A few more "anything but a backpack" pics!
We're always surprised on "anything BUT a backpack" day!!
Staff surprised the students today for spirit week with our own day...anything BUT a regular cup!
PJs all day!
Happy 1st day of spirit week!
Become an active member of our JMS PTAG.
Monday is the first day of spirit week!!!
Come to school in your PJ's!
Seventh graders understood the assignment! After a few rounds, the winning seventh grade team beat the seventh grade staff. It was a clean sweep this year for students winning the smash down dodgeball tournament.
8th grade SMASHED yesterday at the annual PTAG Smashdown softball tournament Students 1 Teachers 0.
Spirit Week is next week in conjunction with Homecoming. All JMS students are encouraged to participate in the dress up spirit day themes. Show up and show out!
Smashdown is this FRIDAY! All students have the opportunity to watch and/or play in this fun PTAG fundraiser. See the flier for details.
Congratulations to our first 2 staff members of the month for the school year!!
Mr Pitchford, 8th grade ELA teacher
Candy Dial, cafeteria manager
Both of these educators have THE MOST school spirit!
As an extension of their plant and animal reproduction unit, Team 8-4 science students dissected lily flowers to examine the reproductive structures that make pollination and fertilization possible. Students identified each flower part, organized the specimens on dissection mats, and recorded observations and functions in their lab report worksheets.
Dr. Nolte gives a special shout-out to the families who generously donated lilies for this activity --thank you for helping our young scientists grow! 🌱
Today, Ms. Poplin's 7th grade ELA classroom transformed into a grammar scavenger hunt! To master subject and verb agreement, students paired up and moved around the room to locate and match subject and verb cards hidden on walls, doors, and bookshelves. They logged their matched pairs, identified whether they were singular or plural, and wrote out complete sentences. The students had a blast collaborating, moving around, and bringing grammar concepts to life!
his week was a busy one for Team 7-5 in Science! 🧪🚗💨 We kicked off our Kinetic Energy unit with a bang by completing TWO labs back-to-back!
On Tuesday and Wednesday, students explored how speed affects kinetic energy by heading outside and testing different walking and running speeds to see how they impacted kinetic energy. Then, on Thursday and Friday, students investigated how mass affects kinetic energy by adding mass to a car as it traveled down a ramp and calculating its kinetic energy. (🚨 SPOILER ALERT! 🚨- when either speed or mass increase, kinetic energy also increases)!
It was a busy, full, hands-on week—and LOTS of fun! We love seeing our students learning Science by actually doing Science! 🔬⚡
On Tuesday and Wednesday, students explored how speed affects kinetic energy by heading outside and testing different walking and running speeds to see how they impacted kinetic energy. Then, on Thursday and Friday, students investigated how mass affects kinetic energy by adding mass to a car as it traveled down a ramp and calculating its kinetic energy. (🚨 SPOILER ALERT! 🚨- when either speed or mass increase, kinetic energy also increases)!
It was a busy, full, hands-on week—and LOTS of fun! We love seeing our students learning Science by actually doing Science! 🔬⚡
PTAG’s annual fundraiser, SMASHDOWN will take place on Friday, September 25th. Students will battle it out in a dodgeball tournament where the winning team from each grade will get to take on JMS staff in the final round.
• $5 entry fee to watch the tournament (AP pass covers entry fee)
• $20 participation fee to play (Includes T-shirt)
• $5 for Smashdown T-shirt
PAY ONLINE:
Log in to “PowerSchool Parent Portal” using your parent username and password. Must be done from a web browser. Not available through the PowerSchool app.
https://powerschool.jenksps.org/public/home.html
Tickets & T-shirts will be available to purchase during lunch periods on September 21st, 22nd, 23rd & 24th.
All funds raised during this event go directly towards our students and teachers via teacher grants (the PTAG purchases much needed items for our teachers' classrooms and students).
Thank you for supporting this fundraiser in such a fun way!
• $5 entry fee to watch the tournament (AP pass covers entry fee)
• $20 participation fee to play (Includes T-shirt)
• $5 for Smashdown T-shirt
PAY ONLINE:
Log in to “PowerSchool Parent Portal” using your parent username and password. Must be done from a web browser. Not available through the PowerSchool app.
https://powerschool.jenksps.org/public/home.html
Tickets & T-shirts will be available to purchase during lunch periods on September 21st, 22nd, 23rd & 24th.
All funds raised during this event go directly towards our students and teachers via teacher grants (the PTAG purchases much needed items for our teachers' classrooms and students).
Thank you for supporting this fundraiser in such a fun way!
⚽📚 Library Orientation: World Cup Edition! 🌎🏆
Our 8th graders kicked off library orientation with a World Cup Soccer Scavenger Hunt! After they visited key locations around the library they exchanged their paper for a soccer themed treat!
Science is always better with bubbles! Today Mrs. Baker's 7th grade science students put their science skills to work during their Bubble Lab—making observations, testing, measuring, and of course having a little fun along the way! 🫧
Our first meeting will be 9/9/26 during Advisory flex time. Students must be added to our course before the meeting in order to leave class and join us in the Annex.
To sign up, navigate to PowerSchool Parent Portal. StuCo is listed under course fees.
To sign up, navigate to PowerSchool Parent Portal. StuCo is listed under course fees.
Students in Mrs. Swift’s 7-5 Science classes completed their first lab of the year last week and Monday—and it was a success! 🎉
Students designed their own experiments to test the efficiency of different metal rods, nails, and tubes to determine which were most effective at driving a nail into a Styrofoam block. Along the way, students learned an important part of experimental design: why it’s essential to change only ONE variable at a time so that we can accurately determine what caused the results.
Students also practiced creating data tables and graphs to organize and analyze their findings. It was a fun, hands-on way to kick off the year and start thinking like scientists! 👩🔬👨🔬📊
Students designed their own experiments to test the efficiency of different metal rods, nails, and tubes to determine which were most effective at driving a nail into a Styrofoam block. Along the way, students learned an important part of experimental design: why it’s essential to change only ONE variable at a time so that we can accurately determine what caused the results.
Students also practiced creating data tables and graphs to organize and analyze their findings. It was a fun, hands-on way to kick off the year and start thinking like scientists! 👩🔬👨🔬📊
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