Decatur High School FACS Department

02/07/2025

What a GREAT day we had at Jones Valley Teaching Farm & Center for Food Education! Mrs. Hamilton & Mrs. Pettus along with 34 Food & Nutrition students spend a few hours learning about the Civil Rights Movement & how Georgia Gilmore made an impact by the food she cooked and sold to raise funds. Students prepared 4 different Soul Food dishes including Stewed Cabbage, Jackfruit Fried “Chicken”, Red Beans & Rice, and Peach Cobbler.

It was such a wonderful time of learning & experiencing something new!

Decatur City Schools - Alabama
Decatur High School- Decatur, Al
Jones Valley Teaching Farm

10/25/2024

Thank you to Chelsea Edwards, founder of Huntsville Nutrition Collective for being our first guest speaker this year! Chelsea spoke to our class about her career as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. We all learned something new!

10/25/2024

10/18/2024

We had the best day participating in Alabama CTSOs JLDC Virtual Conference! It was a great day learning about how to be a better leader, fear less, give more Grace, ask for help, and build better teams!
A huge thank you to Chick-fil-A for feeding us lunch & Decatur High School- Decatur, Al for supporting the CTSO organizations! 🩵😃

10/18/2024

Congratulations to our very own, Genesis Hernandez!! She won 2nd place in today’s Virtual Quest!
Decatur High School- Decatur, Al
Alabama CTSOs

Let's here it for the Virtual JLDC Quest winners! We will send you prizes, Congrats!!

10/18/2024

Thank you SO much to Chick-fil-A Southwest Decatur for providing our students lunch today while they participated in the Alabama JLDC Virtual Conference!

09/25/2024

We are beginning our unit on Dating. Today, we discussed the sequence of relationships. 😊

08/23/2024

Our Food & Nutrition classes learned about healthy eating, balanced meals, & MyPlate this week. Students were given a blank MyPlate template and used magazines to cut out pictures of different foods to fill up their “Healthy Plate”. I love how the results turned out! 🥗🍛🍤🍳🎂🍑🍎

08/23/2024

This week, students learned the steps of decision making & the importance of making good decisions. Students were able to use their creativity to come up with a comic strip that showed the process of making a good decision.
Pictured below are just a few of the creative comic strips made by students in Family & Consumer Sciences. They are so talented & creative! 💡

08/09/2024

Positivity Papers 💛 Today, students taped a piece of paper to their backs and walked around the classroom to write positive notes & compliments on each other’s backs. At the end of the activity, students were left with a paper full of kind things about themselves, written by those in their class.
“We rise by lifting others” ✨✨
Decatur High School- Decatur, Al

08/09/2024

Our goals for the year ✅ Good grades, make new friends, be more positive, & have the best year!

08/08/2024

It was a great first day in the FACS Department at DHS! It is going to be a wonderful year with this group of students. Ready to meet our B Day students tomorrow!

Decatur High School- Decatur, Al