Weekly Three Questions

What tasks have you completed recently?

Well, lets see.... I ate some pie today. (today is in fact pi day. 3/14... 3.14 get it haha).  I cleaned my room. That was definitely fun.  Oh freshmen class planned out this cool movie night fundraiser that we plan to do in April. I've actually been keeping up with all of the work in Anatomy I am pacing myself a lot better than the last two systems.

What have you learned recently?

Not a gosh darned thing. Just kidding, I go to school.... like everyday. In English, I learned some vocabulary.  That class is so easy. (don't tell Mr. Hoogenboom though I don't need anymore work than I already have) In Algebra 2 we reviewed alllllllllllll weeeeeeeekkk for the NM SBA which I don't have to take but its good practice, I guess. For some reason in tennis, I just seem to have gotten better this week.  My serves and returns are better so are my volleys and I've been doing better in the game Butts. I know what your thinking, "Whats Butts?" you ask? Well, glad you asked, its an awful tennis game where you have to lightly hit the tennis ball in a certain area and if you miss you get strikes. 3 strikes and your out and you have to go to the service line and get into a position where your butt is facing everyone (your like lying down almost in a fetal like position but your face is towards the ground) and they are on the opposite side of the net and they get to serve as hard as they want at your butt. Its fun  when you are serving... but when you aren't it sucks, so bad.  Oh and if you are serving and you end up hitting the person with the ball you get to serve again. It can go on forever. Wow I strayed off topic there.... Oops.

What do you plan on doing next?

Well since the girls basketball team is in the state championship tomorrow I am leaving with pep band to go play and support the team. So I'll be in Abq for the majority of the day. I still haven't gotten my racket re strung. I'm going to take my muscle coloring plates on the bus so I can hopefully finish them. But my interest level drops so much when I could be doing other things so I'll probably end up not doing them Saturday and just doing them Sunday afternoon instead. Or I could play tennis on Sunday and do coloring plates during testing week since I have no morning classes next week.  Or my dog could eat the coloring plates. The possibilities are endless. Tune in next week for a critical update on the show "What did Jacob ever do with his coloring plates?" this is Bob Barker signing off, see you next week!

6.1 String Muscles

       Well, after learning a bit about the muscle system today, I just wanted to get some facts straight. Joints are in our body for the purpose of movement. In a series of pivots, levers, and hinges, these allow articulating bones to move with each other.  Joints all play specific roles in movement. Lets take your elbow joint for example. Go ahead try using it, bend your arm or something. Now, you see how the elbow moves? Well the specific joint is called a hinge joint. It permits flexion and extension. Does your forearm also move left and right? No it doesn't. You can see that the form of the joint (hinge) directly ties into its function. Now if we shift over to the idea of muscles and muscle movement, you might be wondering how these bones move. The answer is muscles. These muscles are attached to the bone in certain places allowing the body (and bones) in their needed ways. Your tibia for example has certain muscles that allow for movement.  You'll notice that your tibia moves at your knee joint. Well the reason for this is that the muscle is attached to your tibia and the joint above your tibia. The point of attachment of your muscles plays a large role in the movement of your body. Also your body has designated muscles for different kinds of movement. You have a muscle for when you flex your arm and a different one when you extend it.    
                         

Integument and Skeleton go Hand in Hand

Within the body, all of the body systems have homeostatic relations with each other in order to keep the organism alive. After studying two systems, the Integumentary System, and the Skeletal System both go hand in hand with each other.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/bidloo_home.html

The Skeletal system provides many functions along with the integumentary system. It provides support for body organs such as skin. Skin also synthesizes vitamin D bones need for normal Calcium absorption and deposit of bone salts which make bones strong and hard.

http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/d4/areas/physicsbasedmodeling/

Our skeletal and integumentary systems also play a large role in protection in our body. The skin protects from our outside environment from things like disease, infection, heat, and other factors. Our whole Axial Skeleton is there for the purpose of protection. The vertebrae protects the spinal cord. The thoracic cage protects the upper body and its' organs. The Skull protects the brain. Without these systems human life wouldn't be possible. What would we do without our skeleton you ask? See for yourself!

http://sciencewithme.com/learn-about-dem-bones/

Weekly Three Questions

What tasks have you completed recently?

First off sorry for doing this on Saturday. I spent last night practicing for Solo and Ensemble today. Anywho, I just got done with Solo and Ensemble like 10 mins ago. I played a solo and I played in a brass choir piece. I ended up getting a 2+ on my solo. I'm not particularly happy about that my goal was a one. But oh well, I'll live (maybe). We got a 1 on our brass choir which is the best score you can get (besides a 1+ (duh)).  Another task I recently have completed was failing a math test. I missed like 4 days of school and we had an exam over chapter 5 in algebra 2 and i'm 90% sure i got a C or lower. Heck, i don't even know what percent sure i am. I cant solve a polynomial, what makes me think I can pull a probability out of my head. Jeez.

What have you learned recently?

Well i learned i should stop missing school. (even though i have no control over the fact that i do but still...) and i also learned some new rhythms in band while practicing my solo this week. I also played the Whack-a-Bone Arcade and it actually helped me memorize the bones and their locations in the body. I also learned that neck ties can choke you. (not a long story but i'll tell you if you remind me to)

What do you plan on doing next?

