Connor

Connor

About Me

Hi my name is Connor. I am 12 years old. I am the 2nd to oldest. I have 4 younger brothers and 1 older brother . I love minecraft, computer games and programs. my favorite sport is basketball.

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Learning Log Week 15

MATH:For math I did a lot of geometry and angles. They're not that hard to do after you get the hang of it. I like angles a lot.

LANGUAGE ARTS: For language arts I am reading the third book of fablehaven. I am on book 3/5 I am blowing threw the series. I also did writing and spelling.

SCIENCE: We learned some more about magnets. The north side sticks to the south side.  Our whole earth is a magnet with a north and south pole

GAME DESIGN:For game design I finished my edited version of cat burglar and turned it in. I love programming. I can't wait for the next assignment.

LEGO ROBOTICS:I didn't do much legos this week but i am planing on doing all of my late assignments this week. I like making robots that can move.

Monday, December 7, 2015

Learning Log Week 14

MATH:  For math I am learning about angles. I have got the hang of them so far but I think they will get harder.

LANGUAGE ARTS:  For language arts I am reading book two of fablehaven and I am on chapter 12. I am also doing spelling and writing.

SCIENCE:  For science I learned about magnets. We used tiny pieces of iron and picked them up with magnets. We learned how to make something iron a magnet to.

GAME DESIGN:  For game design I finished my cat burglar game, and I also finished my basketball game. I love programming.

LEGO ROBOTICS:  For lego robotics I am going to work on the next assignment very soon because it is due on wensday. I like programming and robots so this class is perfect.

Monday, November 23, 2015

Learning Log Week 12-13

MATH:For math I have done a lot about word problems and multiplication.I have done a lot of Roman numerals to.

LANGUAGE ARTS:For language arts I am reading the second book of fablehaven. I have also doing writing and spellimg.

SCIENCE: For science I put to copper wires on a battery and on a light bulb to make the bulb light up and we put resistors,conductors, and insulators in the way of the copper wire to see if the light bulb would still light up.

GAME DESIGN:For game design I have almost finished my ice breakers game. I am also making my own game but I haven't got a name for it yet.

LEGO ROBOTICS: For lego robotics I made a moving chair and turned it in. I have also programmed the chair a little bit.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Learning Log Week 11

MATH: For math I did a little bit of study island. I have been learning more about Roman numerals They start to get tricky.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I am on chapter 6 of the second book of fablehaven. I liked the first one. I did spelling and writing also.

SCIENCE: For science I was learning about static electricity. We used a balloon to make foil move away from each other.




GAME DESIGN: For game design I finished my ice breakers game and i am working on the next assignment. Witch is to make your own game so I am making a basketball game.

LEGO ROBOTICS: For lego robotics I am trying to do the next assignment. It's to make a moving chair for a stuffed animal. I am trying to find out how to build my chair because there's no instructions.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Learning Log Week 10

MATH: For math I have been learning tips and tricks for multiplication. Like for something times 9 up to ten. and anything times 0 is 0.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I am reading the second book of Fablehaven! I liked the first one. I am doing spelling and writing.

SCIENCE: For science we made a power source out of some pennies and tin foil and paper towels soaked in salt water.  It makes a battery when you hook it to a copper wire.

GAME DESIGN: For game design I finished my ice breakers game. I am now working on a whole new game for the next assignment.

LEGO ROBOTICS: For lego robotics I am fixing my robots arm. and I am trying to catch up on the assignments. I love robots!

Monday, November 2, 2015

learning log week 9

MATH: I am learning tricks for multiplication with 0, 1, and 2. For 0 it always equals o, for 1 it always equals the same number, for 2 it is just the number twice.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I am at chapter 14 of fablehaven. I love it so far. I am doing spelling to.  I wrote 3 poems this week.

SCIENCE: I don't think we did science but I wrote down 5 observations. some of them are lizards like hot, when you look in a mirror your backwards, ect.

GAME DESIGN: I am working on my ice breakers game. I thing I am going to add some changes to my ping game.

LEGO ROBOTICS: I built a program off of the computer, and made it say some stuff like Minestrom.

