June 2, 2016

Students helped clean the sewing lab and finish up checking grades before they were released for the school sponsored activities. Today was also the last day of school for the 7th grade students! Have a great summer!

June 1, 2016

For the first part of class, students learned about careers in the Family and Consumer Science areas and future classes they can take in this area. Students were given their final grades and citizenship. Students were also given time to look their grade over carefully for any mistakes I may have made or computer errors.

May 31, 2016

Students had a final for this term to take today on what they have learned about in this section of College and Career Awareness. This will be scored today and put on their final grade so they can check those tomorrow before grades are finalized.

May 27, 2016

We learned about Child Development, what child care centers are and what DAP is (Developmentally Appropriate Practices). We also identified the ways children learn and what kinds of learning activities are done with younger children. Students then started creating a lesson plan to use in a child care center using what they learned in class today.

May 25-26, 2016

Students made Vanishing Breakfast Biscuits to help reinforce our lesson about the importance of reading recipes and cooking with children. Any student who was absent (For ANY reason) must make the lab at home and return the lab make-up form signed by a parent stating that their student did the assignment. We also covered why children play, the way the play and what they learn from it.

May 24, 2016

Students learned about food scientists and what they do. They had to research how a common food is made and share that with at least 5 other students in class.

May 23, 2016

May 20, 2016

Students learned about food scientists and what they do. They had two activities to choose from. One was to research how a common food is made and the other was to invent an ice cream flavor. Each class got to decide which of the two activities they wanted to do. We also collected their job shadow assignments from yesterday.

May 19, 2016

Today is the 7th grade Job Shadow Day! Most students were at work "on the job" and have a written assignment to complete while they are gone. These will be due tomorrow. Students who stayed were placed into one of three groups and had different career related activities to complete throughout the first half of the day. These were due at the end of each class period when they were done.

May 18, 2016

Today, students learned what soft skills are, why they are important and then practiced common soft skills in class. This was an in-class activity, so students who were absent should review the short PowerPoint on the website. We also handed out badges/lanyards and the Job shadow assignment to those students who will be gone tomorrow for their job shadow.

May 16-17, 2016

Students were introduced to the career of Food Stylists. We introduced them to the career, show them a couple of video demonstrations of what they do, as well as how to garnish plates. On the 17th, they made french toast and had to style them the best they could before eating their project.

May 13, 2016

Students will be learning about how to search for job openings, how to fill out job applications and how to do a job interview in preparation for their job shadow experience on May 19th.

May 12, 2016

Students learned about how to make healthier life choices, as well as how to take their pulse.

May 11, 2016

Students had a strawberry smoothie lab today so they could learn how labs are run, where things are, as well as practice measuring and reading recipes. If a student was absent (for any reason) they will need to complete the cooking lab at home and return the make-up sheet to the turn-in basket in the next two weeks.

May 10, 2016

Students watched me demonstrate how to measure different ingredients and the importance of measuring correctly. The students will demonstrate what they learned when measuring out ingredients in future cooking labs.

May 9, 2016

Students learned about MyPlate, which took the place of the MyPyramid in 2010. We discussed the changes which have taken place and how students could change their diets to align more closely to the plate, as well as what a correct serving size was. The students completed making a correct MyPlate meal and turned it in for points.