Johnson Weekly e-Reminders
May 31, 2019
Calendar for Next Week....
Have a Safe and Happy Summer!!
School Resumes: August 26, 2019
OFFICE REMINDERS....
2019-2020 District School Calendar..... CLICK HERE
2019-2020 School Supply list....... CLICK HERE
Summer Office Hours
Monday-Thursday 8am-3pm
- Do you have a new Kindergarten aged student for the 2019-2020 school year? If so, JSA is now accepting enrollment materials. Early Kindergarten registration allows time for a summer health physical, immunizations and a dental screening. Iowa law requires documentation of immunizations to be on file prior to the first day of school. There are numerous community organizations that provide the necessary appointments at no, or a reduced, cost over the summer months. If you have not already, please come to the JSA Main Office to submit the following: child’s birth certificate and proof of residency (a lease, rental or housing purchase agreement, or utility bill) to begin the registration process.
- If your family is moving out of the Johnson attendance area this summer, please contact JSA at 319-558-2174 to let us know. We can help get materials transferred over to your new school and assist in the transition process for your student.
- Be a good neighbor! Welcome new JSA area families with school aged children by helping them get registered in the Cedar Rapids Community School District. Is there a favorite Johnson experience you might share to help ease nervous new friends about joining a new school? Can you share our address, phone number and school start date to help get them to where they need to go for the school year?
- We are excited for all our new, and returning, Jaguars in August! School starts on August 26th!
Celebrate the end of school with a Neighborhood Block Party in Redmond Park!
Join us on the last day of school
Thursday June 6th @ 3-6pm
Activities include:
Free grill food, Sponsored by HyVee
Face painting
Splash pad
Fire Truck
Chalk Art
Music
and more!
CR Community School Summer Meals
SUMMER MEALS for KIDS & TEENS
Open to all children 18 and younger
NO Enrollment, NO Cost!
Meal Service:
Breakfast 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Lunch 11:15 am -12:30 pm
Monday through Friday
June 17th – August 2nd
Grant Elementary - 254 Outlook Drive SW
Grant Wood Elementary – 645 26th St SE
Hoover Elementary – 4141 Johnson Ave NW
Nixon Elementary – 200 Nixon Dr
Taylor Elementary – 720 7th Ave SW
June 10th – August 22nd
Wright Elementary – 1524 Hollywood Blvd NE
June 13th – July 18th
Jefferson High School – 1243 20th St SW (Monday-Thursday)
June 24th – July 18th
Roosevelt Middle School – 300 13th St NW (Monday-Thursday)
*See attached flyer below
Neighborhood Meals summer lunch for ALL
FAMILY FRIENDLY- NO charge & NO age limit
12-1pm Monday-Friday (June 10 – August 23, except 4th of July)
At St. Paul’s UMC 1340 3nd Ave. SE (use 2nd Ave. entrance please)
Provided by your neighborhood church members & other community volunteers including: Christ Episcopal, First Lutheran, First Presbyterian, Grace Episcopal, St. Paul’s Methodist & Westminster Presbyterian, with support from Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation and SFSP. Licensed & Inspected. We do not discriminate on any basis.
sign up to serve at
neighborhoodmeals.org
donate at
stpaulsumc.org/neighborhood-meals
*See attached flyer below
Summer10! Read 10 minutes a day during the summer
Join Summer10! and read 10 minutes a day!
Summer is a critical time for learning, but it can be fun too! If you read at
least 10 minutes every day, you’ll easily meet the goals for several summer
reading programs and be ready to jump back into school in the fall. And
did you know, you can participate in all local library programs? You can!
• Cedar Rapids Public Library
• Hiawatha Public Library
• Marion Public Library
Need books? We know getting to the library can be difficult, so we’re going to bring the
books to you! We will be at multiple locations with books for children of
all ages. Come visit us to find some new adventures!
See all the locations at readingintosuccess.org/summer10.
Boys & Girls Clubs Popping Up at CR Parks
Beginning June 17th, Clubs will pop up on Mondays and Fridays from 11am to 1pm providing a sack lunch and activities based on Boys & Girls Clubs’ Five Core Areas: Education & Technology, Character & Leadership, Sports & Recreation, The Arts, and Health & Life Skills.
Pop Up Clubs are FREE and open to ALL KIDS who are at the park between 11am and 1pm.
Each Friday, First Congregational United Church of Christ will provide PB&J Backpacks full of nutritious food for the kids to take home for the weekend.
