June 2011 Issue - Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District

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J D J-D Journal Page 4 At the High School Students in the Wood Manufacturing class for the spring of 2011 were part of the unique handson and very real-world learning opportunity of running a student company. Students worked hard to manufacture products, and their end-of-year sale generated a prot for the student company. This resulted in a $225 donation to the Ronald McDonald House on behalf of the 2011 J-DHS Wood Manufacturing Club. The donation is in memory of Rick Casey, a class of 2011 classmate who passed away of cancer in 2005. The Ronald McDonald House was also the recipient of a $1,000 donation from a School Store run Four students of the RamPage staff won awards at the 2011 High School Press Day sponsored by The Post-Standard. Out of hundreds of story and photo entries Wood-class pupils practice the business of learning by the J-DHS Corporate Communication class. The Wood Manufacturing class was run as a small business. Their work ranged from planning — they decided to make beaded jewelry and bat houses — to purchasing equipment and supplies, making the nished products, marketing the products, deducting sales tax, calculating a prot and performing a detailed reection of their experiences. Along the way, class members, led by teacher Larry Vielhauer, also manufactured 20 pens for the Freedom Pen Project. These pens will be mailed to military service men and women overseas. Student writers recognized from school newspapers throughout Central New York, J-D students won awards in 3 of the 11 contest categories, including one 1 st place Gold. Specically, J-D students won: The Wood Manufacturing class this spring ran a small business that made, among other things, bat houses, like the one seen at left. The business made a prot, and donated $225 to Ronald McDonald House. The students pictured above just graduated, but in 2009 were featured in a Penn State Industries magazine cover story about their work. 1 st Place Gold for Column – Chris Yu; 2 nd Place Silver for Editorial Cartoon – Dan Schoeneck; 2 nd Place Silver for Sports Story – Nick Firman and Ryan Byrnes. Meanwhile, two J-DHS seniors, Joe Hall and Kaitlyn Murphy, were winners of the 2011 Young Playwrights Festival, sponsored by Syracuse Stage. The winners’ works received staged readings there May 9. Junior Brianna Suslovic was named a semi- nalist in the contest. French students achieve excellence on national exam Students who excelled on the National French Exam include (left to right) Caterina Bormioli, Chris Yu, David Zhang, Hadjer Sahraoui and Allison Semmel. Five J-DHS French students received a 10 or higher national ranking in Le Grand Concours, or the National French Contest (among 54,000 candidates at the high school level). Twelve French students were ranked in the top 10 in the Central New York region (among 454 candidates in CNY at the high school level). Le Grand Concours is sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French. It is a competitive exam that tests students' knowledge of French in the categories of listening comprehension, reading and grammar. This is the 17 th year of enrollment with over 125,000 students participating in the 2011 contest over all levels. The following JDHS students received top rankings: CNY National Student Level Rank Rank Allison Semmel 2 10 15 Elena Marchetti-Bowick 3 10 12 Hadjer Sahraoui 4 1 9 Lydia Nevin 4 2 10 Julia Colares 4 6 14 Erik Davis 4 9 17 Alexander Lesser 4 10 18 Mary Pinkes 5 2 7 Caterina Bormioli 5 3 9 Christopher Yu 5 3 9 David Zhang 5 10 16 Senior work recognized by Central New York Art Guild The annual High School Senior Show & Competition is sponsored by the Central New York Art Guild and hosted at the Edgewood Gallery, 216 Tecumseh Road in Syracuse. Schools may submit three senior two-dimensional pieces and one three-dimensional piece. Jamesville-DeWitt seniors received recognition for three pieces and they were on exhibition at the Edgewood Gallery through the month of April. Sally Zheng’s oil on canvas entitled “Aussie” (see page 1) received Second Place ($100); Ali Berson’s drawing entitled “Dance” (top right) received an Honorable Mention ($25); and Zachary Kaufman’s ceramic entitled “Raku Vase” (bottom right) received a Commercial Art Supply Award ($25).
