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Week 1-

May 4- We are waiting to get the make project approved from Mr.McCloud. We want to know what materials we need to get the project done. Our goal is to assign the list of materials so we can start to plan. And we plan to send emails to our parents instead of writing what to bring in our planners because then our parents are not aware of what to bring.

May 7- We want to know what the make project will be and if the one that we are thinking of doing is animal testing. Also our goal is to bring materials and pick a date to bring them in. We know that we do have materials like the jars and nets.



May 8- We did get our project approved. We are doing a Table Top Aquarium. Our plan is to bring in jars to put the fish in. We are forgetting to talk to our parents about the budget of $8.08. We want to know if the budget is okay with our parents and if we are going to spilt it equaly of not..

Week 2-

May 11 – We planned to bring in jars but Melissa brought in a cracker container. Our goal is to get another jar and we want to start shopping for fish.The fish we plan to get are goldfish which are only 0.49 cents. We agreed that Thursday Ayah would buy fish and bring them in and that Melissa would bring in the jars to put them in.

May 12- We learned that it is better to use a fish tank because it is more like and aquarium. But Melissa did not agree becuase the fish tank is $8.00. She thinks we should stick to what the make magazine said and use jars. Our goal is to get fish and the fish tank by Friday and with a budget of $24.08 and split it equaly to get $8.02 each.



May 14- Arden is not present today. We have planned to go to Petco tonight to get fish. We hope that Arden can get the snails and we agree that it is best to use the jars instead of a fish tank beacuse of the price. We needed pebbles and need to work on psting better posts. We are buying fish, 3 in the jar with the decomposers, and 2 without the decomposers, get 2 snails, and we will use 2 jars. We just called Arden and she said that she cannot bring in snails go we are bring those in next week.

The snails we are buying May 15- Today we got fish and made the tanks. The tanks have fish, rocks, and and the demposer tank has grass in it.We plan to bring them home over the weekend and feed and care for them. Our goal on monday is to weigh each fish and have a snail in the decompser tank to eat the algea. Arden and Melissa are bringing the fish home over the weekend.



Week 3-

May 18- Over the weekend, one of the fish died because of the small room they had in Melissa's tanks. Tommorrow we plan on having at least 3 of the 4 fish weighed and back in the bigger tank. We learned that fish will die if there is not alot of room for them to swim in. Our other goal for tommorow is to begin our book of their weight and change between each fish and fish tank.



May 19- Another fish has died. We plan to have all if our posts done and to finish finding the wieght of the fish. Our goal is to get the weekly reflection done and post it to the wiki. Today our team is having trouble and a fish died. We hope that no other fish die and we have changed our expriement from no decomposer and decomposers to clean tank cleaned by decomposers and one that we clean every 2 days. This will help the fish live longer. We think the fish died because of the food but ayah thinks it died becuase we do not clean the water.



May 21- Today is not going so well, Arden, Melissa, and I are all fighting. Melissa does not want to clean the fish tank. Arden wants to do whats best for the fish. And I want to clean the tank. We have to decide what we are going to do with the fish tank and I am doing research to see what the best thing to do is.

May 22- Today when we came into the classroom, there was a dead fish in a cup outside of the tank where the other live fish was. we have no idea how it got there and who put it there. our plan is to research data on how to make the 1 fish live longer to make it last a full 26 class time hours. if it does not make it that long, we will have to find another make project.



May 26- Today the last fish of our make project died. But our make project is not done, we will now be starting to make our Fish 101 book. When we called Pet Co. we learned what fish need to live. Today we are calling Pet Smart and asking them the same questions and seeing how and what they say.



May 27- Today we talked to Mr. McCloud, and it did not go so well. Well first, our reflection posts are not how they are sopposed to be. Second, some of our group members do not even know the point of the book we were planning on making. Lastly, this group almost never comes to an agreement. I think this happens because we never comunicate with each other. Maybe twice a week we should have group meeting, and discuss what is on our minds.

May 29- we started a video and a book and we plan to finish it by friday.

June 1- We worked on our video agian and still plan to finish it by friday.

June 2- we are working on our video and we are wondering if the video will be finished by friday. We tried a new video converter and it did not work. media type="file" key="test.flv"

 June 3- AYAH'S BIRTHDAY!!!

June 4- ARDEN'S BIRTHDAY!!! Today we finished video tapeing our video.

June 5- today melissa is finishing up our video and arden is fixing the proposal and documenting, but ayah is taking the pictures. we got to class at 2:50 so we did not have much time.