Pennsylvania Farm Show

In all the years I have attended the Pennsylvania Farm Show I have had multiple animals of different species tagging along. This year was my year being their as a student teacher. Although the trip did not go as planned due to a two hour delay there was a lot of good from it.

With the two hour delay the trip was cancelled but yet no substitute teachers were cancelled so my cooperating teacher and I headed up to the Farm Show still to support the three keystone degree recipients and wait to see who won Star in Ag Placement.

Since the students were still in school Mrs. Anderson made sure to go over with me what would have happened with the students with us and how the day would have played out compared to how it did. We talked about phone policies while attending mid winter convention and checking in with students.

While watching mid winter convention one thing that struck me that I never thought of before was why do they award people for having large families? With the honorary keystone degree the parents have to have three children who have received the award. Why is this? Why do they not award families with 100% of their children receiving this outstanding degree.

Overall the experience was great and put me into a mind set of a teacher compared to a showman like I have been for the past ten years. It was also a great feeling seeing Manheim Central take first in the state with Ag Placement.