January 2015

SJHS gets festive when it comes to Christmas, even holding a dance celebrating Christmas to reward students for good behavior and attendance on Thursday, December 11.  According to Mrs. Distefano, a counselor at SJHS, the dance went well and she liked chaperoning, “I enjoyed chaperoning because I like to see students having fun in more of a social environment,” said Mrs. Distefano. “My favorite part of the evening was when the first slow song came on.”

Students also enjoyed the dance. “I like the dances because I get to hangout with friends and dance with babes,”  said Isaac Hodson, an eighth grade student at SJHS.  

This year at SJHS, we are having a Christmas door decoration contest. It was held between the third-period classes, who made the door decorations during class. 

“It is a good way to spread Christmas spirit in the school,” said Lexi Kearns, a ninth grade student at SJHS. 

“I think it’s fun because we don’t have any class during third period,” said Kaiden Exon, an eighth grade student at SJHS. Teachers also seem to like the contest too. 

“It is a fun way for students to be creative and have a good time,” said Ms. Neeley, a ninth grade English teacher at SJHS. 

The Latinos in Action has one job, to help. Last year, the Latinos In Action held a food drive. They did it again this year. “We did the food drive because we did it last year, and it worked,” said Angeles Gaitan, a ninth grade student at SJHS. “It also is a good way to help people out,” said Angeles. 

The food drive was also a competition, where the seventh period classes went for the most food donated. The winner, Mr. Taylor’s class, got a pizza party.

Baby week was December 1st-5th. All the students in the teen living class carried around a flour sack baby and had to care for it at school and at home. Ms. Murray, the teacher of Teen Living, said, in Teen Living, students learn about how to be a good friend, get along with and appreciate family members and your heritage, personality traits for yourself and others, dating, and sexual responsibility. “Students have to name their baby and clothe it with small blankets. The gender of the baby is drawn from a hat, to emulate the randomness of real baby genders. To care for the baby, the parents have to wake up at one in the morning and take care of the baby.”