Joseph City School District

What do you get when you combine Campus Cleanup and a Homecoming Special Dress-up Day?
. . . . .. Well you can see . . . .

Spell it Together!
Every student had a letter, and every letter had a job! Our first graders teamed up to build words with magic e.

8 and 2? Our first graders are finding all the ways to make 10 - with a little help from bowling!

Our JV A and Varsity volleyball teams have home games on Tuesday. Come watch them at 5 and 6pm.

Through a partnership with the U of A, the Center for Recruitment and Retention of Mathematics Teachers and AmeriCorps Mathematics Tutoring continues to provide FREE online math tutoring for all Arizona K–12 students.
Check them out!

https://crr.math.arizona.edu/tutors

Have you signed up for your Box Tops account yet? Support our schools with the shopping you already do!
https://boxtops4education.com/get-the-app

🏐⭐ ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM ⭐🏐 Congratulations to Tori Beatty on being selected for the Payson Tournament All-Tournament Team! Tori was chosen by the opposing coaches in recognition of her outstanding play throughout the tournament. We are so proud to see her hard work, competitiveness, and impact on the court recognized by coaches from other teams! 💙💛 Congratulations, Tori! Way to represent Joseph City Volleyball! 🏐

We are incredibly proud of our elementary students for their hard work. Through daily determination, they are closing achievement gaps and mastering tough grade-level skills. Your growth is truly inspiring!

To support this progress, our school uses purposeful digital tools. We use these tools during designated classes and specific times to provide targeted, individualized practice tailored to each student's needs - about 1/2 hour and 15 questions per day per child.

However, we want to emphasize that these tools are used with specific intent—they will never replace our teachers.

Technology provides data and practice, but only our teachers provide the inspiration, guidance, and heart that truly help our students thrive.

Thank you to our dedicated educators and hard-working students!

Kindergarten made slime to help us remember letter i says "iii". Having a physical object is a good way to make connections in our brain with abstract concepts. Letter i doesn't like slime because it is "icky". Now kindergarten students know to wrinkle their nose and say "i" just like letter i says to slime.

It's Homecoming Sept 8-10! Check out our special Dress Days for the Elementary!

Tuesday: Hat Day
Wednesday: PJ Day
Thursday: Blue and Gold Day

Shout out to Mrs. A. Bushman and Mrs. L. Gayer for planning these special days for our students and staff.

Congratulations to our JH/HS Wildcat Way Students of the Month for August!!! Students are nominated by staff for examplifying one or more of our core values: 1) Pride, 2) Courage, 3) Character, 4) Community. congratulations to Ryslyn Fischer, Grace Birk, Charles Gardner, and Kylie Hansen!

SMASH - This is a fan favorite among 3rd-4th graders to practice math facts, as they race to find the answer to a multiplication problem and tap the board.

"Can we play smash?" is now a daily question from students.

A FRESH START FOR OUR FAMILIES!

Joseph City Schools extends a huge THANK YOU to 1GPA National Purchasing Cooperative for their incredibly generous donation to our students and families!

Thanks to their generosity, all outstanding student cafeteria balances have been paid in full! Our families can begin the school year with a clean slate and no past cafeteria debt.

We are so grateful to 1GPA National Purchasing Cooperative for supporting our school community and making a meaningful difference for our families. Thank you!

Free & Reduced-Price Meal Applications:
We encourage all households who have not yet completed an application to do so.
Click here: https://35.212.183.172.sslip.io/meal-benefits/ or pick up an application and return at any school office.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

HS business students are currently learning how to accurately take inventory for our concession stand by counting products, tracking quantities, and identifying items that need to be restocked. They will practice using inventory records to help manage supplies and reduce waste.

Photography students worked on building pinhole cameras with nothing but a cardboard box, black paint and white paper. They’ve explored the basic principles of photography while discovering how a simple camera can capture an image using light and perspective. Check out the image of the flagpole captured from looking inside the box!!

September's Menus for Elementary Breakfast and Lunch
(Subject to change without notice)

https://jcusd.nutrislice.com/menu/joseph-city-elementary-school/breakfast/2026-09-01

https://jcusd.nutrislice.com/menu/joseph-city-elementary-school/lunch/2026-09-01

Do you know what major thing happened Sunday morning?
NASA launched Roman Space Telescope Sunday morning and watched the launch today.
We look forward to learning more about Roman Space Telescope and the differences between Hubble, James Webb, and Roman.
Roman will start to produce data at the beginning of next year.
We also saw Mrs. Bushman's old high school friend who had been working on Roman Space Telescope for the past 10 years at NASA Goddard Space Center.
We look forward to learning more about Roman from Mrs. Bushman's friend.

Preschoolers ae busy working, learning, and having fun!

Chemistry students saw that solubility and temperature have a direct relationship.
You might not want them to make Kool-aid in the future - they might be making your Kool-aid with hot water.
They are also working toward their lab independence and doing a very good job.