Award -winning author Kate Klise visited MGS today to talk to 1st through 4th grade classes.
While at she was here she discussed her writing process and shared with
students her best writing tips and tricks. If you’d like to learn more about Kate Klise, visit her website, https://www.kateklise.com/.
There will be no school from Friday, April 7th - Monday, April 10th. School will resume on Tuesday, 4/11.
Please join us for the Redbird Run (5k and Color Run) on May 6 to benefit the playground renovations! Click on this flyer link (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NrwlSwX-3YJsq58XXUYeIQ4G27Gag5Bh/view?usp=share_link) for more information and to register for the event.
Tomorrow is election day. See the full ballot for Woodford County here: https://www.woodford-county.org/DocumentCenter/View/8768/Publishing-Ballot23CILWDF_NEWS
If you're from the area but unsure of your polling place, reference the following document: https://www.woodford-county.org/DocumentCenter/View/8709/Notice-of-Election-with-Polling-Locations
Check out the link for the 2023 MTHS Summer Camps that are available!
https://www.mths.us/o/mths/page/2023-summer-camps
After studying about space for the last couple of weeks, Mrs. King's first graders traveled to planet Garton to check it out, but ran into some trouble along the way. They had to work with their tablemates to solve math problems to get the clues to help get us back safely!🚀🪐☄️
Donna Thomas celebrated her 80th Birthday yesterday!! She has worked in the cafeteria at MGS for the last 10 years! Happy Birthday Donna, we hope you enjoyed your special day!!
3rd Grade Leprechaun Traps
SY2023 Q3 Honor Roll
Students and Staff were beyond excited to see the State Champions today at school! Thank you Coach Grieves and players for taking time out of your day to come visit MGS! Go Birds!
8th graders need brain breaks & movement in the classroom just as much as younger students! Not a face in the classroom without a smile:)
Jr. High Jazz Band gave an outstanding performance today at the Rotary luncheon! Way to go Band!
Our Jazz Band performs for the Metamora-Germantown Hills Rotary Club. Another example of experiential learning at Metamora Grade School!
Recognizing 7th grader, Levi Mallow, for his volunteer spirit and dedication to serving his country. Levi is a cadet airman with the Illinois National Guard. He dedicates his time every Tuesday, one Saturday a month and extended time during the summer. Thank you, Levi, and well done!
For our Pi Day celebration, the students earned the chance to pie the staff because they brought in over 400 items to donate to Open Arms beating our goal of 314 items. Way to go, 6th graders!!!
Mrs. Borlin organized a fun Pi Day event for the 6th graders! They got to enjoy a piece of pie and the top 5 students who memorized the most numbers in pi got to do the honors of pieing Mrs. Borlin, Mrs. Karcher, Mrs. Anglin, Mr. Damery, and Dr. Lee! Thank you to all who brought in pies and helped out serving them! A big thank you to Mrs. Borlin for organizing this event!
After studying different types of landforms, students in 2B made some of their own landforms out of salt clay.
Creator's Corner in Room 62 is open and full of creators. Fifth grade students are taking things apart, repurposing parts and pieces, and learning a lot about how things work. The room is noisy and chaotic, but the discoveries are priceless.
March edition of the Redbird Review includes: next year's district calendar, summary of the past Board meeting, preschool information and much more! https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2462/MGS/2847909/Redbird_Review_March_2023.pdf
6th Grade Bridge Class is coming to an end. After spending the last couple of weeks building balsa wood bridges, today we tested them!
