Williams Elementary School

From Williams Elementary: We recently recognized students who exhibit dependability as a "Student of the Month" for the month of December. (Any staff member is able to nominate a student.) Congratulations to these 3rd-5th grade students! We are very proud of you!

From Williams Elementary: We recently recognized students who exhibit dependability as a "Student of the Month" for the month of December. (Any staff member is able to nominate a student.) Congratulations to these KP-2nd grade students! We are very proud of you!

Yesterday, students in Mrs. DeGuise’s 4th grade class worked on reviewing rules and procedures by creating posters. Each pair wrote about a rule/procedure and presented them to the class.

From Mrs. Snyder's 3rd grade classroom: What a day!!!! Mr. Grimm, Mr. Burlew, Mrs. Crabill, and Mr. Weatherwax came in and read to the class. The kids played holiday BINGO where they yelled out a Christmas related phrase and then won a book the first time and a Christmas item for the second BINGO. The kids worked on figuring area with the glow tape and after that they played rolling products with some glow dice. It is safe to say that they had a very fun day before their Christmas break!

Yesterday, students in Mrs. Snyder's 3rd grade classroom enjoyed ornament making with Mrs. Crabill courtesy of Mary Mandrelle's ticket being pulled for the monthly PBIS Classroom Acknowledgement!

For the month of December, Ms. Walker’s 5th grade class was rewarded with hot cocoa and caroling for our PBSI monthly acknowledgments. Students enjoyed signing holiday songs to 3rd and 4th grade students and staff.

Ms. VanMeter did a math/budgeting lesson using gingerbread houses. Students earned "money" where they then wrote checks to purchase the supplies they wanted for their gingerbread houses. We thank all of our families that donated items to this! When we come together like this, students are able to have special learning experiences. Thank you to the families and Ms. VanMeter for such a great, and messy(!), idea!

Williams Elementary Holiday Dress-Up Days

Mr. Anderson's 5th grade classroom is using their knowledge about forces, motion, and engineering design to build a paper roller coaster track. Students spent time making folds in the paper for supports (columns/beams/diagonal supports), straight tracks, curved tracks, and also for loops and funnels. We are testing our tracks out this week with our marbles!

November Student of the Month Today we recognized students who were nominated by staff members for showing integrity. Our congratulations go out to these 3rd-5th grade students.

November Student of the Month Today we recognized students who were nominated by staff members for showing integrity. Our congratulations go out to these KP-2nd grade students.

Jonesville Community Schools sends its condolences to Oxford Schools for the tragedy they suffered. There are no words that can take away the pain and hurt to those who lost loved ones and the injured. After tragedies such as this, it’s normal to try to find out the “why” . Unfortunately, there isn’t always one clear answer. What I do know is, we can all check in on our family and friends. If someone is hurting please let someone know. Tell a teacher, principal, family member etc know because it truly does take a community. The Comet community extends its thoughts and prayers to Oxford Schools. In Sympathy, Erik Weatherwax Superintendent, Jonesville Community Schools

Yum, yum, yum! Tuesday morning students in Miss Hackworth's 1st grade classroom were treated to a pancake breakfast as part of our PBIS monthly acknowledgments.

Students in Mrs. Rogers' 4th grade classroom were able to watch a movie and enjoy popcorn as part of our *PBIS Acknowledgement system. *Every day students have the opportunity to earn tickets by showing Comet P.R.I.D.E. (Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Dependability, Encouragement) or for doing something that an adult would like to recognize as being done well. Students can then use their ticket(s) to enter drawings, either as an individual in the classroom, or for the chance to win an experience for their entire classroom.

Students in Mrs. Hardway's 4th grade classroom recently visited the U.S. Capitol through a virtual fieldtrip. Mrs. Hardway shared, "This field trip to the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. was especially fun because the students were very excited about "traveling" to the home of our Government and the President. It was especially rewarding for me to see how much they remembered from our lessons, videos, and games. The questions they asked even stumped one of the presenters. I had no idea that people have attempted to change our Constitution over 11,500 times." What a great experience for our students! Thank you, Mrs. Hardway for making this happen.

Mrs. Snyder's 3rd grade class completed a virtual field trip this week about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The students learned about Tony Sarg. They watched videos on blowing the balloons up, making balloon animals, and creating a float in a design room! Then they listened to the book Balloons Over Broadway (The true story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade). Finally, they put their engineering skills to work and built their own balloons. The class created some array buildings in math and walked their balloon through the town! Overall, the kids were excited about the topic and their classroom parade. Please use this link to see the student's parade balloons: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N_1rCP1BBuU6h7JJlasEwb5AsJYh4BjxPl3VxMfIUxY/edit

Students in Mrs. Mann's 1st grade classroom were treated to bowling in the cafeteria as a PBIS reward for the month of November. There were many smiles, much laughter, and everyone had a great time!

Williams Elementary students had a surprise visit from our superintendent, Mr. Weatherwax! He helped to serve our Thanksgiving lunch to our students today.

This is an interesting story from NPR about aliens, telescopes, and one of our former Comets, Shane Smith. He is a 2018 grad. Go Comets!!! https://www.jonesvilleschools.org/telescope

At the Big 8 Quizbowl our JV (Freshman/Sophomore) took 1st place and our Varsity (Junior/Senior) took 2nd place. The 7th grade team took 1st place and so did the 8th grade team! Great job to our Comet competitors! Go Comets!!!!