AATFACS District Reports
October 15th, 2012
District 1A
Colbert County:
** Heather Faulkner: Deshler High School
FACS classes started the year off by introducing FCCLA and what all this organization has to offer. My students
researched on their new iPads inexpensive ideas to give to our teachers to show their appreciation for all their
hard work and to welcome them back to a new school year. They decided to make apples out of coke bottles and
pencils out of rolos and Hershey kisses. I have included a picture.
FCCLA will be selling Yankee Candles as this year’s fundraiser. The fundraiser will begin on September 26 th and end
on October 17th. The funds raised will help purchase wagons for our painted wagon donation to Children’s Hospital
in April.
FCCLA is also pairing up with our schools Career Tech department for Breast Cancer Awareness. During October 8 th
-12th we will have activities every day to help raise awareness and money to donate to the Liz Hurley Foundation.
Our goal this year is $1000.00. The FACS departments Food and Nutrition class will be baking and selling ribbon
cookies throughout that week. FCCLA will be selling pink bracelets daily for $1.00. Each day FCCLA members will
pass out pink items to our student body and faculty. Teachers have volunteered to participate in a “kiss the pig”
game during that week’s pep-rally to help raise money. FCCLA students are also painting and decorating pumpkins
to be auctioned off at that night’s game.
Cullman County:
**Karen Hill: Cullman Area Career Center.
I'm the Culinary Teacher at the Cullman Area Career Center. Cullman County Fair is a wonderful time to
showcase our Programs in our county. We had seven fair exhibits dealing with all areas of our
curriculum. The students love to work on them and it is a great way to include FCCLA. You may need to
call some of the teachers in our county if you would like cell numbers I will give them to you. As you know
after school we can all think a little clearer from 7:30 to 3:00 there are just too many things going on to
think very well.
**Amy Chambers: Hanceville High School
Hanceville High School is a Title 1 School. Each year my students raise money to attend the National
FCCLA meeting. This year I am taking 17 students to Indianapolis. We are raising money by selling Beef
Jerky, Chicken salad lunches, Monogrammed Ribbon Key chains and monogrammed t-shirts. Because we
are making these things (except beef jerky) in classes, our profits are extremely high. This is an
opportunity for students who have never been out of Cullman to get to travel to a major city.
** Cullman County is working with the County Fair, we enter a large fair exhibit, individual items (sewing, crafts,
and food), and we have cattle judging teams. We are having our county beef cook-off in October. My FCCLA
officers are attending JLDC.
**Stephanie Blair: Cold Springs High School
In class, I am teaching personal finance, Life Connections, Creative arts, Teen Dynamics, Teen
Connections, and we also have a zero period. In personal finance, we are going over goals, well-being,
financial being, and we created a interactive bulletin board. Life connections just finished the topic of
family and we did an elderly lab. Elderly lab consisted of students cooking with elderly conditions such as
fingers wrapped loosely with tape for arthritis, glasses with saran wrap, and ear plugs while they were
making mystery muffins. Creative art students are learning how create 3-d drawings. Teen dynamics are
learning about their potential, they created a duct tape wallet for the decision making process. Teen
connections are learning about exploring values, goals, Decision making, and depository institutions.
In zero period we are doing zumba two days a week and FCCLA projects.
**Carin Rains: Cullman High School
*I am taking 38 students to JLDC next week.
*Patton Short is our state FCCLA Vice President of Community Service
*I am taking 20 students to the national FCCLA cluster meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana in November
*My Fashion class is sewing dresses for Haiti Barefoot Dance to raise funds and shoes for Soles for Souls
*MS Walk
*All of the Cullman County Schools participate in the following fair, culinary, and Stop the Violence
activities. We have a ton of county wide activities that each school participates in.
*These are events that my FCCLA participated in:
*20 students entered individual exhibits in the Cullman County Fair
*I have a cattle judging team for the fair.
*FCCLA did a booth at the fair with Childhood Hunger as our theme
*We will be participating in our county culinary events- Beef, Sweet Potato, Poultry, and Pork
*Stop the Violence Skate Night with donations going to local charity.
