Downey Adult School

Do you enjoy music and have a desire to develop a talent? You will have a wonderful feeling of pride in your accomplishment. Bring your guitar and be prepared to have fun.

Want to learn how to make your own jewelry without having to use a torch and solder? Want to add that Bling without the huge cost? Then this class is for you! Learn to use simple pliers and metal wire to form great looking necklaces, earrings, rings and bracelets. Impress your friends with your beautiful custom jewelry while saving money at the same time.

Watercolor painting can be easy and fun! Learn basic techniques and a variety of styles and subjects as you paint along with your instructor. Beginners welcome, results guaranteed!

Spend your Monday evenings in the company of many women who love the sewing field. You will be learning your software, embroidery machine, sewing machine, and serger in new exciting ways with projects that are fun and educational. Regardless of your skill level, you will learn something new every week. You can work on your own projects and/or the class projects.

This class will turn the love you have for flowers into beautiful arrangements that you will do yourself. Learn to create different arranging styles such as contemporary, traditional, exotic, weddings, and special occasions. Fresh flowers will be supplied each week to help you create your own arrangement. You will learn techniques and tips to help you create attractive fresh floral arrangements for your home. A $12 nonrefundable weekly flower fee applies

Learn to sew or increase your knowledge with new techniques that will spark your creativity. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your own pattern or project if you wish. Class projects will introduce you to new exciting items that you can make for your home or gifts. Sew garments for yourself or your familythe choice is yours.

Learn basic stitches and how to read and understand written instructions. Advance to adjusting patterns and making designed garments/accessories.

Become the master of your sewing machine. Transform ready-made items, family linens and ready-made clothing into one-of-a-kind masterpieces. Quickly reproduce work reminiscent of silk embroidery, cut work and crewel. There is more MONOGRAMMING like the pros. Instantly stitch beautiful stylized lettering. Learn secrets that only the industry knows. APPLIQUE like a dream. Instructions so specific and precise you cant fail. You will become so confident that you may want to create a home-based business. And there is more

A Healthy Diet can be interesting with a variety of foods. It lowers your risk for heart disease, heart attack, and stroke. It lowers your risk for colon cancer, breast cancer, and some other cancers. It helps you maintain a healthy weight. (Your health provider can help you set a good weight for you.) Eating healthy gives you more energy. This class will give you an overview of how this program will improve your overall health. Ron Jung implemented this program and has lost 25 pounds and lost an inch and a half from his waist.

In this advanced class, you will be exposed to a variety of metal working techniques. The types of techniques that will be covered are: Precious Metal Clay, Silver Fusing, simple soldering to advanced wire wrapping and cold connections. Use design principles to produce wonderful pieces of jewelry or whatever their imaginations come up with! This class is open to students with experience in wire wrapping or metal work, or with the approval of the instructor.

In this class we will cover a whole range of cake decorating techniques, from baking, torting and icing a cake to decorating a beautiful doll cake. You will learn the basics as well as professional tips. You will get to know a variety of icings and fillings as well as several useful techniques such as borders, piping, star tip designs, etc. Basic tools provided. This class is a pre-requisite for our next 2 levels.

Feng Shui (Wind & Water) is an Asian technique practiced to achieve harmony, comfort, and energy balance through a person's environment and life. With time and effort, it is easy to learn the different rules and patterns, so that anyone wishing to benefit from it can do so.

El Feung Shui (Viento y Agua) es una technica Asiatica, con el proposito de alcanzar la armonia, comodidad, y balance de la energia en el medio tiempo y un poco de esfuerzo, es posible aprender las diferents reglas y patrones para que aquellos que deseen beneficiarse de esta tecnica pueden hacerlo.

Learn to oil paint the easy way! Simple followalong instruction enables the student to easily learn brush techniques, color mixing, and the necessary elements and fundamentals of art. Beginners welcome, results guaranteed!

VOCAL MUSIC STUDIO Have you ever wanted to improve your singing? Give voice to your love of music! Expand your vocal range, improve your emotional expression and vocal tone while you study and perform popular music in a positive and supportive environment.

Learn easy, speed quilting methods for traditional block patterns resulting in heirloom-quality quilts and projects. Finished blocks are template-free and use QUILT IN A DAY Speed-quilting techniques appropriate for quilts, home and fashion accessories and simple garments. Learn to stitch by machine elegant, intricate patterns on quilts with ease and accuracy. Experiment with battings, threads, needles, and transferring methods. Make samples and bring your unfinished quilts to class. Basic & Advanced.

Learn basic step-by-step instruction for beginning and advanced students in any area of clothing. Students will learn to adapt their own patterns and sew the popular stretch knit or woven fabrics with the latest sewing techniques that apply to the new overlock machines.

