Williams Elementary School

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!

Students enjoyed our end of year picnic last week with lunch on the lawn!

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 you students out with us!

Students in the Jonesville GSRP program had a great last week. They had fun chasing bubbles, drawing with sidewalk chalk, finishing a few experiments, and had a great time enjoying an outdoor adventure day complete with a bounce house! This was a great group of kids and the GSRP staff will miss them. We now look forward to accepting students for the 2023-2024 school year. If you know someone who has a child that will be 4 years old by September 1, 2023 that has not filled out an interest form, have them visit www.greatstarthillsdale.com to start the process.

Spreading some cheer from Williams Elementary to Jonesville Middle School! Mrs. Nichols' "Comets in Action" class visiting Mrs. Bolz-Sweebe's 4th grade class to make May Day baskets to help sweeten someone's day!

Teacher Appreciation week!

May Lunch Menu!

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.

Join us TONIGHT for Math and Science night from 5:00-7:00!

Mother/Son Dodgeball!

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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!

Spring Book Fair!

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.