First graders in Mrs. Hadley's class at Mennies Elementary School are working hard in their word work centers! The students are enjoying reading, word hunting, and sorting!
Fifth graders at Barse Elementary School are enjoying a novel study and creating character "stickers" to represent characters and their characteristics from the book. They were sent a class set of the book "Amari and the Night Brothers" from the author himself, B.B. Alston!
Petway Patriots from Mrs. Nonnemacher’s class participated in their first author celebration! Students wrote their first Personal Narrative. All were unique in journaling their own personal experiences. After a few weeks of rough drafts and writing conferences, the students completed their first book. They wrote about what happened first, next and last. The students were challenged to match their illustrations with their writing, as well as employ correct punctuation and capitalization. The students read their books in front of their classmates. A special guest, Mr. Nonnemacher, was there to help with the reading and celebration. Mrs. Nonnemacher presented these authors with a writing medal and writing certificate. Keep up the great work, Petway Patriots!
Students in Ms. Bernard’s & Ms. Carbo’s classes at Dr. William Mennies School held a wedding for the letters Q & U on Friday. Students learned all about the letters Q & U throughout the week and recognized that they are always together! They celebrated the letters being best friends with a wedding! The students dressed up, performed a ceremony, and ate treats to celebrate the marriage of Q & U! A great time was had by all!
It's a great start to the new year for the Vineland High School AFJROTC as they are now changing command positions. On January 4, our Alpha flight with instructors MSgt James Eubanks, Mrs. JoDenise Muller, and guest administrator Mr. Jamal Hall observed the ceremony that took place among the cadets in Alpha Flight. Cadets promoted were new Core Commander c/Col Luthra, Tanish, and the new Vice Core Commander c/Lt.Col Bautista, Diana. These cadets have been promoted to their new positions for the remainder of the 2023-2024 school year. We want to thank the outgoing commander and Vice commander who will now take on new roles in the AFJROTC unit NJ2009-1 . Awesome job done by the APT (Awareness Presentation Team) under the command of c/Capt. Leriam Vazquez and Color Guard team under the command of c/Capt. Deviyani Siez presented for the three middle schools that visited the VHS Tanner Building. In those two days they´ve reached around 400 students. We look forward to presenting to the last middle school that had to be rescheduled due to the storm closure. A special thank you to cadet c/A1C Connrad, Austin, who hosted over 14 recruits from the Coast Guard Cape May Training Base. Conrad helped give recruits in their 5th week of boot camp training a home away from home during the holidays. This was a community outreach through AFJROTC along with Operation Fireside. On January 5th, cadet Conrad went down to the base to cheer the recruits he hosted for their graduation and held signs that represented the AFJROTC unit NJ2009-1 in support of a recruit he hosted whose family was unable to attend the graduation. Conrad was awarded the Coast Guard Community Challenge coin. He accepted on behalf of the AFJROTC unit. The coin is being displayed in the AFJROTC room. 2024 is looking to be a great year for the VHS AFJROTC program. Aim High NJ2009-1.
All Vineland Public Schools, including preschools and private provider preschools, will open two hours late on Tuesday, January 16, because of incoming inclement weather.
Staff will report on a 90-minute delay. Parents are reminded that because of the delayed opening, they may NOT drop off their children at school early. Staff may not be available to admit them to the building. No breakfast will be served tomorrow.
Tomorrow's schedule for students:
Vineland High School - 9:33 a.m.- 2:10 p.m.
Cunningham Academy - 10:15 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Middle Schools - 10:25 a.m.-2:55 p.m.
Elementary Schools - 11:10 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Preschools - 11:30 a.m.- 3:20 p.m.
Times and more information can be found on our website here: https://bit.ly/3lwrm1c
Reminder for Monday!
Students in Miss Gonzalez’s kindergarten classroom at Winslow Elementary School celebrated learning all of the letters of the alphabet with an ABC party on Thursday! Students dressed up as something that started with the first letter of their name. They enjoyed showing off their outfits and engaged in alphabet activities, including decorating letters and a “write the room” activity where they found one object for each letter of the alphabet. We are Winslow proud of how hard they have been working!
On January 9th, Dallago Preschool welcomed officers from the Vineland Police Department into their classrooms to show them their rooms and hand them personalized pictures they made for Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. The students were full of smiles while seeing the officers and could not wait to show them all their materials in the room, as well as the letters they made for them. This visit allowed students to see officers in a positive way and to know that our community helpers are here to keep us safe.
Thank you, VPD, for all you do for our community.
On January 4th, Vineland's new elementary Instructional Coaches came to Dallago West Preschool and paired up with the preschool's Instructional Coach & Intervention/Referral Specialist teams to visit preschool classrooms to see student learning in action. During the visit, they were able to observe the HighScope curriculum and have a hands-on experience with how preschool students learn math, science, and literacy through play. This collaboration is a positive step toward the effort to bridge the transitional gap from preschool to Kindergarten.
Congratulations to Mr. Vineland 2024 Anthony Gonzalez! 👑
A full photo gallery from tonight's show will be available tomorrow.
The 2nd-grade team at Petway celebrated the holidays with their 2nd annual cookie decorating event! Parents and guardians could come in and decorate cookies with their Patriots. They continued the fun by participating in a gift exchange with their classmates!
Thank you to the members of the Barse Elementary School Safety Patrol for leading the flag salute at the January 10 meeting!
Petway's Safety Patrol spread the holiday spirit by reading to the Kindergarteners! They read a variety of holiday books and enjoyed some candy canes. Kindergarteners were excited to show the older and responsible 5th graders their letter sounds. The patrol then continued spreading the spirit by working with the 2nd-grade classes to decorate cookies!
We will be streaming the January 10 Vineland Board of Education Combined Meeting live on our YouTube channel at 5pm: https://youtube.com/live/wq3uyEAjFrY?feature=share
Meeting agenda: https://bit.ly/4b2mQjo
All Vineland Public Schools will be closed tomorrow, January 10, due to inclement weather. Maintenance staff will report as scheduled. The Board of Education meeting scheduled for 5pm will still be held.
All afterschool activities have been canceled today, January 9, due to the weather forecast and NJ State of Emergency. Champions After School Care will be held until 4:30 p.m. Parents and guardians, please be sure your child will be picked up by 4:30 p.m.
The students in Tara Gardner's Deaf Education class at Veterans Memorial School teamed up with media specialist Sally Goode to create projects on the Glowforge. After brainstorming ideas for a narrative story, the students each chose one picture from the Glowforge catalog to represent a different part of the story. Then, they went to the library and watched as the Glowforge made their design ideas come to life. Each student colored their designs and then used them to turn their brainstorming ideas into their individual writing samples.
Pictured from left to right:
Amyrah Rivera, Chris Serrano, Tara Gardner, Lucci Rivera, Nyesha Williams
Fifth-graders at Mennies Elementary School enjoyed a special lunch with their teachers! Mrs. Thomas treated her first marking period raffle winners to a Chick-fil-A lunch, while Mrs. Ludlam and Mrs. Uebelacker treated their top two students who made the most growth in reading to a Chick-fil-A lunch.
During Library at Barse Elementary School, students in Mrs. Provenzano's class and Mr. Clark's class solved the mystery of "The Great Paper Caper." Then, they were able to design and test out their own paper airplanes. It was a flying success!
