South Jefferson Elementary School

There’s no better day than Pajama Day! 💜

We snuggled up in our favorite scarves yesterday! 🧣😁

Thank you to the entire Child Nutrition staff at Jefferson County Schools! Our cooks, cafeteria managers, and secretaries have continued to provide tasty, nutritious meals to students during unprecedented circumstances brought on by a global pandemic. Despite staffing shortages and supply chain issues, they served students more than 155,000 meals in October alone. They have not only continued to build good habits in our elementary school students with balanced meals for breakfast and lunch, but are also reducing food waste and helping middle and high school students make good choices by allowing them to make individual decisions on which menu items they choose, including the salad bar.

“Tinsel Toes Thursday” was a huge success! Thank you!! Ms. Mahoney

Our “Whiteout Winter Wonderland Wishes Wednesday” was a huge hit! Thank you to everyone that participated! We even manifested snow flurries in Summit Point! You’re welcome! ⛄️❄️😉

To bring some holiday cheer to the halls of South Jefferson, we are going to have some special days at SJES in December and hope that our students will participate! We’re going to be searching for the class with the most holiday spirit! 🥳 Wednesday, December 8th: Winter Wonderland “White Out”—-wear white from head to toe, in honor of our wishes for all things snow! ⛄️❄️ Thursday, December 9th: Tinsel Toes Thursday—Rock your most festive and colorful socks today! 🧦 Friday, December 10th: Ita a sweet “candy cane” Friday. Dress in red and white in honor of the candy cane. Tuesday, December 14th: Holiday headwear Day—-this is the time to wear your most festive reindeer antlers, Santa hat, elf ears, Whoville hat, etc. 🎅🏼 🦌 👂🏻 Wednesday, December 15th: “Baby, it’s cold outside”! Wear your favorite, snuggly scarf to keep you warm all day long! 🧣 Friday, December 17th: PAJAMA DAY! 😴 💤 Monday, December 20th: in honor of the 80th day of school, like, we’re having a totally tubular 80’s day! Dig out those neon colors, leg warmers and Members Only jackets to celebrate the best decade ever! Wednesday, December 22nd: today is the day to wear your wildest holiday fashions ever—-festive sweaters, headwear/hats, socks, etc. The brighter, the better! (Today is a two hour early dismissal). Thank you for helping us to bring the sparkle to South Jefferson Elementary! 💜 Ms. Mahoney

Student transfer requests for the 2022-2023 school year are due now. If your child is attending SJES on an approved transfer, this needs to be renewed yearly. Please submit all transfer requests via the County website (you will see the Transfer Request on the main page of the website) JCSWV.org Thank you, Ms. Mahoney

Breakfast with Santa opportunity: Saturday, Saturday, December 11th. Let’s support our WHS Key Club students!

A reminder that Jefferson County Schools has returned to a regular schedule for Fridays. That means that today, Dec. 3, 2021, is a full day of school for all students. Thank you for supporting our staff! https://jcswv.org/page/sustaining-excellence-update

Did someone say "FREE photos with Santa"??? Lux Photography and the PTO are excited to announce the return of FREE photos with Santa for our SJES students! Photographs will be BY APPOINTMENT ONLY and will be taking place at South Jefferson Elementary on Sunday, December 5th, beginning at 1:00 p.m. Registration is REQUIRED for each family. If you have multiple children attending SJES, please register for ONE session time as siblings will be photographed together with Santa. Siblings not attending SJES are welcome to participate as well. Each child in the photograph will receive a FREE 4 x 6 image with Santa that day. PLEASE REGISTER BY GOING TO https://www.luxphotoservices.com/form/sje-santa-pictures. REGISTRATION DEADLINE is Thursday, December 2nd at midnight. No registrations will be taken after that time, so PLEASE register now. All participating families MUST register to ensure that everyone gets time with Santa. We will not be able to accommodate ANY walk-ins without registration. A special thank you to Lux Photography for this special opportunity! It's going to be so much fun! Ms. Mahoney

In anticipation of their upcoming unit on the Middle Ages, fourth graders in Mrs. Strom’s class completed a catapult project, making predictions on the launching of their catapult creations, measuring the launches and comparing the results. They had a fantastic adventure this morning! Well done, Mrs. Strom’s class!

Looking for support at Thanksgiving? The Church at Martinsburg is giving away free turkeys on Saturday, November 20th, beginning at 9:00 am (until supplies last).

This upcoming week is American Education Week (November 15th- 19th). To celebrate and prepare, I’m sharing the fun days ahead: Monday, November 15th: In honor of World Kindness Day, • Wear a shirt with a positive message • Classrooms will participate in a kindness project. • Other small Random Acts of Kindness highly encouraged. Make sure you share your kind acts with your classes! 😊 Tuesday, November 16th: “Warm Up”for Education Day • Wear an exercise/sports outfit • Classrooms will complete additional exercise breaks throughout the day. Wednesday, November 17th: Career Day • Dress for Success or as your future career. • Classrooms will explore careers through a variety of activities. Teachers will set up virtual conferencing meeting adults to share their career. Please contact your child’s teacher if you are interested. Thursday, November 18th: Thankful Thursday • Students will create thank you cards in class to show appreciation for staff, friends and family. Friday, November 19th: SJES School Spirit Day • Wear South Jefferson spirit wear and/or purple and gold. Let’s show appreciation for our school and show our pride for South Jefferson! 💜🥳 Thank you! Ms. Mahoney

Dear South Jefferson Elementary families, Please remember that school is closed on Thursday, 11/11, in honor of Veterans Day, and the half-day on Friday, 11/12, is a remote learning day. Our child nutrition services will continue Friday, with food packs available for pickup from 9:30am-10:30am.

South Jefferson students shared the story, “The Dot” by Peter Reynolds in our library and made their own “marks” on the world, creating this awesome bulletin board. Super proud of them!

Menu changes this week: Tuesday will be “breakfast for lunch” and Wednesday will be pork rib sandwiches, corn, beans, fruit and milk. Have a great day! 💜 Ms. Mahoney

Elementary School families may be interested in the following Public Service Announcement regarding a COVID-19 vaccination opportunity for children from 5-11 years old. For Questions regarding the clinics, please call the Jefferson County Health Department at 304-728-8416. COVID-19 vaccinations are NOT required for school attendance.

Our Read-A-Thon begins tomorrow! Can we break last year’s records with the amount of reading we accomplish???? Let’s go, Reading Roadrunners!!! (Runs from November 1st-15th)

Our annual PTO Read-A-Thon is back! We are excited to begin this project next week (will run from November 1-15 and will directly benefit our SJES library and our PTO. While this IS a fundraiser, we LOVE the aspect of challenging our students to read for a good cause—-and to learn that reading is FUN, at the same time. Our goal is to purchase books for the library so your support is very much appreciated. Flyers are coming home this week! Thank you! Ms. Mahoney

A special thank you to Ms. Slagle’s 4th grade class for mulching and watering around our trees on the playground and for removing support stakes from the trees, as they are thriving and blessing our playground with their beauty. This project was conducted with the help of Victoria Lusk from the Cacapon Institute, Ms. Slagle and Rick’s Total Lawn Care.