The Life Skills Class thank maintenance and custodial for their brand new kitchen with a Gratitude Breakfast.  This kitchen is an improvement for the Life Skills students as part of the program is learning basic skills like cooking, gardening, and communication skills. These classes contain students from the ages of 12-21. You may have seen the Life Skills students around the school collecting bottles for recycling. The students and teachers want to give a special thank you to all the teachers and students for their support with the recycling program. The funds used from collecting those bottles were used for the gratitude breakfast and the best thing on the menu: Donuts!

When the heating system blew in some classes around the 500 wing last year, Mr. Diaz’s classroom, Room 505,  was required to have a renovation. The kitchen, originally made in 1972, was originally used as a kitchen for a Home Economics class. However, about 20 years ago the class was reduced and since then has been used as a classroom for the Life Skills students. Custodial and maintenance only had 8 weeks to demolish and rebuild everything while also taking care of everything else in the school.  Along with the new kitchen now being wheelchair accessible,  the class also got new floors, walls, and ceilings. As Mr. Mc Master said, “