Spanish Restuarant Field Trip

Grace Weber
Mrs. Hartney
LA-8H
30 April 2014

Spanish Restaurant Field Trip

Last Tuesday and Thursday, both the advanced and traditional classes took a trip to a Cuban Restaurant for lunch. For the duration of the trip, we were expected to speak in Spanish. Despite our nervousness, we all applied our knowledge of the Spanish Middle School grammar and vocabulary curriculum. It was amazing to see how much we have grown in understanding the Spanish language over the past three years. The trip was a great way to immerse ourselves into our second language as well as utilize the many years of Spanish education that we have received at LCC Day School.
                                                           

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How To Papers

Callie Friske

This week all 7th and 8th graders had to do how to papers. It had to be five paragraphs and not explain something step by step. I choose the topic of How to Have a Perfect Weekend. I love my paper, but it was a little frustrating having to do everything! In the end, I will turn in five copies and I think it is a little crazy! I am just hoping I get a good grade!

How do you have a perfect weekend? We had to use many different techniques to make our paper perfect! We had to use questions, hooks, and many other elements. It has taken me around seven days! Even though I love language arts, there can be some things that I wish I didn't have to do! I just have one question for you, how do you have a perfect weekend?

Spanish Videos

The eight grade Honors Spanish class recently finished creating videos about how to cook meals speaking only in Spanish. The requirements for this project were to: speak solely in Spanish, be creative, last no less than three minutes, have minimal breaks in the speech, use of the vocabulary and the grammar  learned during class, have a written draft of what was said during the video, and to show organization.  It was also required that we not read from queue cards during the video. The total possible points that could be received was seventy-five.  In my video,  I made chicken tacos.  During the video,I went to the supermarket to buy the ingredients, and then cooked the chicken tacos in my kitchen.  I thought that this project was very challenging, and a great learning experience.  Taping this video took a lot of time.  I made my video in the application called "I-Movie".  I was able to take short videos and then put them all together to make one long and flowing video!  For future classes that require creation of a video,  I would definitely recommend allotting a lot of time to tape and edit the video! After completing this video, I feel that I know the vocabulary from the section that was covered in class. We had to present our videos to the entire class.  Everyone's videos were great, and very creative!

-Emma V.

Sports banquet

Tonight was the LCC sports banquet. This is where the coaches recognize all the sports, and players. We all received pins for our sports. It was a little boring, but I'm glad I went because it's my last year here. It was so much fun playing sports for LCC, and I can't wait for high school.

Sydney Ahlquist
Mrs. Hartney
L.A. 7-A
25 April 2014

I am really excited for seacamp. I love being in the water and doing fun things. Everyone tells me how seacamp was their favorite school trip. I hope I get a room with all of my friends. The bus ride might be long but it always is fun when you are with your friends. We are going on May 4th and its coming up soon.
We get to go snorkeling. Even though I don't really like snorkeling, I know we get to swim with sharks, but if everyone freaks out and splashes around, they go to the bottom and you don't get to see them. That is all I know that we do but I would rather not know and have it be a surprise. I am so excited and I cant wait.

Final Exams!

Haylie Gray
Mrs. Hartney
LA7A
24 April 2014

As the year comes to an end, we all have to get ready for the dreadful finals! I personally do not like finals. It is so hard to remember everything for all 5 classes, which brings me to another point. This year we have to a final in every class! It was not supposed to be that way originally. Last year, we took 1 midterm and 1 final. This year, we were supposed to take 2 midterms and 2 finals! It just doesn't seem fair although life isn't fair. Besides the fact of having a final in every class, the studying is torturous. We have around 100 questions on a final! That is a lot of answers to remember! Luckily, the finals are mostly multiple choice with a few short answer. This year it is different! The social studies final is all short answer! My hand is going to hurt so bad afterwards from writing so much! We do have fewer questions though. We only have about 25-30 questions compared to 100. You have to study so much to get a good grade on finals because in 7th grade, the final exam grade, averages into you whole grade which could make a big difference! I am not looking forward to finals at all!! The only good part, is when it is over!

Washington D.C 8th Grade Field Trip

Brooke Jaffe
LA8A
Mrs.Hartney
21 April 2014

April is coming to a close which means that May is right around the corner. May brings many exciting things such as five final exams, the pool party, graduation for the 8th graders, and of course the class field trips. Seventh grade will go to Sea Camp while eighth grade will visit Washington D.C! I'm so excited! I have been looking forward to the eighth grade field trip for two years and its unbelievable to think that it's about to become a reality. The trip is not only fun and interesting but extremely educational. It will help us understand social studies class more as well as have a greater appreciation for the experiences of past generations. As a grade, we will be visiting many museums and tourist attractions. The trip will be a great academic and learning opportunity for the whole class. The eighth graders have to report to the airport at 5am on a Sunday to depart for D.C and arrive back in Tampa on Thursday night. In Mrs.Mishalls class we have already had multiple discussions going over important rules for the students to follow in D.C. She has also given us tips and advice for packing and what to expect to encounter on the trip whether it be diversity or climate change. Everyone is already gearing up for this exciting learning experience!

