WJPS Paw Print Stay Connected With WJPS WJPS is now active on Twitter , Facebook, & Remind. See our homepage, jackson.k12.ga.us/wjps, to connect with our accounts and receive up to the minute information about what’s happening at WJPS. Health & Safety ¨ Flu shots are now available . Get them soon and be ready. ¨ Parents, the CDC addresses your questions & concerns with new educational materials about EV-D68. http://1.usa.gov/1o92Sdx ¨ The CDC is continually updating its information on Ebola. Information that can be found here: http:// www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/index.html. Counselor’s Corner Red Ribbon Week October 27th through October 31st PTO News Happy Fall everyone. It is that fun time of year of pretty colors, camp fires and FALL FESTIVAL! Yes it is time. Please mark you calendars for October 24th, 6 pm to 8 pm. Admission will be $5 per child. This amount will cover all games and rides. There will be concessions, s'mores, and cakewalk for an additional cost. We will also be holding our annual silent auction. This year we will be featuring the "Julie" doll from AMERINCAN GIRL and we will be raffling off another YETTI cooler for $5/ticket. We are looking forward to seeing you there. Also, we need your help with set-up, clean-up, sorting candy and prizes, concessions, auction baskets, and silent auction. If you are interested in helping please let us know @ [email protected]. We cannot do it without you!!! Looking forward to seeing you there!! This year’s celebration at West Jackson Primary School will include a 2nd grade guidance classroom activity that will focus on being aware of the potential dangers of using drugs, alcohol and tobacco. 4825 Highway 53 Braselton, GA 30517 Office: 706-654-2243 Fax: 706-654-1560 October 2014 Dates to Remember ¨ 10/20-10/29-1st Quarter Teacher Conferences ¨ 10/24—WJPS Fall Festival 6-8:00pm ¨ 10/28—Late Conferences 4-7pm ¨ 10/31—WJPS Spirit Day ¨ 11/4—Santa Pictures ¨ 11/13—PTO Meeting @ 6:30 ¨ 11/18—Zaxby’s Spirit Night ¨ 11/21—WJPS Spirit Day ¨ 11/24-11/28— Thanksgiving Holidays MENTORS Still NEEDED! Go to: www.LindsaysLegacyMentor ing.org. You can also contact Lisa Stephens by phone at 706410-5525 to find out more about becoming a mentor. View the WJPS Newsletter online @ http://jackson.k12.ga.us/wjps/images/Information/newsletter/WJPSOctober2014Newsletter.pdf Grade Level News PreK Pre-K has been so busy learning about friends, family and fall. We are looking forward to learning about pumpkins the last week in October and also seeing all of our friends at the fall festival on October 24 to have lots of fun with our friends and families. Kindergarten In kindergarten this month, we have been enjoying our investigation of fall, apples, and pumpkins. We are also learning about maps, globes, and making safe choices. We have completed our math unit on shapes and are now working on number sense, which includes counting, creating, and labeling sets, more/less/equal, and ordinal numbers. We are continuing our work with letters and letter sounds, as well as the sounds of “th” and “sh”, and we are practicing sight words every day. 1st Grade First grade closed out their study of fairy tales and had a wonderful time at the Pierce Theatre at Brenau University watching “Sleeping Beauty.” This next month, we will be learning about the water cycle and will start our study of famous American inventors. In writing, we will continue to write narratives but our focus will now be on informational pieces. We will work on developing our base ten number sense in Unit 2 of math. And of course, we will be reading our little hearts out and trying to learn all of our sight words too!! 2nd Grade With the conclusion of October, Forces (speed, direction, push, and second grade will be completing the pull). During Math, we will be Social Studies unit on Famous working steadily on fluently adding Americans (James Oglethorpe, and subtracting. Mary Musgrove, Tomochichi, and Please make sure to sign your child’s Sequoyah) and Creek/Cherokee agenda on a nightly basis. This is Indians. After this unit, we will our form of communication with you sure homework is begin another Science unit on to make sure you are aware of daily Energy (heat, light, and motion) and behaviors and assigned homework. always completed Page 2 Homework is given MondayThursday. Students are responsible for completing all assigned work (reading, math, and spelling). Please support us at school by making and returned. WJPS View the WJPS Newsletter online @ http://jackson.k12.ga.us/wjps/images/Information/newsletter/WJPSOctober2014Newsletter.pdf