Monday, October 26, 2015

Learning log week 8

MATH: I have been doing some multiplication. I am doing teaching text books.

LANGUAGE ARTS:I am reading a book called Fablehaven. My mom is reading tom sawyer to me.
I wrote a 300 word review for writing class. I wrote about redstone witch is in minecraft.

SCIENCE: We learned about the life cycle of flies. They can live for up to a month. I learned what insects do in the winter time. some lay eggs but then die but some hid in warm places.

GAME DESIGN: I am working on a quiz for game design. I am also still working on my ice breakers game.

LEGO ROBOTICS: I did the assignment become familiar with the lego robot. I also tried to fix the arm on my robot.

Monday, October 19, 2015

Learning log week 7

MATH: For math I have been adding and subtracting word problems. And I did a quiz well actually my second one. I have been rounding and estimating with three digit numbers.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I am reading fablehaven. I am on chapter six. I like it so far. I did spelling to.

SCIENCE: We were rolling marbles do pipes and seeing how fast they went. We also were seeing if they kept going if they hit another marble.

GAME DESIGN: I am working on my ice breakers game. and i am making my own game . but i don't have a name for it yet.

LEGO ROBOTICS: I didn't do much for lego robotics. I need to look at the instructions to fix the robots arm.

Monday, October 12, 2015

Learning Log Week 6

MATH: I learned about adding fractions. It's hard at first but then you get the hang of it. I like adding fractions now.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I am reading tom sawyer. I am doing spelling. for writing I was learning about verbs and not using to many adverbs.

SCIENCE: We use toy cars to smash bananas. We use GPE (gravitational potiential energy) to smash them.

GAME DESIGN: I am working on my ice breakers game. I like adding sound and animations.

LEGO ROBOTICS: I did the movie quiz. I am trying to fix the arm on my robot.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

learning log week 5

MATH: I have been adding and subtracting word problems. And addition and subtraction on paper.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I am reading tom sawyer. I am also doing spelling. And also doing writing.

SCIENCE: I was weighing stuff with a slinky. And finding out the work of the stuff.


GAME DESIGN: I am working on my ice breakers game. I love game design.

LEGO ROBOTICS: I did the robot movie quiz. I liked the movie.


Monday, September 28, 2015

Learning Log Week 4

MATH: I did rounding and estimating.  I did addition with bigger numbers.  I also added big numbers adding three or more big numbers together.


LANGUAGE ARTS: I'm reading a book about Rosa Parks.  So far it's just been talking about how she was going to school. For writing I'm doing specific nouns and adjectives like instead of car you could say sports car or van or even say blue van.

SCIENCE: You can't see the blood moon but my brothers and I layed down on the trampoline and watched the blood moon.  It was really red.  When the sun, earth and moon line up, the earth blocks the sunlight and the moon just gets scattered light.

I also did science with some friends.  We were throwing the ball to look at the arch. and then we tied a string to it and it would start making the arch and when the string stopped it it would go straight down because the string stropped the motion so the gravity pulled it down.


GAME DESIGN: I've been working on my Ice breakers game a little bit.  Ice Breakers is the new game I'm working on.

LEGO ROBOTICS:  I didn't work on this class this week.  I'm going to fix the arm on it soon.  I just need to look at the instructions to fix it.

Friday, September 18, 2015

Learning Log Week 3

MATH:  I reviewed some addition and subtraction.  For subtraction you have to have the biggest number on top.  I took my first quiz yesterday.  I got 100%.

LANGUAGE ARTS:  I practiced cursive and read a book called The Big Book of Why.  I learned why dogs noses are always wet.  Because scientists think that they lick their noses to keep them moist because it helps them smell better.

SCIENCE:  I went to Lake Tahoe.  There was a drought there and the water was really low.  We could walk out past the orange balls that tells the boats they're getting deep.  We could walk past the sign that said the boats can only go 5 miles per hour.  There was  a fire which I'm pretty sure was from dry lightening  it covered pretty much the whole lake.



GAME DESIGN:  I did not do game design this week because I was gone.  I am trying to figure out how to save my ping game as a file so I don't have to go into the program and run it I can just go in the file.

