Our Soaring Eagles for the week of January 9-12. Way to start the new year off great! We are proud of you!
School Store Success!
Kids love going to get some yummy treats after school on Tuesdays! Thanks for the support!
Don't miss valuable parent information provided by our partners at Avera Behavioral Health in our Family Forum Series. On Tuesday, January 17, 2023, we're discussing the importance of establishing healthy eating habits. Watch for the link or join us through our website.
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Reminder for 35th Annual Dr. John W. Harris Teacher of the Year Nominations!
As you may have seen in your district newsletter, the deadline is approaching with less than two weeks remaining to get in your Teacher of the Year nominations! Outstanding, full-time teachers in any accredited Sioux Falls school are eligible for the award and $4,000 in prize money donated by Vern Eide Motorcars!
The nomination submission deadline is Monday, January 16th, 2023, with the ToY celebration to be held on Monday, February 27th, 2023.
To learn more and to nominate that special teacher, visit ---> https://bit.ly/3InLEq1
Happy New Year!! Welcome back! After two snow days, students took advantage of the huge snow hills on the playground!! They had so much fun catching up with friends and playing outdoors! Wow, there is a lot of snow to play on!! We are excited to have the kids back!! Hope everyone had a wonderful break!!
SFSD schools start 2-hrs late Thursday, January 5, 2023.
Due to the amount of snow that fell with this winter storm and the time it will take for plows to get into residential neighborhoods, there will be No School, no practices and no activities tomorrow – Wednesday, January 4, 2023. District and school offices will be open.
In addition to there being NO SCHOOL today, an update now includes that SFSD Offices will also be closed on Tuesday, Jan 3, 2023.
Happy holidays from our Jane Addams staff (not all present)! Thank you, parents and volunteers, for all of your help to make our school such a huge success! We appreciate all of your support! Happy New Year!
One of our very own Jane Addams traditions is to read the story, "The Christmas Jars" by Jason F. Wright. Within the story, a journalist happens upon a human interest story that winds up teaching her lessons about love and forgiveness and renewing her own faith in human kindness. On Christmas Eve, twenty-something Hope Jensen is quietly grieving the recent loss of her adoptive mother when her apartment is robbed. The one bright spot in the midst of Hope's despair is a small jar full of money someone has anonymously left on her doorstep. Eager to learn the source of this unexpected generosity, Hope uses her newswoman instincts to find other recipients of "Christmas jars," digging until her search leads her to the family who first began the tradition of saving a year's worth of spare change to give to someone in need at the holiday.
Our Jane Addams community participated in a bubble gum fundraiser so our ACE 5th-graders could embark on delivering our own "Christmas Jars" on December 21.
Many thanks to all who donated -- our Christmas Jars were a surprise blessing to those who received them! Students were able to chew gum on December 20th during school. Our students and families are so blessed to be a part of a community that continues to value, honor, and keep this tradition alive!
Kids Care was unfortunately cancelled because we did not have school on December 16 due to severe winter weather. That did not stop the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders from still completing some of their service missions planned! Many students used parts of their indoor recess or class time to finish making some tie blankets to those in need. What a sweet gesture! Big thank you to the parents for helping prepare the blankets for the kids to do! Also, thank you to Mrs. Van Duyn and Kristen Benidt for their help organizing this campaign! The kids enjoyed helping others! Way to go!
On December 19th, students and staff were encouraged to bring in their favorite holiday book to either read to themselves, with a friend, or to the class! We love reading!
On December 15, we celebrated another fun dress up day to celebrate that Christmas vacation was almost here and we wore our favorite vacation/tourist gear! Most of us wished to be in warmer weather!!
Our Soaring Eagles from the week of December 12-16! Way to go! We are proud of you!
A tradition we continued this year was our Holiday Sing Along during Family! We gather together as a school and sing our favorite Christmas carols with our own accompanist, Mrs. Anderson! We always end with the “12 Days of Christmas” which the kids love to participate in the actions for each day! Hope everyone had a great holiday season!
Students have been working hard all year on our PBIS behavior system to be responsible, respectful, and safe. Each week students are given a ticket when they are displaying one or all of those behaviors. We set a goal awhile back to earn 1,200 tickets as a school and they crushed it! As a reward, we got to play Bingo over Zoom as a whole school to earn prizes! It was so fun!
On December 15, we had the matinee concert performance for our first and second graders singing, our 4th and 5th orchestra, and 5th grade band performance! Thank you to our music teacher, Mrs. Anderson, for her effort in preparing the 1st/2nd graders in their cute performance! Shout out to Mrs. Alpers for working hard with 4th and 5th graders in orchestra and for her husband filling in when she was gone. Also, thanks to Miss Deinken for her efforts in getting the 5th graders ready for their band concert! Due to the winter weather, the evening performance was rescheduled to Dec. 19. Thanks for working hard kids! It was an awesome concert!
All of the staff at Jane Addams is so thankful for Life Church! Every month they treat us with yummy snacks at our all staff meetings. We love it! During the holiday season, they go above and beyond with blessings towards the staff!! Thank you!!
To celebrate the last 12 Days of School before Christmas break, we had another fun dress up day! On December 13, staff, students, and parents dressed up in their silliest, favorite, and/or ugliest Christmas gear! You could definitely feel the holiday energy in the air! So fun! Thanks for participating!
