Jerry Joyce, senior vice president of new business development for Wiland, volunteers in the seventh-grade classroom to share his workforce experience with students while…
Junior Achievement
Jerry Joyce, senior vice president of new business development for Wiland, volunteers in the seventh-grade classroom to share his workforce experience with students while teaching sound economic principles. Mr. Joyce’s Junior Achievement class focused on building a professional career path by exploring key topics to employee and occupations success.
Students learned about potential careers, analyzed their skills and talents in relation to possible future employment choices and developed present day strategies to build the skills needed to succeed in the future. They also explored their personal branding, learned the difference between technical and soft skills and reviewed key tactics to securing a job, such as resume and interview tips.
His class focused on uncovering both the tangible and intangible keys to future success while exploring ways that the students can begin that process even now as junior high students.
Oobleck
St. Helen first-graders celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday by reading “Bartholomew and the Oobleck.” Students created their own green Oobleck using cornstarch, water and food coloring. The class learned about adjectives and described how Oobleck seems like a liquid and a solid.
Read Across America Day
St. Helen School celebrated National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association. Junior high students partnered up with first-graders and spent an enjoyable afternoon reading Dr. Seuss stories and eating healthy snacks.
Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss, or Theodor Seuss Geisel.
