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34 comments:
As I walked into the teachers lunch room for my daily Coke, one of the women teachers asked me about how my fishing was doing? One of the kids had been filling her in on our activities.
A lady in the building next door told me last night that she saw me taking kids fishing, because one of the kids was carrying a fishing pole. So, it seems like the little things that I have been doing get noticed more, than when a big announcement is made. Actually, it would seem like the teachers and administrators pay more attention to what the kids do and say than they do to me. I like that!
The teachers and administration have really like this so far. They have talked to me about how the kids are talking about it and how fun it is to watch them practice outside and the response they are seeing on the kids faces. Some do give me the "come on line" but I always reply "You just wish you were a PE teacher!" Then we have a laugh about it. They really like it. I just hope taht I can keep expanding it to become a bigger unit. But the time factor always becomes a problem with our schedules. We will have to wait and see. Maybe an after school club? But in a small town like this, can it compete with the sports (volleyball, football, etc)? Thoughts?
The fishing program in our district is very well received. We take around 80 special needs students to the lake each year. Our Special Education Director shows off the fishing video at board and principals meetings. Everyone wants to volunteer to help out on the fishing day. Most important the students, parents, teachers and staff can't wait until the next fishing event.
Hello Everyone!! I hope you all enjoyed the remainder of your summer! The faculty at my school are all jealous that I get to teach fishing and go on field trips to fly-fish. I have had several faculty come up to me and ask if they can join my class or volunteer to go with us on our fishing field trips!!
The teachers and administrators at my school are loving it. Being a very small, rural school in the south, fishing is a part of all our lives. Not only do the children talk it up, the teachers, also, are asking, "What's next!!"
My school is extremely excited about this opportunity. We are not doing our full blown program until the spring here in Michigan, but there are really looking forward to it. I do have one grade fishing next week at their week long nature lesson. We have been working on casting and knot tying this week. Lots of excitement around here!
Steve
On the first day of school, my students asked "When are the salmon eggs coming and where is the tank?" I had it covered until it was time to open it for the eggs. Over the weekend, I got the tank up and running. This morning, the hallway was buzzing with...The tank is going, the tank is going. Eveyone is excited.
We had our boating outing today with our 7th graders and they absolutely loved it! It was very successful and we look forward to bringing more of our students out in the spring. Tomorrow we are bringing the 4th graders fishing...wish us luck!!!
The faculty and staff at our school are very supportive! We took the 7th grade out today and are looking forward to more success with 4th graders tomorrow!
Currently there are 5 teachers and 15 adult instructional assistants collaborating in our Adapted physhed kayaking program. Although fishing was not part of our grant emphasis, other teachers and I included fishing in our unit (an added extra). We have since had two trips, one of them which involved pier fishing from a local beach. students have had a blast both fishing and kayaking. Students keep asking about our next trip!
The word has gotten out and other teacher are eagerly wanting to get into the fun action. The principal keeps asking when we will go out again so he can attend.
Teachers and administration are very supportive in Tomah. We have had a great angling curriculum going the past 6 years in Tomah but now are expanding to add canoeing and kayaking. This Wednesday we culminate our biking and canoeing classes with a duathlon. Students form teams of 4- 2 bike and 2 canoe and then they switch. It is a great last day. We start Angling on Mon.10/6/08 with a rules and regulations presentation by our local DNR conservation warden. He brings tons of freebees in for the students and they each receive a rules book that they can use on their written celebration of knowledge at the end of the unit. We are going to try and do some of our fishing from the canoes this fall and we end with our annual fish fry.
My faculty is very supportive of my program. I plan on having my students learn the life cycles of insects in rivers. The will do some fly tying and fly casting to supplement the material. I am looking forward to the salmon program I will be starting in November. Oh science and fishing are related I tell you, just got to get some of the physics teachers to change their minds. Perhaps a lab measuring the tension of certain fishing lines? Too funny...
I stopped by and talked to my Principal about the conversation I had on the phone with Andy, at Resistance tackle.com. I wanted to set up a small group of students to go carp fishing after school. While I was dreaming out loud, Andy was making out an order for us. By the time were done he was preparing to ship my order, and it fit my budget. Anyway, my excitement must have spread to the principal, who wants to join us on a field trip. He will dust off equipment he has stored in his basement. It looks like another educator as caught the fishing bug!