Chinese Cooking is as popular as ever! Join us in class as we create traditional favorites, as well as new dishes to delight your palates and please the senses. What's your favorite Chinese food? Come and learn how to prepare some of the classic favorites: Kung Pao Beef, Shrimp Fried Rice, Mu Shu Pork, Sesame Chicken, Sweet & Sour Dishes...Yum!! Are you hungry yet? You'll prepare a complete meal each week. $6.00 weekly food fee.

The basics of Accounting, including debits, and credits, setting up a company in QuickBooks.

Purchasing and Accounts Payable, inventory set-up and control. This will include Quickbooks exercises that integrate these applications.

Managing cash in a business - includes bank reconciliation. A QuickBooks exercise for Bank Reconciliations is part of this module.

Manual payroll and automated as well with QuickBooks.

Order entry through invoicing and collections. Includes inventory management and credit reporting in QuickBooks.

Prerequisite: Medical Temrinology, Medical Billing, Medical Coding and Insurance in the Medical Office. The Medical Biller & Coder program prepares students for a career in the medical billing industry. Students completing the program can test to receive national certification. Medical billers and coders are employed by hospitals, clinics, physicians offices, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), mental health care facilities, nursing homes, insurance companies, consulting firms, health data organizations and information system vendors.

The Medical Biller & Coder program prepares students for a career in the medical billing industry. Students completing the program can test to receive national certification. Medical billers and coders are employed by hospitals, clinics, physicians offices, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), mental health care facilities, nursing homes, insurance companies, consulting firms, health data organizations and information system vendors.

Charts are an excellent and effective way of laying out your data and presenting it to others in a way that is easy to interpret. Charts allow the user to show patterns, trends, and relationships of data. You will also learn to use advanced features of charts such as customizing a data series and adding a data table, WordArt, and graphics to your chart.

Learn to work more efficiently by letting Excel do the work for you! You will learn the difference between formulas and functions and how to save time by copying your calculations instead of manually retyping the information thereby reducing the chance for errors.

An Excel table is an organized collection of rows and columns of similarly structured data in a worksheet. Tables allow the user to analyze and manipulate data and perform sorts and data calculations. You will also learn to use advanced features of tables such as creating filters, advanced filters, look up functions, data validating and subtotals.

An Excel Pivot Table is a powerful tool which lets you summarize data in an interactive format. In the first class youll learn to rearrange (pivot) parts of the table structure around data to summarize any data category values within the table. Youll also learn to view the data three-dimensionally and create and print reports. A What-If Analysis is exactly thatWHAT IF? It allows you to use a worksheet to explore different outcomes for Excel formulas.

Learn your way around Excel 2007 and become familiar with simple calculations, formulas, and editing. Youll also use formatting features to make your worksheet more attractive and easier to read.

Class one will show you how to view, arrange, and protect worksheets and workbooks. You will also learn how to save custom views, prepare a workbook for distribution, insert hyperlinks, and group worksheets. A macro is a set of instructions that you give to Excel to perform in the order you specify. In class two youll learn how to record, run and edit macros to automate Excel tasks that you perform frequently.

This class will teach you to audit a worksheet to track errors, control calculations, use cell comments, group data to make it easier to work with, create a custom Auto Fill list, and create a template. Learn to freely exchange data among Excel and most other Microsoft programs, a process known as integration.

Want to grab the attention of your audience? Word is one of the most widely used applications in the business world. You will learn to quickly create impressive documents from letters to reportsusing Word's most popular functions, such as, formatting, borders and shading, columns and sections, clip art, graphics, tables and more. Upon completion of this class you will be ready to learn how to maximize your time using MS Word 2007 Quick Styles, Templates and more.

Want to improve your production in the workplace? Learn how to apply Quick styles and Themes to your documents, create building blocks, mail merge and labels, styles and templates, build a document in Outline View, generate a Table of Contents and Index, work with references, such as , footnotes, citations, bibliography and equations.

Have a new computer? Never used one before? This is a perfect class for beginners. Learn how to start up a computer and move right up to creating simple word processing documents. Learn the basics of the new Windows Vista program. Some of the new features are WIndows Sidebar, Gadgets, Taskbar Thumbnails, Windows Aero, Windows flip, and Windows Flip 3D. Upon completion of this class you will be ready to move on to creating impressive documents using MS Word 2007.

Come learn how to use the number one Photo Editing Software used by all professional graphic artists. You will learn how to touch up digital images, add special effects, create slideshows and much, much more. This class is taught at a slower pace but all ages are welcome to come and join the fun.

Already completed a course in Adobe PhotoShop Elements? In this class we will review the basics, use PhotoShop tools, filters, layers, and modes to enhance your digital images. This class will focus on a variety of projects that promise to turn your photographs into works of art.

