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The Demon Report

Quarter 3—2017/2018

PS Jones Middle School Newsletter

Battle of the Books won the county competition

in February. We went on to represent Beaufort

County at the regional competition at the Turn-

age Theatre! PSJ Battle of the Books team repre-

sented Beaufort County well at the Region 1 Bat-

tle of the Books Competition. We placed 4th out

of 10 - missing 3rd place by only 4 points. We

are so proud of these students for reading almost

30 books this year! Please congratulate them on

a job well done!

8th grade Math 1 students competed in the 40th Annual High

School Mathematics Contest and received 4th place for Small

Middle Schools. Participants were: Ryan Spruill, Adam Harp,

Jackson Hardy & Katie Council.

The Builder's Club is having a "Baby Item

Drive" from March 19-April 20. Items will

be collected and donated to the Carolina

Pregnancy Center of Washington. Items

needed are: diapers - all sizes, baby wipes,

diaper rash cream, baby wash, baby sham-

poo, lightweight sleepers - size newborn-3

months, socks, bottles, sippy cups, and

small toiletries for the mother. PLEASE

DO NOT BRING BABY POWDER. Baby

powder is not allowed.

The homeroom in each grade with the most

items will receive an ice cream sundae par-

ty!

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March 21 was World

Down Syndrome Day,

and Mrs. Ridenour and

Mrs. DeMay celebrated

with 6 of the smartest

kids!

We made it back! We battled other stu-

dents/schools in many competitions and our

kids represented PSJ proudly.

The students attended various events and

competitions while in Greensboro. We had

the following students be recognized:

Jessica Mendoza-Top 10 Microsoft Office

Morgan Eisenzimmer-Top 10 Business

Computer Technology

Erin Everett-Top 10 Business Computer

Technology

Jaques Williams-Top 10 Spreadsheet Ap-

plications

Michael Bowen-Top Ten in Keyboarding

We are very proud of all of the partici-

pants. They all worked hard preparing for

this conference.

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Our social studies students were

given an important historical fig-

ure from the 15th-17th centu-

ries. Students had to research a

specific important discovery/

event/idea regarding that figure

and create a comprehensive tri-

fold and a Power Point presenta-

tion. These tri-folds were placed

on display in the media center for

a "gallery walk". Each class was

taken to the media center where

they filled in a biography packet

on all of the key figures by walk-

ing around and getting said infor-

mation from all of the tri-folds on

display. Overall, the lesson was a

hit and we hope to do it again!