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This past week, Ms. Lambert’s Floral class began designing their miniature floral arrangements based on the flower’s geometry shapes students learned during class. When the school first got shut down for Covid, it was about three days into the new trimester. For many students, including myself, this was their first-time handling and assembling flowers. The previous week ended off by picking out the four shapes that will be designed and having a complete sketch of what the designs will look like and a list of flowers needed. With the list of all the flowers we chose, Ms. Lambert placed the order and the truck came later that day to deliver the flowers. With this, students could not grab flowers that they had not ordered or use more than what was in their sketches. It was essential to take time designing and plan accordingly. 

The circular and oval mound were the two most popular arrangements between the class due to the professional feel and classiness it gives off. According to Nayeli Bernal, a student in the class, “the circular mound looks neat and it’s professional.” Another student, Patricia Benavides states, “I like the classic shape of the circle mound and it’s something you really can’t mess up. No matter what that arrangement, it will always look good.”

By Monday, the real action started. There were four arrangements that needed to be submitted and only five days to do them. The floral class had no time to slack off. We began with an Arrangement Day for the first two days. Then we had to bump it up to finishing an arrangement and starting the next one in the same class period. Some students preferred the sketches over actually designing them, like Dasha Radashevskiy and Yesenia Mendoza. “It made the basic design and idea easier but there was adjusting that needed to be done once we had to put it together,” Radashevskiy stated.  “It was different than having the flowers in hand because the drawings were easier to create, and the flowers were harder to fit into the shape that I had in my drawings,“ added Mendoza.  

Dasha Radashevskiy is one of the few students who took Floral 1 right before we got out for our “six-week break.” She described the difference between trimester one and two as pretty bad. “We didn’t learn anything about flowers because we got shut down as soon as the class started.” Other students like Patricia Benavides and Katerin Sarmiento talked about the struggles of doing the class online. “I was confused, and it was hard not having the teacher there to guide me,” states Sarmiento.  However, unlike online school, the students got real flowers and were able to ask Ms. Lambert for demonstrations and more hands-on help than just typing in the chat. 

After all the arrangements were made, they were sprayed with floral mist to preserve and keep them alive longer and then submit a picture for credit. The floral arrangements could be held in the cooler inside the greenhouse, take home for families, or simply given away. The week ended off with the class helping Ms. Lambert with an order for the lovely ladies in the office as Mother’s Day gifts. Overall, the mini arrangements were an excellent hands-on experience to make up for the year we lost doing everything online and not making any arrangements due to Covid.