💓 December Photo Dump 💓
December has truly flown by! We had a month filled with steam day activities to swimming classes to matching outfits and so much more! We are closing out this 2023 year with a lot of smiles and memories to carry us over to start 2024! 🙌🏼
We can’t wait to see what this next half of the year has in store for our awesome jaguars! 💙🐆
❤️Holiday Houses ❤️
Each grade level at Johnson researches, created, and displayed a holiday to have in our holiday showcase! The students did an amazing job at creating their houses! 👏🏼
K: Christmas
1: Kwanza
2: Hanukkah
3: Diwali
4: Las Posados
5: Festival of Lights
FIS: a combination of all the holidays
We 💙 representing all the wonderful holidays in our community!
❤️Indigenous People & Czech, Polish, and Italian Month ❤️
Over the months of October and November, our students had the opportunity to learn more about each heritage and all the amazing contributions that these two months represent and give to our society. 💙
Ozobots with Mrs. Scuderi today was one of the highlights of the week! 🤖
The students in Ms. Taylor’s 2nd grade class learned how to code the ozobot to complete a maze. Shoutout to Mrs. Scuderi for such an awesome lesson! 🙌🏼
The first graders took a field trip to the Children’s Museum last week! We 💙 watching the students explore and learn in hands on activities! Keep up the amazing work first graders 💙
Watch out world, for these amazing kindergarteners making their way to counting to 100 🙌🏼 Keep up all the hard work!! 😍
The students competed in our Johnson spelling bee today! There was some tough competition among these competitors. Each student did such an amazing job!
Can we get a drum roll for the winner 🥁…….. & the winner was: Brandon Mendoza-Rodas 🥳
Our 1st runner up was Xavi Calel-Calel 🥳
Congratulations to all of our competitors today!
Mrs. Hines’ 4th graders put their brains & teamwork to the test when they were asked to build a sled for their snowman! Each group of students had to use different materials to build a sled, use math skills to measure how far, and communication to work together! ⛄️
How far do you think their sleds went!? 🤔
Way to go 4th graders 👏🏼
❄️ Mrs. Collier’s 5th graders enjoyed the first fall of snow yesterday!
❄️ The Monday morning was so special that it was two students first time seeing snow!!
❄️ We 🤍 watching new experiences each day in and outside the classroom 🙌🏼
🌟Staff Spotlight Time 🌟 Introducing our amazing Title 1 Reading Coach, Mrs. Romich! She always goes above and beyond for our staff and students! She is always willing to lend a helping hand, help with any resources, and coming up with awesome ideas for different ways to teach! We appreciate everything you do for our school 💙Get to know her a little better!
Favorite thing about Johnson: “I love all the students, families, and staff!”
Years in Education: “16 years total, 3 years in the classroom at JES & 6 years as Title One Coach”
Favorite subject to teach: “reading! I love small groups and vocabulary!”
Hobbies: “I love paddle boarding, kayaking, and any outdoor adventure! I also love playing with my two dogs, Dexter & Dee!”
We 💙 you Mrs. Romich!
🌟 HUGE 🌟 shoutout and congratulations to our very own Tori Goode from Mrs. Collier’s 5th grade class! Tori won the Light of Hope nomination for Johnson Elementary for demonstrating attributes of Dr. Martin Luther King. We are so lucky to have Tori as a Johnson jaguar and we all couldn’t be more proud of her!
Thank you for being such an amazing person Tori! Way to go!! 👏🏼💙
Ms. Kinney’s class enjoyed their second to last week of swimming! We asked two students what has been their favorite part so far and they said….
James: “I like when we put our hands on top of our heads to make a point. Then we have to go under water and try to swim!”
Elias: “I like when the instructor puts toys on the bottom and we have to go under and go get them!”
Way to go 2nd graders 👏🏼
💓 November Photo Dump 💓
November was a fun filled month! 🙌🏼 Our jaguars had adventures to Maymont to a in house field trip from Jamestown to projects to enjoying the weather outside to coding during resource to everything in between! Check out all of our exciting things happening at JES during November! 💙 We are so grateful all of our jaguars!
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🌟 Staff Stoplight Time 🌟 This is National Family Engagement Month and we are here to introduce you to our family advocate, Mrs. Coalson! Mrs. Coalson is such a huge asset to our jaguar family! She is so helpful, kind, and always goes above and beyond of what we need! We are so lucky to have you! 💙 Get to know Mrs. Coalson a little bit better:
Favorite thing about Johnson: “all the students and families”
Years in education: “7 years at Johnson, 6 years in Petersburg, and 5 years in Hanover”
Favorite activity at Johnson: “helping families connect and participate in our school community”
Hobbies: “I love to cook!”
We love you Mrs. Coalson! 💙
Mrs. Collier’s 5th graders are showing off their new ukulele skills in Mrs. Jackson’s class today! 🎶 Make sure your sound is up to hear these awesome tunes!! 👏🏼 Can you guess what song they are playing?
We are so thankful for our Jaguar family 💙 We have such an amazing community! We hope you enjoyed your time spent with your loved ones!
🌟 We ended our week last week with a stem project of recreating balloons for our own parade. Can you spy your favorite creation!? 🔍
🍁Step 1 : collect leaves in your hands…
🍁Step 2: throw up as high as you can…
🍁Step 3: dance in the leaves falling down!
Ms. Buechler’s class showing off their excitement on a lovely fall weather day ☀️
What is your favorite fall activity!?
Last week we celebrated ending our first quarter of the ‘23 - ‘24 school year! 💃🏼 The students showed off their dance moves, teamwork skills, and craft creating!
🌟 We are so proud of all our students hard work this quarter & can’t wait to see all the magical things that happen throughout quarter 2! 🌟
Let’s go jaguars!! 💙🐆
🇺🇸 Last Thursday our second graders put on an amazing performance to honor our Veterans for Veteran’s Day! Special shoutout to our lovely music teacher, Mrs. Jackson for helping our students shine! 🇺🇸
Let’s give a big round of applause 👏🏼 for our principal of the day: Principal Hart!! 💙
Principal Hart did a fantastic job at walking through classrooms, helped solve problems, and even showed us how to use our new book vending machine! 📚
Thank you for your hard work Principal Hart! ✨
