Week 9

Good Afternoon,

Monday- On Monday we started working on A-Day planning in leadership. The students had good ideas and it was helpful to discuss with Alumni members over the weekend to clarify information before the class discussion. I think breaking the students up into committees seems to be a good way to handle this class to productively accomplish tasks. In Animal Science I retaught the pearson square because it had been so long since we started covering that material. Students seemed to recall most information but needed to be refreshed about a few things. I mixed things up by having students demo the problems on the board to check answers. I would like to try in the future to have one student write and another student tell the other student what needs to happen. In landscape we learned about materials used in floriculture and watched a video about the processes of cutting and mailing flowers from producers. This worked out well to inform students of the process as they were surprised about what they learned. I struggled with this class today and I think mixing things up more will help. In SAE I explained an SAE implementation project that I wanted the students to create to leave for members in the future. They seem fairly excited about it and I think it will work well.

Tuesday- In leadership I presented a powerpoint on how to properly write a thank you note. I was surprised by the inability of students to properly write one and was thankful I had examples on the slide show to leave up. Students wrote notes of thanks to supporters and resent events that we attended. In Animal Science students actually got to implement their own feed ration! It was awesome, they did the math via the pearson square and then made the calculations to determine how much ingredients were needed to make chex mix. The students loved it and it was a good lesson, much needed as the CASE unit was getting dry. In landscape students took a materials quiz on floriculture, it was pretty simple but to correctly answer a few questions they needed to be listening and taking notes. Once done we started to make boutineers. I kept the students hustling as they needed to make 2 paper flowers before we could actually make the boutineer. SAE continued working on their projects.

Wednesday- Leadership continued working on thank you notes as each student had an assigned list to write to. All students finished their notes and signed the others. I should have had something small for them to do at the end. In Animal Science we started solving problems in order to be able to enter information into a real system to calculate feed rations. Students did fairly well to determine the answers and work through things with just guiding support. In landscaping we learned about how value is given to materials and how things are priced. The 7th period class didn't get through the entire boutineer but it didn't take them long to make. In SAE students worked on projects and submitted work.

Thursday-
In leadership students learned about what was in and how to write a press release. The remainder of the period was spent brainstorming and coming up with information to include in their press releases for upcoming events. In animal science students continued work on 5.5.4 but it is taking them longer then I planned so they will need to finish tomorrow. I took the landscaping class outside to check out the area that we will be working on, as a class we brainstormed ideas and parameters to consider. Students will be developing their ideas into a design to propose to the maintenance department for approval. In SAE students worked on organizing old scrapbooks for the 60th banquet and memorizing speeches.

Friday-
Co-hort meeting, sub plans to finish Thursdays' assignments.


Plan for Week 8

Monday- Leadership- Photography in Communications

                Animal Science- 5.5.5

                Landscape- Landscape designs

                SAE- speeches & banquet

Tuesday- Leadership- Photography assignments

                 Animal Science- 5.5.5

                 Landscape- Tissue paper Round Arrangements

               SAE- speeches & banquet


Wednesday- Leadership- Photography assignments

                      Animal Science- Wrap Up to unit 5; Ice Making

                     Landscape- Round Arrangements

                    SAE- Hunger Banquet Planning/ Speeches/ Banquet


Thursday-  Leadership- A-Day Planning

                   Animal Science- 6.1.1

                  Landscape- Round Arrangements

                   SAE- SAE Implementation


Friday-
            Leadership- Current Event

           Animal Science- Animal By-Products

           Landscape- Current Event

            SAE- All Students at CDE Day