Pop-Up Clubs will conclude with POP-UP Parties on July 29th & August 2nd in the back lot at First Congregational United Church of Christ. The end of summer celebrations will take place from 11am to 2pm.
Pop Up Club Dates & Locations:
Monday, June 17th & Friday, June 21st Redmond Park (1545 3rd Ave SE)
Monday, June 24th & Friday, June 28th Westdale Courts (2155 Westdale Dr. SW)
Monday, July 8th & Friday July 12th Washington Square Park (corner of 15th St & 3rd Ave SE)
Monday, July 15th & Friday, July 19th Daniels Park (952 Oakland Rd NE)
Monday, July 22nd & Friday, July 26th Wellington Heights House (390 15th St SE)
POP-UP Party!
Monday, July 29th & Friday, August 2nd First Congregational Church 16th St & Washington Ave SE
Cook Out & End of Summer Celebration
*See attached flyer below
JSA Families and Friends,
You are invited to participate in a family bike ride through our historic Wellington Heights neighborhood at noon this Saturday, June 8—starts and ends at New Bo Market!
*Just sign in at the “PEACA” booth outside the New Bo Market before noon on Saturday – you can register on-line---see invite below!
*Registration fee is $10 (per person OR $10 fee for an entire family if you are associated with JSA—just tell them at the check-in booth!) —all proceeds go the Paul Engle Association for Community Arts (PEACA)—they sponsor several of our after school JSA enrichment classes so…
Please join in the fun and learn about the famous writer, Paul Engle who grew up just a few blocks from JSA, played on our playground, delivered newspapers for the Gazette in our neighborhood etc. (see invite, registration and more details about the bike ride below!) –even get some fun quality exercise! (There’s even a special stop at the “secret” upstairs bike museum at Hall’s Bicycle shop!)
Let me know if you have any questions and please forward this to your friends!
Melissa Summers
JSA Music/Curriculum Integration Specialist
Hello JSA FAMILIES & FRIENDS,
You are invited to the following event:
Event to be held at the following time, date, and location:
Saturday, June 8, 2019 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM (CDT)
NewBo City Market
1100 3rd Street Southeast
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
Come join us on a history bike tour of Cedar Rapids and learn about Paul Engle's early childhood growing up in Cedar Rapids, as we Peddle for PEACA on Saturday, June 8, 2019 during #CycleFest at NewBo City Market from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
We'll leave the NewBo Market and ride the trail along the Cedar River into downtown Cedar Rapids for our first stop at the bicycle museum at Hall Bicycle Company. Founded in 1898 Hall Bicycle Company was open for business while Paul Engle and his family resided in Wellington Heights. When writing about his father, a Cedar Rapids livery stable owner, Engle states:
“...he always went back to the barn in the evening, seldom coming home before 9 p.m. In the summer he rode a bicycle the two miles each way;...”
Engle, a 1976 nominee for the Noble Peace Prize, was describing his childhood in the Southeast Cedar Rapids neighborhood of Wellington Heights. Born in Cedar Rapids in 1908 Paul Engle graduated from Cedar Rapids Washington High School and graduated magna cum laude in 1931 with a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in English. His Major Honor's Thesis was "Revelations of John Keats and Leigh Hunt."
In his collection of short stories, A Lucky American Childhood, Paul Engle describes growing up in Cedar Rapids. The history ride will follow Engle's route as a carrier delivering the afternoon edition of the Cedar Rapids Gazette in 1917.
“The newspaper was on the Cedar River next to the 1st Avenue bridge... That was where we hung out while waiting for the paper to appear.”
In addition to delivering papers Paul Engle worked in the neighborhood drug store one block from his home. The next stop on the tour will be the Paul Engle Center which is the building which housed the drug store at the corner of 4th Avenue and 15th Street SE. We'll leave the Hall Bicycle Company and ride the trail to 4th Avenue taking the 4th Avenue bike lane east to leave downtown.
“An old-fashioned neighborhood drugstore was a window into the whole area.” (Engle)
Our stop at the drugstore, The Paul Engle Center, will feature a tour of the building with discussions of its use throughout the last 100+ years as a fixture of the neighborhood. Water and snacks will be available.
“Over the years, I delivered the Gazette on 4th Avenue SE from 15th Street to 26th Street, the end of the city; I watched the kids grow, the new flower beds blossom, the changes in dogs.. the houses staying the same but families moving in and out,...” (Engle)
From here there are two options. For those who would like, the ride will continue along Engle's carrier route east on 4th Avenue, Meadow Brook Drive, and Upland Drive to 26th Street near Grant Wood Elementary. Then following the route back to the NewBo Market. Those uninterested in continuing the carrier route may return to the NewBo Market from the Paul Engle Center.
