Mrs. Flynn's

Life Skills

and Spanish

Classes

	Schedule
	First Hour- 8th Grade Life Skills
	Second Hour- Prep Period
	Third Hour- 7th Grade Life Skills
	Fourth Hour- 8th Grade Life Skills
	Fifth Hour- 7th Grade Spanish
	Sixth Hour- 7th Grade Life Skills

Contact Information
Phone: 810-676-1830
e-mail: nflynn@ east-china.k12.mi.us
Prep Hour: 9:31 am to 10:30am
***Check Parent Connect/ Class News for weekly updates!

Description of the Life Skills and Spanish Programs

LIFE SKILLS
While many remember our times in Home Economics Class the Life Skills program your student is now a part of is much more comprehensive than the days only cooking and sewing.

In Life Skills classes today, all students deepen their knowledge of food and nutrition, communication and develop cooking skills. Specifically, by grade level, students will focus on:

7^th grade Life Skills

10-week course

Child care/ caring for others
Civic rights and responsibilities- with a community project
Community organizations
Emergency response
Nutrition (with food labs approximately 3 to 4 each quarter)
Nutritional Label reading
Money Mgt.

8^th grade Life Skills

20-week course

Personal Decision Making
Goal setting- Introduction to career choices
Consumer Choices
Budgeting for personal needs (long and short term).
Care of home/ environment
Nutrition (with labs 3 to 4 each quarter)
Label reading
Kitchen/Home safety
Strategies for healthy food choices.
Biases and stereotyping

Spanish

The 7th grade Spanish program is designed to provide your student with a very basic overview of the Spanish language and vocabulary. Since this class is only 10 weeks long your student will not have time to become fluent in the language. If your student has a desire to learn more and further their understanding of the Spanish language there are links to online activities to practice their skills.

If your student plans to continue studying Spanish a Spanish/English Dictionary would be beneficial for them.

7th grade Spanish

10 week course

Spanish/English Cognates
Greetings/Polite Words
The Alphabet
Colors
Classroom commands/objects
Numbers
The Calendar
Weather
Family
Body Parts/ Clothing
Household
Verbs
Mexico

Description of Free Food Friday

In eighth grade only students will be allowed to have 3-4 Free Food Friday's per semester. Free Food Friday is a cooking day where students plan a specific menu in groups. Each member of the group brings in one or two of the ingredients for the meal. This is a method for students to make the foods they like while practicing skills in group interaction, responsibility and time management.

Students are STRONGLY discouraged from bringing any pre made foods. This is an opportunity for the students to enhance their cooking skills; this objective is not often obtained when cooking with box meals and frozen foods.