Life Skills Dinner Dance 2018

Last week Life Skills students and families danced the night away with our favorite songs. We enjoyed a wonderful taco bar and cake for dessert.

Job Training at Kmart

 We are excited to be acquiring retail work skills in our job preparation class at Kmart. So far we have been learning about:

• organizing clothes by size
• folding T-shirts
• go-backs (returning merchandise back to store shelves)

Sarah says she likes folding the jeans and T-shirts. "It is my favorite place to go!"


Joey likes working at Kmart because "it's fun to sort clothes".

Happy Halloween!

 We had a lot of fun celebrating Halloween this week with a great costume contest and yummy treats to eat!!

This year's costume winners were:

Most Original - Jorden

Most Animated - Steven T.

Scariest Costume - Carlos

Best Princess - Erica and Rachel

Most Creative - Danielle

Cutest Costume - Sarah

Best Overall - Jenny

"America’s Workforce: Empowering All"

The Life Skills Program is proud to support National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). Held each October, NDEAM strives to educate about disability employment issues and celebrate the contributions of America's workers with disabilities. Throughout this month, we have been learning about our disability employment rights and advocating for a disability-friendly work culture. Learn how you can support NDEAM by visiting the website: https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/ndeam/.

The election results are in!

Congratulations to our 2018-2019 Student Council Officers:

President - Andre

Vice President - Tyler

Secretary - David C.

Treasurer - Danielle

Back to School in Life Skills Class

We are back in our blogging class and ready to share our adventures for the 2018-2019 school year with you!!

We are very excited to tell you about our new classes this year and beyond:

Blogging

Job Training opportunities

Office Training with Teri

Cooking

Healthy Nutrition

Food Service Training

Micro Enterprising classes in Book Binding and Art

Cooking class

Election speeches for 2018-19 Student Council

Cashing in our recyclables to support Life Skills  

Shirley shared her vacation pictures and stamp collection.

Micro Enterprising Art Class 

Summer Fun with Tie Dye

Creating tie dye art as one of our favorite summer activities

We love to get creative in Arts & Crafts class!

The finished product

We created this tie dye art using paint and baby wipes.

Our finished art projects became beautiful notebook covers.

Summer fun with friends at the movies

Summer Fun making Paper Mache Bracelets

Today's art project was making paper mache bracelets. 

What We Love about Summer Fun

During the month of July, we take a break from our regular classes to celebrate summer and enjoy new, fun experiences and adventures. Summer fun is a chance to try new classes before the next school year begins.

This is what we love about summer fun classes:

Dayana - Walking around downtown Walnut Creek for lunch with Teri and Joyce
L.G. - YMCA for exercise
Alexis - Blogging about our summer fun
Monique - I like the Diamond Dots. It is very interesting to learn.
Pat - I like singing karaoke and Diamond Dots.
Alicia - Art projects make me happy and feel calm.
Rachel - I like art projects, the puzzle tournaments, and blogging.
Tyler - I like to make summer refreshers like Oreo cookie milkshake.
Courtney - I like the music madness, movie reviews, and summer refreshers.
Andre - I enjoyed the yoga class and working with art.

Vicky C. and Monique enjoying Jamba Juice at the Willows

Community Outing at the Willows

Pat and Danielle shopping at Daiso

Summertime Slime

Our guest slimeologist taught us how to make our own slime using white glue, liquid cornstarch, and shaving cream. Adding food coloring and glitter made it extra fun! We loved it and are ready for another slime making session!!

Summer Fun with Diamond Dots

One of our favorite summer projects is making 3-D pictures using colored gems. As you can see, it takes a lot of patience and concentration to place the dots on the design to create our pictures.

Soup and Sandwiches for lunch

Cold soup on a hot day tastes so good!!

Alicia is making an egg salad sandwich for her lunch.

Sun Valley Mall Summer Field trip

Our first summer field trip for 2018 was shopping and eating at the Sun Valley Mall.

My favorite thing about the Sun Valley Mall field trip was:

Lizanne - looking at the Disney store
Andre - hanging out at the mall
Pat - it was fun to look around at the sports store; Go Warriors!
Alicia - I really, really, really liked hanging out with Monique at the mall
Monique - I liked shopping with Alicia at Claire's
Danielle - I liked hanging out with Nicole at the candy store
David O. - taking Link to the mall and watching people go by and we saw Jillian too
Jose - People watching

Fitness for Life

Team relays in the MU

Monique and Pat flying a kite

Let's go fly a kite, up to the highest height! 

It was a beautiful day to fly kites and enjoy the park!!

ARF visit with Cooper

Bowling, pizza, and fun with friends at our annual Bowl-A-Thon

Our 2018 Bowl-A-Thon Winners:
Carlos with the highest score
Pat with the most sponsors