Weekly Blog #1

Whats your normal day in school? Is it just sitting in an uncomfortable desk listening to a teacher talk, and you taking notes? That's not much fun at all. I love the integrated learning academy because I don't sit in a deck for an half hour or longer, and just take notes. In ila we don't take many notes. The teachers give us projects that we need to use our brains for. We need to try to intertwine English, Social Studies, and Science in to one project. We've done projects like, making the design of our room that we now work in. Another project called one to one computing, we're you had to talk about which computing device best suits one to one computing.For these projects the students are usually allowed to pick how they want to set up the project. If they want to use power point on google docks, prezi, or any other presentation device.
Not only do we do projects, but we also have taken field trips. A couple field trips we've taken are going to the apple store to test out their equipment, and going to a sewer treatment plant to see how our water is cleaned. These field trips helped us out for the projects that followed the field trip.
Next year the rumor is that ILA will not be available for Sophomore and will only be available for Freshmen. I'm defiantly sad about this because I think that ILA has helped me see how to connect these subjects into one. I love that I get to work on projects with my friends, and that I get to learn in a way that I want to lean.Tho sometimes we sit in a class room for an extreamly long period of time, that's  school. You just have to deal with it.

weekly blog #13

This week in the Academy, we talked more about our final exam. The teachers talked about that even tho we had a final exam project, their still giving us a short final exam test. In science we did an experiment where we took elements and held them over a flam and observed what color the flam changed. Today in art we'll be working on and probably finishing out water color Wisconsin painting. The painting is supposed to be a landscape picture of a place in Wisconsin. The class is supposed to paint the picture in water colors. In art we also are learning about hoes, and how do darken, and lighten the color with out using black or white.

weekly blog #12

This week in the academy we talked about our final exam project. We had to type up a short paragraph talking about what we're going to research, and how it connects to all the subjects. We also did a activity in science that dealt with the periodic table. The activity gave you a blank periodic table, and you fill in elements from a alian planet. In English we talked about commas, semi colons, and colons. Ms. Miller gave us notes about all of them, then when we thought we got where, and when to use them we took a test on them. In art we're starting to do a water color painting of a Wisconsin picture.