Ag in the Classroom visits East Elementary School fourth grade ...

Fourth grade students at East Elementary School in Waukon got to spend a class period with Allamakee County Farm Bureau Ag in the Classroom Coordinator Elizabeth Blake Thursday, February 17, as she offered a presentation on the many careers/jobs there are on a farm. The students learned about how a farmer performs several different jobs on any given day, and they were very engaged while playing a game called “Guess the Hat” where they got three clues and a short job description and had to guess what job/career it was. The kids were excited when they got all the answers correct and enjoyed being able to do an interactive lesson and work as a group to come up with the different answers.

Blake joined students from the classrooms of Ms. Melissa Brodahl, Mr. Mason Berns, Mrs. Danielle Bucknell and Mr. Andrew Turpen (some of whom are pictured in the surrounding photos) for the presentation as a whole group in the cafeteria. She gave the students an activity to help demonstrate how many different “hats” a farmer may wear. The activity was to make a “spinning wheel” to put the different hats on the farmer, with each hat representing a different job/career a farmer may have to do in a day. For more information about Ag in the Classroom resources or presentations, contact Elizabeth Blake at Elizabeth.blake@ifbf.org or the Clayton County Farm Bureau office in Elkader at 563-245-1690. Submitted photos.