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THE JACKSON HERALD
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2009
PANTHER POUNCERS
Twenty-seven soon-to-be sixth graders at WJMS recently attended Panther Pounce
Day at the middle school. The students had the opportunity to make new friends,
acquaint themselves with the building and learn how to open their lockers.
POUNCERS TACKLE ‘ZUME’
Heather Lougher, a teacher at WJMS marvels at one student’s ‘zume.’ The students
built the shapes themselves and then dipped them in a solution to create bubbles.
PANTHER POUNCERS
Guidance counselor Jason Benton sits with some students during a snack time. The
school provided snacks and bottled water for the campers.
WJMS readies rising sixth graders
UPCOMING SIXTH grad
ers are getting a jumpstart on
their middle school transition
and trying to have a little fun
in the process. Around 27
students participated in West
Jackson Middle School’s
Panther Pounce Day, held
June 2-4. It was the middle
school’s second year having
the event and attendance had
doubled.
Kindergarten through
eighth grader teacher, Angela
Miller, remarked on the diffi
culty with transitioning into a
new school, especially at the
middle school age.
“I think it’s very important
because of the transition,”
Miller said. “It gives them a
comfort level.”
The elementary schools
feeding into WJMS are Gum
Springs, North Jackson and
West Jackson Intermediate.
The registration fee for the
camp was $50.
Jason Benton, a guidance
counselor at WJMS, helped
coordinate the three-day
camp. He’s familiar with
the uneasiness involved in
switching schools and hopes
the camp serves as an ice
breaker.
“A lot of (the students) are
just a case of nerves about
middle school, so we really
ramped up our orientation
program,” Benton said. “This
is a small part of what we do
for orientation.”
Prior to the end of the
school year, Benton visited
all the fifth grade classrooms
at the schools that feed into
WJMS. Students were also
able to take a fieldtrip to the
middle school.
One of the main obstacles
apparent among the students
in their transition to WJMS
isn’t getting lost in the hall
ways or not making friends.
It’s learning how to configure
the locks on their lockers.
“We have a game where you
have to solve a word problem,
a math word problem, to find
the locker you’re looking for
and then you get to prac
tice the locker,” Benton said.
“We’re trying to make it fun
for them.”
Jeremy Cook, an 11-year-
old who attended the camp,
had been worried about not
getting the locker open, but
not anymore.
“We can get used to (the
lockers) before we get here,
so we can be used to them
without having to mess up
every single part of the day
when we have to open them,”
he said. “So we’ll go ahead
and get used to them and then
we’ll know how to open our
own lockers when we finally
get them.”
Besides figuring out lock
ers, students at the camp
participated in team work
ing events and word games.
The aim of the camp is to
get students acquainted with
not only each other, but also
their new surroundings and
the teachers themselves.
“Here, we let our hair down
a little bit around students,”
Benton said. “So that we’re
not ogres.”
Students appeared to appre
ciate the effort of the four
teachers involved with the
camp.
Shelby Kendrix, an 11-year-
old from West Jackson
Intermediate School, is thank
ful for the opportunity to get a
head start.
“It helped me make dif
ferent friends from different
schools,” she said.
It’s a sentiment Jeremy
shares with her.
“It’s kind of helped me get
used to coming to middle
school,” he said. “It’s really
helpful.”
“These kids are bonded
together,” Miller said.
The teachers involved all
plan to keep the camp going
for rising sixth graders in the
coming years.
“We think it’s worth it,”
Benton said. “Hopefully the
word will get out that they
had a good time and we can
keep this going next year.”
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