JCMS girls basketball have a successful night at home against Calhoun. Both 7th and 8th grade took the win.
October is National Principals Month!
Join us in celebrating the exceptional dedication and leadership of our principals. Their unwavering commitment to our students, staff, and community is truly commendable.
Today's Spotlight:
Dr. Jason Brunaugh
Jersey Community High School
We want to express our heartfelt gratitude for your service and for positively impacting the educational journey of all students. You are valued and appreciated more than words can express! #PrincipalAppreciation #WhereKidsComeFirst #GoJerseyPanthers
Congratulations to Shane Desherlia who was voted and unveiled as the Homecoming Football Spirit for the Class of 1999.
Mrs. Brady's class welcomed Mrs. Hausman into the classroom for some apple tasting.
Happy National Custodian Appreciation Day! Today, we want to shine a spotlight on our incredible custodians! From early mornings to late nights, they work to create a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for all our students and staff. Join us in extending our heartfelt thanks to these individuals who keep our facilities in shape!
Don Barnard, Ryan Bean, Brian M. Brown, Lindsey Crone, Chris Dilks, Tim Eilerman, Henry Genisio, Ginnie Goff, Tony Gunterman, Mark Hester, Greg Johns, Joe Kallal, Tanya Klein, Amanda Kovach, Adam Kuehnel, Pat Lyles, Charlie McCoy, Wanda Mielke, Shannon Mouser, Brian Patsaros, Chad Richards, Chad Roach, Joe Sanders, Brenda Shelt, and Erin Schrieber - We thank you!!!!
And a special shout-out goes to our student workers who go the extra mile! Adam Coffman, Richard Fickle, Luke Fink, and Jace Marshall, you truly are rock stars in our book!
Mrs. Duggan and Mrs. Heitzig's classes enjoyed the afternoon picking apples.
JCMS Cross Country does well at the Southwestern Middle Meet. Boys took the win. Girls placed second. Brenley Kelly won the girls division!
JCMS Spirit Week
JCMS 5th grade students had an amazing time today at the Water Festival in Godfrey! Thank you to all of the organizations who make this event possible!
Grafton Pre-K has had an "appletastic" week! We have read many Apple Books, taste-tested red, green, and yellow apples, and graphed which one was our favorite. We ended the week by making homemade applesauce, which was Pre-K approved!
Mrs. Lumma's 1st grade class went on a field trip to Eckert's today to pick apples and it was a beautiful day! The students had a blast exploring the orchard, picking their own apples, and learning about the apple-harvesting process.
Mrs. Beuttel’s class has lots of Panther spirit!!!!
Ms. Muenstermann's 5th grade homeroom class mastered 250 skills on IXL during the month of September and earned a donut party!
JCMS 5th grade students held a Step Assembly today to recognize students who have achieved 100 reading steps. Keep reading like a Panther!!
Senior Football players stopped by Mrs. Jones class today to look at old JCHS yearbooks and talk about special traditions like the Homecoming Spirit.
Mrs. Heitzig and Mrs. Green's 1st grade class enjoyed their afternoon apple picking at Eckerts Farm.
Payton Mooney represented JCHS Girls Golf today at the IHSA Regional hosted by Rantoul. Mooney shot a 107. Congrats on a good season, Payton. Jersey 100 is proud of you.
Spanish Classes Cook with Visitor from Central America
On September 27, Spanish classes at JCHS took a break from the books for a fully immersive experience with a visitor from El Salvador who taught them to make a traditional dish from El Salvador called a “pupusa”.
Las pupusas are a thick corn tortilla wrapped around a delicious ingredient of your choice that may include cheese, beans, pork, shrimp, squash or even flowers called loroco. It is served with a thin tomato sauce, pickled cabbage, or if you prefer a spicy medley of pickled peppers, cauliflower and onions. This tasty dish is thought to be over 2,000 years old, predating the colonization of the Americas, and today is eaten for breakfast or dinner throughout El Salvador, and wherever the Salvadoran diaspora is found today.
The master chef for the endeavor was Salvadoran native and U.S. resident Maria Ines Orellana Larios, who is visiting her grandchildren here in Jerseyville. She says, “It makes me happy to share one of our best dishes with these beautiful young people. I think making pupusas might be a bit like making friends with people from other cultures, you have to be open to learning new things, maybe step out of your comfort zone and be patient.”
Each student tried to make and eat a pupusa. JCHS freshman Maggie Alexander made a gorgeous golden pupusa. She commented “The pupusas were delicious, I wasn’t sure I would like them, but I enjoyed making them and eating them, and it was definitely a fun change from class.” JCHS senior, Lexi Trexler, also admits, "a mi me gustan las pupusas,” (I like pupusas!), and it was fun to learn to make this dish from a native Salvadoran. Maria Ines was great, and the experience was authentic and unique!. Several students went back for seconds, including senior, Sofia Hernandez-Lamer who has a special connection with the presenter. Sofia says, “My abuelita (grandmother) makes the best pupusas, we are so excited for her to visit!¨
JCHS Spanish teachers, Cara Rojas, Rachel Kallal and Andrea Lamer were excited to organize the day. “We are proud of our kids who are learning not only a new language, but developing better cultural awareness that will be critical for success in the future. It is important for our students to have positive immersive cultural experiences as they grow. We are planning many more to come! We would like to thank Maria Inez Orellana Larios for this amazing experience and Mrs. Galeana for helping us with supplies, support throughout the day and letting us use her kitchen classroom!”
Mrs. Gray's and Mrs. Lankford's 4th grade classes are learning about energy conversions in science. They built simple electrical systems to convert electrical energy to motion, sound, and light.
Color Wars was a huge success at Grafton Elementary! Congratulations to Kayden Hand, Hannah Kellerman, Nayomi Harris, Kendyl McHugh, Dulce Buchanan, and Elizabeth Slaughter for being nominated for showing empathy.
