Where your colorful socks on Monday, 3/23! 🧦

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Congratulations to Mrs Kahls class for completing the breakfast quest and being crowned the winners. The "Ladies of lunch" were glad to see new faces joining for breakfast and hope you all enjoyed the new recipes .
🍀 Miss Seely’s Kindergarten tried to trap a leprechaun today! 🍀
We worked together to build a giant classroom leprechaun trap, using lots of teamwork and communication to decide what might work best. We talked about cause and effect while designing the trap and thinking about what would actually catch that sneaky leprechaun.
The class even incorporated writing by leaving notes on the trap to try and trick him into coming inside! Along the way, we also had a great conversation about money when we talked about his pot of gold.
Unfortunately… the leprechaun was a little too clever for us. He escaped and left quite the mess behind after taking all of our gold on the way out! 😆
Nice try, sneaky leprechaun… we almost had you!👏🍀
We worked together to build a giant classroom leprechaun trap, using lots of teamwork and communication to decide what might work best. We talked about cause and effect while designing the trap and thinking about what would actually catch that sneaky leprechaun.
The class even incorporated writing by leaving notes on the trap to try and trick him into coming inside! Along the way, we also had a great conversation about money when we talked about his pot of gold.
Unfortunately… the leprechaun was a little too clever for us. He escaped and left quite the mess behind after taking all of our gold on the way out! 😆
Nice try, sneaky leprechaun… we almost had you!👏🍀

Congratulations to Mr. Dunlap and the six JH students that attended the IGSMA Solo & Ensemble contest this past weekend. They all brought home a 1st place rating. Way to go, everyone!! 🎶





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Mr. Mueller visited Ms. Spudich’s Physic’s class this week. He had some great experiments to unpack with her class. It is always wonderful to have our retired teachers return to share their expertise and passions with our students.




3rd-8th grade parents and guardians:

Saturday, March 7th, Mt Olive Band had six high school students who participated in the IHSA Solo & Ensemble contest, at the Alton High School in Alton, IL, bringing home 3 superior and 3 excellent ratings. Way to go, students and Mr. Dunlap! 🎶







Save the date for our Elementary and Junior High 2026 Art Show! 🎨

February Students of the Month! The character trait for February was empathy. Congratulations, students!!




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2026-2027 Mt. Olive CUSD 5 School Calendar 📅

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Junior High Track and Field practice will begin on Monday, March 16, 2025. Practice will be from 3:30 until 5:30 pm, athletes will meet in the gym. We will have a brief parent meeting beginning at 5:30 in the Junior High Gymnasium.

Mrs. Spudich's dual credit Human Bio class was in the lab dissecting a heart this week. Some key functions of the lesson include identifying external anatomy, internal chambers and valves. Important techniques involve making longitudinal or transverse incisions.






📢🏀 Attention 8th Grade and HS Basketball players and guardians:

