Today I became the student for awhile while one of my students taught! This was so much fun and so rewarding for the class. Patrick, a JK student in the room, taught us about harvesting and packing corn. So here is the truth, I know nothing about farming! Yup truth be told! So Patrick started explaining to us why he was away yesterday and he told us about packing corn. But since I don't even know how the corn gets off the field we had to start at the beginning of the harvest. (not even sure that is really correct so bear with me!)
So we found a great video on you tube that should how farmers harvet corn...so take a look...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tu_bFde6Ww
Then when we watched a video about packing so I could understand a little more...here is what Patrick says packing is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmSo0gDARjU&safe=active
This is not exactly how they do it on their farm but he said it was close enough! lol
So I think I am getting a better idea of harvesting, and packing corn...what I still have a few questions. So we are going to try to answer my questions.
This is something that is going to be a focus at school: How to ask a question that we want answered. Amazingly, making a question up is something that is very difficult and a concept that is very difficult for children. We always think that kids ask a lot of questions, but if you just ask them to ask a question say about geckos, you will be surprised to know they will likely give you a statement. So that is one of our goals, work on asking questions around science and technology.
