IMPORTANT DATES:

Published: March 7, 2014

    ~ March 10 - Inservice All Day - NO SCHOOL

    ~ March 14 - End 3rd 9 weeks

    ~ March 21 - Report Cards

    ~ April 14 - 21 - Easter Break - NO SCHOOL

    ~ April 22 - School resumes for students

    ~ April 25 - Mid-Term 4th 9 weeks

    ~ May 2 - Grandparents' Day

    ~ May 2 - Book Fair

    ~ May 6 - Arts in the Park

    ~ May 8 & 9 - 6th Grade Move-Up Days

    ~ May 9 - Student Council Dance

    ~ May 26 - Memorial Day - NO SCHOOL

    ~ May 27 - Awards Night, 6 P.M.

    ~ May 29 - Last Student Day; Awards Assemblies;

                      Students dismissed at 11 A.M.;

                      Teacher Inservice P.M.

    ~ May 30 - Last Day of School Term - Teachers Institute

 

PERSONAL COMPUTING

Published: March 3, 2014

Morton District 709 is committed to using technology to enrich student learning and to meet the needs of individual students.  In the 2014-15 school year all students in grades 5-8 will be provided with a personal computing device and students in grades 9-12 will have the option to use either a district device or their own personal computing device.  Parents are encouraged to learn more about this initiative by clicking …

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STATE CHESS

Published: February 28, 2014

Good Luck to the Chess Club members competing at the IESA State Chess Tournament Friday and Saturday - Cameron W., Cullen L., Keaton W., Shane F., Ian C., Caleb S., Kevin L., and Dillon V.

 

Click here to see pictures from the team recognition on Friday morning.

GREEN TEAM PROJECT DISCOVERY

Published: February 18, 2014

 

Project Discovery is a project about passion.  It’s a twist on the 21st century classroom where students choose what to investigate, document, or challenge themselves with.  The base of the project is to create a website.  On the surface, this website looks like most ordinary websites and can even be pulled up on your smartphone, but beneath the surface are all kinds of Common Core learning standards.  Anything …

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IMPORTANT DATE INFORMATION!

Published: January 30, 2014

Due to the weather-related school cancellations in the 3rd quarter, the following dates will be changed:

•          3rd quarter mid-term from February 7 to February 14

•          End of Winter MAP testing window from February 7 to February 14

•          End of 3rd quarter from March 7 to March 14

•          Report cards move from March 14 to March 21

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WOUNDED WARRIOR SHOOTOUT

Published: January 30, 2014

This season during each halftime, MJHS sponsored the Wounded Warrior Shootout where spectators could pay $1 and shoot a half-court shot to win a free Papa Murphy’s pizza.

 

In total this year during 20 home games, 33 shots were made.  A very special thanks to Papa Murphy’s for their generous pizza donation!

 

We were honored to have three US Marines visiting, representing the more than 50,000 Wounded Warriors …

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