**Whitney Haynes: Fairview High School
*My first period class has decided as a class project that they want to focus on school bullying/violence.
They have already created, distributed, and are now tallying answers from a bullying survey. They plan to
compile the data and share at a school-wide assembly. They are also planning on using their results to get
support from local businesses and churches to host Rachel's Challenge at our school. If you have not
heard of this program, I urge you to look it up, it's amazing! This is a big goal, but these kids are very
motivated by their own experiences of bullying and want to see a change in our school.
Fayette County:
** Natalyn Burkhalte: Fayette Middle School
The FCCLA organization at Fayette Middle School is very active we have several things planned this year.
Below is a list of basic information about our program and activities going on.
Students enrolled in FACS Classes: 89
# of FCCLA Members: 125
Events:
September 24-25, 2012: 5 FCCLA members attended JLDC.
October 19: FMS FCCLA Sponsored Career Fair , we have over 30 professionals from
the community come in and participate in our Career Fair. All 7th and 8th grade students at
Fayette Middle School attend the Fair.
October 26, 2012: Red Ribbon Week Assembly: FCCLA Student Lead presentation drug
awareness presentation for the entire school (5th-8th grade)
November 21, 2012: New Career Based Field trip for all FACS students
November 16-18: Attend Indiana FCCLA Cluster Meeting: 16 students attending
March 15-16, 2012: FCCLA State Meeting
May 3, 2012: FCCLA Sponsored Talent Show
Other Projects:
89 students are working to complete Power of One.
22 students are currently working on STAR Events.
** Rhonda Dunavant: Hubbertville High School
Our FCCLA is doing much this year.
September: Don't Text and Drive Pledge, JLDC
October: Anti-bullying campaign, Fair Display, FCCLA officers volunteered to host the School parent
Involvement Night and serve as MC's and do their skit against bullying. The speaker will be provided by
the school guidance counselor but will have the anti-bullying theme, Secret Pals for Teachers, Play
Attendance for FCCLA members, College/Career Campaign Begins
November: National Cluster Meeting, Power of One for Club, Local Contests - Parliamentary Procedure,
Public Speaking
December: Nursing Home Visits, Food Drive, Adopt a family or child(ren) for Christmas, Joint Leadership
Activity with our FFA club, Relay for Life Fundraiser, Beauty Pageant Sponsor
**Holley Naramore: Berry High School
This summer Berry High School had 3 students attend the FCCLA National Leadership Conference in
Orlando, FL. One student competed in STAR Events and received a gold medal in Applied Technology, Jr.
Another student, Rachel Moore, served as FCCLA State President. FCCLA has sold pink t-shirts to raise
money for Relay for Life Team for breast cancer awareness month. We are also sponsoring Red Ribbon
Week, which is in the last week of October. We are furnishing ribbons for every student and teacher. We
also assign dress up days for each day of the week. We attended the JLDC in Birmingham in September
and we are planning to attend the Cluster meeting in Indianapolis, IN. Berry High School FACS class has
been working on a monogramming fundraiser. Students use the embroidery machine to monogram items
students bring in for a FCCLA fundraiser. We are currently making a display for the Fayette County Fair,
which will be held next week.
Franklin County:
**Rachel Agee: Russellville Middle School
Kitchen Equipment Scavenger Hunt-The students participate in a scavenger hunt to look for the kitchen
equipment they have learned about. I have it on the smart board with three rounds and a tie-breaker
round if needed. The students have to KNOW their equipment to be successful during the hunt. The
students really enjoy this and I think it is great to do before our quiz.
Germ City-program provided by a grant through the 4-H extension office. Apriell Burgess, urban regional
extension agent, comes in and provides a FREE, INTERACTIVE
exhibit/demonstration designed to increase awareness of effective hand washing. She comes in and
teaches kids the importance of hand washing in the kitchen as well as everyday life. She teaches the
students the proper way to wash their hands. Then the students must put into action what they have
learned. She has a large black light tent set up. The kids go in after applying a lotion to their hands and
can see the germs glow. She shows students how easy it is to transfer germs by shaking one of their
hands. The kids can see her hands start to glow. The students go wash their hands using the techniques
she taught them. They return to the tent and notice most of their germs are gone, but some still remain.
