On Tuesday, I worked on my cam, since I wasn’t finished, and did the stick and ovals part of the cam, where you had to put a stick through the the 2 holes on the side of the cam. Once I did that, there were 2 small circles that I had to attach onto the stick, and once they were glued on, I put the big circle on, which makes it easier to use. Wednesday I worked on my cam, and finished the last parts. On thurday I started my crank. I manged to cut 2 pages out on thursday before class ended. On Friday, we had a sub, so we just watched a information movie on automatas.

On monday and tuesday we watched a nearpod on wheels and axles.  On Wednesday we worked on our cams. I started to work on the box part of the cam. I finished the box part. What you had to do was glue certain parts of the paper together in order to make it a box. You had to put a tiny dollop of glue on a paper towel, and use a toothpick to apply the glue.  On Friday, since I lost my cam, I had to redo my cam. I did the same steps as before, as I was about to move on to the next step I realized that I had cam A, not cam B. I just contiuned and did the stick part that goes up and down, once you have made the entire cam. Class ended before I could start the next step.

The first day we did a survey and a wrote what we wanted to be called. We also discussed inventions, that we thought we couldn’t live without. The second day we discussed simple machines, and touched the subject of levers a bit. The third we discussed about levers. We talked about how to identify what class of lever a lever is, using FLE  123. What ever is in the middle is a certain class lever. On the fourth day, Thursday, we started to work on a paper cam. We learned how to use a slice cutter and cut out papers that would service as our automata. The slice blade like a knife, except the blade was very small. You had to hold it like a pencil, and couldn’t let your arm/hand touch the table. We practiced using the slice cutter on empty parts of the paper. After we were all comfortable with using the slice cutter, we started to cut out the first worksheet. We didn’t cut out the circles since we were going to go over that on Friday. Since I finished my paper cutting before class ended, I started to cut the second worksheet. I had finished by the end of class. On the last day we discussed how to cut the circles and most kids started to work on the second worksheet. But since I finished the worksheet the day before, I started folding the dotted lines on the papers, and soon after class was done.