LEGO ROBOTICS:  I didn't do any lego robots because I was gone.  I'm excited to work on it next week.

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Learning Log Week 2

MATH: I like to site outside with my brother to do my math sometimes. Sometimes it helps you think better when it's quiet. I learned that the answer to a subtraction question is called a difference.




LANGUAGE ARTS:  I did spelling I learned about vowel chunks. I did a magazine assignment where I chose some of my favorite magazines that I mite want to write about. one of my favorite magazines was a science one. I read 30 mins a day.



SCIENCE:   I learned that some blimps use helium to make them float. but the Germans used to put hydrogen witch can start o fire. One blimp started on fire and crashed. helium is what we use in balloons today.

LEGO ROBOTICS: Earlier I accidentally crashed my lego robot into the wall and the arm fell of. I haven't fixed it yet but I will.

GAME DESIGN:  I finished ping. I'm ready to make my next game :D.

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Learning Log - Week 1 (2015)

MATH:  I learned about number patterns.  you have to find the pattern in them, sometimes it's hard. sometimes it will tell you to say the fifth number in it.  I also did odd and even numbers with big numbers.  I also did place value for numbers in the ten thousands.

LANGUAGE ARTS: I practiced spelling and writing.  I am reading some joke books.  one of the joke are, what is in December that's not in any other month?  The letter D. here's another joke.  What has four eyes and can't see?  The Mississippi.

I'm reading a journal about an alien that dressed up like a human. He asks some funny questions. one is why is toilet paper white?

SCIENCE: We did a experiment we had to look at stuff and see what they have in common.  that's how scientists put plants and animals in different kingdoms.

GAME DESIGN: For game design I finished my ping game.  I learned how to use fusion, it's pretty cool.

LEGO MINESTORM: I built my first lego minestorm there's a video and picture of it at the bottom. I added some stuff on it from the instructions like if it hits the wall it will go forward.

Here's a picture of the first robot I built and a video.


Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Learning Log Week 38

For math, Language arts and science I'm done for the year, but I'm still reading books and practicing cursive and multiplication.

For Minecraft I made gatorade.  I named it green apple gatorade.  I'm planning on making more gatorate.  I made Christmas armor.

For photography I turned in my end of the year art show assignment.  It's a picture of tulips.  I went to the tulips festival at the museum.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Learning Log Week 37

For math, science, and language arts is done for the year


MINECRAFT:For minecraft I am turning in my last assignments for the year. i am making christmas armor.


PHOTOGRAPHY:For photography I just turned in my last assignment for the year.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Learning Log Week 36

For Math I did k12 I got a rubiks cube and I learned how to solve it :D



MINECRAFT: For minecraft I have bee nworking on some of my mods. I love programing!


PHOTOGRAPHY: For photography I have been taking some pictures of my brothers. In the winter I plan to take pictures of a bubble that landed and didn't pop, then you can see the ice on it.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Learning Log Week 35

For Math I did k12 I am just finishing up Algebra for the year.

For Language Arts I did k12 I am going to go to the library and get some books to read.

For Science I did k12 I went to the tulip farm and learned about tulips.


MINECRAFT:For minecraft I am working on all of my mods. I go to tech talk and learn about some stuff that I didn't know about mods.

PHOTOGRAPHY:For photography I put my camera on a seting so it will talk more then one picture.

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Learning Log Week 34

For Math I did k12 I am just finishing up Algebra for the year.

For Language Arts I did k12 For my birthday I got a book that teaches me how to draw pokemon so I have been drawing those 


MINECRAFT: For minecraft I have been working on my mods. I have also been working on an assignment.


PHOTOGRAPHY: For photography I turned in my top 10 favorite photos for April.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Learning Log Week 32 - 33

For Math I did k12 I am starting Algebra and so far I love it!

For Language Arts I did k12 I finished a puppy book I love puppies.


MINECRAFT:For minecraft  I am working on some mods Christmas mod Ruby mod. I finished the ruby mod but I am going to add more things to it.


PHOTOGRAPHY:For photography I have taken some pictures of my brothers and my dog.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Learning Log Week 31

For Math I did k12 I am so close to Algebra :D. I can't wait.

