Coming to an End

I'm a few days late on this post, only because we have been so busy the last few days. But, I will start with two weeks ago. The beginning of my 9th week as an extension intern was spent getting ready for Fun With Agriculture Day. I was in charge of doing a fruit and vegetable ID lesson. I spent a lot of time trying to find some unique fruits and vegetables that the kids might not recognize.

On Wednesday was the Fun with Agriculture Day Camp. Our ag agent showed them around our garden outside, and some of the raised beds we had. The kids got to plant there own lettuce seed and we talked about how seeds grow.

Next was my section. I had a table with all different vegetables laid out, and we had the kids try to see if they could name them. Things like an eggplant and radish kind of threw them but overall they did good. The next part was tasting. We had the kids blindfolded and try different fruits to see how good they were at ID that way. They all did great except a lot of them couldn't identify a mango!

That afternoon we had a vegetable derby. The kids got to make cars out of all different kinds of vegetables and we raced them town a ramp. They weren't the fastest cars, but the kids got really into it. We also made wind turbines, looked at insects, and had a competition of who could make the best paper boat. Overall the day was a success, and we were all exhausted at the end of it.

The end of that week was mostly spent preparing for the next week. We had a 4H project day that I planned all the food for, a LEAP program I was doing at the library, and our last program at the summer camp me and Devin have done at Farley Elementary.

For the LEAP program I choose Rodeo Ron and the Milkshake Cows. We read the book, made milkshakes, and made colored cows. The kids had a blast, and loved shaking up the milkshakes like the cows in the books.

For project day we made crayon art, leaf paintings, duct tape art, wooden picture frames, and God's eyes. We set up stations and the kids rotated through so they got to make each thing. We had our fair this week, so we gave the kids the option to leave there projects here and we would enter them in the fair. The kids are so creative. And all there exhibits did great in the fair.

On Thursday we had our last meeting with the kids at Farley Elementary. We talked about "slow" "go" and "woah" foods, and let them make brownie sundaes since it was the last day. The brownies we made with a cake mix and greek yogurt, and then we let them put raspberries and whipped cream on top. It was a good wrap up to what we've been doing this summer.

To end the week we all headed to Lexington. It's quite a drive from this side of the state, so I wasn't looking forward to that part, but it ended up being a lot of fun! I loved getting to tour the horse farm, and it was good to hear about everyone else's experiences. 

Now we have started this week with our fair. It has been a busy two days, and I'm sure I'll have lots of stories to go with it.