Tucker Hutmacher

March 2 Ag Science
The Salad Day was a great sucess!! Thanks everyone for doing their part!!
This week we will be learning about grain crops. You may need to do some research at home for your cereal project. I am trying to get a computer lab .....
We will go over terms & project on Monday
Tuesday is day 14 of your PGP observation
Wednesday, ID grass plants
Thursday - research- hopefully
Friday - cereal lab -
Please contact me if yoou have any conerns. Thanks, Mrs. H

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March 2 Landscape Design
This week we will be working on drawing your home landscape. Ask your parents if they have a Plat Plan, it would be in there closing papers. I will make a copy and give back. This will help you see where your house is located on your property as well a sacle that it is drawn in. If you do not have one, it is OK, you may check out a measuring wheel from me and measure your property.
Please photograph your home, directions were given out on Friday. They simply say to photograph your hourse from the front, back & sides. Please take at least 2 pictures per area; 1 facing ther house and the other with your back to the house. Think about the sun direction. We have Early Release on Tuesday. Please contact me if you have any problems or concerns, Mrs. H

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Feb 12 Ag Science
We will review on Monday and pull all of the information together that we have learned. TEST on Tuesday. We will be wrapping up our unit on plant structures with a salad. Students will select a plant they wish to eat and add to a class salad. Students will complete an information sheet on their plant this week and bring it in to class on Friday!
Tuesday will also be your 7 day obsrevation for your PGP. Please contact me if you have any questions. Thank you, Mrs. Hutmacher

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Feb 23 Landscape Design
This week we will be working on reading a scale and measuring correctly. We will perform a serries of scale exercises. We will measure several areas around the Horticulture area and draw them to scale.
The lettring & symbols assignments will return & reviewed this week. I will also return your nursery designs. Please remember to record your observation data on your PGP, this is week 2 - 14 day observations!
Please contact me or let me know if you need any help, Ms H

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Feb 17 Ag Science
Welcome back! We are sill working on our plant science unit. We are working our way up the plant. We still have reproduction both sexual & asexual. In this basic botany unit we have incorperated some plant propagation with your PGP(persoanl growing project). All students should have researched this on Friday Feb 13 in the computer lab. We will begin propagating your project on Tueday. Please keep in mind there is atype written report required at the end of the growing portion which should be appx 30 days. It is under the evaluation portion of your PGP packet.
This part is a lot of fun ! This is a lab, so proper CLOSED TOED SHOES are REQUIRED, No flip flops, sandels etc.
You may bring in an old yuckie pair of shoes and keep them in the classroom. This way you will never have to worry about haveing the right shoes or lose any of your work ethics points!!
Please let me know if you have problems. Thanks, Mrs. Hutmacher

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Feb 17 Nursery/ Landscape
IWelcome back! Last Friday (Feb13), we began work our first landscape design project, a lettering & symbols assignment.It is a tedious but an important lesson in learning lettering styles and the graphics that are used to communicate in Landscape Design.
This assignment will be due on Friday Feb 20
** 6 weeks progress report cards should come out this week, I have not entered or completed grading your nursery projects. They will be entered by the end of next week. I appoligize for the delay.
Please contact me if you have any comments or concerns, Ms H

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Feb 9 Landscape Design
We are moving on to Landscape Design this week. The weather is going to be AWESOME so we will start the week with a lecture on pruning and then prune!!!! So dress accordingly. We should start design Wednesday or Thursday. I am in the process of grading your Nursery projects, a few of you still need to turn those in. Let me know if you need help with anything. Let's enjoy the weather while it is so nice, Ms H

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Feb 9 Ag Science
This week we will continue our unit on basic botany. We will go through plant evolution and then parts of the plant.
Friday we research our PGP (personal growing project) and begin propagating your plants on Tuesday as Monday the 16 is President's Day. Please contact me if you are absent I do not want you to miss any of this material.
Thanks, Mrs. Hutmacher

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Jan 2 Nursery/Landscape Design
It is Ground Hog Day! Will General Lee see his shadow?
We are wrapping up the Nursery portion of the class this week...
Monday: Organization & Development of a Nursery reading assignment, We will begin a Nursery Plan lay out & operation this will take 3-4 class days, please be prepared to work on this most of the week.
Wednesaday is Early Release. The supply shipment came in late on Friday so we have soil to finish up the propagation portion of your PGP. Hopefully on Friday we will begin the Landscape Design portion of the class.
Please let me know if you have any problems or concerns. Thanks, Ms H

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Feb 2 Ag. Science
It is Ground Hog Day! Will General Lee see his shadow?
We are finishing our soils unit this week. Monday we read and discuss an article "Dirt Poor"
Tuesday: discuss ways to improve soil.
Wednesday: soils quiz & Early Release
Thursday & Friday: Classsification of living systems, then begin our unit on Plants followed by propagation. This will get us in the direction to grow plants and begin some "working" projects!!!
Please let me know if you have any problems or concerns. Thank you, Mrs. H

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