This program promotes students to use proper hand-washing procedures before every cooking lab. I think
it is great and the students truly benefit!!!
FCCLA Kick-off party-Once students joined, we had ice-cream sundae bar to promote FCCLA.
I always have an activity of some sort everyday to promote learning. I didn’t like it when teachers lectured
all the time, so I strive not to do that. The activities always reinforce what they have been learning. These
are just two examples of what we have done so far this year. I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to list all year
to just up to date. I will attach some pictures of my students with germ-city.
**Cindy Coan: Russellville High School
Parenting classes-Love, love, love the website www.babycenter.com for the video library found on this website. There are
short animated video segments on conception, each of the stages of prenatal development, labor and
delivery. Also, actual video of labor and delivery and newborn development and care.
Fashion and Interiors-We are focusing on re-purpose and up-cycle. We are using websites like pinterest to find project ideas
that will re-purpose and/or up-cycle materials the kids already own. The list of ideas for old t-shirts is
amazing.
-Also, in this course we are focusing on careers. The students are learning everything about making a
good first impression to how social media can damage your job prospects, to how to meet a potential
client/customer and establishing an online business using web sites like ebay and Etsy.
Useful websites- www.pinterest.com and www.olioboard.com
Foods and Nutrition-I would recommend the movie/documentary Food, Inc. by Robert Kenner. This is a very interesting look
at the current food supply and the changes and challenges that have occurred over the last 25 years.
Great time to discuss patio gardening and food preservation as well as food safety.
-The Franklin County Cattleman’s Association will donate over 100 pounds of ground chuck and sliced
fajita meat to each FACS program in Franklin County. This is such a help with the expense of foods classes
each year.
FCCLA-Members elected chapter officers.
-“Cupcakes for Claus”- Members will make and sale cupcakes to RHS students during activity period
(Wednesday) each week the entire month of November---- fun fact, Santa will make a surprise visit. The
money raised from this project will be used to purchase Christmas gifts for needy children in Russellville.
- FACS classes will serve as the drop off point for collecting cleaning supplies for the domestic violence
response council
-Teal Toes Ovarian cancer awareness- Distributed sample size teal nail polish to students who
asked for information about ovarian cancer
**Monica Creekmore: Phil Campbell High School
*One thing I do in my classes when we are studying self concept and self esteem is to play music with
positive lyrics. I use the projector to show the lyrics so everyone can read along with the songs. One
example of a song I have used is "The Definition of Me" by Mandisa. The students loved this and it was a
good ice breaker to help the students to open up and talk about the issues they have with themselves. I
chose to use Mandisa as an example and to give a short biography to show how she overcame all of the
negativity and personal insults on American Idol to move forward in her career. She is now successful. I
showed pictures of her and told the class the comments Simon Cowl made to and about her. The
students were surprised at this and said very positive things about her. I was able to use this as an
example of how not to let others define who you are, or who you become. I encouraged them to only
make positive statements about themselves and to work on their self concept and self esteem.
*I also use math in my lessons when possible. When teaching units on cooking, instead of simply giving
them basic equivalents for measurements, I make them have to use their basic knowledge to do the math
functions in order to get the answers. One example of that is: They know 16 tablespoons = 1 cup, and 3
teaspoons = 1 tablespoon. I give them problems such as how many tablespoons are in 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, &1/8
cup and how many teaspoons = 1 cup, and fractions of a cup. I also do this with figuring fluid ounces,
pints, quarts, and gallons.
*While teaching about peer pressure, communication and relationships, I have students work in groups to
write skits about these issues. They then act out the skits in front of the class.
I use technology regularly. Sometimes it is for powerpoints to aid in my lectures. I also give assignments
for students to use the laptops to create powerpoint presentations or do internet research for essays I
have them write.
