Mokena School District 159

Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at Mokena 159! 💕❤️💐 #mokena159

Happy Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week! We hear a lot about that one teacher who made an impact in someone’s life. Who was that teacher for you? Even if you didn’t go to Mokena 159, we want to hear about the best teacher you’ve ever had! #mokena159

Let’s keep the love for Mokena 159 teachers and staff going with a virtual applause parade! Give our rockstar employees some love and leave a clapping emoji or GIF below! Let’s see how many we can get by the end of the day! #mokena159

Happy Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week! Let’s celebrate our amazing staff and give them a shout out using the form here ➡️ https://forms.gle/XkWtfDNt1rTrCgNw5

Happy Administrative Professionals Day to our amazing office staff!

6th graders went to iFLY and learned about STEM careers, the design process, physics, and much more!

Mrs. Huddlestun’s class wrote about how they can help the Earth! Check out their wise words!

Last week, 6th graders heard from a multitude of speakers about climate change and its relation to Earth Day!

Ms. Hentsch's class celebrated Earth Day with an electronic choice board of 9 different activities to choose from!

MJHS held the 2nd annual GeoBee this week! Students battled hard with their geography knowledge and we are so impressed with everything they know! Congratulations to our winners: Tyler Rafa (1st), Thomas Hannigan (2nd), and Lillie Gunther (3rd)!

MES students are such great artists!

Last week, our kindergarteners (and a team of volunteers and teachers) braved the wind for an egg hunt on the playground! 🥳🎉

Congratulations to our staff who recently received tenure status! 🥳🥳

Check out some of Ms. Hentsch's 4th grade students’ southeast region landmark posters! This class has some very creative individuals!

Nominations close next Friday! ⭐️ The Galaxy Award is a program to specially recognize the above and beyond accomplishments and/or contributions of Mokena 159 employees, students, parents & community members. The nomination form may be found here: https://bit.ly/3EzDAhZ

Mrs. Robbert's Kindergarten class found words hung throughout the commons so they could "write the room". The words were differentiated based on the skill the student was learning. Clipboards in hand, they got right to work!

The second grades classes recently ended their March Madness activity: “Tournament of Books”! They read 16 books in March and voted for their favorites. The winner this year was “Tikki Tikki Tembo”!

Mrs. Arduino’s 1st grade class is trying to hatch chicks with their good behavior! 🐣 To keep their egg warm, students need to make sure they sit on their bottoms and push in their chairs.  1st graders are hopeful their eggs will hatch with good behavior today!

MJHS hosted their first home track meet of the season on Monday! Way to go, runners!

1st graders recently created time capsules they’ll open their senior year of high school: March 2033! Students wrote about their future career & favorite things & included a message to their future self. Parents sent pictures & a favorite toy to include in the time capsule!