Agriculture education, important announcements
FFA Career Development Events:
National FFA Week is approaching (February 22-28) and Huron members can be heard on the radio and will be visiting the 8th graders to promote agriculture and FFA.
We have been busy practicing for Career Development Events which begin in March. Around 30 Huron FFA members will be competing in various CDEs in the following areas: Vet Science, Ag Mechanics, Floriculture, Horse Judging, Livestock Judging, Milk Quality, and Ag Business.
Classes
Animal Science: Students will soon be finishing up our Reproduction unit. We are next diving into our Nutrition unit, where learners will explore Monogastric and Ruminant Digestive systems. In the coming weeks, students will analyze feed labels and create rations, gaining practical knowledge in animal nutrition.
Horticulture: Our students have finished up the Floriculture unit where they were able to arrange their own flower bouquet and learn concepts of design. We are now beginning our Landscaping unit, where we will learn how to use an Architect’s scale, draw up plans, and find the benefits of mulch vs rock. The greenhouse fills with more life as spring approaches. Students will soon be starting seeds for our Spring Plant Sale!
Companion Animals: Students are currently learning about Nutrition and Stages of development of cats and dogs. They have gained awareness of pet food labels and how much they should be feeding their pets. Our classroom has gained a few new creatures this year including a Map turtle and 4 Molly fish!
We are so proud of our students’ accomplishments and their enthusiasm for learning. Thank you for encouraging them every step of the way!
Ms Jenc
Agriculture Education and FFA Advisor
Huron High School
Washington 4-5 band
Greetings from the Washington 4-5 Center band room, home of the Tiger Cub Band. Since their debut performance in December, the Tiger Cubs have been very busy learning many new skills before their next public performance in March. This is a very exciting time for budding instrumentalists as they are learning several new notes and expanding their ranges on their instruments.
The clarinetists have begun the arduous task of adding the register key to produce a whole new range of notes. When they have successfully completed this, they will have extended their range into notes that are over an octave higher than before. This skill takes practice and persistence, and we will be working on it through the end of the year. The flutes and saxophones are working on extending their ranges by practicing octave leaps. The brasses are starting lip slurs which will increase their range and flexibility. The percussionists are continuing their study of drumming after spending most of the first semester honing their mallet percussion skills. They have begun the study of the rudiments, which are different sticking patterns that give variety to drumming, and they also will be tackling some of the smaller percussion instruments between now and the concert.
The Tiger Cubs have now played in three different time signatures and two different key signatures and are adding new skills every week. If you know a Tiger Cub, ask them to show you something they can do on their instrument. Your involvement helps our program to grow! We look forward to seeing everyone at our next concert at the Arena on March 30.
Laura Beck
Tiger Cub Band Director
Washington 4-5 Center
Huron Colony
The Huron Colony K-3 classroom began our week by learning about and celebrating the Lunar New Year. Students have enjoyed saying a few simple phrases in Mandarin Chinese, making paper lanterns, and using holiday-specific vocabulary within their writing activities.
For math, kindergarten is developing and practicing strategies for adding and subtracting numbers through 5, as well as composing and decomposing numbers through 10. First grade is working on add-to and put-together situations with equations when either the result or one or two addends are unknown; as well as addition word problems that have three addends with equations. Second grade is measuring, comparing, and estimating length in customary and metric units; examining the relationship among inches, feet, and yards, and between centimeters and meters; and solving word problems involving length. Third grade is partitioning shapes into equal areas and using unit fractions to describe each part; representing fractions by shading figures and on a number line; and expressing whole numbers as fractions and recognizing fractions that are equivalent to whole numbers.
In language arts, students are reading traditional stories to understand the elements of the genre and continuing to build a solid foundation in phonemic awareness, word building, and decodable reading. Kindergarten and first grade are focusing on reading CVC and high frequency words (decodable and irregular), being a confident reader when “stuck,” and building fluency. Soon, the K-1 students will be adding additional diagraph and double ending phonics skills to their learning. The second and third graders are focusing on reading long vowel and multisyllabic words, while also building fluency. Next, they will add ending blends and r-controlled words to their learning.
For social studies, students have been learning about what it means to be an American by identifying national symbols and explaining the importance of people and places in our nation’s history. We are currently discovering facts and events of George Washington’s life leading up to him becoming our first president and following the tale of Betsy Ross and the first American flag.
Sierra Tschetter
Grade K-3 Teacher
Huron Colony
The students in the upper classroom at the Huron Colony are working hard learning how to divide fractions, find the mean/median/mode/range, and solve problems using geometry. Also, we are reading about the history of “The Underground Railroad,” through a Historical Fiction story. Lastly, the students are increasing their knowledge in word parts such as, pro-, com-, and con-.
Rikki Hein
Grade 4-8 Teacher
Huron Colony
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