On their way to the gymnasium for the Mechanic’s Grove Spelling Bee on Jan. 14, a group of third graders were asked if they were participating in the event.
“Yes, we are,” one answered. “We’re just not spelling.”
While just 28 of MG’s 486 students competed in the Bee, all the students played a role in helping turn the traditional event into a spirited contest with an exciting finish.
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Mechanics Grove students voted with their teeth when it came time to choose their favorite tasting apples. The choices were simple: green or red.
The tasting was part of the Illinois Great Apple Crunch, an initiative of the Illinois Farm to School Network, brought to District 75 schools in October by the D75 Wellness Committee with support from the D75 PTO. The D75 Wellness Committee purchased local apples for the event from Goebbert's Farm & Garden Center.
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When Carl Sandburg Band Director Moulee Gupta was searching for a backdrop for the school’s annual musical, “Descendants,” she hoped to find something special to match the enthusiasm her students were putting into the show.
“It was just about finding the right people to make the magic come alive,” she said.
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A few years ago, when David Martinez Sanchez was a student at Mechanics Grove, he remembers being nervous when high school students visited as part of a Spanish Pen Pal program.
On Wednesday, the Mundelein High School sophomore was back at MG, this time to visit his fifth-grade pen pal.
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In a special visit to District 75, Children’s author Trudy Ludwig used her book, “The Invisible Boy,” to inspire elementary students to be kind, inclusive and accepting. Then she invited middle school students to continue spreading her message by creating their own picture books.
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School libraries these days, often called multimedia centers, and are equipped with computers, video screens, art supplies and games. But amidst all the new gadgets and high-tech equipment are books. Shelves and shelves of books.
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