Great summer opportunities at Grand Avenue. For more information, visit grandavenuepreschool.com/summer-camps/. If you have questions, contact Mary Rizzardini, Dir. of Western Springs at (708) 246-2270 or Nancy Hayes, Dir. of Burr Ridge at (630) 974-6150.

Don't forget we are screening twice again this week. See the schedule below.

***Special Meeting of the Board of Education*** Monday, April 5, 2021, 7:00 p.m. This meeting will be held in the LaGrange Highlands Learning Resource Center (LRC) and simulcast on YouTube via the following link: youtu.be/JN8VUK-yJQQ

You can watch the Highlands volleyball team take on Pleasantdale here at 4pm today. youtu.be/ol-PEJxPSA0

Highlands Community - Tonight the Board of Education of LaGrange Highlands School District 106 named John Munch as its next superintendent. Munch’s appointment concludes a search, conducted with the assistance of BWP and Associates, that produced over 40 qualified candidates.

We know many of you are anxious to get the D106 Summer School schedule. While we hoped to have this out to all parents by April 9, we wanted to let you know that it will be available sometime during the week of April 12-16.

Summer School schedules are posted!

Student Registration for the 2021-22 School Year is now open! Registration can only be completed on the District 106 website (district106.net) and you must be logged in as a parent. Registration will be open from April 19 - May 9.

District 106 Parents, starting this week and through the month of May, saliva screenings will take place on Wednesdays for ALL students in both Elementary and Middle Schools.

Grade 5+6 STEM/TECH club members were hard at work coding their cartoons! First they completed an unplugged drawing activity and then tried to recreate a similar scene using SCRATCH on the computers!

Our 7th-grade chemists conduct an experiment to separate the bonds of copper, sulfur, and oxygen using electrolysis.

In fifth grade we have been focusing on our strengths during SEL time. Each student has been keeping a strength journal where they identify their strengths as well as the strengths of their friends and family.

5th Graders read, "The Coyote & the Monster" of the Nez Perce Indians & performed a tableau to capture the main idea

5th LA students learned how authors use wordplay to create humor & confusion by watching "Who's on First?" and telling lots of PUNNY jokes!

In this science activity, students dissected owl pellets and reconstructed the skeletons of animals inside to discover and study the food chain of the owl and what the owls have been eating.

Members of the 7th & 8th Grade Girls Basketball team enjoyed a tour of the basketball facilities and got to watch the last home game for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The girls got to see some great basketball!

Today in 7th grade science, our young engineers designed and tested out their balloon powered cars to analyze Newton's 3 Laws of Motion and to calculate speed, distance, and time.  Lots of friendly competition and some amazing results!

Students created rubber band powered cars to learn about how potential energy is converted into kinetic energy, and the importance of low friction.

This week in 7th Grade Science, our young scientists learned how magnetism works and how we utilize it in many everyday applications.  We ended our week with an engaging lab that allowed students to witness and analyze the invisible magnetic fields by using iron shavings.