Hey -- when you say you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way! This Jefferson student is showing major team spirit on crazy hair day in preparation for the Fun Fair May 18!
We can hardly wait! There'll be games and prizes, a dunk tank (Mr. Scheetz and Mr. Ringenberg!), bouncy house and bouncy slide, raffle baskets from your teachers and MORE MORE MORE! Tickets will be four for $1 at the fair and you can get pizza, a hot dog, cotton candy or a Sno Cone for four tickets! (Plus there is a super deal -- chips, drink and entree for just seven tickets!) Come celebrate the end of the school year and support Jefferson! Bring your friends!
All week, Mrs. Woods' second grade has been learning about force -- pushing, pulling, magnetic, gravity and friction. Friday they build challenges using each of these forces and learned how they work.
Mr. Scheetz' second grade class learned about buoyancy Wednesday by creating clay boats and seeing if they could float in a pail of water. "I learned that it doesn't work every time," said Jade Montano. "It needs to be thin and the walls need to be high."
Thanks to Mrs. Woods' second-grade student Madison, Nina and Ana Jorge, 6, visited the class Friday, Feb. 17, to teach the class about their homeland, Brazil.
Nina's real name is Bruna, but everyone in the United States calls her Nina. She was an exchange student at Oregon Davis in high school. Nina shared, "I was an exchange student years ago, and I was hosted by Maddie's mother's family. I graduated in 1993 and am now coordinator at a bilingual school in Brazil."
While visiting, she shared with Mrs. Woods' class a program called Mocking Bird, in which Brazilian students send e-mail messages to the states and American students send messages back. Mrs. Woods's class will participate in this program this year and are excited to learn more from other students. Principal Mills said, "When students are engaged in asking peers questions about new experiences their learning is enhanced. We are excited to share our love of learning with the bilingual Brazilian children. It's a great opportunity for Jefferson to use technology such as Skype on Mac computers to talk to children so far away but still using the exact same computers and programs."
Ashton Robertson's dad, Specialist Ralph Robertson, visited Mrs. Spasic's second-grade classroom Dec. 8 to talk about his upcoming deployment to Afghanistan Jan. 3. Specialist Robertson will be gone for a whole year with the U.S. Army and explained the geography and politics to the class, which plans to stay in touch in the coming year via Skype.
Look at how happy these Jefferson Jets second-graders are! They built their own robots out of found items -- call it creativity, up-cycling or thinking WITH the box! These students did a wonderful job building a robot with their families at home and then sharing them at school while explaining their inventions. It was all part of the story of the week, Pearl and Wagner, Two Good Friends. Thanks Mrs. Spasic, Mrs. Woods and Mr. Scheetz.
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