Our school is strongly supported by our administration and teachers. After our fourth grade fishing field trip last year, a teacher shared with me that she asked third graders what they were looking forward to in fourth grade. They replied "fishing". Our administrators will represent us at an area conference in Corpus Christi, Texas later this month. Fishing brings a new level of excitment to ur school.
Here is an idea. While our fishing programs are fresh on our administrations' minds, why don't we encourage them to write a letter in support of the program to "the Gods of finance" that furnish the money.
Lets see if we can get Teresa or Anne to get us the addresses and names of the people we should send to. Money is in short supply and we don't want to be left out, do we?
They seem to think it is cool. Every time that I walk by the social studies teachers they ask, "How's the fishing? Or Are you fishing at work today? I just tell them that jealousy's is not a good quality and I am starting private fishing lessons if they would like to hire me!
I have just a few minutes between classes so let me put things to you in a different way.
Today, I have over a 100 7th grade students cooking outside. It is no big deal! Why, because I have done this type of thing many times before, several times a year in fact. Actually, I often cook with as many as 200 students. Disregard that things started moving in our house at 3 am to get ready for the day. Disregard the fact that the cookout didn't cost the school system a dime for equipment or supplies. Disregard the fact that I saw smiles on students faces that have never been there in school before. No, none of that matters. Why, you ask?
The reason is it has been done in the past. As far as the staff and administration goes, they have seen it before, it is no big deal.
I can remember when the local paper used to stop by for pictures and write an article about the cooking. I can remember being in meeting with top administration where they brought up what was going on. We have had school board members come just to eat with the kids.
This last year, I had to fight to keep the course where most of the cooking was done. I had to remind everyone what the kids would be missing if the class was dropped. People other than parents were slow to stick their necks out in support of my program.
Thats why I got up from the table I was sitting at in the local coffee shop and greeted one of my parents when he walked in this morning. We talked about kids and the activities that we would like to see them have. We discovered we were on the same page.
His daughter, who is in my class has a reading problem. She got out an old family cookbook and made cookies to go along with the food her group was going to grill. Dad was pretty proud of his daughter, so was I.
This is it, our staff will be excited right now because what we are doing is new. We need to grab the support of our administration while the grill is hot. Get a school board member or administrator to write to one of our sponsors. Otherwise, what we are doing will soon be no big deal, and it will be gone. I'll miss the cookies, what will you miss?
This is our 2nd year & I have received very good reviews from other teachers. This year I invited all the staff to to go trout fishng. That means leaving at 5:30 AM. on a Saturday morning on Oct. 18th. I've been surprised by the interest. They are particularily interested in trying fly fishing.
Our school district offers an angler education certification through Texas Parks & Wildlife. Each year, new teachers and adminstrators have an opportunity to become certified through this program. Our new librarian e-mailed the following when she signed up for the class:"I have signed up for the certification class on Saturday and am looking forward to it. But I'm laughing - if you had ever told me that I would earn a fishing certification through my school I would never have believed it! How Cool!"
The administration, teachers and students are very excited about our upcoming Fishing and Canoeing Units.
Before school started for the students I was able to have a local school donate their 125lb. fish tank and supplies with the approval and excitement of my new principal. At present, we have 8 Tropical Fish. The principal has each grade level studying different tropical fish. He also has the students feeding the fish throughout the week.
The 5th grade teachers that will be going on the field trip to Arlington Echo will be preparing the students for Canoeing. They are excited about the material that I have given them.
The Art teacher will be doing a Fish Printing Unit. I will give her the material to do the unit. I gave her Tropical Fish books that I found at an Education Store to have students outline various tropical fish. I also bought a huge colorful Tropical Fish display to hang from her ceiling that she loved. The students were making comments about the display before we even put it up.
I NEED SOME HELP! Not being a big fish eater, I am looking for a good way to prepare some walleye in our foods class. Our FCE teacher is doing a fish unit to go along with the grant (cross curricular you know!) but we don't want to do the traditional breading and deep fry method (not the healthiest). Any suggestions? swalsh@kiel.k12.wi.us
Thanks!
