JHS wishes a very Happy Birthday to our students and staff with January Birthdays! Happy Birthday to Jhonathan, Jolene, Gavin W, Tessa, Cade, Olivia and Mr. Stan!
JES hosted its annual school spelling bee. Students took a written test and the top five spellers from 4th, 5th and 6th grade participated in the oral spelling bee. Congratulations to Ryan Palic who took first place in the school spelling bee. Brandon Farrell, Lauryn Lindsay, Tristan Ellis and Lehgion Glende will all join Ryan in Haxtun on February 9th to compete in the regional spelling bee. Good luck!
Thank you to all of our families who attended the Doughnuts with Grown Ups! It was a great turn out. Families enjoyed doughnuts and coffee and received information on the benefits of reading 20 minutes a night with your child.
Kindergarten enjoyed having the fifth grade class in to tell us about their food chain and energy projects
Kindergarten enjoyed having the fifth grade class in to tell us about their food chain and energy projects
Look at our art project! Second grade made lily pads and 3-d flowers. The project took three weeks and many hands to help complete! Thank you to all those that helped along the way. They will be displayed at Points West Bank during the month of February.
Kindergarten enjoyed having the fifth grade class in to tell us about their food chain and energy projects
The JHS show choir, Vocal Motion, has about two weeks left before their Show Choir Festival in Imperial, NE. The choir is working on a show of 4 songs with staging and choreography. Class flies by when there is so much to be accomplished!!
Our 4th & last day of Olympic trials. Today we were Biathloners. Teams consisted of 2-3 players. 1 was throwing a bean bag at the target while their partner did a locomotor skill lap around the gym, then they switched. Next week, let the games begin!
9th-12th grades students from JHS joined other students in NE Colorado at the Corsberg Theatre on the campus of NJC to listen to Global Adventurer, John Beede tell his motivational stories about his life and how to succeed in life. Mr. Beede has climbed the tallest mountains on every continent, including Mount Everest. Students participated in this interactive morning and left inspired to conquer their own mountains. This event was sponsored by NE BOCES & the CO Rural Alliance Foundation – with the help of local school district Student Council Officers in making the selection on the speaker!
Third grade students are learning the concept of adaptation by showing how specific traits help an organism survive in its specific habitat. Students experimented how blubber helps keep arctic animals warm in cold ocean water.
Day 3 of our Olympic trials. We were training as Bobsledders today and boy did they have fun!!!! Students were in groups of 3 with 2 on scooters and 1 pusher. They had to push their bobsleds to the endlline, retrieve a beanbag, go back and repeat. 1st to retrieve all 3 wins.
Support Julesburg FFA’s 1st Annual Chili Cook-off this Friday at the home basketball game against Holyoke! Chili will be served from 5pm to 6pm at the JHS AgShop. Enjoy a delicious dinner and cast your votes for the best chili in town! Adults $8, School-Age $5, 4 and below FREE
Day 2 of our Olympic training! We are Curling today and everyone is focused and trying to score points by pushing their bean bag closest to or on the target!
At the elementary we are training for the Olympics. We are training to be Ski Jumpers today! We jumped from the floor, step boxes, and bosa balls, then we measured how far we jumped!
ATTENTION JES Families! Please join the JES Staff for Doughnuts with Grown-Ups this Friday, January 28th from 7:30-8:00 a.m. in the elementary gym. There is no need to stay the whole time! Just pop in for a doughnut and a cup of coffee and we will also share some information to take home on the importance of reading 20 minutes a night with your child. Hope to see you there!
Kindergarten practiced their reading by doing partner reads this week.
Kindergarten filled their marble jar for compliments earned and good behavior. They celebrated with pajama day and a pizza party. Keep up the good work Kindergarten! 💜
Kindergarten was presented with a tangram challenge this week as part of our shapes unit.
SLT Members spent their Saturday morning, diligently cleaning, sweeping, and vacuuming every new surface within the Julesburg Depot Museum, to prepare it for the upcoming artifacts that will lie inside of it and the soon public opening. The members had jobs that included washing windows, inside and out, sweeping and vacuuming every surface, cleaning restrooms, dusting, and much more. It was a fun day working together to accomplish a big goal and vision for our community! Submitted by SLT Reporter, Kierra Ehnes
If you have a community project for the JHS Service and Leadership Team, please contact Ryan Renquist at 970-474-3365 or by email: renquist_ry@julesburg.org.