Lamar County:
**Chelsey White: Lamar Co. High School/Sulligent High School
My name is Chelsey White and I am the only FACS teacher in Lamar County. I teach at Lamar County High School
and Sulligent High School. South Lamar High School in Millport no longer has a FACS program. Here are a few
examples of things planned for this year.
1. Creative Arts Class- Annual pumpkin carving contest. Judged by students, teachers, and people in the
community. The winners receive a prize and their pumpkin is displayed at the school Fall festival and receive
newspaper recognition.
2. Food and Nutrition Class- Chili cook-off. Judged by a small group of teachers and students. Winners receive a
prize and newspaper recognition.
3. Housing/ Creative Arts Class- Field Trip to Custom Design Wall covering, based in Carrollton, AL.
Statement from Custom Design: We enable our customers the opportunity to create custom wall covering
solutions for their commercial properties. We create one of a kind samples using a screen printing technique to
simulate the gravure process.
We would show your students a unique graphic design position where both artistic and graphic skills are combined
to create art, the process of screen printing, and how texture is put into commercial vinyl. They would participate
in not only learning the process, but also create their own wall covering sample.
Lauderdale County:
** Tammie Dial: Central High School
*Members of the Alabama Renaissance Faire Round Table members to visit the school. They are bringing
a display of items that and will be making a presentation. We will be decorate the serving line in the
cafeteria for this day.
*We attended the JLDC.
*Sold Jack's coupon books for a fundraiser. Jack's will send your organization up to 150 coupon books to
sell for $5.00 each. There is no cost for the coupon books.
*We will participate in pink ribbon activities during the month of October.
*We will help a needy family at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
*We will be making full bib aprons for the community center.
**Millicent Elliott: Lexington High School
1. Elected officers
2. Had a bake sale to raise money for Childhood Cancer Awareness
3. Officers attended JLDC in Birmingham Alabama
4. We are starting to make Christmas ornaments for the Governor’s Mansion
5.Adopting angels for Christmas
**Jill Brooks: Florence Middle School
*We recently placed an exhibit in the Northwest Alabama State Fair and won 1 st place. Our exhibit
focused on Upcycling, which is using something that would be thrown away and creating another
purpose. Student- created information and examples were placed on the trifold and consisted of torn tshirt key chains, head bands, necklaces; and flowers made from water bottles.
*4 Middle School FCCLA members went to JLDC this year.
**Susanne Brink
*FCCLA does many community service projects, including helping the Salvation Army at Christmas with
the Angel Tree gift distribution, and also volunteering at our local nursing homes and animal shelter.
*In Creative Art, we are studying photography, and photo editing, we also oil paint, and do pencil
drawings. Students are encouraged to enter local art contests and their work is displayed at school.
We are also using ipads in Housing class to design a room, then a complete home. The students do not
consider this "work" because they have fun using the ipads!!
Lawrence County:
**Karon Liverett: Hibbett Middle School
Let me introduce myself. I currently teach within the Florence City School System at Hibbett Middle
School which houses the 5th and 6th grades. I am supported entirely through local funds. I have three
5th grade classes and three sixth grade classes. And my classes are limited to 20 students. Yes, I teach
family and consumer science through the elective program known as encore, because we offer more. The
Home Arts program is within a nine week rotation that includes art, chorus, keyboarding, and a career
discovery computer lab.
I focus mainly on sanitation and safety within the home and attempt to lay a foundation of life skills. I
have a classroom that houses 5 kitchens and a sewing lab. I love my job and the enthusiasm of this age! I
am not under the CT umbrella but I attempt to prepare students and encourage them to take higher
classes within the family and consumer science realm. I don't know if this helps but I wanted to let you
know I am out there and I appreciate all you do!
Limestone County:
**Jill Woods: Elkmont High School
*Whats going on with Elkmont FACS?
*Elkmont FACS received 2 grants from the Elkmont Foundation. 1 grant for $300 was used to purchase a
serger for the sewing lab. The other grant, shared with the Health teacher, was for $500 to update media
library on Health and nutrition.
*Limestone county held its county beef cook off sponsored by the Cattleman's Association. The Jr. High
representative from Elkmont won 1st place and will be competing in the State competition.
