Saturday Fishing Class 9/11/10

This past Saturday I met some of the students at the Sims Center and met the remaining students at the boat ramp. When we arrived the students who had already painted their fishing rods grab their rods and headed down to the boat ramp to start fishing. The students who needed to still paint their fishing rods stayed at the classroom with me to start painting. Having watched the students from the previous week, those students who painted this week were able to see what worked best and which colors looked the coolest and produced some amazing rods.

Once we were all done painting the fishing rods, we all headed down to the boat ramp to start fishing too. I had given the students my camera to start taking pictures as they had expressed a lot of interest in photography. The students caught some amazing fish including 2 sheep-head, a barracuda, a blue-runner, a jack crevalle, and the usual grunts and snappers. One of the students also caught a pinfish which is now living in our fish tank.

On the walk back to the classroom, once all the bait was done, I was speaking to the students about the photos and how they are going to go on our blog. Kevens and Darian express interest in helping write the blog, and some of the other were extremely interested in taking the photos for the blog. So this weeks blog is going to feature the students photos and hopefully their writing when they finish writing it. You can see two of their photos above. One thing I did talk to them about was taking a picture of themselves with the fish, as all the photos are of just the fish. They explained to me that a close up picture of the fish is more important than taking a picture of themselves!