The 8th grade students are reading The Outsiders together as a class. As we read, we're on the hunt for literary devices, such as metaphors and allusions. These devices help us understand the mood and tone of the author's writing. We're also stopping to discuss themes and character development we notice along the way.
about 1 month ago, Kate Birk
Earth & Space students looking in the microscope at ash from the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption and comparing it to ash. It was easy to see the high silica content. Students were also able to analyze real photographs of Mt. St. Helens before , during, and after the eruption.
about 1 month ago, Jess Bushman
Chemistry students were able to take real elements and feel the differences in their mass and then look at the Periodic Table and the mass recorded on the Periodic Table.
about 1 month ago, Jess Bushman
Regular season volleyball games start today!
about 1 month ago, Eric Miller
GAME ADDED
We have found an opponent for our Varsity football team on Friday. They will be traveling to Mohave Accelerated at 7pm.
The youth flag football camp will be rescheduled for another date. Updates coming soon. We apologize for any inconvenience.
about 1 month ago, Tyler Murphy
In a special Board Meeting, our Governing Board voted to change our Spring Break to March 15, 2027 – March 19, 2027 to align with NPC’s Spring Break for our students.
Due to this change, our Spring Parent Teacher Conferences will be March 11, 2027 with an early release for students that day.
The public calendar on jcusd.org reflects the changes.
(Thank you to my editor, John R.)
about 1 month ago, Julie Strong
ATTENTION FANS -
We have two important updates regarding High School Athletics:
1. VOLLEYBALL - Mogollon is unable to host their volleyball games with us, Thursday, 8/27.
We will be hosting instead!
FR/JV/Varsity games tomorrow at 4/5/6pm.
2. FOOTBALL - Valley Lutheran has forfeited the Varsity Football game on Friday, 8/28.
We will not be hosting a football game this weekend.
Remember, our games are now cashless. Card only for tickets and concessions.
about 1 month ago, Tyler Murphy
From AR reading to American Self-Government review stations, my students have been working hard! I’m so proud to see them collaborating, supporting one another, and preparing together for Thursday’s test. Their teamwork makes all the difference!
about 1 month ago, Michael Gayer
Agriculture hatched these cute babies this month! Keeping these tiny little quail happy has been fun and rewarding. These little guys hatched from our own little flock. Excited to see our quail numbers grow!
about 1 month ago, Marijoe Hansen
Winslow Public Library has digitized our yearbooks. Check the link for Joseph City HS yearbooks all the way back to 1950! Thanks to Winslow Public Library!!!!
Yesterday in kindergarten, we began exploring how to order numbers 0-5 from least to greatest. When we made our groups, to our surprise, it looked like stairs! If we did it wrong, the stairs wouldn't work. It is good for our minds to visualize with hands on manipulatives how one more looks like in a number order line!
about 1 month ago, Deidra Smith
Environmental Science is trying their hand at creating a perfectly balanced ecosystem. Their goal is to have the perfect balance of water in the terrarium and to have the water cycle and nitrogen cycle be perfectly balanced and cycle continually. The longest record for a sealed terrarium to continue to live is over 60 years. Mrs. Bushman has one that is over 2 years old.
about 1 month ago, Jess Bushman
There will be a Special Board Meeting of the JCUSD Governing Board August 25, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.
about 1 month ago, Julie Strong
Can you predict the habitat of an insect based on what they look like? Biology looked at insects and then wrote a lab predicting things about them based on what they saw. Identification of the insect was not part of the lab.
about 1 month ago, Jess Bushman
Our math classes had a great week with much laughing and working!! Our 7th graders learned about proportionality by making lemonade, our Geometry students used marshmallows and toothpicks to build and identify points, lines and planes in different dimensions and our algebra 2 students played bounce bowling and plotted the ball trajectory. Your students are critically creative and genuinely innovative in their abilities to model and understand math concepts!
about 1 month ago, Mrs. Larsen
Our Junior High Science classes have been learning to engage in and understand the Scientific Method/Thinking. This week our students used inductive reasoning to offer a hypothesis regarding the disappearance of a family, by studying canceled checks left behind. Your children were fantastic and everyone was completely involved.
about 1 month ago, Kay Rush
Our Varsity volleyball team will be having a mutli-team scrimmage in Joseph City today.
Come out and support our Lady Wildcats as they kick off the new season.
about 1 month ago, Eric Miller
Joseph City JH/HS is making a change to our athletic events. We will no longer be accepting cash at these events. This includes our sporting events entry fees and our concession stand as well. We understand that there will be some who prefer to use cash. We apologize for the inconvenience. One option for entry fees is to purchase an activity pass at the high school office. These can still be purchased with cash and will get you in to all of our home events (excluding state playoff games).
about 1 month ago, Eric Miller
Three weeks into the school year, and if you asked my welding students what we’ve been doing, they’d probably tell you "not welding."
They’re not wrong—no sparks have flown yet! Instead, we’ve spent the last 15 days mastering shop safety (because burning the building down on week two is frowned upon) Today we learned how to read a tape measure. Turns out, "about three of those tiny lines past the 4" isn't an official trade measurement.
The real win? The majority of the class just passed their very first NCCER exam today! They are officially on track to earn their full NCCER Core certification.
Building tradespeople takes patience, standard units of measurement, and a whole lot of safety rules. The sparks will be flying soon enough, but for now, these kids are laying a solid foundation. 👨🏭🔥📐
about 1 month ago, Tyson Smith
Environmental Science made and set out slides to see what particulates are floating around in the air on different parts of campus. We will check them under the microscope next week to identify what we have collected.
