Week EIGHT & I'm a Little Late!

Well, week 8 is now complete! Sorry for the late post everyone! After school, I went with Renee to her new house and helped her paint and do some electrical work, which was really helpful before I go and teach electricity to my students!

Anyways, week 8 was filled with some great things! This week, Courtney Cowden came and presented to our students and got some of them Beef Quality Assured, which is great for this area because there are so many beef farms out this way! One other super awesome thing that happened this week, was that I started to begin my soil science unit with my greenhouse class. It was awesome to see how much they knew, and then we began talking about soil horizons. We then finished our week off with some soil horizon pudding, which the students seemed to really enjoy.

This week, my biggest struggle was having consistency and control over my intro to agriculture classes. I have 3 intro to ag classes, one first thing in the morning, one mid morning, and then one at the very last period of the day. My students are extremely academic, and some classes are stronger in skills then others. My biggest problem was wrapping up the presentations of all classes. I had some students and classes finish a day early, while I had others go right up until Friday. It is VERY difficult to have consistency in these classes, especially when they can be different times of the day and different class sizes. For example, my largest class is my last one of the day also has the most boys in it. This can be a challenge for when that "School is almost over for the day" excitement comes through. I am struggling with channeling all of that great energy into projects and so forth. I know with practice I will get better, and I felt like this Friday was better than Monday, but that is one thing I really worked on for this week.

Looking Ahead!
Intro to Ag: Plant Science - Anatomy, What do plants need, greenhouse prep
Greenhouse: Soil Unit - Soil Horizons, Soil triangle, soil erosion.
Animal Science: Goats & Sheep then Digestive systems!!
Floral Design: Community Based Unit of Instruction. Garden Planning!
Intro to Construction/Advanced Construction: Observation of Masonry