Electrical Wirering

 

Possible Electrical Panel Install

 

A Video one of my Students Shared.

This video is produced by a young lady somewhere on the west coast living in a tiny home. The video shares stories about her build.

 

Students cont. work on the tiny home

  Today the students continued with the work on the tiny home. Work included caulking of trim pieces, cont. framing of the reading nook/ table bench/exterior trim above the front door. The students also completed the pre-fabrication of the raised planter irrigation lines. The lines were transported to the farm and placed into place. All that is left is the final connection to the localized shut-off valve at each of the raised planters.

Exterior Door Repaired

 The Tiny Home front door was damaged sometime during the 18 month COVID  construction interruption. The students used wood glue and clamp to make repairs

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Work continues on the Tiny Home

 This week we picked up work from where the 2020/2021 class ended on the exterior of the Tiny Home. The students attached some 1 x 4 pallet would to the area by the front door. Unfortunately, we ran out of materials within the two periods of classes working on the home. We collected pallets from the farm and began tearing them apart. We removed the nails and will be cutting the wood into sizes that we will need to add to the Tiny Home

Farm

 

Making Needed Repairs to Tiny Home

 

Start Back on the Tiny Home

 Today students in Period 5 class made some repairs to the tiny Home.

Period 4 students help repair the door to the Red Shed that had been broken into over the summer

Fire Update - Caldor Fire in South Lake Tahoe

 The fire last night jumped Christmas Valley. At this time it seems all of the homes in Christmas Valley have been spared. The fire is now continuing towards Heavenly Valley and is on track to swarm that area tomorrow. The weather we hope will change this beginning tomorrow.

Week 2 Wednesday Activity Hammer practice

 Today we continued the review of the classroom procedures and visited the use of hammers. The students were required to hammer 3 different size nails. We had a small competition as part of the activities. In both classes, we have students with good eye-hand coordination.

Tiny Trailer from France

 France Tiny Trailer

Week 2 Power Drill Orientation - Tuesday Activity

 

2021-2022 School Year has begun - Week #1 Tennis Ball Tower Competition Friday & Monday Activities

 Week 1 of the new school year has begun with students!!!!!!

The first week was mainly orientation and the creation of a web journal. 

Students were given a tour of the tiny home and now will begin preparing to work on it.

On Friday we had a friendly competition build of a tennis ball tower. The tower project was used to gather intel on how the students work together as team members.

June Update....New Classroom

 On the last week of school, I was called into the principal's office and informed that I would no longer be using room one as I have for the past 15 years. Starting as soon as I could get the room up to speed I would now be using both rooms 13 & 14 to teach computers, farm/gardening, and construction. This past school year I began using room 14 for storage for the tiny home project. I was awarded a grant for the portable chicken coop project and that just made room 14 more valuable, but also brought up the concern for safety for the two projects that were ongoing. So Mr. Adams proposed the idea to place me out in the two rooms, and also adding a gate to the existing exterior fence to bring the projects inside the school's wrought iron fence both for safety, and getting the work closer to the tools!

Room 13 has been occupied by the Math/PE teacher Mr. Dashinski. Mr. Dashinski was asked to move to room 1 where he would be closer to a new proposed weight room that is proposed to add to a remodeled storage room in the student center.  Mrs. Hernandez moved Mr. Dashinskis classroom materials to room 1, while I moved all of my stuff, and I mean all my stuff to room 13.

The best thing for me about the relocation is that the move gets the projects closer to the students, and the students closer to the projects. There will be less downtime in the setup and takedown of the tools and the transportation of the tools to the job site.  Now the Jobsite is literally outside the classroom. The next project will be to have a window removed and the space remodeled into a roll-upr door!

Tiny Home Receives Money from Teamsters

 The Teamsters Union presented Roger Connor with a check for $1,000 for the Tiny Home. The event was attended by the UUSD board and the new UUSD Superintendent.

Friday May 28 Exterior Siding Installation Complete!

 

Thursday May 20

 In the AM class, the students continued work on the Tiny Home exterior wall installation. The students installed siding around the kitchen window and the top pieces along the bathroom exterior wall and the kitchen wall.  They also installed some horizontal trim. 

May 19

Cont. on Exterior Siding Tiny Home