As we all appreciate the day with our families today, it is nice knowing that today is a federal holiday not just for a vast majority of our nation, but also the staff of Jackson Heights. Allow me to demonstrate how a normal calendar works. Students get the holiday off, and school administration see that day as a good one to have a Teacher's In-Service. While students get the day off and enjoy it greatly, teaching staff typically work through days like these in professional development days. This year, we hired an outside agency to help us with curriculum development and vertical alignment. Because of this, we had to work within their schedule. We also took advantage of this and we decided to generate a calendar that gave staff the holidays as well so they could relax and benefit from the three day weekend as well. It may feel a bit wonky having an in service day in the middle of the week, but we were working with other teams schedules for this and we also wanted to help out our staff as much as possible as well.

I know we still have activities in here, but at least we all get to enjoy the day with out families.

"Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind" The Doctor

From the first day to the last day, It's a great day to be a COBRA!

Derek E. Smith

I kind of waited to write about this one until I had confirmation. However, don't miss this Tuesday's 10 pm news on WIBW as they will be highlighting the digital media classes football documentary that was produced this past fall. Mr. Alley switched over to start the digital media program this school year and he was rightly nervous about the endeavor. After one semester, I would argue that it is one of the most popular programs and students are trying to bend their schedules to figure out how to get into the classes. The football documentary was a bit of a passion project that came out of the Fall. Under the direction of project manager Emma Butler, the documentary took on its own persona as they were building it. Students kept on showing me the footage with delight as they progressed through its development. I was delighted with the outcome of the project in the end. I am very glad that Mr. Alley took the leap of faith and started this program.

Monday: No School

• MS Boys Basketball @ Pleasant Ridge 4:30 pm

Tuesday:

• Thunder Classic HS Basketball Boys VS Troy @ Seneca 6:15 pm

Wednesday: No School

• Teacher's in service
• JV Scholar's Bowl @ Maur Hill 4:00 pm
• Ms Boys Basketball @ Everest 4:30 pm
• FFS Speech @ Marysville

Thursday:

• Thunder Class HS Basketball Boys TBD @ Seneca
• MS Boys Basketball Vs. ACCMS @ home 4:30 pm
• Girls HS Basketball @ Oskaloosa 5:00 pm

Friday:

• NA

Saturday:

• Thunder Classic HS Boys Basketball TBD

We have two major announcements for upcoming Honor Flight events that we will be working on to raise fund for HF 11. The first is the Pies of Honor is doing a spring run as well this year in addition to the Honor Rolls. These will be up for sale for the next three months by Honor Flight guardians. the pies are $20 per pie or per dozen Cinnamon Rolls. The pies offered this time around are: Blueberry, Cherry, Apple, and Peach. They will be ready to go on home on Good Friday. Contact a guardian or Carrie Harris to order yours today.

The second is that we are starting a monthly Bingo night at JHHS commons. these will be held the last Saturday of every month starting in February. Why not come out to JH for a fun evening and the whole while you will be supporting the Honor Flight. contact Suzanne Freeland for more information.

We have made the selections for the Honor Flight 11 Guardians. They are:

Chesnea Cochren

Anna Schierling

Alexis Richter

Layla Cochran

Emma Sides

Josie Jager

Jace Doyle

Alexis Denault

Tryston Honeyman

Michael Robertson

Blaine Burdiek

Talen Browning

Laramie Self

Jen Mellies

Jackson Holliday

Gage Holliday

Teagen Bowhay

Nicole Amon

Anthony Gulotta

Ashlyn Brucken

Duke Condo

Kyla Milligen

Alexa Rash

Gracie White

Brooke Slipke

Congratulations to the Guardians, Now the work begins of getting us off the ground next November!

The house cup will be having their semester pizza party this Tuesday to celebrate House Snake Kingz big win in the fall semester. So far we have only had one week of school and as yet we do not have a whole lot of house points having been accumulated. I will put together a leaderboard once more points have started to come in.

While this winter weather has put quite the damper on my January bird hunting, I just wanted to remind everyone that there are few sights more impressive than that of a GSP retrieving a pheasant. Here is ole Banjo 10 years ago on his very first ever retrieve across a frozen lake.

It's a great day to be a Cobra!!

Email: derek.smith@jhcobras.net

Website: jhcobras.net
Location: 12692 266th Rd Holton, KS 66436
Phone: (785)248-4386
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jackson.Heights.USD335

https://www.citylinktv.com/channel/cobra

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