“I was a lucky kid, living close to those remote people. They brought a strange foreign quality into our modest Midwestern neighborhood of small wooden houses where all families lived cheerfully together in the shared condition of hard work and little money.” - Paul Engle
Tickets are $10 for the ride only. PEACA t-shirts will be available at the event for an additional $10. Get registered today!
Share this event on Facebook and Twitter.
We hope you can make it!
Cheers,
Paul Engle Association for Community Arts
ST math summer challenge
ST math has a summer challenge students can participate in to keep their brains engaged in math over the break. Attached is the information page about the summer challenge and other activities students can participate in during the summer to stay engaged in math. Also attached is the tracking sheet for the summer challenge.
Summer Camp Opportunities...
Salvation Army Summer Day Camp...... CLICK HERE
Mt Mercy Girls Basketball Camp....... CLICK HERE
Rip Roar Youth Triathlon......... CLICK HERE
Summer Camps at The History Center...... CLICK HERE
Warrior Elite Youth Summer Basketball Camp....... CLICK HERE
YMCA Youth Sports........ CLICK HERE
Witwer Children's Therapy Handwriting Camp....... CLICK HERE
Mt Mercy University Summer Volleyball Camp.....CLICK HERE
NFL FLAG....... CLICK HERE
Coe College Men's Basketball Summer Camp..... CLICK HERE
Prestige Dance Studio Summer Programs...... CLICK HERE
Fire and Life Safety Camp..... CLICK HERE
Heroes' Safety Camp...... CLICK HERE
Sylvan Summer Camps........ CLICK HERE
Camp Creamery at Roosevelt MS...... CLICK HERE
Camp Creamery at Wilson MS...... CLICK HERE
Five Seasons Learning Center Summer Camp...... CLICK HERE
Coe College Summer Soccer Camps...... CLICK HERE
Kirkwood Interactive Camps for Kids...... CLICK HERE
Summit Summer Camps...... CLICK HERE
Summer Food Camps/ Matthew 25..... CLICK HERE
Jacobson Institute Entrepreneurial Camp...... CLICK HERE
GWAEA Online Resources...... CLICK HERE
Music and Art Studio camps and classes..... CLICK HERE
Mt Mercy University Boys Basketball Camps..... CLICK HERE
Warrior Women's Basketball Camp..... CLICK HERE
Kirkwood Boys Basketball Camp...... CLICK HERE
Warrior Volleyball Camp...... CLICK HERE
Coe Volleyball Summer Camps...... CLICK HERE
Robotics Teams and Summer Camps..... CLICK HERE
Czech School..... CLICK HERE
STEAM On Summer Adventure Camps..... CLICK HERE
Menace Camp..... CLICK HERE
Slip'n Slide Kickball..... CLICK HERE
Kirkwood Volleyball Camp..... CLICK HERE
Kirkwood Girls Basketball Camp..... CLICK HERE
Dedric Ward Football Camp..... See attached flyer at the bottom
Eastern Iowa Arts Academy: Starfish Mixed Media..... CLICK HERE
Eastern Iowa Arts Academy: Make a Musical..... CLICK HERE
Junior Warrior Football Camp..... CLICK HERE
Washington Warrior Baseball Camp..... CLICK HERE
Inferno soccer School of Excellence..... CLICK HERE
PTA NOTES.....
JSA PTA Facebook page CLICK HERE
Next PTA Meeting:
September 2019
JSA Window Clings
Show your support for our school with your own 4" x 4.25" window cling for just $5!
All proceeds go to the JSA PTA to support before and after school enrichments and other programming. Order form is attached below. Please drop off orders in the Main Office.
2019-2020 PTA Board:
President- Brandi Parsons
V. President- Corrie Block
Secretary- Melissa Summers
Treasurer- Jessica Karma
Johnson STEAM Academy Magnet School
Johnson STEAM Academy provides an innovative, respectful, educational environment for all its students. It does this by focusing on academic achievement through a curriculum infused with STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.
Email: LFerring@cr.k12.ia.us
Website: http://johnson.cr.k12.ia.us/
Location: 355 18th Street Southeast, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States
Phone: (319)558-2174
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnsonSTEAMacademy?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
Twitter: @JSAmagnet