United Intermediate School

This week UIS students will participate in the 5 Essentials survey. Survey results will be reflected on our Illinois School Report Card. If you do not want your child to participate, please use the opt out form or call the office 309-734-8511.

UIS Students would like to remember Miss Sue on Friday, February 27th. Wear your pink and blue to honor her.

We are so proud of our students who reached the 250,000 words milestone. Keep reading those books!

UIS 6th graders cresting a comic strip using key events from their reading.

We are so excited to announce the 1st UIS Spring Musical! We are going to be doing a production called Let’s Walk Together By John Jacobson & Walter Jack. The students who wanted to have reading parts have auditioned and the cast list has been posted. If your child is a reader we will be notifying you. If your child wants to audition for one of the singing solos, they will be able to audition during their recess times on Friday March 6th and March 13th. Sign up sheets for auditions are posted outside the music room starting Friday February 20th. Once those have been decided we will notify families of the soloist. Attached to this letter is the link to the song playlist for students to be able to practice the songs on their own, too. We have about 8 more music class times to learn the songs in school.

The performance dates are as follows:

Friday, May 8th, at 1:45 pm on the UIS stage
Monday, May 11th, at 9:30 am on the UIS Stage

Please let us know if you have any questions. We are looking forward to this new adventure at UIS.

Thank you,

Mrs. Bushong, Mrs.Koerner and Ms.Moersfelder

Let's Walk Together playlist - https://musicplayonline.com/my-lists/4-6-spring-musical-lets-walk-together-145710420/?my_access_code=U077972

UIS Students will take the 5 Essentials survey next week, February 23rd-27th. If you do NOT want your child to participate in the survey, please fill out the opt out form and submit to the office.

UIS held Valentine Parties on Thursday. Games, valentines, candy, fun...smiles all around!

UIS Houses met yesterday. They competed in teambuilding games to win prizes for everyone in their house and bragging rights until our next meeting. They also made valentines for local nursing home residents. #kidsdoinggoodthings #teachkindness

Our Red Storm reporters absolutely crushed their very first newscast! Laughter and applause echoed proudly through the Red Storm Cafe as students celebrated an amazing debut. What a fantastic start!

Over the last week and a half, students in STEAM have had a spirit of sportsmanship as we celebrated the Super Bowl and Olympics by applying what we have learned about potential and kinetic energy to creating a free-standing field goal and trying to “kick” (flick) a paper football through the goal post. Then some of our classes applied our potential and kinetic energy knowledge as well as incorporating measurement skills into building hockey goals, making hockey sticks and then playing a game of table hockey. Fifth grade also had the opportunity to do a Super Bowl themed math trivia last week. A lot of fun was had getting into the competitive (and creative) spirit of the season!

The 5 Essentials Survey will be administered by all UIS students the week of February 23rd to February 27th. If you do NOT want your child to participate, please contact the office or fill out the opt out form linked below.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NRuXgaAjR3wbNQJdtfSjpmyeI5TYnxmX0XwX3XAvul4/edit?usp=sharing

Mrs. Woods students enjoyed cooking class. Not only did they test their reading and math skills, but they were able to eat the final product!

UIS PTO will meet on Tuesday, February 10th at 5:30 p.m. in the library. Hope you can join!

Super Bowl transformation was a hit with our 4th graders.

Fifth graders participated in Decimal Division Winter Olympics today to kick off the Winter Olympics. Students did 3 timed tasks and collected data. Next week we will be finding averages of our scores and tracking data from the Winter Olympics!

Our 4th grade classes participated in all kinds of Super Bowl activities today. Thank you to our teachers for always making learning engaging.

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Mrs. Murray's class researched Martin Luther King Jr. The display demonstrates evidence of their learning in action.

Last week in STEAM, Mrs. Wood’s class held a bagel tasting. National Bagel Day was January 15th and students had shared that several had never tried bagels before and they would like to try them. Students sampled four different types of bagels; plain, everything, blueberry, and cinnamon raisin. Students discussed the flavors and what good descriptive words are when describing food (savory, sweet, creamy, etc.) and there was discussion on which bagels students liked and which they didn’t care for. Students also had the opportunity to sample bagels with cream cheese and without. They then graphed which bagels were liked by students and they also graphed how many students preferred cream cheese over no cream cheese. There was then a class discussion about the results and how data collection and graphs can help us compare and contrast things more easily in order to better understand topics. What a delicious way to learn!

The 5 Essentials Survey will be administered by all UIS students the week of February 23rd to February 27th. If you do NOT want your child to participate, please contact the office or fill out the opt out form linked below.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NRuXgaAjR3wbNQJdtfSjpmyeI5TYnxmX0XwX3XAvul4/edit?usp=sharing