Upcoming Travel Opportunities:   Open  to All UGHS students, former students and families... we love taking UG Seniors on a trip after they graduate!!

     June 2025:  Athens and the Greek Isles (deadline to enroll Feb 14, 2025)     enrollment link to June 2025 to Greece

>>>>>>>>>athens and the islands video

    June 2026: Paris to the Pyrenees (deadline to enroll Feb 14, 2026)  

     June 2026: Experience Japan  (deadline to enroll Feb 14, 2026)  

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ughstravels linktr.ee  :     click for to rsvp info meetings and see itineraries!!

Meet Mrs Bates and hear about the ECE Pathway:    ECE Video Intro

Teacher:  Lisa Grey Bates

 Welcome

 Union Grove Students to the  Early Childhood Education Pathway !!!

 "Parents are a child's first and most important teacher."  Lisa Grey Bates

"Great minds discuss ideas.    Average minds discuss events.  Small minds discuss people."  Eleanor Roosevelt

Email Address:  lisa.bates@henry.k12.ga.us

Adviser:  Family, Career and Community Leaders of America

Sponsor: UG Travels travel club

Subjects that I Teach: 

Year 1  Early Childhood Education 1      ECE 1 Syllabus 23-24

Year 2  Early Childhood Education 2      ECE 2 Syllabus 23 - 24

Year 3  Early Childhood Education 3      ECE 3 Syllabus 23-24

Subscribe to Remind Texts for your ECE class:

Year 3  send @eceyear3  to 81010          (1st Period)

Year 2  send @eceyear2   to 81010         (2nd & 3rd Period)

Year 1  send @eceyear1   to 81010          (5th, 6th & 7th Period)              

FCCLA  send @ughsfccla   to 81010                        

Join Google Classroom for FCCLA:  class code: gx5qdkm

Seniors who plan to Major in Education                send @teachiwill to 81010 

Learn more about FCCLA: link to FCCLA National    _________________________________________________

First year students will have the opportunity to learn  

• about the development and growth of babies and young children, and discover how they learn and grow.  
• to take home a "Real Care" baby to experience a simulation of full time infant care. 
• improve employability skills and knowledge and will create a resume and participate in a Mock Job Interview.

Second (and third) year students will

• practice skills to become more employable
• taking a closer look at Education as a career
• develop 1st Aid and CPR skills
• have the opportunity to teach young children as a part of the Teens Teaching Tots preschool during 2nd Semester.

Third year students will

• also be practicing employability by working in a job shadow role (internship) in an Early Childhood classroom (at an elementary school or daycare) with the guidance of an Elementary School teacher or Early Childhood teacher giving them the opportunity to better understand the world of work for professionals who choose to work with young children and families.

All students will also be developing professional paperwork and interview skills needed to apply for, qualify, and keep a job.

Membership in FCCLA will give any student opportunities to

1)  Learn to Lead Others

2)  Have FUN with friends

3)  Travel/go on Field Trips!!!

4)  Gain REAL LIFE skills.   link to google form   to join can be found on fccla google classroom! 

I love what I teach and look forward to working with you!

I encourage all of my students to be the best student, family member, friend, teacher, and team member they can be.

Mrs. Bates

 Powerful beyond measure...

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

 Marianne Williamson (from Akeelah and the Bee the movie)

Henry County Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.  You may access additional information at https://schoolwires.henry.k12.ga.us/Page/49720

In memory of my mom:

             Mary Basden Grey