*Elkmont FCCLA is distributing pink ribbons to all the students to wear in October in support of Breast
Cancer Awareness month.
*The FCCLA is also beginning its 5th annual" Warm coats for a Cause," a coat drive for the needy in our
community.
**Susan Miller: Ardmore High School
*We have just completed 12 Care Bear Shaped pillows to donate to the Down Town Rescue Mission in
Huntsville and we are now working on 75 quilted wipe cases to donate to the NICU at Huntsville Hospital
and Athens Hospital to at Risk mothers and babies. We will also be sponsoring a family at Christmas.
**Roxie Horton: West Limestone High School
*During my advisory time I am working with seniors that do not have a clue what they are going to do
after graduation. The class is set up as Career Choices. We go over the soft & hard skills needed for any
career. I am using the "Alabama SUCCESS Education & Career Planner" program. We are looking at each
cluster and the jobs available, as well as the necessary training. This will be an ongoing class with students
being added as necessary.
**Jamie Norris: Clements High School
Clements high school is in the process of making 25 "pillows for hope" in honor of breast cancer
awareness. These pillow will be donated to local women who suffer from breast cancer and have has a
mastectomy. The pillow is designed to be placed under the arm to ease pain from the surgical incision
and tension along with helping reduce surgical swelling under the arm. Hope this helps your report.
Marion County:
Morgan County:
**Hollie Miller: Priceville High School
Well let me start with we at Priceville High School do many activities. I have a student competing for state
officer this year for FCCLA and my club is very active in star events and we have competing at the state
and national levels for the past five years. We do several community service projects and one is the
holiday hope chest where we make shoe boxes for children for Christmas. We are also doing pink breast
cancer shirts to help raise money for cancer research. Our county also holds a district and county meeting
each year which we participate in. The district meeting always correlates with our national motto for the
year. I am attending cluster for the second year in a row this year and my FCCLA always attends our JDLC
conference.
**Julie Rolin: West Morgan High School
August

Get Pen Pal – Write using a formal writing style and envelope. Also spelling and neatness does
matter!
 Any projects you want to participate in you need to sign up with Mrs. Rolin.
September
 Write Pen Pal. When you receive your pen pal letters, you have two days to get them written and
back to Mrs. Rolin.
 JLDC (Joint Development Leadership Conference) – 24&25. Officers plus 12 others will be
attending the conference. $75.00 in Birmingham
 Club Meeting- September 14, 2012
October
 Tailgate tent- Oct. 14th – tent, ideas, and workers are needed!!
 Write Pen Pal. When you receive your pen pal letters, you have two days to get them written and
back to Mrs. Rolin.
 Beef cook off @ Brewer High School
 District Field Trip - $75.00 Oct. 24th (Memphis, TN)
 Pen Pal Field Trip – Be looking for places that have cheap pumpkins and let Mrs. Rolin know.
 Club Meeting- October 19, 2012
November
 Write Pen Pal. When you receive your pen pal letters, you have two days to get them written and
back to Mrs. Rolin.
 FCCLA in school basketball game. (TBA)
 Club Meeting- 16, 2012
December
 Write Pen Pal. When you receive your pen pal letters, you have two days to get them written and
back to Mrs. Rolin.
 We will be doing T-shirt pillows for our pen pals. Bring in old T-shirts in GOOD condition.
**Cindy Yates: Decatur High School
Our program here is doing two fund raisers this semester. The first one we are making and selling
Caramel-Chocolate Pretzels to raise money for our local hospital to support their Breast Cancer
Foundation. The second one we are collecting pop tabs to take to Ronald McDonald House in
Birmingham. While we are there we will clean the facility and visit with the guests. Our program is also
cooking for the Morgan County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Class. This November we will begin a
coat drive for students who need coats. Our classes are all creating cookbooks to have at the end of the
year.
**Danita Lindsey/Debbie Gillon/Cynthia Weaver: Brewer High School
FCCLA:
*Participating in the Morgan Co. Annual FCCLA Meeting. This year we are going to Memphis, TN to
Graceland as part of the state theme “Reality Check”
*Hosting the Morgan Co. Cattlemen’s Association Beef Cook off on November 8 th.
