Today in science class, we made graphs about measuring muscle fatigue.  We measured this by squeezing a paper clip (the wooden kind) over and over the same way and we made a graph to see how well we did.  We worked in partners so that one partner could squeeze the close pin, and the other count how many times it was opened and closed.  There's kind of a pattern to almost every graph, because somewhere at the beginning it goes down, and then kind of a funny "m".  And then the numbers go up again.  My partner's graph is  LOT different than mine, because hers kind of stays up in the air, and mine goes down pretty darn low, all the way to 64.  These patterns could be affected by how strong the person's fingers are.  That makes sense, because I noticed that a lot of the stronger kids who did more stuff with their fingers got more than me.  Maybe it's because I have really double jointed fingers and they're long.  I think I might've made my results more reliable by me measuring the whole time.  My partner measured sometimes, and we always got different numbers for how many I had done.  We also could have practiced the new way of counting that Mr. Solarz taught us because it's faster.  We were kind of unsteady on it, and occasionally messed up.  To get an idea of what I mean, I'll show you how you count to 20:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,20

And we had just learned it!  Despite being faster, we weren't very good at counting th

Today at school, we made videos of reflexes and stuff.  The idea was that we would see how well our reflexes were.  For the first three (we kept giggling during the videos) we forgot to close our eyes, which was a necessary thing since you had to test one sense at a time.  However, we still managed to finish the videos.

The Revolutionary War is a great unit to study cause and effect with, because mainly little events added to the frustration of both the colonists and Great Britain and eventually lead to the Revolutionary War.

As part of our social studies unit, we are going to be apprentices, and I chose to be a silversmith apprentice because I like silver, and I thought helping make stuff of it would be fun.  In colonial times, everyone had to be an apprentice to learn a trade.  That way they would learn about their trade from a master, or someone who was really good at the trade.  Then it would be easier to open their own shop.  And they would have plenty of experience!  I know I can learn this trade because I love silver and will pay attention well. 

The above is a Revolutionary War timeline that our class worked on collaboratively