Ugly Christmas Sweaters at SJES
Miss Oliver's and Mrs. Cash's kindergarten classes reviewed weather this week. Each day they did hands-on activities creating weather in the classroom. After learning about tornadoes and tornado safety, the students had the chance to make a tornado in a jar using water, hand sanitizer, and glitter. Shaking the jar in a circular motion created a "tornado", and students were able to see how objects on the ground could get sucked up into the funnel cloud.
Miss Virginia 2023 visits SJES to talk with students and also give out gold coins to students who received enough points to go to the book machine. Please click on the link to view pictures.
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SJES participates in Computer Science Education Week!
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Southside VA Vegetable is offering fresh produce to our students and families. Please come out and pick up fresh vegetables. Bags will be provided. Due to a limited amount, this event is first come first serve at the following sites:
Clays Mill, Meadville, and Sydnor Jennings
Congratulations to Ms. Doss 2nd grade class for collecting the most canned food during our food drive. They were award pizza!
Congratulations to our GLOW winners!
To kick off the start of Christmas season, students wore red and green.
Interim reports for the second nine weeks are available for viewing on the Campus Portal. If you need assistance with the portal or need a paper copy of the report, please contact your child's school.
More students continue to visit the book machine!
In Mr. Barksdale's STEM class, students completed the balloons over broadway activity using Ozobots. Students were shown a video that showed examples of a balloons that have been part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. Students created their own Macy's balloon and they had a parade.
Thank you to our PTO for sponsoring pies for Pie Day and thank you Ms. Owen for the candy bars.
Thank you to James Hubbard and Hubbard's Catering for sponsoring our Thanksgiving meal on Friday, November 17th.
5th grade students at Sydnor Jennings learn about electrical circuits. Dustin Francis from Mecklenburg Electric taught a lesson on electrical circuits. Students learned about conductors, insulators, open and closed circuits, as well as series and parallel circuits. Then they used snap circuits to build a variety of circuits. This was a great hands-on learning experience for our students. Thank you Mecklenburg Electric for your support.
When students reach 100 classdojo points, they have the opportunity to visit the book machine. Today, two second grade students were presented a gold coin by their teachers as their peers celebrated with them while choosing their book.
Sydnor Jennings Elementary students organized a Thanksgiving food drive to provide food for families in the community for the holiday season. Students collected 636 different food items for 10 different families in the community. The top three winning classes were first place, Autumn Doss, second grade; second place, Tanya Oliver, kindergarten; and third place, Sandra Cash, kindergarten.
To celebrate the last day of American Education Week, which was Friday, November 17th, students wore camo
All schools and offices will be closed on Wednesday, November 22, 2023 through Friday, November 24, 2023 for the Thanksgiving holiday.
We hope you have a happy and safe Thanksgiving!
We would like to give a huge thank you to our secretary, Mrs. McFadden for supplying goodies this week for American Education Week. We appreciate you!
Today for American Education Week, students dressed up as their favorite teacher.
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