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!
Thank you to Sergeant Buss with the Peoria Police Department for coming in to talk to 1B about your job. We really enjoyed it and learned so much!
Thank you to the art department for their generous donation to our playground project! For more information on how you can help in our efforts, visit https://www.mgsredbirds.org/page/playground
Staff members and their children spent their evening helping assemble snack pacs last night! Thank you to all who attended to help the students in our community!
Congratulations to the fourth grade recorders and 5th grade band on an outstanding concert last night. You did great!
The 6th Grade Boys Basketball game tonight will be played at Beverly Manor at 5:30. There will be an A and B game.
Three groups of 6th graders competed in the 2023 ASCE Bridge Contest at the Riverfront Museum today and got 8th, 10th, & 13th out of 26 teams. A great finish for our first time competing!
Our Mathcounts team did great at the Chapter competition today. Congrats to Ben, the top finisher for the MGS team.
Happy President's Day. Enjoy the 3-day weekend.
'Aint No Paddy Like a Metamora Paddy'
MGS Foundation's annual fundraiser is just 30 days away! Get your tickets now: https://givebutter.com/c/2023MGSFoundation
Be sure to order your GREEN St. Paddy's Day shirt by Wed 2/22 (available in adult and youth sizes)!
Congrats to a great basketball season. 8th grade boys played hard tonight! Both teams end the season with wins and bring home state trophies. 8th with a third place and 7th as State Champs! We are Redbirds! What a fun ride!
Congratulations to the MGS cheer team. They placed 3rd at state tonight. Thanks to the basketball teams, dance team, and staff that came out to cheer them on! We are Redbirds!
Redbirds fought hard but came up short v the Bulldogs by a final score of 62-50. They will play next Thursday in the 3rd place game at 6:00. We are Redbirds!
Redbirds trail the Bulldogs 45-31 after the 3rd quarter.