Mrs. Duggan and Mrs. Heitzig's classes enjoyed the afternoon picking apples.
JCMS Cross Country does well at the Southwestern Middle Meet. Boys took the win. Girls placed second. Brenley Kelly won the girls division!
JCMS Spirit Week
JCMS 5th grade students had an amazing time today at the Water Festival in Godfrey! Thank you to all of the organizations who make this event possible!
Grafton Pre-K has had an "appletastic" week! We have read many Apple Books, taste-tested red, green, and yellow apples, and graphed which one was our favorite. We ended the week by making homemade applesauce, which was Pre-K approved!
Mrs. Lumma's 1st grade class went on a field trip to Eckert's today to pick apples and it was a beautiful day! The students had a blast exploring the orchard, picking their own apples, and learning about the apple-harvesting process.
Mrs. Beuttel’s class has lots of Panther spirit!!!!
Ms. Muenstermann's 5th grade homeroom class mastered 250 skills on IXL during the month of September and earned a donut party!
JCMS 5th grade students held a Step Assembly today to recognize students who have achieved 100 reading steps. Keep reading like a Panther!!
Senior Football players stopped by Mrs. Jones class today to look at old JCHS yearbooks and talk about special traditions like the Homecoming Spirit.
Mrs. Heitzig and Mrs. Green's 1st grade class enjoyed their afternoon apple picking at Eckerts Farm.
Payton Mooney represented JCHS Girls Golf today at the IHSA Regional hosted by Rantoul. Mooney shot a 107. Congrats on a good season, Payton. Jersey 100 is proud of you.
Spanish Classes Cook with Visitor from Central America
On September 27, Spanish classes at JCHS took a break from the books for a fully immersive experience with a visitor from El Salvador who taught them to make a traditional dish from El Salvador called a “pupusa”.
Las pupusas are a thick corn tortilla wrapped around a delicious ingredient of your choice that may include cheese, beans, pork, shrimp, squash or even flowers called loroco. It is served with a thin tomato sauce, pickled cabbage, or if you prefer a spicy medley of pickled peppers, cauliflower and onions. This tasty dish is thought to be over 2,000 years old, predating the colonization of the Americas, and today is eaten for breakfast or dinner throughout El Salvador, and wherever the Salvadoran diaspora is found today.
The master chef for the endeavor was Salvadoran native and U.S. resident Maria Ines Orellana Larios, who is visiting her grandchildren here in Jerseyville. She says, “It makes me happy to share one of our best dishes with these beautiful young people. I think making pupusas might be a bit like making friends with people from other cultures, you have to be open to learning new things, maybe step out of your comfort zone and be patient.”
Each student tried to make and eat a pupusa. JCHS freshman Maggie Alexander made a gorgeous golden pupusa. She commented “The pupusas were delicious, I wasn’t sure I would like them, but I enjoyed making them and eating them, and it was definitely a fun change from class.” JCHS senior, Lexi Trexler, also admits, "a mi me gustan las pupusas,” (I like pupusas!), and it was fun to learn to make this dish from a native Salvadoran. Maria Ines was great, and the experience was authentic and unique!. Several students went back for seconds, including senior, Sofia Hernandez-Lamer who has a special connection with the presenter. Sofia says, “My abuelita (grandmother) makes the best pupusas, we are so excited for her to visit!¨
JCHS Spanish teachers, Cara Rojas, Rachel Kallal and Andrea Lamer were excited to organize the day. “We are proud of our kids who are learning not only a new language, but developing better cultural awareness that will be critical for success in the future. It is important for our students to have positive immersive cultural experiences as they grow. We are planning many more to come! We would like to thank Maria Inez Orellana Larios for this amazing experience and Mrs. Galeana for helping us with supplies, support throughout the day and letting us use her kitchen classroom!”
Mrs. Gray's and Mrs. Lankford's 4th grade classes are learning about energy conversions in science. They built simple electrical systems to convert electrical energy to motion, sound, and light.
Color Wars was a huge success at Grafton Elementary! Congratulations to Kayden Hand, Hannah Kellerman, Nayomi Harris, Kendyl McHugh, Dulce Buchanan, and Elizabeth Slaughter for being nominated for showing empathy.
We invite you to join us for the live broadcast of the JCHS Homecoming Parade on NFHS! While we hope you'll have the opportunity to attend the parade in person, if you can't make it, you can still enjoy all the excitement by accessing the live link on NFHS. This event is free to watch, but you'll need an NFHS account to view it. The parade is scheduled to start at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, September 29th. Don't miss out – be sure to tune in using the following link: https://www.nfhsnetwork.com/events/jersey-community-high-school-jerseyville-il/evt0dc916d5b9
Congratulations to Kennedy Berghoff, Tessa Crawford, Delaney Deist, Emma McCormick, Libby McCormick, and Elise Noble on their Girls Tennis Senior Night! These amazing young ladies played the last home match of their high school career against Chatham-Glenwood and helped bring the Panthers a 5-4 victory! Way to go, Ladies!!!!
The middle school girls basketball teams gave a great effort in their first home game of the season against Triad.
Kindergarten celebrated Johnny Appleseed's birthday this week. After reading his story they enjoyed making homemade applesauce, hats and sorted leaves into Fall colors.
It's "Game On" day at Grafton Elementary and several students wore their favorite sports team gear to show their school spirit! It's a wonderful day to be a Grafton Panther!
