Welcome to Home and Career Skills! I am happy to be your teacher. Please have your parents email me any time if you have a question. Please expect papers for both students and parents to sign about classroom rules and behavior!
Students in both Grade 6 and Grade 8 will be asked to keep a daily journal for Home & Careers. We will spend a couple of minutes each day prior to class reflecting upon what we have learned the day before. Click here to learn more about me or simply paste this website to your URL:
http://teacherweb.com/NY/Amsterdam/ChristineEggleston/t.stm
In Grade 6, we will be together for 10 weeks; doing Sewing for the first five weeks and Cooking for the last five weeks. This may be flip-flopped with another class.
GRADE SIX SEWING PROJECT!
Students will sew a pillow case complete with a cuff and French seams.
You will need 3/4 yard of a cotton print fabric for the pillow case; 3/8 yard for the contrasting cuff (a pattern or color that will go with the case.) You will also need a large spool of thread.
The sixth grades will switch to the kitchen after sewing We will have five weeks to explore the world of cooking!Please expect papers to sign about classroom rules and behavior!
In Grade 8 we will be doing Career Exploration, Sewing and Cooking over 20 weeks. The three topics may be taught in another order.
GRADE EIGHT ALERT! Parents, please know your eighth grader will be doing an Occupational Research Project. The students have guidelines and the due date. There are websites which will help them at the top of this page.
Students in Grade 8 will need to bring in $8 in an envelope with their name on it for their sewing project. A letter will be sent home with more details.
Both Grade 8 and Grade 6 students who are cooking will have several baking labs. Parents, be ready for samples!
Both parents and students can e-mail me using the address listed above. Just CLICK and it will reach me.
You can read more about me and my mission for the classroom by pasting the website below to your URL:
http://teacherweb.com/NY/Amsterdam/ChristineEggleston/t.stm
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