JUDSON WEEKLY MESSAGES
3/19/2015
MARCH
31 JET schedule
APRIL
3 Culture of College Day
6 AVID College Fair, 6:00 pm
7 JET schedule
9 Booster Club Meeting, 12:30 pm - Conf. room
14 JET schedule
MS Adv. Choir Festival @ North High, 5:00 - 9:00 pm
16 MS Orchestra Festival @ McKay High
18 Pleasant Hill Jazz Festival
21 JET schedule
MS Adv. Band Festival @ North High, 5:00 - 9:00 pm
23 Take Your Student To Work Day
27 No School - Grading/Inservice Day
29 JET Schedule
MAY
1 Culture of College Day
4 - 8 Mother s Day Flower Sale
5 JET schedule
6 8th Grade Picture @ 10:30 am
8 Best In The Northwest Choir Festival
12 JET schedule
14 Booster Club Meeting, 12:30 pm - Conference room
18 South Area Jazz Concert @ South, 7:00 pm
19 JET schedule
21 Sprague Area Orchestra Concert @ Sprague, 7:00 pm
25 No School - Memorial Day
26- 29 Doernbecher Week
26 Band Concert, 7:00 pm - Main Gym
27 JET schedule
28 South Area Band Concert, 7:00 pm - Main gym
29 All-School After-School Activity, 3:00 - 4:15 pm
ACTIVITY BUS SCHEDULE
There will be a schedule change for the after-school
activity bus starting Tuesday, March 31st. The activity bus will leave the Judson parking lot promptly
at 4:30 pm and will be available Monday through
Friday.
The bus will pick up students at Judson who are
staying after school for activities, sports, afterschool programs, study hall, or class work and will
drop students off near the surrounding elementary
schools.
The stops are:
Lone Oak Rd & Lonebrook Ct
Rockwood St & Valleywood Dr
Fabry Rd & Reed Ln
Battle Creek Rd & Avalon Av
Madras St & Fircrest St
2000 Robins Ln
Http://judson.salkeiz.k12.or.us
NJHS PAJAMA DRIVE
The National Junior Honor Society has organized a school-wide
Foster Care Pajama Drive. They are collecting donations of new
pajamas, socks, underwear, and toiletries for children removed
from their homes and placed in state care. Donations will be collected the first week back from Spring Break, March 30th-April
3rd. There will be prizes for the top three sixth period classes who
bring in the most donations, as well as a school-wide pajama day
if the goal of 700 pairs of donated pajamas is reached.
Thank you in advance for your generosity.
College Fair
Judson s AVID classes are hosting a College Fair on Monday
April 6th at 6pm to 7pm in the main gym to boost college awareness. AVID students will have booths to present their colleges,
offering informational handouts about their school. For parents,
there will also be a presentation in the library about high school
and college requirements, financial aid, and scholarship information. Child care will be provided for younger kids. A fundraiser
drawing will offer cool prizes for $1 per ticket. Come support
your friends and learn more about college choices, while enjoying
free snacks and treats. Don t miss this fun opportunity! All are
welcome!
Track Practices Track practice will begin on Monday, March 30th and will be
everyday after school from 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm. There will be an
activity bus running Monday through Friday so that the track athletes will be able to ride the activity bus home after practice.
ALL athletes need to be picked up and off campus by 4:45
each day. The phone in the office will not be available after
practice as the office will be closed. Please make arrangements
ahead of time for your children to be picked up.
There will not be any practices on Monday, April 6th or Monday, May 4th, due to all-staff staff meetings.
Track Schedule
Please note: athletic schedules are subject to change.
4/16/2014 (Thursday)
Judson vs. Straub @ Sprague - 4:00 pm
4/23/2014 (Thursday)
Judson vs. Walker & Waldo @ McKay - 4:00 pm
4/30/2014 (Thursday)
Judson vs. Claggett Creek @ South - 4:00 pm
5/7/2014 (Thursday)
Judson vs. Crossler @ Sprague - 4:00 pm
All-City Meet - TBD
The following and future articles are provide to you by the Judson Middle School Counseling Department. For further information
or questions regarding career exploration please contact Mr. Perez at 503-399-3201 or email [email protected]
How can I help my child progress on his or her career path?
6) Developing skills and abilities
Your children s skills and abilities will be their most valuable asset throughout their lives. Skills are behaviors that we
can learn and improve through practice. Every day, students are learning and practicing skills as they also increase their
knowledge in the subjects they study. Abilities are closely related to skills they are natural talents. We tend to think of
singing as an ability because people are born with good voices and typing as a skill because it can be learned. Some of
our strongest skills, however, are really well developed (practiced) talents.
Understanding what skills and abilities they have and what skills and abilities they need to reach their dreams is an important component of your children s career development. Building their skill set and being able to talk about that skill
set are key strategies for success in the 21st Century workforce. As a parent, you can help your children learn about
skills and abilities their own and those that are used by others. You can help them develop a vocabulary of skill words.
I am honest, reliable, and organized. I can use the computer for word processing and spread sheets. I work well with
others and can coordinate activities of groups. I am good at gathering and evaluating information. I have a high attention to detail. Understanding that they have skills, that these skills are valued by others, and that they can develop
the skills that they enjoy using contributes to self-esteem and motivation.
What kinds of skills should my child develop?