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Brief review of skills from the Basics I class, including a fun keyboarding program (to learn or to build skill) to get the most out of all your computer programs. Develop skills to accomplish personal goals; bring in personal projects. Work with several programs (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.). Make calendars and greeting cards. This is a structured class but also self-paced. Work at your own personal pace. Adults of any age are welcome.

This course introduces basic principles and strategies for communicating in writing and improving writing skills. Class sessions will address such issues as "finding something to say," "descriptive writing," and "narrative writing," as well as other issues connected with the writing process. In addition to the classroom discussion, you will have the opportunity to check out a series of DVD's. Through the video series, you will meet a wide array of professionals whose work involves writing. These writers will discuss how they write with their specific audiences in mind. Course is suitable for all levels of writers. Whether you write for school, for work, or for pleasure, you can benefit from this class.

Level 1 is a beginning class in the basics of line dancing. Learn easy dances, make new friends and exercise all at the same time.

Level 2 is an intermediate class for those wanting to learn the latest dances. We will also do some "oldies" like Tush Push, Watermelon Crawl and more. Join us for fun and exercise!!

Its never too late to feel as good as you possibly can! Take advantage of our fitness program, which consists of heart conditioning, toning upper and lower body muscles, stretching and strengthening the core muscles with the use of exercise ball and pilates. Move to our up-beat music in our new aerobic dance room. Learn to monitor your heart rate. Use our state of the art weight room.

Ditch the workout and join the Party!! Zumba is a fun, aerobic, dance-based workout with a fusion of Latin and International music. Dance away your worries and calories! The dance routines feature combinations of fast and slow rhythms making the class fun and exciting! This is the type of exercise youll want to do everyday and feel good doing it!!

Do you want to lose weight? Cardio kickboxing is the way to go! Learn modified punches and kicks while you lose weight, build your core muscles, strengthen your muscles, and improve your agility. By joining this class, you will receive a free fitness assessment.

Do you like to exercise and dance? This class unites aerobics and dance into one fun-filled class. If you want to lose weight, develop core strength, and tone muscles like a dancer, you can't miss this class. You will train like a dancer and learn to dance to hip-hop and Latin music. This class is suitable for all levels.

Pilates is a sequence of light exercises that develop concentration, relaxation, coordination, and energy. Dress comfortable and bring a floor mat.

This high powered class is designed to challenge you to a higher level of fitness through all disciplines (running, sprinting, strength & learning weight lifting programs, bar workouts, medicine ball work & agility routines, bleachers and an obstacle course). The academy will include teachings in team leadership as well as anatomy & nutrition.

Learn how to stay fit and flexible. Perform low impact aerobics, stretching, core stability exercises and moderate strength training. Bring your own exercise ball, mat, proper shoes and clothing. Other equipment will be provided.

Yoga is an ancient system of gentle invigorating stretching exercises and breathing techniques that enhance physical and mental well-being. Bring a towel, cotton belt, and firm blanket.

This course teaches basic skin physiology. The student will learn how to use appropriate cosmetic products. The student will learn to save money on many products and learn the truth about many cosmetic myths. This course also teaches the student the knowledge needed to work behind a cosmetic counter by learning cosmetic ingredients, customer service and cosmetic verbage. Textbook required.

This course teaches intro to makeup including planning the makeup,corrective makeup, time spent on makeup and different kinds of fashion work. You will learn facial structure, eye shapes, principles of color and appropriate techniques to match the needs required of the image wanted. You will learn and experience working with all the types of makeup, fashion, pigment and powders. You will learn the step-by-step process of a complete fashion makeover. Pre-requisite: Must have Beginning Makeup unless you are a licensed cosmetologist or esthetician.

Have you always wanted to learn how to apply your own makeup for work, going out, or for just everyday life? This course will teach you professional secrets on how to apply makeup on yourself. You will learn techniques on how to choose and apply foundation, eye shadow, and lip coloring. Learn contouring, coloring, lining, and shadow placement to bring out the beautiful you that lies within.

Come and have a blast learning how to do makeup for special effects and Halloween. Learn to make bruises, broken noses and much more. Make extra $$ for Halloween.

This class will teach you to have more control when taking photographs. During the first part of the class, we will examine an array pf photographs by different professioanl photographers in order to understand what ia necessary to attain different types of photographs. Th egoal is to understand the different tools that photographers use to attain certain results. We will review the camera's settings such as apeture, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance. This class is recommended for those taht already have a good undertanding of the basics of photography and are ready to further their knowledge of this art. During the second half of the class, we will be examining different processes necessary to capture different shots. We will discuss the use of flashes, tripods, and other tricks to kick our photographs to the next stage.