Celebrating and practicing our alphabet while playing “Go Fish”
Raising the Guatemalan Flag in Spanish 2!
Rigoberto, our new student, gifted us his countryś flag to enjoy!
What does teamwork look like? What does teamwork sound like?
Learning can be loud. Students helped each other with voices and actions. Excitement erupted when patterns were discovered and the count to 100 went faster. Mrs. Petersen expressed multiple times that this was not a race, but teenagers tend to be competitive and enthusiastic. After completing the task of counting from 1 to 100, students discussed the following questions: What does teamwork look like? What does teamwork sound like? And they even considered: What does teamwork feel like?
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!
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!
The Jeffs’ Best Award was created by the Fairbury Public Schools Board of Education to highlight and celebrate the great work of our staff.On behalf of the Board of Education, I would like to congratulate Amy Engle-Evans, Fairbury High School social studies Teacher, as the recipient of the May Jeffs’ Best Award!
These are her nomination statements:
Amy has gone above and beyond this year as the FEA president dealing with multiple issues: Covid, coaching, discipline issues etc.
Amy is a dedicated teacher and coach who has served FPS for many years. She is a member of the Jeff community and has spent countless hours helping the students and athletes she teaches and coaches. She is the head of the social studies department at the high school and has also mentored many teachers over the years. She would be very deserving of the award, for she is one of “Jeffs Best”
Jefferson Community Health and Life will be doing school physicals by appointment this year – scheduling after May 1st. They would like them to be done by August 1st to avoid a last-minute rush for scheduling. The price for these physicals will be $80, and if a UA dip is required, usually 7th grade and Kindergarten, it will be an additional $6. If you would like this to go to your insurance as a wellness exam, please let the schedulers know at the time of scheduling. Please have all forms filled out ahead of time and bring them to your appointment. Parents will need to sign a consent to treat for their child’s physical appointment. Please let JCH and L know if you have any questions.
Blue Valley Community Action immunization clinics are now scheduled for this summer!