*Hosting a soup fundraiser luncheon for the staff/faculty for homecoming called “Stew the Bulldogs”.
*Selling balloons at the homecoming game as a fundraiser.
*Collecting items for “Holiday Hope Chest” to donate for the Volunteer Center of Morgan Co.
**Deborah Gillon: Brewer High School
Culinary
*Gourmet Cupcakes Sales: Fundraiser for program. Cupcakes are $1 and are sold every Thursday after
school. There are two new flavors each week.
*Bake and Decorate 100 8” cakes for local school Fall Festival.
*Students participate in making candy houses for Christmas.
Walker County:
**Marulynn Lockett: Walker High School
*Our Walker High School (WHS) FCCLA Club caters several in house event/activities (Teachers Retired
Luncheon, administrator’s district meetings, and Minority Achievement Council Induction Ceremony) as
well as set up for Prom, Homecoming, and JROTC.
*FCCLA biggest fundraiser is the Otis Spunkmeyer Fresh Baked Cookies which we sell weekly which also
pays for FCCLA membership fees for those who cannot afford to pay, local, state, and national
conferences and the Joint Leadership Development.
*Our FACS program will offer the ServSafe credentialing next school term for students. January 2013 all
WHS students will receive the iPad 3 and we plan to take our classroom to next level. I will let you know
when I develop a lesson plan utilizing our newest technology.
*We participated in Soles4Souls. Students, faculty, and staff brought in slightly used shoes that were
donated to this organization for children and adults who have a need.
*We host a teen chef cooking competition 2010-2011 and cash prizes were given out. Upcoming events
for this year "BEST TEEN CHEF" Competition (APR/MAY 2013). This year it will be opened to all Walker
County Schools as well as Jasper City grades 6-12. We are still working on specifics.
Winston County:
**Lisa Lovett: Double Springs Middle/Winston Co. High School
Good morning. I am going to give you a list of the classes I teach and some of the activities we do in these
classes.
*7th grade Teen Discoveries- Cooking License Project, All About Me Scrapbook
*8th grade Teen Connections-Egg Baby Project, Cooking Labs
*9th grade Family and Consumer Science- Baby Think It Over Project and Pregnancy Profile, Dream Home
Project, Cartoon Pillow Sewing Project, Cooking Labs
*9th grade Family Wellness-Baby Think It Over project, CPR Certification, STD
Project, Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco Info
*11th and 12th grade Food and Nutrition-All Around the World Cooking project
FCCLA-We participate in American Cancer Association Relay for Life, Food Drive
for DHR, Beef Cooking Contest.
District 1B
Name:
Shirley Whorton: Madison County High School
Family and Consumer Science
The MCHS FCCLA is growing and very active. Recently, our officers traveled with other Career Tech
officers in our district to the JLDC in Birmingham. Upcoming events include participating in the MCHS
Truck or Treat for children in our community on October 31st , sponsoring a Red Cross Blood Drive on
November 7th, hosting a faculty lunch during National Education Week on November 14th , and a
sponsoring a “No Kid Hungry” Bake Sale in mid February.
Name: Charity Hutcheson: Section High School
Classes I teach this year are FACS, Parenting, and Food and Nutrition. My classes host the teacher
retirement lunch. FCCLA membership is around 100. We sell cookie dough to support our yearly
activities. We have a FCCLA dance in January. Relay for Life is our big community project. We usually raise
around $3,000. We design Relay for Life t-shirts, host a faculty-student basketball game, sponsor hat day,
and sale moons and stars school-wide. We are about to start working on Star Events for FCCLA which take
place in March.
Name: Sylvia Coleman and Debbie Fanning: Scottsboro High School
Finished the Homecoming Parade with a Mr. and Miss FCCLA, Planning Cans For Charity with FCCLA,
Students will be engaging in Toxic Tales for the ending of October to discourage Alcohol and Drug Abuse.
