Highland Elementary is collecting these plastic bags for recycling. We earn money for each shipment. By sending any of these wrappers to school, you will be helping our school and our environment. Please note the specific brands. Thank you!
It’s time to clean out your closets again! Highland Elementary is going to be competing in another textile recycling competition during the month of April. Please donate your old clothes, sheets, curtains, etc to the bins at the 4 Diamonds. Please hold on to them until April 1 when the contest begins. We appreciate your help!
Just a reminder that we dismiss at 11:00 tomorrow, Friday, March 5.
Mazzio’s Night fundraiser for grade 3 from 5:00-9:00 tonight! Both dine-in and carry out benefit our third graders. Please come and join us!
Congratulations to Abigaile R for winning first place in girls for the district and Honorable Mention at the state level in the 2020 Optimist Drug Free Poster Contest. She is a fifth grader in Mrs. Spies’s class.
Thank you Eileen Meyer for “zooming” with us for World Read Aloud Day! Ms. Meyer, author of “The Superlative A. Lincoln: Poems About Our 16th President”, spoke with Mrs. Langham’s and Mrs. Cotto’s classes.
A huge thank you to these 3 Pampered Chef consultants, Heather Kunz, Jenny Fulton, and Jen Beadle for working so hard to brighten our school staff’s day! A big thank you to all of our community members who donated to make this possible. We are truly touched by your generosity!
A little Cupid Shuffle to end the week!
Students in Ms. Ahlgren’s third grade class used creativity to build structures with toothpicks and marshmallows. They’ve been studying engineering concepts.
Fifth graders in Mrs. Spies’s class and Mrs. Bartlett’s class enjoyed some dancing after lunch today.
We had help with the morning announcements from students in Mrs Minford’s class. They gave a short lesson on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great job to all of our Spelling Bee participants today! Congratulations to Cole, our 2021 champion and Emma, our runner-up.
Mrs.Ford’s class also donated gloves, mittens and scarves.
Students from Mrs Langham, Mrs. Cotto, Mrs. Becker and Ms. Ahlgren’s classes collected mittens, hats, gloves and scarves for the Indian School Reservation for Kids.
There is a lot of festivity among Highland Elementary Staff today!
If you’d like to donate to a good cause, here are some Wish Lists from our wonderful teachers!
Happy America Recycles Day! Do something good for the environment today. We will honor the day at school tomorrow by wearing Earth-related shirts or green. ♻️
Fun with pumpkins in Mrs. Langendorf’s class!
Thank you to everyone who cleaned out closets and donated to our USAgain bins at the 4 Diamonds. Only 3 Illinois schools were in the top 10 of the Battle of the Schools Contest. We competed with schools from all around the country and won 2nd place. We’ll receive $1000!
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