Untethered

 Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats untethered away from the safety of the space shuttle, with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive. The first person in history to do so.

Image: NASA

Fridays Activities Pancakes, Ping Pong, Leadership Voting in Quad

 After working on their journals students were treated to pancakes and ping pong.

HHS Leadership President Vote

 On Friday Jan28 HHS held an election for president of the leadership class. The vote was open to all HHS students. The election was held during lunch.

 

The Candidates:

Lunch Time

 

Students vote for THEIR candidate!

Classes up on Blogger

 

2nd Semester, 3rd Quarter Begins on Tuesday Jan 25

Farm /Construction

 

 

 

Residential Construction

 

 

 

Computer Technology 

Inservice Monday Jan 24

Items of Topic: PLC, WASK, and some fun stuff....What would motivate students at HHS? If you have a suggestion please leave a comment to this post!

Mrs. Garcia!

The HHS Staff

Planning for Spring Garden 2022

 Here is a video of last years garden Broccoli being attacked! Wait till the End!

Saturday - Arranged Chicken Feeders so Pigs Cannot get to It.

 On Saturday, Mr. Connor and Sebastian Mendez arranged the chicken coop so the pigs no longer have access to the feeders. 

 

 

 

Drive though Neighborhood

 

Wind Event in the Inland Empire

Upland had a sustained 33 mph wind with 72 mph peaks on Friday night knocking out power to most of Upland. On Saturday morning I made my way to school to check for damage. The school held up pretty well. One branch from the pepper tree next to the coop. With the power out the automatic chicken door did not open, with the power out the heat lamps for the chicks in the coop were out, with the power out the incubator in room 13 went off. With the heavy winds, the sunscreen was messed up and down.

I was told Euclid Ave. was like a war zone. The intersection traffic lights at the corner of 9th and Monte Vista were out. When coming to school, while stopped on 9th street ready to cross, a car came zooming down Monte Vista and made no effort to stop driving through the intersection.  On 11th street in front of Cabrillo Elem. a large tree fell crossing the entire street.

 

Here are some photos of around my home.....

 

This tree was planted around 1982

 

Lime tree in my backyard

Chimney Took Direct Hit!

Amazing that it took the curb and gutter with it.

Created a cool skating ramp

Baby Chicks about to go Outside / Power Outage due to Wind Event / Incubation

 The baby chicks that hatched on Jan 4 are about ready to head outside. 

Update - Jan 4 chicks go outside on Friday, Jan 20, just in time for the wind event.  All survived. Note, the power went out around 10:30 PM on Friday and did not come back on until 3:30 PM Saturday.

Note: The chicks in the incubator scheduled hatch is Jan 28 were picked up Saturday morning and taken to Mr. Connor's home, which had power. The temperature of the incubator had gotten down to 68 degrees. Normally during incubation, the eggs are held at a constant 99-100 degrees, with very little fluctuation.  We will see how this turns out.

Tiny Home Electrical Rough In Complete!

 Today we completed the rough-in of the electrical wires for power and lighting in the tiny home.

Students trimmed grape vines.

 Period 2 Elective Class substitution students trimmed the grapevines.

COVID, Other Illnesses and Injuries Taking its TOLL

 Here at HHS, we are without many of our staff. Today we are missing

1 Custodian

2 Math  Room 1

3 Science  Room 4

4 History Room 5

5 English. Room 6

6 Elective Careers Room 8

7 Math Room 11

8 Art Room 4 Tues & Fri

It has been a trying last few weeks. On Friday this past week, we did not have enough staff to cover the shortages and had to modify the student's day. We may be using last Friday's schedule as a backup should we lose one more teacher and have no sub coverage.

 

Competitive Table Tennis

 The Construction class completed making repairs to the ping pong table.  We have had some very competitive games since!

Electrical Wire Installation

 Installation of electrical wire for light cans. this is called rough electrical. Something you don't see at home because the walls have a finished surface to them.

MLK Weekend Visit to Monterey Bay

 The weekend included a hike around Santa Cruz, a whale-watching excursion in Monterey Bay, and a visit to Morrow Rock. 

This item was used to wrap line from a ship around to hold ship against the pier. 

A whale carving on the peir. 

Sea Lions under the pier. 

A whale spout

Morrow Rock

A Redwood Tree

Another Tall Redwood

A unique building in Santa Cruz