Steve,
If there are ovens available, the fish could be baked. No breading or oil, maybe a little butter.
Salt, pepper and other spices on the fish. Add a little butter to each piece of fish and a touch of lemmon juice. Bake, low heat, maybe 300-325 degrees for the time it takes the fish to flake apart (check as it cooks). I usually go a little heavy on the pepper but that is up to you.
Steve,
Another thought, (I have the grills necessary, you probably don't,) however with grills and charcoal, or with a campfire, you could bake the fish in aluminum foil packages.
The trick to grilling fish this way is to have very little heat under the fish. Have most of the heat coming from the sides of the fish.
No grills? I often bury chickens in a large hole that I've dig, again wrapped in several layers of aluminum foil. First have a fire in the hole, then remove most of the hot coals. I then cover the chickens with a couple inches of dirt and build a fire on the top of the dirt covering the chickens. Left over hot coals from the fire in the hole can be the base for the above ground fire. Chickens that normally take 2 hours take 3 with this method, but they are wonderful. Fish should be able to be cooked this way. Time is a guess, probably about an hour. Dig down, remove a package and check to see if they are done.
Vance:
Thanks for the input. I will talk with the FCE teacher. She is also looking.
The more of your posts I am reading though, I am thinking you might be "Living in a van down by the river!" with all the stuff you are sharing with us. You must be a true nature lover. Thanks again!
Steve,
Actually, the "living in the van down by the river," thing is what I am saving for my retirement years. I have been spending most of my life preparing for the life style.
I love nature, and kids and I can have the best of both those worlds with what I am doing now.
Just between you and me, I had been hearing about that "30 years and out" thing years ago. I probably should have taken advantage of it. Since I missed it I have to go around again. The good news is that I am over two thirds of the way there.
This summer I was at a meeting with our superintendent, the first thing he asked me was how was the trip to Michigan and that the board of education had few posative comments at the meeting where they excpted the grant for the district. My building staff and admistration all seem excited about the program. I got the art depratment and science department all ready talking "FISH" We plan to do a trial run in the next three weeks.
Todd Schmitt
Vance:
With the market the way it has been the last week, Do I need to look at a 50 year plan??????? Hope your 30 years won't turn into 40!
Todd:
You are correct! The administration is always asking about how the fishing thing is going. I just wish they would have come out to see it in action when we were on our fishing trip. It was a thing to see! Our teachers are also talking fish. Too bad we didn't catch anything because our 7th grade science teacher wants some fish to do a comparative anatomy lesson on. The kids think it is gross to cut up the fish for that, but it should be a cool lesson! Hopefully next month we will catch something with my next group!
We have a lot of support and flexibility.The best times are when we leave signs on our door like GONE FISHIN, not a joke anymore. The other faculty members seem to smile when they see our kids with their fishing poles in hand or cooking utensils, etc. The students talk about their adventures in their other classes and the faculty will comment positively at various times. Our administrators are completely supportive. The Illinois High School Association is going to hold their first State Fishing Tournament this spring so from that a club is forming in the near future and with all this curriculum information we have received maybe we will expand our class to a yearlong experience. All this talk makes me want Jan. to get here.
Steve,
I am not worried about 40. It is 42, this year. There is no place I would rather be than right here with the kids. (Besides, We have BOTH our Mothers living with us.--There is no way I am going to retire to sit around the house. The living "in a van down by the river," thing sounds real good to me, peaceful.)
Steve
next monhts fishing trip? in wisconsin is that an ice fishing trip?
Funny Todd! It is still in the mid 60's here so we have lots of time before snow flies!
Vance:
No wonder you have all this outdoor time! You guys are saints to have BOTH of your parents living with you. I think I would be trying to get out of the house no matter what too!
Just starting to emerge from the new school year but I have written two grants thus far to augment FFF money. My goal is to purchase more equipment to start the kayaking and fishing program come winter. I have met with the school's PTSA, Alumni Foundation and the Art Dept in an effort to tie them all into the process and program. The art teachers are excited about the possibilities and the other groups are trying to fund additional kayaks so more students have the opportunity to learn new skills.
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