Happy New Year from Independence Local Schools!
Wishing you all a wonderful, safe and healthy holiday season with your friends and families! Check out Mr. Vanek's weekly newsletter for an end of year message to our IMS families, a link to the 1st trimester WIMS crew's wrap-up broadcast, and so much more!
https://conta.cc/3RvwAti
Congratulations to our 7th grade art Holiday Gingerbread Home Design winners! 1st Place - Nicole M. 2nd Place - Alex J. 3rd Place - Alexis B.
Happy Holidays from IMS!!
Staff and students are thoroughly enjoying their last day at school before the winter break. This morning while students participated in an I-Pride Assembly, which featured a 1st trimester culmination WIMS newscast and honored our December students of the month and I-Pride shout out winners, the IMS PTO treated our staff to a wonderful breakfast!
We later had a surprise visit from Santa, and had some amazing PTO volunteers in the lunchroom providing a delicious hot cocoa buffet ☕️
Our 5th graders had a lot of fun presenting historical skits they’ve been working on for their very own Christmas Readers Theatre 🎭
And we’re currently being serenaded by the IHS vocal ensemble, to be followed by the IHS band in a special holiday concert just for our staff and students 🎶
We are grateful to all who have made this wonderful day happen, and look forward to all the things that 2024 will bring! Stay safe and enjoy this winter break with your friends and families 💙💛
Don't let the Grinches fool you - IMS has oodles of holiday spirit!! Here are some pics from our first few days of spirit week ❄️🎄☃️
Thank you to all of the community members who came in to help our 6th graders with their mock interviews today! 👏🏼 Grateful for our continued partnership with Amanda Jaronowski and CVCC that made this possible 💙💛
8th graders enjoyed a holiday luncheon with senior citizens at the Civic Center today 🍽️ After eating, students and seniors sang Christmas carols 🎶 What a fun way to celebrate the holiday! ❄️💛💙
Miss Hannah's eighth grade Fundamentals of Design class is having fun creating paintings while learning all about the elements and principles of design. #iPride
5th graders and their WEB Leaders got in the holiday spirit this morning by making snowflakes to decorate the 5th grade hallway ❄️ Can't wait to see the finished product! 💙💛
Students in Mrs. Koussa's 6th grade social studies classes have connected with and learned about prehistoric times through historical simulations and cave painting 🎨 So creative!
8th grade Spanish I students in Mrs. Corrigan's class have been working on a Christmas in the Spanish Speaking World Project. Today they were able to experience a Cultural Foods Day! Students were able to bring in a dish related to the Christmas season for their given country they have been studying to share with the class. Students were able to try out dishes from Puerto Rico, Colombia, Spain and many others. What a fun and delicious way to start the week! 🇵🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇸
Hope you've all had a nice weekend! Here's a look at the week ahead from the IMS News Update:
https://conta.cc/480ECkQ
Loved having our 8th grade families here for our "All-Pro Parent Breakfast" this morning! 💙💛
Special shout outs to Mr. Janatovich (IHS principal) for presenting today, and to IMS PTO parents Kelley Deir and Jaime Grassian for setting up this amazing spread 🎉
Looking forward to seeing all of our 8th graders and their families for our "All-Pro Parent Breakfast" tomorrow morning -- 7:15 to 7:40 in the IMS cafeteria! 💙💛
It's Hour of Code week! IPS students in Design Technology are taking on coding challenges! Today 3rd graders learned AI & trained and tested a machine learning model, then combined AI & code to create a virtual dance party! #ReadySetCode #iPride
Getting in the holiday sprint around IMS ❄️ Check out these awesome paintings from some of our Art Club kids!
Mark your calendars! The IHS Band and Vocal Ensembles Winter Concert is coming up on Thursday, December 7th at 7pm. 🎵 Bring your family and get into the holiday spirit with festive music. 🎶🎄 See you there! 👋 #iPride
Our last holiday season with the talented class of 2024!
On #NationalSpecialEducationDay, we honor our interventional specialists and paraprofessionals who play a crucial role in creating supportive learning environments. Your dedication and compassion shine brightly! 🌟 #iPride
Congratulations to all of our November Students of the Month who were honored at our I-Pride Assembly today! 💙💛
Can't believe tomorrow is the 1st of December... feels like just yesterday this amazing school year got underway 💙💛 Check out some of the fun and exciting things coming up in Mr. Vanek's weekly IMS newsletter!!
https://conta.cc/3sYnOvK