Students finished a fundraiser with ASPIRE were we raised over $1000 to help with future community
service activities and class supplies. Students have taken on the National Campaign and prepared peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches which were distributed in one of our lower income communities. We have
integrated FCCLA in our classes with the National campaign, membership drive, and guest speakers.
Students are in lively discussions and learning with curriculum and project based education focused on
soft skills and work place and career readiness in mind. On a colleague standpoint, we have had our initial
Advisory board meeting with much success. Discussion was about articulation agreements, credentialing
and networking. We also participated in the County Career Fair along with other schools in the county.
We have reviewed the updates for BIC and begun working on the information needed to prepare
ourselves for the process in 2014. We have also discussed ways to revamp our program for the needs in
our area for college and career ready graduates.
FCCLA 1st block - participated in a service project to make 179 PB&J sandwiches for an area outreach
called Sack Suppers sponsored by Hollis Memorial Church. Every Monday afternoon 240 sack suppers are
made and delivered to neighborhood mobile home parks in an attempt to get food to those who need it.
Students read labels to calculate the number of loaves of bread, jars of Peanut-butter and jelly needed for
the project. We actually planned to make 240, but everyone did not bring their assigned item, so then
students had to recalculate to determine how many sandwiches we could make with the supplies on
hand. The overseer of this outreach joined us to share how Sack Suppers started and how it is sustained.
Students worked in groups to form efficient assembly lines using standard safety and sanitation measures.
Next month we plan to assist with dispersing food to people at the by-weekly food pantry distribution day
at Living Word Ministries. This is part of a hands on No-Child Hungry project.
Other blocks are planning projects to collect can goods and host a family dinner and fun night for their nochild hungry project.
FACS and Fashion students are making embroidered key chains as a fund raiser. Fashion students will be
touring Unclaimed Baggage Center in November and participating in the operation Christmas Child shoe
box project they serve as a collection point for. Students have completed presentations on fashion
history, fashions around the world, fashion designers, sketching, design details and the design process.
and will be studying judging clothing quality and construction.. Potential Employees of Unclaimed
Baggage with these knowledge and skill sets are highly desirable. The tour will emphasize this. Students
will see the sorters, pricers, stockers, etc. at work as well as have the opportunity to discover hidden
designer treasures, and compare quality of workmanship and construction. We hope to have a scavenger
hunt/personal shopper challenge as well.
Parenting and child services students are carrying out weekly projects with area childcare centers who are
our community partners thanks to our new career tech director, Alicia Bell, who worked hard to organize
this for our lab experiences. Students have presented hands-on workshops on Fire Safety, Johnny
Appleseed, and Christopher Columbus. Students are focused on encouraging a love of reading in the at
risk preschool children with interactive one-on-one reading.
Mrs. Coleman and I chaperoned all 9th graders along with my FACS class students as they attended an
interactive hands on career fair sponsored by Impact Learning Center, NACC, community businesses, and
TVA. Students Engaged in activities that gave them a taste of the 73 career fields represented. The child
development program from the Community College was a big hit. Students each engaged in art activities
and science experiences and learned how to use these activities to teach states of matter and fine motor
skill development to children. Extension agents Lead activities in mixing sanitation solution to the proper
strength. Hospice workers taught hand message and shared how they used this to calm and relax patients
in their care. This was an outstanding opportunity.
Child services I students will be participating in a DHR approved APT 10 week course "Going to School"
along with area childcare workers and directors to earn professional development hours and certificate
beginning this Saturday. Students will be submitting their worksheets and test via email to the Child
Resource Network center for evaluation and scoring to earn their certificate. They must score 85% and
this can count as their 1 Internet course graduation requirement that some of my seniors were missing.
Child services I and II students are participating in mentoring activities in elementary classrooms and
community childcare centers 3 days per week. As we have visited these centers I have been thrilled to see
many of my former students working in the teaching and childcare fields. One center director told me that
my students were much better prepared for employment than other applicants. I beamed!