Skills can be categorized in many different ways. One helpful way to break them apart is to look at them as:
Employability skills. Skills that are needed by all workers, regardless of job, work setting, or industry. These
include good work habits and other personal qualities, basic reading, writing and math skills, and thinking skills
that are required to perform any type of work effectively.
Transferable skills. Skills that are used in many different work settings by different kinds of workers. They can
be transferred from one line of work to another.
Technical or job specific skills. Skills that are very specific to a particular activity, job, or industry. For example, the technical skills for a plumber include installing and soldering pipes.
During elementary years through high school, your children are primarily developing employability and transferable
skills. At the youngest ages, they begin developing their employability skills as they learn individual responsibility, selfesteem, sociability, self-management, and integrity. They are also building basic skills required for functioning in any
work situation through what they learn in school reading, writing, arithmetic and mathematics, speaking, and listening,
thinking creatively, making decisions, solving problems, reasoning, and knowing how to learn.
In fact the Oregon Board of Education requires that all students demonstrate important employability skills in order to
receive a high school diploma. These are called the career-related learning standards; they incorporate personal management, teamwork, communication, problem solving, employment, foundations, and career development. You can help
your children develop these skills by turning daily activities into opportunities for learning. Household chores, volunteering, and part-time work provide excellent opportunities to develop skills, especially those all important self-management
skills. By focusing on the importance of these skills, you also teach that all work is important, necessary, and valuable.
How can I help my child with problem solving skills?
Problem solving involves math and thinking skills. Demonstrate an interest in mathematics and make math and problemsolving a part of the family routine. Here are some everyday activities that can help build them:
Cook together. Have your children follow a recipe. Explain fractions and measurements while cooking.
Shop together. Illustrate percentages with pennies and dollars. Have your children check the grocery receipt, and
calculate prices.
Travel together. Have your children act as the navigators on a family outing. Play simple games such as how far
is it? Keep a chart of daily temperatures to help plan for a family vacation.
Do projects together. Have your children build a model or assemble store purchases by following directions and
using schematics.
Involve them in routine home maintenance work. Involve your children in family decisions. Have your children
anticipate and experience the consequences of a decision.
How can I help my child with communication skills?
Communication includes reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Keep lots of quality reading material around the
house. Make visits to the library part of your family routine. Point out that pleasurable reading comes from good writing.
Here are some ideas to develop better communicators:
Read to your children. Spend 20 minutes a day reading to preschoolers. Have older children read to you or take
turns reading to younger siblings. Let your children see you read at least 20 minutes a day.
Encourage good listening. Discuss the content of what you or they have read. Tell stories and have children retell them in detail.
Play games that involve writing, speaking, and listening. Charades requires non-verbal skills.
Encourage writing. Expect that your children will write letters and thank you notes to relatives and friends. Make
sure your children have writing materials, such as journals and diaries, available.
How can I help my child with teamwork?
Teams are not only important on the athletic field. All aspects of life require people to work effectively as members of
teams. Think of your family as a team, and use some of these ideas:
Build your family team. Involve children in family discussions or decisions, as appropriate for their age and maturity level.
Work together. Give kids important jobs to do within the family or work on chores together.
Practice conflict resolution. Teach them to get along with others by modeling good teamwork and conflict resolution.
Learn together. Emphasize the learning that takes place in groups, whether on school projects or team activities
like sports, music, theater, or volunteering.
How can I help my child with other employment foundations?
Employment requires understanding and using tools and technology, working in organizations and systems, and following procedures. You can begin building these skills at home by:
Do projects that require many steps, use of tools, and following procedures, such as:
Cook together. Have your children read recipes and measure ingredients.
Do laundry. Have your children sort items of clothing according to color, read washing instructions, measure
detergent and time wash cycles.
Go grocery shopping. Have your children write shopping lists, compare food prices, make change, and identify and classify food items.
Fix the family photo album. Have your children sort pictures, write labels for each photo and write a story
about some of the photos.
Organize the house. Have your child sort items in a "junk drawer," label them and arrange them alphabetically.
Talk about products and services you use. Introduce your children to all aspects of work; including technology,
business, artistic, social and customer service perspectives.
Discuss new technologies and how they change our lives. Discuss ways to improve products, processes and services with your children. Encourage your children to brainstorm solutions to technical and human problems.
The series of articles presented can be located at My Child s Future http://www.mychildsfuture.org/parents/item.htm?edlvl=2
which is supported by Oregon s Partnership for Occupational & Career Information .
Judson Middle School is offering a
Strengthening Families Workshop
Dates: Monday, March 30th
Tuesday, April 7th
Tuesday, April 14th
Monday, April 20th
Monday, April 27th
Monday, May 4th
Monday, May 11th
Monday, May 18th
Time: 5:30 to 8:00 PM
Families should plan to
attend all sessions.
The middle school years are a time of change for both teens and their parents.
Take a break from your busy lives and come join us for some evenings together.
Enhance your skills at navigating this challenging time in your family s life.
Each evening will include:
A free dinner for all families
A one hour class for parents and teens held separately
Free child care provided for younger family members
A fun family activity to end each evening
A weekly drawing (winners chosen each night)
A grand prize drawing will be held the night of graduation
Student Name: ______________________
Address__________________________________________________
Contact phone number______________________
Number of family members attending_________________
Language preference_______________________________
Return completed forms to the Judson Office
For further information contact Lisa Pierson or Pete Nagy at 503-399-3201
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