Reminder: No School on Friday, April 18th!
Autism Awareness Spirit Week is NEXT week!
Spring into learning!
Share a picture of the book your child is reading or a picture of your child actually reading the book and tag us using #JCNEMSreads
⚾️🥎 HS Varsity Baseball & Softball
📅 Monday, April 14, 2025
⏰ 4:30 PM
🆚 Riverside
📍Nortonville City Ballfields.
Streaming on GameChanger
Our Senior Spotlights for today are Anna Wendling and Abraham Noll. Congratulations on your upcoming graduation, and we wish you the best in your endeavors!
What’s your favorite memory from this school year? Share it with us! 📷 #MemoryMonday
We will be having #MemoryMonday every Monday for the rest of the school year.
New memories are being made every single day!
#JCNExcellence
Mrs. Deviney's 1st grade incubated chicken eggs, beginning in March. The students learned many things about the incubating process & how to take care of newborn chicks. They were even lucky enough to witness one chick hatch out of its egg. 🐣 The class ended up having 11 chicks hatch. Mrs. Deviney took them to their new home in south central Kansas, where they will live on a farm with pigs, sheep, cows, dogs & cats. The last picture is of their new brooder box & the farm hands who will care for them.
Last week, the anatomy class dissected cow and pig hearts as part of their unit over the cardiovascular system. Most of them weren't afraid to get their hands dirty (don't worry, they wore gloves!). They worked to identify various structures in the heart, and were able to see that pig hearts and cow hearts are virtually the same, aside from the cow heart being much larger. Students always look forward to these dissections and this class did not disappoint! A huge thank you to the Winchester Meat Locker for donating two cow and two pig hearts for this lab!
Last week, the chemistry class did their annual s'mores lab. Each group was given 5 graham crackers, 1 Hershey bar, and 6 marshmallows, and were told to make as many s'mores as possible, but each s'more per group had to be made the same. This deals with a concept known as limiting and excess reagents - a chemical reaction stops when any of the reactants run out. You can't make more s'mores if you run out of ingredients. The kids look forward to this lab every year, and they enjoyed actually being able to eat in chemistry class!
The JCN HS Band performed at State Large Group Festival today to earn a II (Excellent) Rating. Great job to everyone!
Also, be on the lookout for kids with band fundraiser forms. We are selling trash bags for $15 a piece. Each sale reduces the cost of next year's St. Louis band trip for the person who sells it.
Miss Schmelzle's class celebrated the completion of ELA State Assessments by having a low stress morning playing games/cards, building with Magna-tiles, and working on their illustrations/stories for their class book. 📖🥳💚
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This month, we were fortunate enough to welcome our career guest speakers Paula Larson, Jeremy Ostrander and Dave Baker! We greatly appreciate them taking the time to share their insights with our students.
This week in the library Mrs. Courtney is reading Julia's House for Lost Creatures to the second and third graders. Then we will create our own "lost" creatures. Imagination at work!!!
Dear Families,
We love seeing our students staying hydrated and ready to learn!
Just a friendly reminder that water is the only beverage students should bring in their water bottles to school. As outlined in our school handbook, soda, soft drinks, and energy drinks are not allowed.
Please make sure your child’s water bottle is leak-proof and closes securely—that helps keep backpacks, desks, and floors nice and dry!
Thanks for your support in helping us keep everyone clean, healthy, and focused on learning!
Sincerely,
Dr. Meier
Come cheer on our Middle School track team as they have their first meet today, Tuesday, April 8, at the JCNHS track in Winchester. The meet begins at 2:00 pm with field events. Followed by running events beginning at 2:45. Go Chargers! 👟💚 🏃♂️
⚾️🥎 HS Varsity Baseball & Softball
📅 Tuesday, April 8, 2025
⏰ 4:30 PM
🆚 Riverton
📍Paola HS Fields (709 hedge lane on the northesast corner of cottonwood elementary schools campus)
THERE WILL NOT BE A CONCESSIONS STAND -- PLAN ACCORDINGLY.
Streaming in gamechanger.
Congratulations to our 2025-2026 MS Cheerleaders!!
Aynslie DeCaro
Lexi Long
Addlee Hernandez
Baelyn Coppinger
Brooke Meredith
Karli Nieman
Aniyah Wilson
Kadyn Griffitts
Lily Hoffman
Lexi Noble