Jon goes on sort of podcasting binges, and I think we’re in one now.
It’s the first day back since the break.
So we had our class, intro to neuroscience, this morning.
We also had a presentation on student voting.
Jon asked questions in both bits. Good ones too. He recounted his experience voting without ID (you can do it).
Oh yeah, Canada won the four nations.
Jon returns!
It’s the break week.
Jon’s been going to the gym a lot.
Indeed, he went today.
He’s been playing video games, surprisingly…
Jon did very well on his neuroscience test.
Oh, as you can see, we did this one on Zoom, even though we are both home…
On the way to curling practice selfie
So Jon has decided to join the school's curling team. So yesterday he had his first practice. This seemed excellent fodder for a Jonathan Files report.
We also talked about some other stuff on the way to his school bus stop this morning. Jon seems to be enjoying high school and he has met a lot of new people.
His most recent movie idea is a religious epic!
Jon and I were going to go for a bike ride, but the back tire on the tandem is flat, so we went for a walk instead.
Today we talked about Jon's week at school, about the upcoming federal election and of course about Jon's movie ideas.
Jon spent the day at his high school for next year today. He went to a biology class, a cooking class and a construction class. I think it was much more interesting to me than it was to him, as you will no doubt hear....
So Jon had a big day today, it was science fair day at his school.
All of the grade 8 kids presented their experiments/demonstrations, and Jon's was on Salt Flats. He made his own salt flats out of salt and dirt and baking soda. He did some really nice observations in his microscope of the salt flats as well.
He doesn't seem to care much, but says he got an A, which is pretty damned fine as far as I am concerned.
We then talked about some of the other projects, including one that was basically a 2 x 3 factorial design. I think the kid should have used a factorial ANOVA to analyze his data, which illustrates why I am not an elementary school teacher.
Jon then regaled us with some of his movie ideas.
Way to go son, I am very proud of you.
Our first walkinghomecast in a while.
You may have heard on Broken Area that we went to Sudbury for Jon's birthday. Well, this messed with his, and everyone else's, sleep. So, Jon was a bit tired on Monday. They watched a film about drunk driving and Jon slept. A wise move I say.
Jon's class has been reading the classic SE Hinton book, 'The Outsiders'. Recently they watched the movie as well. Jon liked the movie but believes he has a great remake idea, his casting ideas are brilliant, if eccentric.
Finally, Jon graduates from elementary school this year, and we got his pictures!
Enjoy.
So, Jon is well into the school year, and we talked a bout a lot of stuff, including what he is doing in math.
Jon starts grade 7 today, seemed a fine day to record, to talk about school and, of course, MLP...
We also talked a bit about elevators, Jon has released his first video on that subject.
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