J D J-D Journal Page 5 At the Middle School At Jamesville The J-DMS mathletes who participate in the New York Mathematics League Contest are asked to solve 30 problems, in as many minutes. The top scorers at the 6 th grade level are: Ishan Gajra, Jacob Harron, William Havens, Anthony Impellizzeri, Michaela LeBlond, Henry Middleton, Rajat Sharma, and Julia Walsh. The top scorers at the 7 th grade level are: Cayla Dedrick, Reed Jaworski, Tyler Lux, Matthew O’Connor, and James Pieri. The top scorers at the 8 th grade level are: Elise Catania, Brian Cieplicki, Will Cote, Marion Maxwell, Andrew Math Team success adds up McVearry, Tiernan Quinn, Urmi Roy, and Jacob Saletsky. The schools in the state are grouped by region. In an eight-county region, J-DMS placed rst in that region in grades 6, 7, and 8. Meanwhile, at a recent awards dinner sponsored by the Onondaga County Mathematics Teachers’ Association, a number of J-DMS students were recognized. The OCMTA Math Contest award winners were: 2 nd place – Matt O’Connor, and 3 rd place – Reed Jaworski. The OCMTA organizes three math competitions throughout the school Reed Jaworski is among the top scorers from J-DMS on the New York Mathematics League Contest. year for seventh and eighth graders. Students solve problems and individual and team scores accumulate over the three meets. This year 20 schools participated in the competitions. The J-DMS Math Team is coached by math teacher, Mrs. Gangemi. The members of Math Team are Tiernan Quinn, Matt O’Connor, Marion Maxwell, Cortney Vaughan, and Urmi Roy. The J-D team of students placed 1 st overall in the county. For individual performance 2 nd place went to Matt O’Connor and a tie for 3 rd place went to Tiernan Quinn and Marion Maxwell. The Skype is no limit for virtual visits with authors Mr. Starowicz’s sixthgrade language arts students used Skype to visit with author Kate Messner. When the students learned that Ms. Messner was unable to travel to school, they turned to technology to bridge the distance. To prepare for their virtual visit, students listened (read aloud) to The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. This Kate Messner novel is about the adventure of a middle school girl trying to complete a leaf research project so she can secure her spot on the cross-country team participating in Sectionals. Because Ms. Messner is a middle school teacher, the 20-minute Skype visit occurred at the end of the school day. Many students asked questions about the plot of the story. As the school year was closing, this class was scheduled to have another virtual visit, this time with Kathryn Erskine, author of Mockingbird. Mockingbird is a story about a young girl with Asperger’s Syndrome, who is trying to deal with her brother’s death. ‘Where is the pool?’ Fifth-grade ‘greeters’ point the way In late May, fourth-graders from Jamesville, Tecumseh and Moses DeWitt came to the middle school for the much-anticipated 4 th Grade Tour Night. And who better to show them around the middle school than our own 5 th grade students? There were many stops on the tour including the library, gym, computer lab, fth-grade classrooms and of course, the pool! After being at the middle school for the whole year, the 5 th grade tour guides really demonstrated their knowledge about what the middle school has to offer, answered all kinds of questions, and really made an effort to help our future 5 th graders feel comfortable with their transition to the middle school. Nice job! For more Middle School news, see page 2. Performance-based education wraps up year in style Performances enhanced the learning experiences of Jamesville Elementary students this spring. Back in the fall many fourthgraders elected to learn how to read and play a musical instrument. During the annual Spring Concert – during which the band, strings, and chorus performed – the children amazed the audience with their musical expertise. Meanwhile, our kindergartners took to the stage to reminisce and celebrate their year. After learning about Japan, our rst-graders presented a fact-lled show about Japan. Second-graders helped us to learn about all 50 U.S. states. Finally, our third-graders learned about caring for the environment, cleaned up the area around the school for Earth Day, and performed “The Great Kapok Tree.”
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