Happy St. Patrick’s Day, JCMES families! We hope your day is filled with a bit of luck and plenty of green as we dive into this week’s news and updates.
Domino’s Night Tonight! : To support our Jakes, use code DN6 online or mention JCM for call-in
PTO Spring Auction Starts Friday!
Our PTO Spring Auction goes live March 20 and runs through March 22. This is one of our biggest fundraisers of the year and a fun way to support our school while bidding on great items and experiences! All proceeds support sports equipment, outdoor learning spaces, playground updates, enrichment programs, and teacher grants.
Key Dates:
Friday, March 20 at 12 PM – Auction Opens
Sunday, March 22 at 7 PM – Bidding Begins Closing (~approx. 3 lots per minute)
Wednesday, March 25 (4–6:30 PM) – Item Pickup at JCM
Start browsing and bidding at: bid.greenvalleyauctionsandmoving.com
Click here for a sneak peek at Class Plates!: bit.ly/jcmplates25
We’ll be sharing reminders throughout the week. Get ready to bid and support JCM!
Parent Input for Class Lists 26-27
It is hard to believe we are already looking ahead to the 2026-2027 school year, but we are excited to begin the process of building our new class lists! If you’d like to share your input as we put those lists together, complete this Parent Input Form by April 5, 2026.
Yearbooks
Yearbooks for the 2025–2026 school year are now on sale for $20! To order, please visit https://www.strawbridge.net/ and enter the school code YB33518.Thank you for your support, and we look forward to sharing another year of memories with your child! Yearbooks will be on sale through April 30, 2026.
March Madness Reading Challenge Update
It is the final week of our March Madness reading challenge, and we want to say a huge thank you for signing your child’s reading logs each night. Reading together not only builds essential vocabulary but also sparks a lifelong curiosity and imagination in children! We are blown away by the total reading minutes students are logging and the stories of commitment and connection we’re hearing. The dedication we’re seeing is far beyond what we ever imagined for the inaugural year of the challenge.
Please keep an eye out for this week’s pink logs, and remember that all completed logs are due this coming Monday, March 23. Thank you for helping us finish this challenge strong!
Here are our current totals:
Kindergarten
Eby- 4,304 minutes
Swisher- 2,460 minutes
Wylie- 2,091 minutes
McDonald- 2,017 minutes
1st Grade
Clarke- 4,473 minutes
Green- 3,986 minutes
Jordan- 4,883 minutes
Boyer- 3,395 minutes
2nd Grade
Harper- 2,868 minutes
Evans- 2,013 minutes
Green- 2,245 minutes
Halteman- 1,746 minutes
3rd Grade
Clemants- 9,889 minutes
Hensley- 7,611 minutes
Blais- 5,310 minutes
Driver- 3,514 minutes
4th Grade
Shifflett- 3,966 minutes
Clifford- 3,467 minutes
Nesselrodt- 2,695 minutes
Lantz- 2,522 minutes
5th Grade
Amos- 10,406 minutes
Hardy- 7,550 minutes
Cash- 5,827minutes
Grandle- 4,804 minutes
Spring Family Picnics
We are so excited to announce that we will be hosting Spring Family Picnics the week of April 27–May 1! Please pencil this week into your calendars, and keep an eye out for a message from your child’s teacher with specific class dates and times. We can’t wait to see you there!
Have a great evening,
Liza Coffman, Principal lcoffman@rockingham.k12.va.us
Jenna Rinker, Assistant Principal jrinker@rockingham.k12.va.us