It really pays to keep your records very carefully.

In our workplace simulation, we have to track (keep) a lot of data (numbers about things.)

• We have to keep our checkbook balanced.
• We have to track our attendance.
• We collect data for feedback on performance, too.

We will have to do these kinds of things when we are done with school. So, we are learning life lessons.

Last week, Robert decided to carefully re-calculate his attendance. He was able to provide evidence (proof) that he met the Pony Race goal of 90% attendance. Taƞyan ecaƞnuƞ!

This week Robert received his First Quarter winner certificate.

On Tuesday, all the Pony Race winners for First Quarter will get a prize, too!

Attending school for at least 90% of instructional days makes it possible to learn. (Less than 90%, you are at risk of struggling because you are missing out on instruction.) At work, if you are absent too much, you will get fired!

Congratulations to all who earned their Śuƞginyaƞgkiyapi (Pony Race) prizes! Being on-time, on-task and on-target is an adult skill!

Śuƞginyaƞgkiyapi !

We have some WINNERS!

We just finished 43 days of class. We finished First Quarter with success!

We had a Pony Race all quarter. We learned how to collect attendance data. We moved our pony by counting the days we are PRESENT. Every five days present, we could move ahead five.

Our goal was to get at least 90% attendance. A lot of us won by crossing the finish line.

90% attendance is the amount you need for learning. If you miss class, you miss the learning. If you are present, you have a chance to learn. 

Jaden was a Śuƞginyaƞgkiyapi Winner

(L to R): Maza, Tate, and Itancan
were Śuƞginyaƞgkiyapi Winners. Robert won, too, but we will post his picture next week.

(L to R) : Glendean, Winter, and Lee
posing as Winners In Disguise.

We used our attendance data for math learning, too. 

Avory adds color to the bar graph.

Winter makes his bar, showing his percent present.

Robert prepares his bar graph bars.

After coloring the bars, we cut them out.

Maza calculated his attendance percent.

Then we glue them in place.

Many of us had better attendance than our class or the high school average. That's one reason why we learn so much in here!

Architecture: A New Opportunity!

Architecture is a mix of art and buildings.

This week we launched a new class about Architecture as Art. It includes a lot of reading, writing, research, and building. It also includes making floor plans, looking at blueprints, and making some drawings of our ideas.

We will build our project using a CAD (Computer Aided Design) program used by some architects to create three-dimensional buildings. It is called "Minecraft."

Yes, it is the same Minecraft many computer gamers enjoy! But, we are using it as a tool for learning about architecture and design.

Here is some of what we are going to be learning about. Click on the picture and you can see our Webmix of topics so far.

Collaborative Writing

"Collaborate" means work together, as a team.

Today we learned how to "embellish" (make it fancy) our base sentences.

Here was the original story, with base sentences:

A woman ran on a road. She ran between big buildings. A man on a horse came up to her. He saved her life.

Compare it with the embellished version we created by working together on a Google Doc:

A young, elegant, beautiful woman sprinted on a long, gravel road in the park. She quickly jogged between two huge modern apartment buildings that were built five years ago. A young man on an elegant horse approached her. The young man saved the woman's life by keeping her from falling into the traffic.