got really tiring.Finally we made a chart for our results at http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/.
    When I was looking at my chart. I saw that my trial's had a pattern because sometimes I didn't get a high number of squeezes but, then the next trial I get a much higher score. Over all I almost each trial decreased from the earlier trial. The pattern I found in my chart was probably indicating how muscle fatigue works.
    My partner's data was kind of similar because they were going up and down, but my partner's (I was in a group of three) got higher score's than me.
    I think my results are probably in between being reliable and not reliable. It's toward the non reliable side because my group could've been counting to slow or to fast. It i probably on the reliable side because we had at least two people counting for each other.