JCS gives thanks to all who have made the greatest sacrifice to our nation. On a day filled with family and friends, please take a moment to remember those who are no longer able to.
Here at Williams Elementary, this year Earth Day was extra special! S.T.E.M. students from kindergarten through 5th grade were immersed in the importance of protecting our planet and taking action.
The younger grades learned about recycling and conserving our natural resources, pollination, planting flowers in the Children’s Garden, and raising and releasing Painted Lady butterflies. Our little scientists witnessed the new butterflies uncurl their long tongues, or proboscis, and drink the nectar from the flowers they had planted themselves! (Now that’s hands-on, minds-on learning!)
A big thank you goes out to Mrs. Warner for coordinating all of these activities for our students.
Comet community! I wanted to update you on the bond progress. We finalized the scope of the bond on Tuesday. We had to have 75% or higher agreement for a project to be approved and were able to have 83% agreement with our final vote. We will present the bond proposal to the board at our June 12th study session which will be at the Jonesville Middle School library at 6:00. I hope you are able to make it out to see what is included. There are a lot of needed projects being addressed and needed updates including safe and secure entryways.
I am still taking questions for my "Lessons with Les" series that we are going to do. This is a time for Les Hutchinson and myself to answer community questions with a video series. Here is the link to post YOUR question: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FG5TYDK
Here at Williams Elementary, this year Earth Day was extra special! S.T.E.M. students from kindergarten through 5th grade were immersed in the importance of protecting our planet and taking action.
Older students researched different types of pollution, helped clean up the grounds of our own school district, recycled paper products, and created beautiful and informative Earth Day Posters. These posters decorated the halls and acted as reminders how everyone can save, protect, and take care of our Earth.
Acknowledged students in 4th grade were:
Beatty’s class – Madison Milks
Bolz-Sweebe’s class – Eva Walton and Kylee Martin
DeGuise’s class – Molly Sigler
Hardway’s class – Hazlee Shepherd
**Special Recognition – Blake Taipalus
Acknowledged students in 5th grade were:
Anderson’s class – Mason Daglow and Maycee Roberts
Roger’s class - Hailey Dooley
Roger’s class – Trenton Barnett and Logan Boyd
Roger’s class – Dakota Oakes
VanMeter’s class – Kelsey Stephens, Rhylee McNair and Alaina Wert
** Special Recognition – Isaac Rogers, James Sponseller, and Mason Dunlap and Madison Barber and Brandalyn Hubbard
From Williams Elementary School:
Our April Student of the Month nominees were recently recognized for their integrity.
We are so thankful that we have students who do what is right all of the time (even when no one is looking)!
Pictured are our 3rd-5th grade students.
From Williams Elementary School:
Our April Student of the Month nominees were recently recognized for their integrity.
We are so thankful that we have students who do what is right all of the time (even when no one is looking)!
Pictured are our KP-2nd grade students.
Our Comet Cruisers completed their final run on Saturday morning! It was a great day for a 5K. The following runners deserve special recognition:
For the girl runners:
5th place was Isabel McNair
4th place was Rhylee McNair
3rd place was Sydney Horton
2nd place was Hailey Dooley
1st place and overall 1st place for the elementary students was Rielyn Griffiths with a time of 26 minutes and 26 seconds for the 3.1 mile run!!! She did amazing!!
For the boy runners:
5th place was Jakari Wollam
4th place was Whitaker Griffiths
3rd place was Justin Mandrelle
2nd place Everett DeGuise
1st place for the boys was Brody Hale with a time of 27 minutes and 39 seconds.
Special congratulations to Marco Toffolo and Charley Zaumseil as our only 1st grade runners. They both completed the over 3 mile long run! That is a long way for such young students.
Also, thank you to Mrs. DeGuise, Mrs. Toffolo, Mrs. Shepherd, and Mrs. Zaumseil for helping coach our runners. You did a great job and we appreciate you. Also thanks to Mrs. Snyder for coming to help with the run on Saturday! Thank you to all of our sponsors who helped our students earn their brand new shoes.
We look forward to next year and hope to see many of your students out with us!
Come out to Riverfest this weekend for your chance to win one of the super cool mini sheds built by JMS students! Raffle tickets are $10 each or 3 for $25. The sheds will be on display in front of the middle school and at Jonesville Lumber. Ticket booth is at Jonesville Lumber.
JCS is so appreciative of its amazing staff!
Jonesville Community Schools would like to offer its congratulations to the valedictorians of this year's graduating class. We are both proud and appreciative of all of the hard work that has earned this great accomplishment! Pictured: Abigail Gutowski, Vanessa Irish, Kierstyn Keller, Bella Maddox, Tiana Palmer, Meghan Raymond, Damion Scharer, Hannah Spencer, Kyle Toner, Taylor Tracy and Brady Wright
It's Decision Day! Mrs. Bugbee hosted a Decision Day celebration for all seniors on Friday, April 28th. Seniors gathered to declare their post-secondary plans while enjoying coffee, juice, donuts and muffins.
Jonesville Community Schools would like to congratulate our seniors on all of their current success but also wish them the best of luck in all of their future endeavors. Comet PRIDE!
Jonesville Community Schools would like to offer its congratulations to the valedictorians of this year's graduating class. We are both proud and appreciative of all of the hard work that has earned this great accomplishment!
Pictured: Abigail Gutowski, Vanessa Irish, Kierstyn Keller, Bella Maddox, Tiana Palmer, Damion Scharer, Hannah Spencer, Kyle Toner, Taylor Tracy and Brady Wright
Not pictured: Meghan Raymond
Photos from our Math & Science Night held on Wednesday, April 26th at Williams Elementary School.
Thank you to all who were able to help make the evening a success and to all who attended.
Last night, the City of Jonesville awarded citizen of the year to three former Jonesville School alum: Dr. Leising, former teacher and current volunteer at WES, and Hayden James and Carson Laney who are 2020 graduates. Their stories of gratitude and service was a model of what the award is about. Though I did not have the pleasure of knowing the two graduates, it was clear the reason they were awarded youth citizens of the year. Congratulations and Go Comets!
From Williams Elementary School:
Thank you to the 40+ volunteers who helped to make Project R.E.D. (Rural Education Day) a huge success! All 4th grade students went to the fairgrounds last Thursday for this amazing experience.
Congratulations to our March Student of the Month recipients!
These students were nominated by a staff member for being respectful. This quality is something that will help them throughout their lifetime. We are so proud of them!
Pictured are 3rd-5th grade students.
Congratulations to our March Student of the Month recipients!
These students were nominated by a staff member for being respectful. This quality is something that will help them throughout their lifetime. We are so proud of them!
Pictured are KP-2nd grade students.
If you are interested in purchasing Jonesville Comet Track apparel, please use the ling below to access the store.
http://heritagecustomdesigns.com/jonesville_track
From Williams Elementary School:
Students in the Fifth Grade S.T.E.M. Club worked with Mrs. Warner and Dr. Leising and recently completed their Michigan bird houses after studying their habitats and creating a natural nesting structure.
Next up, investigating space and creating a model ROCKET!
We have been overwhelmed with shed requests!! The JCS community is awesome!! Thanks to so many of you who have expressed interest in supporting our Trades classes. At this time we have more than 20 requests for sheds!! I wish we had the time to build them all. Hopefully, you will have more opportunities to support our program. Our students are excited to build stuff. Next year we hope to have more students who want to do that. But at this time we are at our limit (and then some). The pricing comes down to materials and discussions with the client on what they feels is a fair price. Thanks! Go Comets!