In ADDITION: Please add that child services students are currently creating career posters highlighting
their chosen profession and how the Parenting and child services courses and mentoring opportunities
are connected to those careers. This year’s posters range from pediatrician, child psychologist,
occupational therapist, to teacher or childcare center director so far. They will be displayed in the hallway
to promote the program. Tell everyone I hope they have a successful year!
Mrs. Harriet J. Murray: Gadsden City High FCCLA
We are still recruiting members for this year but already began one of our projects. We sponsored a
Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign here at Gadsden City High. Each morning statistics concerning the
disease were read to the school. On Wednesday, October 10 we were given permission to have a "Pink
Out Day" by our principal. FCCLA members made pink ribbons to pass out to students, teachers awarded
extra points to students who wore pink clothing, and teachers could wear jeans if they wore a pink shirt.
The day was a huge success with about 90 % of the 1600 students & 100 faculty wearing pink!
Name: Brandi Cantrell: Arab High School
At Arab's first trip to compete in STAR Events this summer we won 2 gold metals and 1 silver, we have a
state officer- Emily Fregeau (actually District 1 has Peyton Short also from Cullman), Cullman and Arab
are taking about 60 students to Indianapolis for FCCLA National Cluster meeting, and our clubs are huge
this year with lots of interest in competition.
Classroom- I have an increased interest in Fashion 2 which also runs the monogram business and they are
coming up with great ideas. We are working hard to establish great relationships with local businesses to
only hire our students for their businesses (retail & food industry). We plan to have 10-20 students take
the ServSafe exam in April.
Name: Deborah L. Helms: Skyline High School FACS/FCCLA
We just entered a State Fair booth. We placed 4th.
-I am teaching the new Workforce Essentials course and have had a lot of good response from the greater
community in finding guest speakers to talk to our class.
-We traveled to JLDC in September. The girls had a great time and learned a lot.
Name: Elizabeth Branscomb: Hazel Green High School
In FCCLA, We are going to try and do a thanksgiving and A Christmas service project. We are going to vote
on this, but in the past we have done an angel tree child.
Name: Lanis Marbut: Hokes Bluff High School
October FCCLA "Think Pink"- Breast Cancer Awareness and raising money for a bus driver at our school
who is undergoing breast cancer treatments.
Name: Jennifer Curvin: White Plains High School
* October Blood Drive collected 33 units of blood with 47 signing in!!
* Attended JLDC with 4 of my top students in FCCLA.
* Hosting our Retired Teachers Luncheon coming up in November, our theme this year will be "Wizard of
Oz" we make the menu, cook the food, and make the costumes; we do table scapes, and decorations for
this event.
* Preparing refreshments for Veteran's on our Veteran's Day Program.
* Planning our White Christmas Program, We complete a canned food drive to donate to local people in
need.
* Many more to come!!!!
Name: Amanda Pope: Spring Garden School – Cherokee County
We are selling T-shirts for Breast Cancer Awareness and doing a bake sale each Friday in October. In
November we will be doing a food drive.
District 3B
Name: Dawn Hopper: Central Baldwin MS
*12 Attended nationals in Orlando FL. Seven students and 5 adults; Received three silver and two bronze.
August – October 25, 2012: Excellent membership drive …largest enrollment in years.
Fundraiser; Sales of Otis Spunkmeyer Cookies weekly at 3pm Wednesday thru Friday
Sept. 4: Enjoyed career bio’s in Fall Fashion Walk in Mobile;
Local Sweet Potato Cook-off, CBMS student placed 2nd at county contest held at the Baldwin County fair.
Sept.25,2012: 2nd place in Baldwin County Fair Exhibits
Sept 24-25,2012: JDLC; toured Hyundai Automobile Industry in Montgomery on our way up to
Birmingham. Great conference
*Working on Beef Cook-Off/ Ag Industry Career Profile; October 23,2012
*CBMS FCCLA host Nov. 8, 2012 Veterans Day Program: “By the People for the People”
*Homecoming October 15-19, 2012, selling BBQ sandwiches at game for Life Relay for Life, Nov
16,2012proceeds.
*Florida Fruit Fundraiser Nov 1-30,2012
*Adopt a Veteran from William F. Green Veterans Home for Christmas