Welcome to the 2024/2025 School Year at Vista Murrieta High School!

I am in my third year at Vista Murrieta High School.  I look forward to working with your child to help them be successful this year!

The following are the classes I teach at Vista Murrieta High School and the expectations set forth.  Please read a little info about each class.  For more detail, please check my Canvas pages.

Environmental Science Essentials: This class covers the essential information necessary to have a basic knowledge of the environment.  We cover topics such as the Earth's Spheres: Hydro, Atmo, Geo, and Bio.  The course of study digs in to each of these Spheres and how they interact with each other and how they affect our environment.   The class tests/quizzes are mostly based off the vocabulary words that we go over for each section of study.  Sections or Units can be 2-3 weeks or less, depending upon how many vocabulary words there are for that Unit.  There are sometimes participation grades, especially for group projects.  All group members are expected to participate.  

Math Essentials 1: The Math Essentials 1 class is the first of four classes that students will take over the course of the 4-year Special Education Math program, here at Vista Murrieta High School.  The following is a breakdown of those classes:

Math Essentials 1, THIS course works to help students bridge the gaps to work toward Math 1 completion.  Students who take Math Essentials 1 will need to complete Transitional Math Basic (the next course needed), Math 1A (3rd course needed), and Math 1B (4th course needed) in order to meet the graduation requirements of Math 1.  This course will work on basic integers, fractions, order of operations and basic equations.  

Math Essentials 2: This course focuses on foundational skills that will help students be successful after High School in the areas of adding, subtracting, counting money, telling time, listening to directions that partain to math instructions, and using rounding and estimating to help them figure out problems quickly.  

Please feel free to contact me at my work number here at the school - 951-894-5750 X6508

Email:  ehenderson@murrieta.k12.ca.us