Joseph City School District

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!

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!!!!

https://www.winslowaz.gov/page/archives-library?fbclid=IwY2xjawT7DNdwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMVNtV1A2dFdhMU5Rb1ZTSUFzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeiG99YHEFQchuHoogpoSxUQp3s7jTGnA7LsoBa4zvs5bxrkOqhbp42TiD55s_aem_QrnCyRWsdKXfTszZF3COhQ

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!

There will be a Special Board Meeting of the JCUSD Governing Board August 25, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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).

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. 👨‍🏭🔥📐

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.

For WayBack Wednesday, Earth and Space continued to study their current event of Mt. Etna erupting.
Since they couldn't look up answers to questions using Google, they started looking in books.
Instead of looking up answers to specific questions, they just looked at subjects and as they hunted through the information, they found that books are more cool than Google --> you find tid bits of information that you just didn't know.
With Google you have to know what questions to ask. But what if you don't know what questions to ask? Books are a treasure chest of information to dig through --> everyone loved looking through books to see what treasure they could find.

Chemistry observed evidence of electrons in spectro tubes today!
They observed how a magnetic field can affect the path of the charged particles in the tube.
The were able to see Neon, Oxygen, Helium, Hydrogen, and Mercury --> all emitting a different colors on the Visible Light Spectrum.

Students are loving the change from test prep to AR reading. Some students say they wish AR reading time was longer.

Today’s Tech-Free Wednesday had my 8th graders up, moving, and reviewing civics through a series of hands-on stations! Instead of screens, students worked together to review key ideas about government, citizenship, and civic responsibility. It was a great way to mix collaboration, movement, and learning while giving the technology a break for the day!

Chemistry is all set and ready to go with labs now that they have passed their Lab Skills Day.
They even had a special guest come and join the lab and he also passed his lab skills!
Thank you to Mr. Harvilla for joining us today --> he even walked out of the room with the telling line on the forehead from the goggles.

Today in Kindergarten we used pirate sand to help form some of the letters we've been learning. This helps engage our senses and helps solidify the formation pathways. T says /t/!!

Our math high school Geometry class graphed emotional change over time graphs for the characters of the book “The Giving Tree”. Improving data literacy in all aspects of our lives is one of our goals this year!!