The Joseph City Wildcats are back at home tonight and ready to take on the Seligman Antelopes! Come pack the gym, bring the energy, and cheer on our girls! 💙💛
📅 Thursday, October 1st
📍 Joseph City High School
🏐 JV A — 5:00 PM
🏐 Varsity — 6:00 PM
Let’s make some noise for our Wildcats!
It has been too long but I wanted to update you all on some of the great things our students have been doing. Our Cross country team has been enjoying the sport and competing well. There is a fun picture of our night-time competition at Desert Twilight.
Our math students have been hard at work and are always willing to go along with my silly plans.
7th grade has been learning about percent and about integers. They used oreos to model moon phases and discuss percent increase and decrease between phases. They have also been studying how football and money and many other well known ideas can help us to understand integers.
The Geometry students have been learning about 2-D and 3-D shapes and using them to start basic drafting skills (3-d modeling used in 3-d printing and engineering) using Onshape which has free use for students. They also built 3-D creations out of blocks and drew their front views, top views and side views with specified accuracy. The students are just starting to get into logic and conditional statements. They used a fun marble track game called Turing Tumble to model how computers process logic .
The Algebra 2 students have been into statistics and have been learning about how knowledge of data patterns and standardization can help you determine the probability of data occuring. The students did an activity where they measured their pinkies and compared their data to the whole class using Z-score and percentiles. There is a fun picture showing the students in order of pinky size holding up their calculated percentiles.
Recently, we have experienced water erosion from all of the rain from Hurricanes Polo and Odalys.
But we don't see chemical erosion (also known as chemical weathering).
Earth & Space students first saw the effects that chemical weathering can have on different types of rocks by using hydrochloric acid.
We are celebrating a wonderful milestone in our school community as Mrs. Hanson retires today!
For years, Mrs. Hanson has poured her heart into our elementary school as our reading coach, making a lasting impact on our students, teachers, and families. While we will greatly miss her daily presence, we are incredibly grateful for her dedication and want to send her into retirement with all our love and appreciation.
Please join us in wishing Mrs. Hanson the absolute best in her next chapter. Thank you, Mrs. Hanson, for your years of exceptional service to our school!
Bus and preschool will be normal dismissal.
Parents are welcome to pick up their children at the front office before 3:10. Please use the parking spaces across the street.
All student pickup will take place in an orderly line at the front of the building. Please join the
back of the line along Westover, 4th N, and Bushman, and wait patiently to move forward.
At the front of the line, near the north end of the red-lined fire zone, one staff
member with a radio checks each car and radios the names to the gym, where students are
waiting.
Staff walks students one car at a time to the garden gate/north school door. A second staff
member there confirms that every student is inside the vehicle.
Walkers and bikers will not be released during inclement weather. Families of walkers will be
called to arrange safe pickup for their students.
What a weekend for our Joseph City Wildcats Varsity Volleyball team!
Our girls had the opportunity to compete at the EPIC Tournament at ASU, an incredible event withover 100 teams in attendance!
🔥 1st PLACE in our pool!
🔥 Made it all the way to the SEMIFINAL ROUND!
We are so proud of the way these girls represented Joseph City. They competed hard, battled through every match, supported one another, and showed exactly what WE ARE ONE is all about. 💙💛
We came home with more experience, more confidence, and plenty of great memories!
Way to represent, Wildcats! 🏐
01 Normal Dismissal Procedures
Parents: Be in place by 3:25 pm north of the solar panels on Bushman, on the south side of 4th N,
or facing south on Westover. Keep all red-line areas clear.
Staff and students: Begin walking the perimeter of the fence at 3:29 pm. Staff release students as
they confirm how each student is going home.
Walkers and bikers: Released at the crosswalks in front of the school by 3:39 pm most days.
02 Inclement Weather Dismissal
Parents line up as normal. Students line up by family in the gym.
Radio check: At the front of the line, near the north end of the red-lined fire zone, one staff
member with a radio checks each car and radios the names to the gym, where students are
waiting.
Family pickup: Staff escort the family to the garden gate/north school door. A second staff
member there confirms that every student is inside the vehicle.
All student pickup will take place in an orderly line at the front of the building. Please join the
back of the line and wait patiently to move forward.
Walkers and bikers will not be released during inclement weather. Families of walkers will be
called to arrange safe pickup for their students.
03 Extreme Weather Dismissal
For lightning or local thunderstorms with flash flood warnings in effect.
Before 3:10 pm: Students may be picked up at the office.
At 3:30 pm during an active thunderstorm: Remaining students wait in the gym for in-person
parent pickup.
Walkers and bikers will not be released during active thunderstorms. Families of walkers will
be called to arrange safe pickup for their students.
At 3:30 pm with no rain or active thunderstorm: Students walk as normal around the fence
perimeter.
Buses always leave at 3:35 pm.
Preschool always dismisses via the preschool parking lot.
Following the Phoenix Zoo's PAW program (Protect Arizona Wildlife), students used colored beads to understand how genetics become limited when species are endangered, and when species are brought back from being endangered, not all genetic traits remain in the population.
Last Friday, our Joseph City High School Volleyball team had the opportunity to step off the court and serve our community by helping our elementary school with the Wildcat Soccer Spectacular! ⚽
We love seeing our girls represent what being a Wildcat is all about—not just through volleyball, but through service, leadership, and supporting the younger Wildcats in our community.
We’re proud of these girls for giving their time, jumping in wherever they were needed, and being great examples for the next generation. 💙💛
WE ARE ONE — on the court, in our schools, and in our community! 🏐⚽
