chef_chocobro: (soft grin)
Ignis Scientia ([personal profile] chef_chocobro) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2022-04-15 05:22 am
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Home Economics; Friday, Second Period [04/15].

Due to the nature of today's lesson, the class was moving from the usual classroom into the danger shop, not because they were doing anything particularly dangerous (although there were always some who seemed to turn nearly every activity into something rife with danger), but just because it required a lot of little details not afforded to them by the classroom that could just be programmed up withthe danger shop.

In the form of your basic, average, more-than-likely suburbanite home.

"Today," Ignis explained, "we're going to be talking about some of the finer details of the general maintenence of a home to keep everything in working order and running smoothly and will help be preventative to avoid further, bigger problems down the road. Things that one might not naturally think of until it's an issue, from checking your smoke detectors to changing or cleaning various filters for furnaces, stoves, dishwaters, what have you. Some of this involves taking a day to dedicate yourself to deep cleaning some things, other involve checking how well something is functioning. I have, of course, an exhaustive list that I will be passing out to you all now so you each have a copy, we'll go through it together, and then we'll be using the rest of the class for you to pick and choose a few of them to pursue around our makeshift home here.

"Of course, feel free to ask any questions as we go along, but, without further ado, let's have a look at where we might get started. All at once, it might seem a little overwhelming and a lot, but if we break it down and spread it out, maintaining a home will hopefully seem a little less daunting, especially in cohesion with everything else we've covered in this class thus far."
outofthequiver: (explainy hands)

Re: Class Activity: Home Maintenance - Home Ec, 04/15.

[personal profile] outofthequiver 2022-04-15 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Pretty much," said Libby, taking a moment to think about it, since she knew she'd been doing it for so long that it might just seem like second nature to her, but, really, she couldn't think of anything else. "You just have to hold it by the handle, and push, and....oh!"

She did think of one little detail, moving back over to Jo and the vaccuum cleaner and, after looking it over, grinned as she moved her foot on the little lever toward the bottom that loosened the handle from its upright position. "Ta-dah! The pedal loosens it up so that you have more mobility."

And with that, she demonstrated how to push it around to clean the carpet before relenquishing it to Jo to try. "Just switch it on, and that's it!"