Friday, the End of Our Rural Experience.

I spent Friday morning (most of it, anyway) with Mrs. Stumpf, the 4th Grade teacher at Caliche Elementary. The kids had a spelling test, followed by a short story analysis. I got to administer the test, 16 spelling words. Then, I read the short story and lead the discussion regarding the setting, characters, actions, etc. of the story. It was alot of fun. I enjoy the elementary kids, they all seem very grateful for our presence. The picture was taken by Mrs. Stumpf of me with the kids.

After lunch, I went to Mrs. Duncan's Web Design class and gave my "Logos" presentation. This is the second time that I have given the lesson at Caliche. This time, the class was much smaller, as a number of the kids were out for the football or volleyball away games. The lesson went well, but I changed up the activity at the end of the lesson abit. Instead of having groups work on a logo for a fictional company, I tried individual logos, using the kids names or initials and their career interests. It did not work nearly as well as the group activity. I had fun though, and the kids were attentive and interested.

I then had Mrs. Lambrecht's Accounting class. She is the Volleyball coach, so she was out for the afternoon and she asked me to run her class for her. The kids were working on some ledger worksheets. They grumbled and began to open their books and start work on their sheets. I made them an offer. If they would promise to work on their worksheets, I would let them move the class outside. "Outside where?" someone said. "Outside, where there's trees and sunshine!" They were so excited. They all went out and sat on the lawn in the front of the school and worked pretty hard getting their work done. I took the picture to demonstrate that you could, actually, do Accounting outside.

7th period, I met with Mrs. Lambrecht's Computer Skills class. They were mostly working on Keyboarding. Mrs. Duncan and her Tech Prep class came over, as most of the kids were gone. I talked some with Mrs. Duncan regarding Internet Safety, Business Education and Lesson Planning. She is a very nice person and a great teacher.

At 3:15 p.m., everyone ran for our war room in the library, anxious to get our stuff and get on the road back home. We have loved our time at Caliche and the kids, families and teachers have all been wonderful. However, 5 days away from your family is a long time, and I was anxious to get home. I piled into Terry's van with Robert, Sara and Keith and we hit the road. I was home at almost exactly 6:00 p.m.

(The picture shows Terry, aka. Dr. Terry Deniston, the Director of Project Promise. As followers of my blog know, she is one of my very favorite people and works her butt off for PP16.)

Our Rural Experience was over!

Wow!