Feel the Love at JCB

Thanks to our many parent volunteers who made our final classroom party of the year--the Valentine's party--a wonderful time for our students. 

5th Graders Doing Their Thing

Every day, our fifth grade team of teachers, assistants, and support staff challenges our students to work hard and demonstrate what they are learning. They are really gearing these students up to face the demands of the junior high next year. Check out these pictures of some of our fifth graders recently. In a recent unit on debate, students used their research skills and newly acquired debate skills to host an ESPN-like sports themed debate experience. I sat in on a few and was very impressed. And using clay, students in science needed reading, math, and science skills to develop models of our solar system. This helped them understand the scope and size of the planets in relation to one another. Finally, in social studies, students recently completed a unit on Colonial Life. Butter making was a typical chore for a 10-year old--so they made their own butter and sampled it! They also practiced writing their names with quill pens and talked about school and home life of colonial children. Keep up the hard work, kids!

Solar System complete

Creating a Solar System

Practicing writing with quill pens

Sampling our butter

Shaking hands before the debate

JCBS Sports Center

Getting ready to defend

 

THANK YOU!!!

I have several things to report on that require thanks!

First, our Souper Bowl of Caring was very successful. We donated nearly 200 items of non-perishable food and $40 to FISH of McHenry Food Pantry. This is a time of year when the stock in the food pantries is low. After the holidays, they see a significant decrease in contributions and donations. They were very grateful for our help. So to everyone who participated--thank you. We will continue this tradition next year and see if we can do even better.

We are doing very well in our TREX plastic bag recycling challenge. We have sent in two donations so far. Our donation of plastic bags has reached 136 pounds! Please keep that plastic coming in. When you walk into the school, just past the office, you will see our container. We fill that container FULL every day. So you'll often see very large green bags near it. Just remember that it is plastic and not garbage. We just can't take it to our drop off site every day.

Finally, thank you to all of the parents who came to help at our Valentine's class parties last week. The kids had a blast. I'm still waiting for some more pictures to come in and I will post those soon.