Week 20

They're all the rage!

This week we are still working on counting money, writing stories, and garden work. The garden work consists of woodworking skills and clean up skills.

Garden Renovations:

Waterproofing the Planter Boxes

Propagating Seeds

We are also taking our seed- growing to the next level. We were able to get the cucumber seeds to sprout, and now we have moved them into their own 4" pots.

Last Thursday:


This Tuesday:




We put clear plastic cups over the tops of the seedlings to act as greenhouses.




We moved 9 out of 16 seedlings to the 4" Planters.
On Thursday, we put new soil in the miniature greenhouse and planted one red bell pepper seed in each cell.


I soldered a couple of wires together to improve our Arduino data collection, and here are some pictures from that hack.

The operation:

Computer view of the operation:


Closer view of Arduino with the sensor wire hack:


Sensor wire hack with the greenhouse cup removed.


Sensor wire hack being held by a helpful baseball player.


Later, when we transplant the cucumbers, we can look to this guy for some advice!

Woodworking Skilllllzzzzzz

Extension Cord Times last Thursday


Setup and Extension Cord times Tuesday:

Plant Operations

Can we save these neglected strawberry plants?

Pest Control

Awesome Art Show

Here are some pictures from the Art Show, it was very interesting and impressive!

We are also getting closer to the end of school and it's time to start cleaning up!
Check out some of these ideas from Pinterest...

Week 19

This week we will be working on assessing some basic tasks and skills that are performed in the garden.

• Rolling an extension cord Period 6 and Period 7

Here is our official standing and footage of our first competition!

• Safely setting up, measuring, and cutting a piece of wood

• Drilling a pilot hole and putting in a screw

Check out the video that Jacob found!

Cucumbers are growing! Well, at least the seeds are starting to sprout! Check out these pictures!
Thursday:

We are so excited about the cucumbers! Also, we planted 2 peas into the mini greenhouse so we can see if they will sprout as well.

Also, our mini greenhouse is reaching temperatures of 109 Degrees F! We are measuring it with the Arduino Temperature Circuit, Valentino put this one together!

We also want to be finished with our final planter box!