🍎🌟 JCS offers teachers professional learning for classroom excellence! We're excited to share the success of our third annual Classroom Management Workshop! Our amazing educators engaged in interactive sessions over three days to boost their teaching strategies. This focus on continuous improvement gave them new tools and techniques to create even better and more supportive classrooms. The enthusiastic participation and positive feedback demonstrate just how impactful this workshop was in fostering educational excellence!
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Ms. Rucker's Math students have been working on making math out of the WMS Summer Cereal Project - a food drive to provide cereal to our students this summer. In class, the students had to determine the proportion per student and percent donations for 1st period classes, find volume and surface area of multiple boxes, ratios, and find unit rate per ounce to determine the best value of different size boxes! After all the calculations, they will set the boxes up like dominoes to knock them down - taking into account distance and size for the best effect. Great combination of math and community support! Well, done, Mustangs!
A plague on both your houses! The 8th graders are finishing up a unit on Romeo and Juliet. The two ELA teachers have classrooms across the hall from each other and the Montague/Capulet feud finds its way onto door signs - along with a few messages for Romeo and young lovers everywhere! Nice job, Ms. Masterson, Ms. Reilly and students!
Students in Mr. DeAnna's WV Studies classes finished their unit on the Civil War by doing a deeper dive into some aspect of the war. Students were tasked with researching the topic and creating a visually appealing, dynamic and informative display. Once they were made, the class did a Gallery Walk to look at the work and ideas of not just their own class, but all the 8th grade. The works created are outstanding! Well done, Mustangs!
Congratulations to Katie Madrid and Cynthia Carper on being named the district's 2024 Teacher and Service Person of the Year! We were thrilled to honor these outstanding members of our educational community at our annual recognition dinner on April 25. Read more here 👉 https://www.jcswv.org/article/1569068
Last week's Would You Rather question in the 7th grade hall was the most lopsided vote in the year-long poll. Students answered the question - Would they rather be a teenager forever or an adult forever? The results are shown below. Ah, youth!
Ms Cisar's Social Studies classes were studying the sinking of the Lusitania and America's entry into World War I last week. As a project, they created the Lusitania out of construction paper and wrote facts about the ship and its importance. The end results were magnificent. Way to go, Mustangs!
Wildwood Mustangs celebrated Earth Day with a paper plate project. Students were asked to create Earth, animal, tree and nature inspired art work on paper plates during their MTSS period. This came after discussions about how each can do their part to protect the Earth. The projects can be seen in the Up Stair Well on all three levels. Beautiful work, Mustangs!
Mrs. Rodrigues's STEM class have been building catapults, and today was LAUNCH DAY! The shouts of pure joy as the fired their payloads rang through the room. The activity combined science, art, history and gameplay into one perfect shot! Way to go, Mustangs!
What happens when you pit a porcupine against a velvet worm? And what exactly IS a velvet worm anyway? WMS students discovered the answers to these questions and more during March Mammal Madness, a fun way to learn about animals great and small. Students progressed through their brackets, choosing which mammals would advance to the next round until only a great white shark and giant squid remained. The ultimate victor? The great white, of course! Then again, we didn't see any Huskies or Gamecocks in there. 🤔
Ms. Dennis and Ms. Merritt's 6th grade Read 180 class was working on using evidence to support their claims last week in a super fun way. Students are reading Esperanza Rising and answered the question "Who do you think started the house fire?" and posted it to the board. As Ms. Dennis read them aloud, if they were supported by evidence from the text, it got posted to her face. If it wasn't, the note was discarded. After the activity the class continued their discussion in more detail. Way to go, Mustangs! Looking good Ms. Dennis!
JCS Reminder: Tomorrow, Friday, April 12th is a 2-Hour Early Dismissal for students and a Faculty Senate day for staff.
March Mammal Madness wrapped up over Spring Break with the Great White Shark being victorious! This is the first time a non-mammal won MMM. The students had a great and educational time - filling out their brackets, watching the matches and calculating their points! Classroom bracket winners are: Ollie Branham, Shylah Clark, Dominick Fragomene, Brooklyn Branson, Xander Lopez and Jace Wright. Well done, Mustangs!
JCS Reminder: Tomorrow, Monday, April 8th is a 2-Hour Early Dismissal.
Congratulations to Brianna Bradford, 3rd place winner of the JCS Black History Month Art Contest for her pencil sketch entitled "Embrace." More than two dozen talented student artists from JCS middle and high schools submitted breathtaking original artwork for this district-wide art competition to recognize the achievements and amplify the voices of Black men and women throughout history. Beautiful job, Brianna!
March MAMMAL Madness continues! We reached the Sweet 16! Which of these animals will come out on top? Stay tuned to see which animal is triumphant and which of Ms. Day's Science students has the winning bracket!.
