The Jonesville High School staff was honored to wear their "Raise Hope & Foster Dreams" t-shirt (provided by Hillsdale and Branch County branches of MDHHS) to provide awareness around the great need for foster care. We are now challenging the staff of Reading High School to "Raise Hope & Foster Dreams"!
Keep Kids in Our Community!
Wear your t-shirt with school pride,
While spreading the message far and wide.
Our kids need places to lay their heads,
Our county is lacking foster home beds.
Children are leaving schools, teachers, and friends,
Recruiting foster families will help end these trends.
Our kids need us to do our best,
To find loving families on our quest.
You can help, it is simple you see,
Just sport this shirt around the community!!!
Thanks to Mr. Dice and his Woodworking class, WES families made their own "My Little Library" bookshelves Thursday evening. With all the pieces already cut and grooved, families were able to put the shelves together in record time - less than an hour. To make the bookshelves their own, students were then given paint and brush and their choice of age appropriate books to take home. "Watching the families work together was the highlight of the night." - Linda Quiggle, JHS and One Comet Librarian.
Also on hand for the night were WES and One Comet Librarian, Mrs. Schneider and helpers, Bryanna Blossom, Brodie Henson, Brad Wright. Holland Thompson and Sierra Winter also helped set up.
This was the first exclusively "One Comet" Library program. Johnathan Rands's visits and writing workshop on March 30 & 31st and the following events at the Jonesville District Library are also part of One Comet's programming for "March is Reading Month":
Family Story Time on Financial Wellness with children's activities on April 20 at 5 PM
LEGO Build on March 24 at 3:30 PM
Dr. Seuss party on March 29 at 4 PM
As part of the reading and study of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mrs. Stanton's English 9 classes completed maps of Maycomb, Alabama. These maps included specific details of the plot.
JHS Weekly Update: 3/20-3/26
LINK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQhaD5rqsn9Y6R88e8Ph8eQRcH3YqnxTsiW8aEQaRrA/edit?usp=sharing
JHS Weekly Update: 3/13-3/19
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQhaD5rqsn9Y6R88e8Ph8eQRcH3YqnxTsiW8aEQaRrA/edit?usp=sharing
Good evening Comet families! This is just a reminder that tomorrow Friday, March 10th is a half day for all students. Please make arrangements accordingly. Have a good night and go Comets!
Congratulations to our February Students-of-the-Month! These students were recognized for demonstrating the Comet characteristic of ENCOURAGEMENT!
JHS Weekly Update: 3/6-3/12
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQhaD5rqsn9Y6R88e8Ph8eQRcH3YqnxTsiW8aEQaRrA/edit?usp=sharing
ATHLETIC UPDATE #2
Tyler Milks pinned his opponent with four seconds left. As a result, he will continue to wrestle at the State tournament.
The Jonesville Girls' Bowling team beat Hanover-Horton (746-651) to move on to semifinals.
ATHLETIC UPDATE
Two of our Jonesville Comet wrestlers are competing at the MHSAA Individual State tournament. Derek Ballinger won first round match. Tyler Milks lost his first round match and will wrestle again to stay in competition.
The Jonesville Girls' Bowling is seeded second moving into quarterfinals. They are now in bracket play against Hanover-Horton.
March is Youth Art Month and there is quite a bit to share from the art room. We have artists representing Jonesville throughout the state of Michigan.
"Class Act", featuring artwork by kindergarten through high school artists, is being held at the Battle Creek Art Center. Five artists from JHS will be represented at this exhibition from March 4th until March25th; there will be an artist reception on Sunday, March 19th, from 2-4pm. Artwork from Daniel Stewart, Esther Yokell, Audrey Blackham, Hallie James, and Elle Lamothe will be displayed.
Pen Perspective drawing "Kramer Co." by artist, Ava Kramer 10th grade has been awarded Michigan Art Education Association's Excellence in Art and will be displayed in the Top 100 of the 2023 MAEA Statewide Secondary Level Art Show, The Top 18 of the 2023 MAEA Statewide Secondary Level Art Show, and the Governor Traveling Show which tours the state of Michigan May 2023-May 2024.
The "9th annual JXN ART Teachers & Students Art Show" at ART634 in Jackson will be exhibiting art by Mrs. Sundberg and JHS students, Ava Kramer, Elaina VanBusKirk, and Sophia Hapyonuk.
The artwork will be on display from March 5-26th with an artist reception on Sunday, March 5th from 2-5pm.
Students, in Mrs. Zeiler's Physics class, built a catapult to investigate projectile motion. JHS is would like to thank Jonesville Lumber for providing the wood that was used to build the catapult and continuing to support student learning.
ATTENTION: Senior Comets
Due to the widespread power outages in Hillsdale County, the Foundation has extended the 2023 Scholarship Application Deadline to 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 3, 2023.
Jonesville's Above The Influence group joined forces with Reading's Above The Influence group to host a "purple-out" at the basketball game on Friday, January 27th. The event was intended to raise awareness around suicide prevention. All money that was raised was donated to the Hillsdale County Suicide Coalition.
Good evening Comet families! I'm sorry for the late message but our last issue was just resolved. We are good to go for school tomorrow. Thank you for your patience and we look forward to seeing your student(s) tomorrow!
JHS Weekly Update: 2/26-3/5
LINK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQhaD5rqsn9Y6R88e8Ph8eQRcH3YqnxTsiW8aEQaRrA/edit?usp=sharing
Good afternoon Comet families! A quick update on where we are at. Internet is up and running at the schools. JHS/JMS are both good to go. WES is having issues with the heat. We have people working on it but that's as much as I know right now.
I want to thank Tom, Vern, Lucy, and others who helped keep the power going and moving food around so it wasn't spoiled. There were quite a few people who have been working to try to get our kids back in school. We are lucky to have them!
I will give you another update when I know something more definitive. I hope you are all well!
Good evening Comet families! I hope this message finds you safe and well, though I know we are in different states of “well”. In looking at the outage map for Consumers, it does not look like we are going to be ready to go by tomorrow so we will not be in session tomorrow Friday, February 24th.
I know this time has not been easy for you all and I hope it gets better soon. We will see our Comets on Monday, February 27th. Stay safe and stay warm