Well today since I'm done with Solo and Ensemble i'm using the rest of the day to play catch up on all of my classes. Then at 6 i will be going to the basketball game to play in pep band for the 2nd half of the boys game and all of the girls game. That should be fun. I still need to get my racket re-strung. (thats like the 5th time i've said this on here). But maybe i'll just go play tennis tomorrow and practice for band. Tomorrow is the first break from anything im getting for like 2 weeks and i am going to enjoy every minute of it....... Studying for the skeletal system test -_- *sigh* oh well.

The Integumentary System

http://www.uchospitals.edu/online-library/content=CDR258035

        Ahhh skin, what would we do without it? The truth is, we wouldn't survive without our skin.  Our skin is what makes up our integumentary system. The integumentary system does many things for the good of our body. It protects the body's internal living tissues and organs, protects against invasion by infectious organisms, retains water to prevent dehydration, protects the body against temperature change, helps dispose of waste materials, is a receptor for touch, pressure, pain, heat, and coldness, and it stores water and fat. All of these functions are vital for us to survive and maintain homeostasis within the body.

       One thing you might notice about your skin that is different than other organs (yes it is an organ) is its elasticity and its ability to stretch constantly. This is important so we can maintain a barrier between our body and the outside world and still be able to move our joints and flex our muscles without the skin breaking. The skins rich network of elastic and collagen fibers is what makes it so flexible. 

       The skin is not very thick. you may know this from when you get a cut. You obviously don't have to cut very deep to see the blood from the capillaries below start to come to the surface. But the skin being thin has its advantages.  The skin is perfect for things like absorption and secretion. You may notice that sweat and oils are secreted from the skin. You might also see that your skin absorbs things.  If some medicines are applied topically on the skin, it can be absorbed into the blood stream. However keep in mind that the skin is selectively permeable. Keratin keeps water from being absorbed through direct contact. So basically if you go swimming keratin is the reason your cells don't explode. 

http://www.redefiningthefaceofbeauty.com/2013/04/are-you-suffering-from-extreme-sweating.html

       Your skin can do extraordinary things. One thing it does for us is help maintain a good homeostatic balance in our bodies.  When your body gets hot, you sweat. When your skin gets cold it sends messages to the hypothalamus to tell the body to shiver or trigger constriction.  Our skin is also a great way to contact our outside environment by using nerve receptors in the skin to sense pressure, pain, and heat. These things also help us voluntarily react to the environment around us.  The integument system is truly amazing in the way it works in our body to complete several tasks.

Three Weekly Questions

What tasks have you completed recently?

Well, that raffle didn't do so hot this week. We made like 30 bucks. I actually just got back home from a tennis tournament in El Paso. Didn't do as well as I wanted to, BUT the tennis tournament continues tomorrow so I have two more matches to play. Hopefully I'll do better. Oh! Also on Monday, I made a little speech to the 8th graders on 8th grade open house night about how Mayfield is awesome and why wouldn't you want to be a Trojan and such.  Some people found it quite amusing.  I got my solo for solo and Ensemble. So I'll be working on that piece of music for the next two weeks. Then in Symphony I got on the first "Tromba" part. Apparently "tromba" is the old word for trumpet. I think its Italian or something. I don't know, I only speak English jeesh. It has lots of fun solo's though.

What have you learned recently?

Well. I think this week has been blahhadfhasldkjfadfzzahsf. You know what I mean right? Like I learned stuff but I don't remember most of it. Well I can't say that, it's just the stuff this week isn't as significant as other weeks. Maybe..... I think I learned how to solve polynomial equations in Algebra 2. Woops. I forgot I had math homework. I should probably try not to forget that. Uhhh, other than that it's just the integumentary system that I took notes on and stuff. In English we learned some new vocabulary and got some homework.  So yeah.

What are you planning on doing next?

Well I plan to do better in the tennis tournament tomorrow than I did today. I also plan to get my racket re-strung this weekend. Um we plan to make our next raffle thing more fun and integrative for the people so we have more people enter than this time.  I finally figured out what this years prom theme is gonna be after like 50 people asking me. Its gonna be The Great Gatsby themed. Uh next, I plan to sleep a lot its a 3 day weekend. And I plan to finish our mesa board and car for competition on the 26th. That will be fun.

Three Weekly Questions

What tasks have you completed recently?
Let's see, tasks.... Oh! I have one. So being the president of freshmen class it is my responsibility to organize things and make meetings and a bunch of other junk. Anyways, I had a great fundraiser idea and we decided to go through with it. We are selling raffle tickets for a valentines day date night. The tickets are $1 and you have a chance to win a $25 gift card to Buffalo Wild Wings and two movie passes. The best part is the gift card and movie passes were donated so everything we earn is profit.  So we made posters and planned out who will work the table at lunch and before school. We also made arrangements to get it advertised on the power-point on all of the TV's at Mayfield. So it was a pretty big step forward for freshmen class and this is the first year the freshmen class has actually done something. Cool beans right?

What have you learned recently?
Well, I think the biggest thing I learned this week was how to serve the ball for more power.  I learned how to serve the ball in a totally different way that puts the ball more under my control and it is much easier to hit harder. I think this has made me an overall better tennis player.

What are you planning on doing next?
I would love to ace the chapter 4 test in anatomy. That'd be fantastic. I've really been stressing out about the amount of homework I've had in all of my classes. So I plan to get it all turned in on time even if it means staying up really late doing nothing but homework. Gotta keep that 4.0 going strong.  I also plan to do my best for my audition for a solo in our jazz festival piece. I hope that goes well. Also I plan (and hope) to make it to the end of the week without drowning in school. Intense right?