Family and Consumer Sciences News...

In Healthy Cooking: We practiced cooking terms in the kitchens. Now, we are working on learning different substitutions to make recipes healthier. 

In Advanced Culinary: We are learning about garnishing and how to make food more appealing. They had to practice garnishing with a grilled cheese. I had some creative students. :)

In Creative Crafts, students are learning how to knit and making mini scrap books.

In Clothing I, students are creating juice pouch totes and pajama pants.

In Clothing III, students are making photo pillows and custom quilts. 

Students in Independent Clothing are involved with garment re-styling and making dresses.

Students in Child Care take the “Real Care” baby in its car seat home with them along with a diaper bag for a three night period.  The baby cries randomly and the students have to figure out what care is needed and perform that task: diapering, feeding, rocking or burping the baby.  Currently, students are also learning about pregnancy; prenatal care, fetal development, and diet.  They recently finished researching birth defects with each student presenting their project to the class via a power point presentation.

Students in the Day Care classes welcomed the preschoolers and their parents at a Meet and Greet in C107 this week.  Preschool starts Monday, March 25.  The 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds attend Monday through Thursday until the end of the school year.  Students in the two classes are responsible for planning and carrying out various activities with the children based on different themes each week.           

                                                     

In Housing and Home Furnishings, students have learned how to recognize different housing styles, components of a good floor plan and are currently designing their “dream home” floor plans.

Mrs. Dellinger’s Culinary Arts classes learned basic knife skills and practiced dicing celery, chopping onions, slicing potatoes, and cutting carrots into julienne strips to make vegetable soup.

In another lab, they reviewed various cooking terms by making chocolate whoopee pies.