Periodic Table Project

Lindsay Wilson
Mrs. Hartney
LA 7A
21 April 2014

For the next month, my science class has been assigned to work on our Periodic Table projects. It is always a big project for the 7th grade at the end of the year, and I'm really excited about it. This is an individual project that involves hard work and lots of creativity. Our requirements are that we have to be creative, the project HAS to include the full periodic table, our solids, liquids, and gasses have to be labeled, our groups and columns labeled, and our mellatoids, metals, and nonmetals labeled. It has to be neat and we have to spend time on it to make it look good. We can put the periodic table on anything we want but it just has to be creative. For my project, I was thinking of painting the periodic table on a canvas and painting it in different colors. We also have to include all the information on each element in our project. We have to include the name of the element, the symbol, the atomic number, and the atomic mass. Even though this project takes a lot of work, I am ready to get started and I'm excited to see how it turns out when I'm finished!

Haiden Burrichter

Mrs. Hartney

LA 7A

April 17, 2014

Flame Test Lab

This month in Science we have been doing many labs. My favorite lab that we did this month was the flame test lab. What we did was we took a paperclip and we put a certain chemical on it that got rid of the bacteria or anything that was left on it from something else. After we put the certain type of chemical on it we turned on our Bunsen burner and lit it. We stuck the paperclip in the Bunsen burner. It turned the flame a bright orange. Once the flame of the Bunsen burner was back to a normal, light blue color we went and got all of our chemicals. We kept them in test tubes. The chemicals that we used were Copper, Sodium chloride, Potassium chloride, Calcium chloride, Lithium chloride, and Strontium chloride. We stuck one of our paperclips into the test tube with the Sodium chloride first. After the paperclip was covered with this chemical we placed it towards the bottom of the flame over the Bunsen burner. The sodium chloride turned the flame bright orange. Next we had to clean the paperclip in between each chemical or else it would affect our results. Once the paperclip was clean, we did the Potassium chloride. It turned the flame purple. Once again, we cleaned our paperclip. Next we did copper. It turned the blue, normal colored flame into a bright green flame that lasted a long time. After we cleaned the paperclip again, we did Calcium chloride. Calcium chloride was the hardest one to figure out. It took my group about four tries until we actually saw the real color. This chemical turned the flame red for about half a second. After we finally figured out the color of that Calcium chloride we did the Lithium chloride. This one was personally my favorite. The flame burst into a hot pink parade. Finally, we got to the last one. It was the Strontium chloride. The flame became a peach color. This lab was hard, but it was also fun. I really enjoyed doing this lab and I think my other classmates enjoyed it too. 

Lauren Golder
Mrs. Hartney
LA 7T
4/9/14
                                                                 Science Self Lab
     In science we did something new. We have to have a group of  2 or 3 and make up our own lab. The rules are it has to be on the section that we are on. It has to be an experiment not a demenstration. The difference between those is a experiment is you are showing the class that you are testing something to see if it is true or not. A demenstration is showing the class something that has to do with the section.
     My partner was Katie Woods. Our project was testing The Charles Law. We had a eperiment and a demonstration. Our experiment was called The Candle Vacum. The materials are a bowl, water, food coloring, silly puddy, 2 birthday candles, a lighter or a match, oil, and a glass cup.
     First you put the candles in the middle of the silly puddy, and stick the silly puddy in the middle of the bowl. Next you pour half a cup of water into the bowl then put 4-6 drops of food coloring in the water. After light both of candles on fire and set the cup over candels and silly puddy. What should happen is all the water should be sucked up into the cup just like a vacum. Our demenstration was putting one bar of ivory soap in the microwave for 1 and a half minutes and the air molocules should expand in the soap and the soap will grow really big.

Toothpick Bridges

Delaney Crandall

Mrs. Hartney

LA 7A

16 April 2014

In Science we just started to begin a new group project. This project is to make a bridge completely out of toothpicks. My partners are Sydney, Lindsey, and Lindsay. We are building a type of truss bridge that is called the Oak Street Bridge.  It is going to be really complicated to build, but I think it will work really well. This is my favorite project we have had this year.

The requirements for this project are not that complicated, but we still have to make sure we follow all of them. Our bridge can only be made out of toothpicks and glue. Another requirement is that our bridge has to be able to have something go across it. One of the hardest requirements is that our bridge has to be able to hold at least 5 pounds of sugar. It is going to take a lot of hard work to build this bridge and to make it sturdy and strong. I can't wait to see if our bridge works!