All three Mokena 159 schools are working together to celebrate and honor our Veterans! All money raised will go directly to Honor Flight Chicago.
MIS was visited by LWSRA during PE, where students rotated between 3 different adaptive games. Austin Spalla, son of MIS teacher, Mrs. Spalla has been selected for Team USA for the Parapan Games in Santiago, Chile for Track and Field later this month. Good luck!
Tonight at the girls basketball game, we'll be honoring the Mokena 159 teachers and staff. Thank you, Mokena Athletic Boosters, for organizing this! 🏀
Save the dates! The MIS Book Fair is next week, November 6th to November 10th!
Halloween fun yesterday!
Happy Halloween from the first grade teachers and the support team!
3rd graders carved pumpkins in Mrs. Esgar’s class last week! 🎃 The students measured, weighed, counted seeds, and made predictions. Then they carved a face and took it home.
5th grade students have been writing monologues based on a character's reaction to an event in their novel "Esperanza Rising." Over the next few days, they are performing their monologues with their group and have even created a program that includes the cast and Director's Note!
The Mokena Meteors had their first concert of the year tonight. Our musicians did a great job!
Join us for the concert tonight to support our young musicians!
We're SO excited for the upcoming wheelchair basketball game on November 14!
Congratulations to the 6th grade Stellar Seekers who exhibited extraordinary kindness to their peers and staff!
Kindergarteners are learning about "Weather Wonders" in their new ELA module. Thank you to the Manhattan Weather Channel for visiting our students today and sharing fun facts about different types of weather!
Save the date for the fall concert! 🍂🍁
MES 2nd and 3rd graders had a visit from the LWSRA yesterday! They learned all about what it's like to be in a wheelchair and played a variety of games such as goal ball, wheelchair basketball, and sit volleyball. Thank you, LWSRA!
Thank you to everyone that came out for the Pink Out game this week! 🏀🏀 We had such a great turnout for a wonderful cause!
Save the date! On Nov. 14, we'll host a Wheelchair Basketball game to raise money for Lincolnway Special Recreation Association. The t-shirt store closes October 23: bsnteamsports.com/shop/54dncdPQnt
Contact Mrs. Kocher at kocherb@mokena159.org to donate! Hope to see you there!
Third grade students are working in groups to record an audiobook to assess reading fluency. As a step in the process, students worked in pairs to practice their excerpt and provide a peer critique with feedback related to the fluency criteria they generated as a class!
This week is Bus Driver Appreciation Week! Give your child's bus driver a shout-out in the comments! We are SO grateful for our fabulous drivers!
Ms. Lagunas' second graders are currently working and learning about fossils in our reading curriculum. Students are loving it so much they are checking out dinosaur books!
