Five Minute Friday

Posted Date: 10/17/25 (3:38 PM)

Jack Jackter's

Five-Minute Friday

October 17, 2025

Lunch with the Principals

Our ROCKS winners for September enjoyed a special lunch with the principals! Each grade got quality time with Dr. Ewings and Mrs. Cyr, filled with laughs, jokes, magic tricks, and “would you rather” questions. What a fun way to celebrate our amazing students!

News From The Office

School Store Open for Grade 4 Students:

The School Store will be open on Tuesday, October 21, for Grade 4 students!

We’re excited to share that this year, the school store will be run by our students. During Hot Spot time, they’ll take inventory, advertise, and plan store operations. We can’t wait to see their teamwork and leadership in action!

Veterans Day Celebration Information

What's Happening at JJIS

BASES and UL Visit Holmberg Orchards!

Jack Jackter’s BASES and UL programs recently enjoyed a fun and educational trip to Holmberg Orchards. Students learned all about the life cycle of apples, the different types of apple trees, and how apples are harvested and stored.

Fun fact: There are over 7,500 varieties of apples grown around the world!

The day included a hayride, a barn tour, delicious apple snacks, time with friendly goats, and of course — apple picking! It was a wonderful day filled with learning, smiles, and fun for everyone.

3rd Grade Learning Highlights:

Our third graders have been hard at work diving into exciting learning across all subject areas!

In Language Arts, students explored the realistic fiction genre through stories such as The Dream Catcher and Yoon and the Jade Bracelet. These texts helped students strengthen their understanding of character development and using text evidence to support their ideas.

In Math, students are applying the distributive property to solve multiplication and division problems, composing and decomposing arrays, and tackling two-step word problems with confidence.

In Social Studies, they’ve been learning about the three branches of government, legislative, executive, and judicial while discovering the unique roles each branch plays in how our government works. All this fun learning will help to prepare for their upcoming field trip to the Old State House, where they’ll see history come to life and connect their classroom learning to the real world.

PTO Sponsored All For Books Coin challenge.

After five exciting days of collecting and counting money for the PTO all for Books Coin Drive we are happy to report a record breaking grand total for the school of $2,936.51

Classrooms and students will greatly benefit from all these donations starting next week as the book fair kicks off here at Jack Jackter.

Lobby Glow Up

Over the summer, our lobby got a makeover to include flexible learning spaces. It can be used for small groups, whole-class lessons, and everything in between.

This week, Ms. Perry’s fourth graders spread out in the bright, comfy space to work on writing and typing projects. A perfect spot to learn, collaborate, and shine!

News From the PTO

Book Fair and Jackter Lantern:

The Jack Jackter PTO Book Fair runs all week! Each class will visit once during the day, and the fair will also be open during the evening Jackter Lantern event.

Want to help? Scan the QR code below to volunteer and be part of the fun!

PTO GOES OUT:

Hartford Wolves Pack Game

Membership Drive

Upcoming Test Dates

Monday October 20 - Book Fair Week Starts - Day 6 Schedule

Lego Robotics - 3:15pm

Girls on the Run - 3:15pm

Tuesday October 21 - Day 1 Schedule

School Store - Grade 4

Wednesday October 22 - Day 2 Schedule

Grade 5 Junior Achievement - 7:45am