For Science I did k12 I have finished science for the year :D

For Language Arts I did k12 I am reading a puppy book called Oscar. So far I am on chapter five.


MINECRAFT: For minecraft I am working on my Christmas mod and I am also working on the assignment write your own mod.


PHOTOGRAPHY:For photography I have been taking pictures every day. mostly of my dog and baby brother.

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Learning Log Week 30

For Math I did k12 I am learning Geometry and after I am done with Geometry I am going to start Algebra.

For Language Arts I did k12 I am reading a series called the puppy place. right know I am reading teddy. I have read mocha so far there is lucky, Oscar there is a bunch.

For Science I did k12 I have been learning a little bit about animals that live in the water. I love all kinds of animals. :D

MINECRAFT: For minecraft I have been working on my Christmas mod for a assignment that is late. in it is the Christmas hat that i am working on then i just need to program some for it to show up and for a little bit more stuff on the assignment.

PHOTOGRAPHY: For photography I have been taking pictures every day because I have it on my school list.  I love photography it's awesome how cameras work.

Monday, March 30, 2015

Learning Log Week 29

For Math I did k12 I'm learning about triangles and quadriladerals.

For Science I did k12 I'm learning more about invertibrates They are pretty cool.

For Language Arts I did k12.  I read a book called The Waffler.  It was really funny.  I worked on grammar and spelling.  I got 100 percent on my spelling test.

For Photography I've been taking pictures every day.  I take pictures around my house and outsid too.  

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Learning Log Week 28

For Math I did k12 I have been starting on Geometry it's really fun :D

For Language Arts I did k12 I am starting a book about king arthur it's a good book :D

For Science I did k12 I Have been learning about invertebrates it's crazy that they don't have back bones

MINECRAFT: For minecraft I am working on write your own mod and my teacher is helping me with my christmas hat becasue it crashed minecraft

 PHOTOGRAPHY: For photography I am taking pictures of my brothers and my dog most days some days i forget but most days I do.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Learning Log Week 27

For Math I did k12 I have been learning a little bit about story problems there fun and sometimes tricky.

For Science I did k12 I have been learning about stuff that lives under water like Cnidarians they are really cool.

For language arts I did k12 I am reading wayside school gets a little stranger so far I ♥ it I read it before.

MINECRAFT: For minecraft i am working on write your own mod it is going to be late because my nova skin was not working so i asked my teacher and he said that he has the same problem on firefox but on google chrome he doesn't so it works now.

PHOTOGRAPHY: For photography I take pictures of my dog and my brothers and today i got a picture of my brother going cross eyed and the sun was on him so it looked awesome!

Friday, February 27, 2015

Learning Log - Week 26 (Feb 23 - 27)

For Math I did k12 I have been working on estimating like 365,240 can be rounded to the nearest hundred thousand would be 400,000.

For  Language Arts I did k12 I sometimes read 30 mins in bed and I read a iron man book.

For Science I did k12 I have been learning about plants and animals there's a lot of different animals.

MINECRAFT: For minecraft I am going to do write your own mod my teacher is helping me with spawn your own item that's late.

PHOTOGRAPHY: For photography I take pictures each day of my dog solo and my cute little baby brother.

Monday, February 23, 2015

Learning Log - Week 25 (Feb 16 - 20)

For math I did k12 I have been learning about estimating numbers.

For language arts I did k12 I have learned what break the ice means and what on thin ice means and money burns a hole in her pocket and in a pickle and gone to the dogs and feeling blue means.

For science I did k12 For science I have been learning about animals.

MINECRAFT: For minecraft I have been working on my assignments that are over due and my Christmas mod.

PHOTOGRAPHY: For photography I have still been taking picture every day of my brothers and my dog.

Monday, February 16, 2015

Learning Log Week 24

For Math I did two hours a day on study island.  I worked on rounding numbers.

For Language Arts I read 30 minutes a day.  I worked on writing.  I wrote two papers this week on Utah Compose.  I also did some of the lessons on Utah Compose.  I also took the writing SAGE test.

For Minecraft I'm still working on my Christmas Mod.

