Students in Ms. Walker's 5th grade classroom explored how time was first measured using light and shadows. They created their own sundials and used flashlights to see how shadows could be used to tell the time of day.
Students in Mrs. Nichols' 3rd grade classroom recently participated in a "Noun Scoot". Students "scooted" to different areas of the cafeteria and identified all of the nouns in sentences.
Jonesville Homecoming is October 8th and Williams Elementary students can participate in dress up days to celebrate!
Monday: White Out (wear white shirts)
Tuesday: Toon Tuesday (wear favorite cartoon character shirt)
Wednesday: Wild Hair Wednesday
Thursday: Jock Jam (wear athletic gear)
Friday: Orange and Black Day (show your Comet PRIDE)
Have fun and GO COMETS!
Jonesville Community Schools is looking to fill a vacant school board seat. If you are a resident of Jonesville School District and want to be a part of the direction of this great school community, please submit your letter of interest to Superintendent, Mr. Erik Weatherwax at eweatherwax@jonesvilleschools.org.
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The Comets are having great seasons! Come be a part of it. We are in need of volunteers for our sporting events! Please contact Kathy Bondsteel at 425-8335 and be a part of Comet pride!
Mrs. Barrett's 1st grade classroom recently received their first package from around the world. It was sent from Nebraska. They were able to study some maps, look at various postcards, read a nice letter about all the things Nebraska has to offer and then enjoy some delicious popcorn from the Cornhusker State!
Constitution Day, recognized on September 17th each year, is an important education event for schools across our great country. Mrs. Judy Warner's 5th graders constructed an extraordinary giant U.S. Flag from paper to recognize the event. They had been learning about the Pledge of Allegiance and used this project as an opportunity to express what the Flag means to each of them. Each student wrote their statement directly on the Flag for all to read. They also each received their own personal copy of the book "What is the U.S. Constitution?" and then read it as a class. The class celebrated the day with a red-white-blue treat, personal flags, presidential and Pledge of Allegiance book marks, and patriotic pins that were worn by all. The Flag project is slated to be hung in the 5th Grade hallway in the days ahead for all to see. The final culminating project will be to create a self-published book to include their writings on what the Flag means to them. Students will sign up for a job in the publishing process to include all members of the class.
To remind us of those sunny days, last Friday Mrs. Snyder's 3rd grade class did some math outside working with rounding to the nearest 10. The students could draw large number lines to help them solve the problem if they needed to. They answered the problem on their own first and then were to justify their answer to their partner. The questions had multiple correct answers. For example, when rounding to the nearest 10 the answer is 40, what number could it be?
A big THANK YOU to the Kiwanis Club of Hillsdale and the Jonesville Walmart for the recent donations of school supplies to Williams Elementary School!
Your generosity greatly helps our students!
This week students in Mrs. Snyder's 3rd grade classroom combined a rounding hill, number line, and physical 'ball' rolling down a hill all together to investigate rounding (see picture).
One of the students suggested they make the number line into an actual hill to help the 'ball' roll down the hill. They talked about benchmark numbers, tick marks, midpoints, and intervals. They will be continuing to talk about this and moving away from the rounding hill to just using a number line. Students will be rounding to the nearest 10 with 3 digit and 4 digit numbers and then they will be rounding to the nearest 100.
Students in Mrs. Hardway's 4th grade classroom worked on understanding and creating number lines using some very big numbers!
Check out these 1st graders learning outside. They are learning about number bonds.
Some students in Mrs. Snyder's 3rd grade classroom spent some time digging for fossils today!
Students in Mrs. Wilson's 3rd grade classroom played Turtle Tag today.
What a fun way to relax after taking an assessment!
From Mrs. Hardway's 4th Grade Classroom:
In Social Studies, students are discovering what social scientists do. Yesterday, students were digging for artifacts and identifying which artifact goes with which social scientists. Categories included Geographer, Economist, Political Scientist, or Historian.
The first grade classrooms are happy to share that Cobro Moto of Hillsdale has sponsored the entire first grade this year! The money donated was used to purchase our entire grade levels order of scholastic news weekly for the entire school year! This is a picture of Mrs.Barrett with Sheena Sigler and some students thanking Sheena and Cobra for the very generous donation!
Mrs. Burlew's class outside for recess.
Hillsdale College is offering a FREE tutoring program for students of all ages! We are so very fortunate to have this resource available for our students.
If interested, please click on the link and fill out the form.
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Welcome Back to School 08/24/21!
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