Week 11.. I think winter has finally broke!

Monday

AnSc

Today's lesson was on the spread of disease and the PED pig virus.  This was an activity I found in a lab aid kit that Jessie shared.  The activity required special test solutions and test tubes however I was able to modify the activity to utilize the supplies available.  I used florescent power and splenda in the cups then I black light to test the cups.  The kids loved the activity and were really shocked about how easily one person could infect so many.  They also were very intrigued by the detective hunt to decide who the culprit was!

Buildings

Today the students finished cleaning up the room and installed the trim work.  The room came out great and the student are really proud of what they accomplished.

Welding

The students are continuing the make progress on their test plates and we are hoping that they will be complete by the end of next week.

Tuesday

*Today I had a job interview so the students were either working on their projects or helping get the shop ready for sausage production tomorrow

Wednesday

All classes were making sausage, the students were instructed on safety and procedures and then put to work.  We processed about 3,000 lbs and pork into sausage the net income from the fundraiser is around $7500.

Thursday

All classes worked to clean and reorganize the shop.

Friday

Animal Science

Worked on stuff for the showmanship clinic; they made posters, fliers, thank you's, schedules, sign-in sheets.  The group worked extremely well and the clinic was flat awesome on Saturday!!  We had 85 registered attendee's, there were ten presenters that worked with the Mohawk students to deliver a wonderful clinic.  I have heard nothing but good things from everyone that was there!

Buildings/Welding

Both classes worked to get the shop back in working order and to put the ham's into the curing solution so that they could be smoked on Monday.


*It was a completely crazy week!  What would I change?  Well for starters, if it had been my program I would have never scheduled both the sausage fundraiser and the clinic in the same week.  However, time is always at a premium and making things work/happen is part of the job!  The sausage fundraiser is vital to the program however, by the time it was done there was almost an entire week of instruction lost to it.  I felt like there had to be a better way to get things rapped up and the students back to work sooner.