For Photography I take pictures every day to practice with my camera.  My favorite is to take pictures of my dog and my baby brother.


Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Learning Log - Week 23 (Feb 2 - 6)

For Math I did k12 I just finished comparing decimals. Sometimes there hard and sometimes there fun.

For language arts I did k12 I learned raining cats and dogs, i'm all ears, back to square one, two-faced, it's greek to me, with flying colors. those are words I learned.

For science I did k12 I learned about shrubs and grasslands of Utah.

MINECRAFT: For minecraft I am still working on my Christmas mod and I am still working on my cheetah because if you remember last time it ended up as a cheetah zombie.

PHOTOGRAPHY: For photography I still take pictures every day that's on my school list. I mostly do my dog solo.

Monday, February 2, 2015

Learning Log - Week 22 (Jan 26 - 30)

For Math I did k 12 I have been comparing decimals.

For Science I did k12 I have been learning about forests of Utah and deserts of Utah.

For Language arts I did k12 I have been Learning sum things like what wrath means and perish, mischief, wilt, maim, and assault.

MINECRAFT: For minecraft I have been making a new mod I have not made a name for it yet so far it's just examplemod. but I am trying to make a cheetah and some other animals in minecraft so far it made a cheetah zombie on accident I mixed up the ruby zombie code and the cheetah code and it made a cheetah zombie lol.

PHOTOGRAPHY: For photography I am taking pictures each day. mostly of my dog and sometimes my baby brother and some of my other brothers.

Monday, January 26, 2015

Learning Log - Week 21 (Jan 19 - 23)

For math i did k12 i did more about Decimals.

For science i did k12 i have been learning about Ecosystems.

For language arts i learned some stuff i learned Birds of a feather flock together, curiosity killed the cat, don't cry over a split milk, good things come in small packages, silence is golden, the early bird catches the worm.

MINECRAFT: For minecraft i have been working on my iron knife i can't make it's texture work but it works with any thing else i just need to fix the name witch i know how to do i will ask my teacher in tech talk.

PHOTOGRAPHY: For phtography i took some pictures of my brothers and my dog solo and i took some pictures in golden hour for an assignment.

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Learning Log Week 20

For Math I did k12 I have been learning about decimals.

For science I did k12 I have been learning about ecosystems, producers, consumers and decomposers.  A producer is like a plant. A consumer can be an animal that eats the plant. A decomposer is a worm or some thing that will brake the dirt down. All energy comes from the sun then the plant uses the light energy. All energy is transferred .

For language arts I did k12 I read some poems and minecraft books. I wrote some papers on utah compose.  Here is one of the papers I wrote.

    Ever wonder what the best video game is? My favorite game is Mine craft. It has so many different things on it.
    Mine craft has lots of mods. A mod is like an update. It puts more things on it. My favorite mod for Mine caft is probably the Flansmod. It has planes,cars,and guns. It's pretty much every thing you can imagine.
    Mine craft also has servers. You might know what a server is but I will tell you any way. A server is a game where any buddy can join. It's really fun!
    Here are some tips for beginners. I would first build a simple house. Then just add some furniture to your harts desire. Then i would experiment with redstone and any thing else you like on Mine craft.
    As you can see, there are a lot of cool things on Minecaft. This is why I like Mine craft best.

 For Photography I am working on lighting.Here is my favorite on I took of my baby brother i used portrait mode and make sure there is light on his face.
For Minecraft I went to tech talk I am making a iron knife so far I just need to fix the name and the texture for it. I am also going to make an ender sword.

Learning Log Weeks 17-19

For Math I did k12. I learned how to multiply a fraction by a whole number.

For Science I did k12. I learned about rocks and minerals and earthquakes.  Earthquakes can happen when the plates hit each other or when the plates go by each other.  If an earthquake happens in the ocean it can cause a tsunami where a huge wave comes.

For Language Arts I did k12. I've been working on adjectives and reading a book called Sir Alexander Flamming.

For Photography I've been taking pictures of my dog and my brothers.  I'm learning more about lighting.

For Minecraft I'm still working on my Christmas mod.  I finished my ruby mod.