Student Teaching: Week 7 Reflection

This week was crazy and was over before I even knew it.  This past week was National FFA Week and we had lots of activities planned that I was excited to see!  However, I was unable to be a part of two of the days this week as I had to take my first sick days.  I knew that while I was ill in bed there were fun things happening at school but thankfully I was able to get better and be a part of the big events at the end of the week.

Schedule of events from FFA Week!!

On Thursday, the Officers and a few of the Ag Leadership students came in early to prepare a breakfast for the school staff!  This was a token of appreciation and gratitude from the students to the teachers for supporting the FFA chapter and the members.  We also had an emblem scavenger hunt throughout the day.  We hid 15 FFA emblems around the school and as students found them, they could bring the emblem to the Ag shop to receive a prize. 

Thursday night was also school open house, where students and parents could come to the Ag shop to talk about what we are doing in class and student success.  In conjunction with open house, the interviews for the new officer team were held.  There was a great turnout of members who decided that they wanted to serve their chapter as a leader for the upcoming year.  It was really interesting to see how Selinsgrove does their officer interviews and be able to compare and contrast it with what I had gone through as a student at my home chapter, Captain Jack FFA.

State FFA Sentinel, Justin Kurtz came to be a part 

of our pep rally along with State FFA President, Nate Moyer.  

They helped to demo the relay race! 

 Friday was the exciting end to the school week and there was much anxiousness in the air.  Friday afternoon was the FFA Pep Rally in the gym and we had to get everything set up and ready to go.  During the pep rally, there was a relay race where one team of students competed against a team of teachers.  The race had 5 stations that each of the three teammates had to complete.  They started with apply bobbing, then a stick horse race, followed by the needle in a haystack search (we used a SUN area degree pin instead of a needle), watermelon eating and finally the tire roll.  The rest of the student body really enjoyed seeing their peers and teachers hustle to complete each task and in the end the student team won by just seconds! 

While all of this was going on, in the middle of the gym floor there was a tarp with a rabbit perched upon it.  All week the officers were selling bingo square spots for $1.00 each.  Students would pay $1.00 and pick any number they wanted between 1 and 100, this was for the Rabbit Poo Bingo.  We used a tarp and made a giant bingo board and we placed a rabbit in the middle of the board to let him hop around.  The winner would be decided by the rabbit and whichever square he decided to poo on!  Unfortunately, I think the rabbit was too into the relay race as well because he never did poo so we had State FFA President, Nate Moyer close his eyes and toss a SUN Area degree pin onto the board instead. 

Rabbit Poo Bingo!! 

To round out the pep rally, we had teacher karaoke!  All week students were voting on which teachers and students they wanted to see sing karaoke by placing food items in assigned boxes.  All of the food that we were able to raise all week is going to the Meals for Seals program that Selinsgrove has which is the Backpack Lunch program.  The students loved seeing their teachers sing along to popular songs of all genres including the great sing a long song Sweet Caroline!  The pep rally was a huge hit and the FFA officers did a great job of planning everything out!  

Yesterday was the very last day of FFA week and we had FFA members volunteer to sell FFA emblems at Tractor Supply and help shoppers in the store.  On top of everything we had going on for FFA week this week, I also gave my first unit test in Ag Foundations on the Animal Science Unit.  That means that next week we start in on Plant Science!  This unit has a lot of fun labs and activities packed into it so I can't wait to start!  Check back in to see what kinds of adventures we get into this week!!

All of the food that was raised for the Meals for Seals, we were able to 

collect 439 items for the Backpack program!