South Jefferson Elementary School

Roadrunner Rock Star Alert! These students were nominated for Positive Office Referrals for their hard work in class and for being helpful to others. Kindergarteners Emma Goldberg, Sloane Fox and Ximena Perez were nominated for their writing improvement over the course of the school year. All three of them have shown incredible improvement with their free writing, tricky words and applying letter sounds in their writing. Third grader Ares Cunningham was nominated for jumping into action to help others without hesitation. All four of these students are extremely deserving and we are super proud of them! 💛💜 Ms. Mahoney

To recognize National School Librarian Day, let’s celebrate the incomparable Mrs. Moody! She is passionate about our library and instilling the love of reading in all of our students at South Jefferson. The library, under her care, has blossomed—-she has created a space that everyone can appreciate and where our students can thrive! Thank you, Mrs. Moody, for bringing our library to life! We are grateful for you! 📚

This week is National Assistant Principal’s Week and I’d like to take a moment to recognize and celebrate Mrs. Duggan, our incredible AP at South Jefferson! In just a short time, she has become an invaluable teammate and leader at our school and we are blessed to have her at SJES! Her passion and commitment to our students, staff and community is amazing to witness and she has established fantastic working relationships throughout our school. Here’s to Mrs. Duggan! 🥳

We have some very deserving students who received Positive Office Referrals for their kindness, their respect for our school and one another and for being responsible role models at SJES. Congratulations and job well done to Aubrey Vale, Cash O’Connor, Trey Dell, Erica Wiles and Molly McDaniel! Super proud of all of you! Ms. Mahoney 💜💛

Just a reminder that our Fun Run is tomorrow!!! Please remember to wear your tie dye shirt! We are running to honor Bryce Tiong and collecting funds for Believe In Tomorrow, an organization that supported the Tiong family during Bryce’s hospitalization. (Please make checks payable to South Jefferson Elementary. Tax receipts available upon request). Thank you so much for your support! Ms. Mahoney

To align with their unit on plants, Mrs. Fox’s kindergarten class took advantage of the beautiful weather and explored our school’s nature path, drawing pictures of the daffodils that have recently started to bloom (thank you, Mr. Jenkins!). They discussed the parts of plants and students labeled their pictures. They also discussed the life cycle of a daffodil and how bulbs are different than the seeds they’ve been learning about in class. 💐

Our 4th graders had an awesome day at Cool Spring Preserve, as a wrap up to their year long watershed study. The students explored our Bull Run watershed and were tasked with looking for macro invertebrates and identifying them using a diagram. They were challenged to create a water filter to clean up the "pollution" in the water using only items from nature. Finally, they gathered water from the run and tested for temperature, ph levels and dissolved oxygen levels. They used their findings to grade our watershed. It was unanimous that our watershed was very healthy and deserved an A++.

Just a reminder: Today is Spring Picture Day! 📸🧀😀

If you look up kindness in the dictionary, you will certainly see these two faces! Fourth grader, Ainye Taylor, and third grader, Colton Miranda, were nominated by their teachers for showing kindness and caring to others. Ainye helped a friend with her Career Day outfit and Colton wrote a welcome letter to a new student in his class. Both of these phenomenal young people did these things without prompting and completely out of the kindness of their hearts. They are walking the walk of our respect motto at SJES and I, for one, am super proud of them! 💜💛

We have a few slots available for our after school Code Ninja club (starting this Thursday, March 26th)! Don’t miss out! 🥳

Just a reminder that Thursday (March 26th) is Spring Picture Day. Please see order form for details and online ordering instructions! 😁

Interested in joining the After-School Code Ninja Club? Classes start next Thursday for students in grades 2-5---reserve your spot now!!

We are celebrating World Down Syndrome Day tomorrow (Friday, March 20th) by wearing colorful and wild socks! Please join in to celebrate our differences and strengths at South Jefferson! 🧦💛💜

JCS Families,

Jefferson County Schools will operate on a modified Non-Traditional Instruction Day (NTID) on Monday, March 16. All evening activities are canceled.

This decision was made after monitoring the weather throughout the weekend and consulting with the National Weather Service Charleston, WV, office this evening. Forecasted severe storms, including high winds up to 80 mph, heavy rain, and the potential for tornadoes, are creating too much uncertainty to plan for either an early or standard dismissal tomorrow afternoon. Keeping students at home helps us avoid putting them or our staff in harm's way.

What This Means for Your Student:

- Students will not report to school tomorrow and will complete their learning from home.
- K–5 students will find assignments and information posted in Rooms, as we did not send devices home for Canvas access.
- 6–12 students should follow the normal NTID process and connect with their teachers through their usual platforms.
- Teachers and staff will be available to support students from 9:15 am – 12:00 pm.

All LSIC meetings scheduled for tomorrow are cancelled and will be rescheduled. Math Field Day has been postponed to Wednesday, March 18.

Thank you for your understanding and partnership as we work to keep everyone safe.

JCS Families: We are currently experiencing phone and internet outages across the county due to a state system outage. If you need to contact your student's school, please use the backup phone number. Secondary phone numbers can be found on our website: https://www.jcswv.org/page/secondary-numbers

We had two special Positive Office Referrals to celebrate this week! Congratulations to fifth grader, Audrey Mawyer, and fourth grader, Joseph Reimer, for their nominations. Audrey was nominated for returning money that she found and Joseph was nominated for noticing that all of the recess balls needed air and he took them to Mr. Atkins to help. Both showed kindness, honesty and respect! Well done!

Book Character Parade!

Today is CAREER DAY!! Can’t wait to see what our Roadrunners aspire to be when they grow up. Thank you to our volunteers who will be sharing their careers with us today and a huge shout out to Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. Siddoway for organizing and planning this entire event!

Read Across America Week continued at South Jefferson with our “Reading is Positive” Day! Students wore shirts with positive messages and celebrated reading in their classrooms!

These two young ladies received Positive Office Referrals for their participation in our annual Talent Show. Betheny pushed through her fears of performing in front of an audience and Gracelynn stood by her friend, sharing positive support and holding her hand through the performance. We are proud of both of them for demonstrating friendship, respect and courage for everyone to see! Awesome!