1st graders practiced their collaboration skills to a create a "magnificent thing" to solve a classroom problem. They then wrote informational sentences about the tools used to create it and did a presentation where they shared their creation and writing with 3rd grade buddies!
✏️ Students are off today, but our AMAZING staff members are learning and growing professionally at today's Teachers' Institute! ✏️
Thank you, Mokena Fire Department, for teaching our MES students all about fire safety this week!
Friendly reminder: no school tomorrow and Monday! Enjoy the long weekend!
4th graders are working in "expert groups" to research and learn about a poet of their choice's life and what inspires this poet to write poetry. This will prepare them to not only write an essay about their poet, but will also support students in thinking about what inspires them in preparation for writing their own poetry in the coming weeks.
Second grade students visited Kindergarten to share the books they made as part of their end of module performance task. The books showcased informational writing comparing and contrasting MES to a school they researched from across the world. As a bonus, they also performed Readers' Theaters about incredible and unusual schools around the world! Way to go Stars!
Boomwhacker and keyboard fun in music class with Mrs. Cheney!
Mrs. Arduino's class has been using habits of character to make a magnificent thing!!
The "Painted Essay" is an organizational structure to support informational writing in our new ELA program. This patterned structure is tied to certain colors so that students are able to use and internalize a template for thinking – and therefore, writing.
The MES library is the perfect place to watch the playground construction in action. Mrs. Andresen has curated a collection of books for students to read to learn more about the equipment they might see.
Congratulations to our new NJHS inductees! We can't wait to see the ways to shape MJHS and the Mokena community!
5th graders in Mrs. Huerta's class learned about rising action, exposition, climax, falling action, and resolutions in the novel "Esperanza Rising". Great work, Rockets!
Kindergarteners used their imaginations to design and create a toy from objects found in the classroom and at home just like the character in the book they are reading. Then, they asked each other questions about the toys to practice speaking and listening standards. Great work!
MES students wore orange on Friday for childhood cancer awareness!
Attention Preschool-Age Parents!
Our PreK friends are having a blast!
🚨 Impressive work alert! 🚨 5th graders are learning to analyze why characters react differently to events in a novel and how those reactions reveal more about the characters. Students are making inferences and quoting directly from the text to then construct character reaction paragraphs! WOW!
Teachers do WAY more than just teach. 2nd grade teacher Mrs. Meehan has mastered the art of getting knots out of shoelaces! 😂
2nd graders came up with a "minion" ways to Be The Yellow this school year!
We’d like to thank our IT professionals for all they do for our students and staff! Their role is incredibly important to our District! You are appreciated! #ITProfessionalsDay
