November and December /Great Months to End our School Year!

November and December were filled with great lessons and excitement in Open Doors. The Open Doors students at Van Winkle enjoyed their SHOP projects for the year 2010. Students worked so hard making projects to sell at SHOP. The students chose to promote and conduct another food drive for the Genesis Food Bank located in Jackson. Dr. David Gatlin and his wife, Deana spoke at the PTA meeting in December about Genesis and their work. They encouraged parents, staff, and the Van Winkle community to bring cans of food for the drive. At the end of the drive the students at Van Winkle collected about 1000 cans of food for the drive.
It was with great excitement that the students and Mrs. Anne Land greeted a new teacher to the Open Doors classes. Her name is Ms. Bronwyn Land and she has also taught Gifted Education in other schools. The students had fun making up little slogans for our class with two "Lands" as teachers.

2010 was a very good year......Looking forward to 2011!!!

Students and Mrs. Land are excited about having Ms.Bronwyn Land as a new teacher in the Open Doors Classes at Van Winkle!

Students love posing in front of their holiday backdrop!

Akenya enjoys pizza at the Gatti Town Van Winkle event!

Students created covered hangers and twirlies for SHOP!

Students made many pretty bottlecap jewelry for SHOP!

Michael and Alex demonstrate the Twirlies!

Our SHOP display!!

Students love to show off their art work!

Rashee and Myalexis loved painting the backdrop.

Naudia was all about making jewelry.

Myia worked on a snowflake poem and collage.

Jewelry making is so much fun.

Naudia and Daecieon are so honored to sell our first jewelry to Dr. Shepherd.

Helping the customer make decisions!!!