Support our school by shopping the Scholastic Book Fair either online or through the Book Fairs app!
Get the Book Fair app and shop directly from your device. You can also view book details, including age, grade, and reading levels. Thank you for your support!
Please support Jackson students in need by donating non-perishable food through Thursday of this week. Donations will be collected in front of the auditorium before school. Examples include cereal, rice, peanut butter, canned food, etc. The grade who donates the largest number of items (not pounds) will win extra recess time!
We are looking forward to seeing you all at parent teacher conferences next week, Wednesday the 9th and Thursday the 10th. Conferences at Jackson are held in an arena style in the cafeteria. The morning session begins at 8:30am and ends at noon. An afternoon session is available from 3:15pm to 5:00pm, and the day wraps up with an evening session from 6:00pm to 8:30pm. We ask that parents please plan to arrive no later than 40 minutes prior to the end of any session to ensure there is enough time to visit all teachers prior to the end of the session.
This year, Greg Crabtree (Assistant Principal) and I look forward to offering up short presentations and parent discussion sessions during the AM and PM sessions. Please see which interest you and join us in the library during the noted times (presentations are both Wednesday and Thursday).
How can you better monitor technology? How do you protect your teen from all the Internet has to offer until they are ready? How can you use technology to better monitor your teen?
Presented by Kevin Crotchett
This year, JMS joins middle schools throughout the district in implementing AVID: Advanced Via Individual Determination. Learn more about AVID as a whole school and individual elective program.
Presented by Greg Crabtree
Every Wednesday, minus late openings, your students spend an extra 25 minutes with their 1st period teachers in SUCCESS. Learn more about this whole school JMS program.
Presented by Kevin Crotchett
From homework to monitoring grades, self-monitoring to self-advocacy, this session will focus on ways to help your student become more academically independent.
Presented by Greg Crabtree
Middle school wrestling practice starts on Tuesday, November 8th, with practices every Tuesday and Thursday (school days only) through February. Both boys and girls are welcome. All practices will be from 4:30pm to 6:00pm in the Jackson Middle School wrestling room. Click here for more details, and click here to email coach Lance Johnson with questions.
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We hope you will join us! Following is the schedule of events for the evening:
Classroom curriculum presentations will be held in three sessions throughout the evening. Additional classrooms are open with teachers and students ready to provide demonstrations and answer your questions. Choose one curriculum presentation per session or visit classrooms on a drop-in basis.
Classrooms are open with teachers and students ready to provide demonstrations and answer your questions.
Classroom curriculum presentations will be held in three sessions throughout the evening. Choose one curriculum presentation per session.
Session 1: 7:10-7:30pm
Session 2: 7:40-8:00pm
Session 3: 8:10-8:30pm
The Forecast Guide lists course offerings for the year ahead. The guide for 2017-18 will be updated in the spring of 2017, but in the meantime you can get an idea of the courses that will be available by looking at the current year’s guide.
Students who participate in this contest will write a letter to an author (dead or alive) answering the question: How did an author’s work change your view of the world or yourself?
If you would like to know more about this writing opportunity, please email Virginia Hayter, vhayter@pps.net, or visit the contest website here. Letters are due to Mrs. Hayter by January 2, 2017.
As you decide whether our neighborhood school or a focus option school is best for your student, it is often helpful to attend Information Night at the school(s) that you are interested in. Click here for details and the schedule.
Bring the whole family to Jackson on November 18th for LEARNStein plus Grandparents & Special Friends Night! Parents will have time to learn more about our unique and amazing Bernstein Artful Learning Method, while students can take guests on a tour through their school and show examples of Bernstein work product. A spaghetti dinner (with vegetarian and gluten-free options) will be open from 5:30pm to 7pm ($7 per person or $25 for a family of four or more).
Fun party board experiences (where teachers donate their time outside of school hours for activities with the students such as bowling and capture the flag) will be on sale, and the evening will conclude with a concert. Cash or checks payable to “JMS PTA”, and Visa/Mastercard are accepted.
We need volunteers! All shifts are an hour or less. Click here to volunteer.
Please support the awesome teachers & staff at JMS by feeding them during those long conference days! This is an easy way to help out on Wednesday and Thursday, November 9th & 10th. Please click on a meal below to sign up:
Wednesday, November 9, Breakfast
Wednesday, November 9, Dinner
Thursday, November 10, Breakfast
Thursday, November 10, Dinner
