West Elementary Students are studying Dr. Seuss. West Elementary students are invited to participate in a variety of activities beginning with Crazy Hat Day on March 1. Please check out the West Elementary Calendar on the district website for the remainder of the activities.
West Elementary Pre-Kindergarten students have been studying fairy tales the entire month of February. This group is having fun acting out The Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf in the dramatic play area.
Congrats to the JCHS Jazz Ensemble for their performance at the Jazz in the Meadows Competition this weekend. Outstanding Soloists awards went to Abigail Stephens on Vibes, Caleigh Cornell on Auxiliary, and Cade Kitzmiller on Bari Saxophone.
Congratulations JCHS 8th Grade Jr. Olympiad teams. Jersey took two 7th grade and two 8th grade teams to the Jr. Olympiad. The 8th grades teams both placed! They earned 4th and 5th place out of 38 teams. It was a great day filled with a lot of engineering and design.
John Collins signs to play baseball with Millikin University. Congratulations!
7th grade students visited the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. This was a great experience for the kids to learn the importance of equality, as well as support the content they’ve been learning in class.
JCHS senior Anna Kraushaar was just awarded the Indiana State Presidential Scholarship (full ride). Anna received the highest score of the 280 applicants!
Madalyn Bodenbach, Daniel Gray, Maggie Maxeiner, Kate Hudson, Evan Lacy, and Shawn McDonald all represented JCMS at the Calhoun, Greene, Jersey County Spelling Bee. Madalyn Bodenbach came home with a first place medal for 5th grade! #GoJerseyPanthers
West Students brought the game Hungry Hungry Hippos to life. Mrs. Ray works daily to make sure students enjoy her class. #GoJerseyPanthers
Congratulations to these wonderful 35 musicians who were selected to participate in the MVC Honor Choir & Band Festival on Thursday, Feb 21. They performed amazingly and represented JCHS well at McKendree College.
Grafton Elementary Family Science Night was a HUGE success. Many thanks to our PTO and Boeing for such cool STEAM activities. More pics to come...
Check out West Elementary students having lunch for the first time in the brand new cafeteria!
Coach Reeder was honored after last night's Varsity game for earning his 200th victory at JCHS back in December! He was presented with the game ball by his current senior players, Trenton Darr, Nate Goldacker, Will Medford, Kurt Hall & David Rogers. Congrats, Coach!
Check out more pictures of the new "Cafetorium" space at West Elementary. Our students are especially excited with the stage and the "Panther Den."
Do you want to know what a typical day in JCHS Fine Arts and Career/Technical Education classes looks like? It is mess, loud, busy, practical, organized chaos with career exploration and hands on applications. The content might have changed since you were in high school but the change is for the better! In CTE classes, students are learning to find their niche and build a career from the passions. But it is more than that, so much more! There is an over abundance of problem-solving, character development, collaboration unfolding too. These students display so much pride and confidence everyday. These classes are for students planning to attend college, trade school, military bound, going right into the work force... and the undecided. It is not just something they look forward to in their day or an incentive to pass their core classes- It is an opening to doors they did not know existed.
When Mrs. Heitzig took the pictures below today. She just popped in unannounced, and snapped a few quick pictures. It did not need to be planned because these activities happen daily.
Today was a SUPER exciting day at West Elementary!!! Students got to tour our brand new "Cafetorium." We have more student tours tomorrow and students will be using the facility starting Thursday! Stay tuned for more pics tomorrow!
Students in Mrs. Leblancś classroom started out their Tuesday morning with problem solving and collaborating at their STEM stations. It was a great way to start the week and really get the students motivated to learn. #GoJerseyPanthers
Update on tomorrow's indoor track meet at Principia: the start time has been moved from 9:00am to 12:00 pm.
Three teachers from JCUSD 100 decided to spend their Saturday learning about best practices in education. Rachel Evans, Niki Egelhoff, and Melanie Fessler- Thanks for volunteering your time to attend this conference. #Jersey100Proud #GoJerseyPanthers
First grade students love coding on Valentines day. The excitement in the room was contagious.
The students in Mrs. Duggan's classroom exceeded all expectations today when they programmed their robots.
The students were able to write up to 4 different lines of code. Many of the groups learned about decimals for the first time because they needed their robot to go less than 2 seconds but more than 1 second. One student suggested try 1.5. Then the students were ready for the next challenge and added angles to their code. The students used a protractor to code angles from 0-360 degrees. The math applied to program the robots was outstanding. Best of all the students used trial and error to keep their robot on track. #lovemath #loveStem #GoJerseyPanthers
