This course will help students discover how personality, colors, and design all play a role in fashion choices. Assessing their wardrobe, learning to make wise clothing choices, and creating projects using sewing machines and sergers are included in this course. The students will purchase patterns, fabric, and notions on a field trip where the store’s manager will present information on the variety of fabrics.

Students will learn skills to improve relationships beginning with themselves, family, friends, and exploring love and dating relationships. A special part of the class includes relating to the elderly by pairing each student with an elderly person from a local nursing home. The class visits weekly to provide opportunities to develop relationships through shared activities.

In this class, students will learn about nutritional needs, healthy food choices, kitchen safety and sanitation, appliances and utensils, planning meals, and food preparation.There is a lab fee of $20. The second half of the semester includes weekly planning, grocery store visits, and labs.

This is an essential class for those students planning on becoming parents one day and/or anyone interested in a career working with children. Students will discuss factors to consider when deciding to become a parent, the stages of pregnancy and childbirth, and the changes a baby brings to the lives of the parents. Child development from birth through preschool age will be explored. Weekly visits to the daycare facility and “Baby Think It Over” projects are also part of the class.

In this course, students will develop a plan for their future by creating a life planning notebook including short and long term personal goals. Topics also included are love and the keys to loving relationships, dating, engagement and marriage (including planning and carrying out a mock wedding), and food preparation for special parties, events and the class wedding. There is a lab fee of $15.

Students will learn skills needed for living on their own such as selecting a career, managing money, creating a realistic home budget and a home filing system, locating housing, organizational skills, clothing care, and purchasing/preparing food. No matter where students are headed after graduation, they will be prepared. There is a lab fee of $15.