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.

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

End of Year Celebration!

Today was our End of Year Party! We had lunch with our family and friends and then shared what we learned during the school year.

Monique: I learned how to do the Colorfy app on the tablet. 

Vicky: I practiced typing on the computer.
Tyler: I practiced taking the BART in Travel Training class.
Courtney: I learned how to make smoothies in the blender in Healthy Snack Making class.
Jessica: I learned how to paint a mug in Arts and Crafts. 

Steve-O: I learned how to blog on my own time.
Patrick: I liked learning how to write about my feelings in Journaling class.
Jake: I learned how to do laundry in Home Care.
Nick: Relationship and Communication class helped me come out of my shell some.
Ulyssis: I learned how to do a job at the Police Station.
Chris: In Book Club, we read a story about an Eskimo.
Jamie: I learned a new game in Card Games.
Erica: I learned how to make dates with cream cheese in Healthy Snacks. 

Summer Fun: Tie Dye

Briana and Patrick showing off their bandannas. 

Summer Concerts

During the summer, the Life Skills students take Bart to the Oakland City Center for the free concerts and lunch. The students love dancing and socializing with their friends! 

Enjoying the music. 

Jake, Briana, and Sarah posing for a picture with the lead singer of the band. 

Eating lunch with friends. 

Jorden and Briana dancing to the music. 

Having a blast!

Vicky and Pat dancing. 

Weekly Highlights

       Practicing our typing skills in Computers class. 

 Showing off our corn! We can't wait to make popcorn! 

In our Healthy Snacks class, we learned how to make kale chips
out of the kale we grew from our class garden. So yummy!

Summer Fun: Jewelry Making

 One of the classes being offered this summer is Jewelry with Zenia! Last Friday we made key chains. 

Color Me Mine

Lizanne and Darlene enjoying their lunch before going into Color Me Mine.

 Yesterday, the Arts & Crafts class had the wonderful opportunity of going to Color Me Mine in Walnut Creek! Some students chose to paint plates and other students chose to paint a coffee mug. We were able to use stamps, stencils, paint pens, and any colors we wanted! We can't wait to get our finished projects next week after they are glazed. 

A sneak peak at some of our projects!