Last week, 5th graders in Mrs. Johnson’s class did a group activity. They were given a tube of toothpaste, plate, and plastic silverware. The first instruction they were given was to empty the toothpaste onto the plate. Then they had to get every last drop back into the tube. They had some very creative ideas such as: blowing on the tube to open it back up, putting some on their fingers and trying to push it back in, and using the fork to put it back in. In the end, they decided this was an impossible task. After we cleaned up, we read the book, “I Can’t Believe You Just Said That!” This book talks about saying rude things to people and how that is not polite. We then discussed that the toothpaste activity was like the book because we can apologize for what we said, but we can never take back what we said. That is just like the fact that we can never put all the toothpaste back in the container. Everyone learned a great lesson from this activity.
Magical Disappearing Paint
In art class Mrs. Horky’s Kindergarteners listened to “I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!” by Karen Beaumont and learned what NOT to paint. Then Mrs. Schmidt shared her “magic” disappearing paint, aka water, to help students practice using paint brushes appropriately. Children were amazed at their magical powers to paint pictures on construction paper and then make them disappear!
Kindergarten students in Miss Mohr’s class listened to Mrs. Schmidt read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom in art class then got inspired to create their own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom trees.
Face Painting
7-12 Band and Vocal Music Starting Strong
7-12 Band
Wow what a great start to the year so far! High school band camp was a huge success with the final performance at the Wilber Czech Days Parade. The 7-12 bands have been hard at work getting ready for Pep Band and Marching season. The HS Band looks to premiere Part one of our World of Warcraft Halftime show at our first home football game Friday September 3rd!!! JH Band has been hard at work learning marching commands and mastering out school song “Colors” to march in the homecoming parade in September!
Solo Cup Stack Challenge
7th Grade STEM students kicked off their first week of STEM challenges with a partner, team building activity called the “Solo Cup Stack Challenge”. They were given limited time, specific materials, and the requirement of not being able to touch the cups with anything but the string/rubber bands. They had to work together with their partner(s) to figure out the best strategy to engineer their cup tower the fastest!
Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun
In Miss Lassek’s 2nd grade classroom, the students heard a new story during the first week of school. Miss Lassek read the story “Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun.” This story outlines the importance of having courage, the importance of embracing our differences and the importance of never giving up. After hearing the story, the students took on a new challenge. The students were required to build the tallest tower in the classroom with only a few supplies. The students were given 20 mini marshmallows, 1 large marshmallow, 20 dry spaghetti noodles, a piece of paper and 5 inches of tape. The important details of the task was that the tower must stand on its own and hold the large marshmallow on the top. The students felt the challenge and difficulty of the task but never gave up! Congratulations to our winner, Carter Petersen for building the tallest tower to support the large marshmallow!
Organizational Recruitment Party
JCH&L to Offer COVID Vaccine Clinic for Children 12 yrs of Age and Older
What is MTSS? Central MTSS Newsletter Explains
Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) is a systemic, continuous-improvement framework in which data-based problem solving and decision-making is practiced across all levels of the educational system for supporting students. The following is the first Central MTSS Newsletter. Click on the images below.