SERVE: School Board Members (Michael Conway, Joe Dunne, Joanne Osmond, Debbie Walsh) and Administrative Team (Sandra Keim-Bounds, Sandy Allen, Angela Sisi, Scott Klene, Steve Feldman, Vic Wight) participate with D41 student leaders in the Lake Villa's St. Patrick's Day Parade!
LEAD: District 41 student leaders pass out candy at the Lake Villa St. Patrick's Day Parade!
LEAD: Choir concert with fabulous solos and alumni participating!
LEARN: 8th-grade art classes are making slime today and a de-stressing activity during IAR testing week!
LEARN: Mrs. Allen's students are working on figurative language activities with partners or groups as part of their IAR prep.
LEARN: Ms. Kaplan’s 8th graders “invested” in the stock market this week as a part of a simulation to understand why it crashed in 1929! Students had to figure out when it would be best to buy or sell their stocks. This simulation is a great way to transition from learning about the Roaring 20s to the Great Depression!
SERVE: Who said parents can't still read a loud to 8th graders? Mystery readers came to Mrs. Chellin's class!
LEAD: Representing Palombi in volleyball
LEARN: Comparing Volcano National Park rocks and water with Grand Canyon National Park. Mrs. Calabrese's student learning how water changes the Earth.
LEAD: Elves, warlocks, dragons, half-orcs and students gathered after school today for dungeons and dragons club.
LEARN: 6th graders made an acrostic poem using the words, “Desert Sand”, one of the main settings in the novel we read, called a A Long Walk to Water
LEARN: Students in 6th grade are evaluating the credibility of websites.
LEARN/LEAD: 6th grade percussion is learning how to diagram a concert set up.
LEARN: Honors Algebra students explore real-world examples of scatter plots to create definitions of correlation.
LEARN: A bit of friendly competition, using Quizlet live to form random teams, motivates and brings joy while students study vocabulary words for their quiz on the novel, A Long Walk to Water,
in Mrs. Wincek’s 6th grade ELA class.
LEARN: 8th grade science tested their crash test cars. So far the highest ramp height has been 1.9 meters without cracking an egg!
LEARN: Audio Engineer and Shure microphone technology expert Yuri Lysoivanov joined Mrs. Brown’s 7th grade music technology to discuss his career. Www.Yuri music.com
LEAD: Last week, over 50 students competed in the school spelling bee! Carter Quall came out as our champion and will compete at sectionals next month!
LEAD: Over 40 7th graders enjoyed a pizza party today to celebrate their huge math NWEA gains.
LEARN: 7th graders doing a mental health JENGA review
