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!
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.