Career Day

Schools are required to connect school to work. Makes sense doesn't it, but it is sometimes harder than it looks. This year our school connected with a local community college and set up some job follows. We took 106 eighth graders to different locations to see what they did and the education that they needed to do their jobs.

One bus went to Cedar Rapids to visit the culinary school at Kirkwood Community College and then to the Roughriders arena (hockey). Another bus went to Monsanto and then to the Iowa County Courthouse/Jail. My bus headed HyVee grocery store and then to either West Music or Centro. At first I think the kids thought this would be a stupid trip, but in the end they learned a lot! I am excited that next year we are going to expand this to 5-8. Kids need to be introduced to lots of ideas so that they can start to see not only what they might be interested in, but also how their school work is needed to meet the requirements of future jobs!

This is an oven baking probaby about 30 dozen cupcakes and several cakes for the bakery. It roates around.

Jill wants to eat this HUGE barrel of frosting. The girl we watched decorated a cake in less than 5 minutes. It was beautiful too!

This is inside Centro. They make plastic parts of John Deere Tractors, CAT equipment, Rug Doctor Machines, etc. This is very close to our house. We looked out their dock and could see our house.

We looked awesome walking around with our safety glasses and ear plugs. I would hate to wear them all the time though!