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Functional Living Class display, sell artwork at OPOMAC

Tue, 05/18/2021 - 3:27 pm
editor@grahamleader.com

Each year, the Graham High School Functional Living Class has parties at Halloween and Easter hosted by Graham local Joni Street and other volunteers. During the Easter party this year the students completed artwork which was displayed at the Old Post Office Museum and Art Center during the GHS Art Show and sold for commission for all of the students.

Around eight years ago Michelle McGee, who was the special education teacher at the time, told Street that the hardest thing to find was out-of-school activities for the special education students. Street called McGee that year when she was decorating for Halloween to bring the student to her house.

“That day we just decided we are going to do this, so then it became Halloween and Easter (...). It’s been a while. We have been doing it for many, many years. So they come see us at Halloween and Easter and then we try to take them like an end-of-year gift (and) just take them little stuff throughout the year. We became their self-appointed party moms,” Street said.

The parties usually consist of cookie decorating, games and various other activities such as relay races with the students and teachers or scavenger and Easter egg hunts.

“Really we just hang out and have fun,” Street said. “The ultimate (event) in Easter is the confetti eggs. I said at the last party (...) ‘You have not witnessed sheer joy until you’ve watched these kids have a confetti egg fight.’ It is my absolute favorite. I have probably bought 40-dozen confetti eggs because there is running and screaming. It just makes my day and so confetti egg is the highlight.”

For the rest of the story, see the May 19 edition of The Graham Leader.