From Mrs. Cadden: Hello IES Families! After a 2-year hiatus, we’re super excited for Field Day tomorrow! Grades 3-6 will play in the morning while grades PreK-2 will play in the afternoon. Please make sure students wear sneakers and active clothing and bring a water bottle so we can make the most of the day.
Congratulations to our first annual spelling bee winners! Grade 2: Taylor Coblentz (first place), Violet Moneta (second place), and Khloe Capper (third place) Grade 1: Annabel Gibbs (first place), Mackenzie Orloff (second place), and Carson Moczulski (third place) More information and pictures can be found in the News section of the IES website!
Attention Families of 5th and 6th grade students: As a reminder, the IES Arts Showcase will begin tonight at 6:00PM featuring the IES Band, IES Chorus, art projects and STEM projects. Band students are asked to arrive at 5:30PM and chorus students at 5:40PM. Please join us for a night celebrating the Arts!
IES is excited to host our first Family Field Night on Thursday, June 2 from 6-730pm!We would love to have your family join us for fun games, family time and a chance to take home some awesome Iroquois swag! We will be hosting this event on the Iroquois Football Field, located on the High School grounds. This event is for our IES families, so all children must be accompanied by an adult. This event is also weather dependent-an email will go out to families the day of the event, if needed, with those details! Please email Kerrie Grande, Community School Director, with any questions at kgrande@iroquois.iu5.org
Sign your family up at the link below for this fun event!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfxNFMzSKM8YEXqIi8HQENLCfHP2xIj71YLY24ZKVtJxAUO1Q/viewform
Just a reminder that IES will host the Buy One, Get One Free Book Fair May 16-27. Students will visit the fair 2 times to purchase items. EVERYTHING at the fair is BOGO! When your child purchases an item, they will get another item of equal or lesser value for free! Due to restocking issues, Wishlists will not be created. Students are encouraged to pay for items using the eWallet system offered by Scholastic. EWallet accounts can be set up by visiting: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/iroquoiselemschool Cash will be accepted as payment, however, we will be moving to a cashless system next year and this is a great opportunity to try out this system!
Book Fair
IES will host the Buy One, Get One Free Book Fair May 16-27. Students will visit the fair 2 times to purchase items. EVERYTHING at the fair is BOGO! When your child purchases an item, they will get another item of equal or lesser value for free! Due to restocking issues, Wishlists will not be created. Students are encouraged to pay for items using the eWallet system offered by Scholastic. EWallet accounts can be set up by visiting: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/iroquoiselemschool
Cash will be accepted as payment, however, we will be moving to a cashless system next year and this is a great opportunity to try out this system!
Congratulations to second grade student, Violet Moneta, for winning first place in the WQLN Writer's Contest! She began working on her writing piece in January and submitted her final copy just before winning the contest. A special thank you to her teachers, Mrs. Olmstead, Mr. Berdis, and Mrs. Skelton for helping her through this journey. We are so proud of you! Click on the following link to view Violet's submission: https://bit.ly/39g2Yh4
Good morning IES Families! Please enjoy the Quarter 3 Principal's Awards and Braves to Brag About video! Thank you to all of our faculty and staff for nominating students for both honors. You can see all of our amazing students highlighted in the video at the following link. Have a great day! https://bit.ly/3vLuvyA
Congratulations to the following Athletes for making All-Region Teams: Basketball - Ben Burkhardt - 2nd Team All-Region, Wrestling - Sam Kightlinger - 2nd Team All-Region, Swimming - Grace Freer - 1st Team All-Region in the 500 Freestyle, North South All-Star Game Selections: Corrion Combest Logan Briggs Maikayla Fisher Jenna Dash, County All-Star Game Selection: Jenna Dash
Congratulations to the following Athletes for making All-Region Teams:
Basketball - Ben Burkhardt - 2nd Team All-Region
Wrestling - Sam Kightlinger - 2nd Team All-Region
Swimming - Grace Freer - 1st Team All-Region in the 500 Freestyle
North South All-Star Game Selections:
Corrion Combest
Logan Briggs
Maikayla Fisher
Jenna Dash
County All-Star Game Selection:
Jenna Dash
Today at IES we celebrated all of our Paraprofessionals who work with our students each day. We appreciate you Mrs. Blakney, Mrs. DeCoursey, Mrs. Dietz, Mrs. Magoon, Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. Pulvino, Mrs. Shakespeare, Mrs. Sittinger, Miss Smith, Mrs. Sweet, and Mrs. Weismiller!
Attention all 5th and 6th grade families! Please come and join us on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 6:00PM at the elementary school for the IES Arts Showcase! There will be presentations by our band and chorus, student monologues, and an art show with refreshments to follow. We are so excited to show you what we have been working on! See you all there!
Good Morning! We are excited to share a summer opportunity for our 6th Grade girls! Click on the link to find out more information! Link to information: https://bit.ly/3qJyABO
Attention 4th-6th Grade Families:
Due to unforeseen circumstances the mini-concert featuring IHS students scheduled for tonight has been cancelled. As a reminder, the Instrument Petting Zoo will still take place on Saturday, April 2nd from 8:00AM-4:30PM in the IES cafeteria. If you have any questions regarding the event please reach out to Mr. Wise.
The Iroquois Band Boosters are hosting Breakfast with the Easter Bunny this Sunday, 4/3/22 from 9-12 at Iroquois High School. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for children. You may contact Michelle Capper via email michellecapper82@gmail.com or purchase tickets online at the following link:
https://iroquois-marching-band.square.site/
IES celebrated the amazing accomplishment of six IES students and one IHS student today! Bentley Miller, Olivia Capper, Chloe Capper, and Hunter Chew qualified for states in wrestling. Hunter competed and received 6th place. Cameron Cadden and Christian Cadden qualified and competed last weekend in their wrestling meet. Bella Amon qualified for the state swim meet as well! We are so proud of all our Iroquois athletes!
Today IES celebrated the amazing accomplishment of Grace Freer, who finished 3rd in the 500 freestyle and earned a spot in the State Championship Meet. Students excited to have a building level walk-through celebration for her complete with signs, instruments, and flowers. We were so happy to see everyone lining the halls to cheer her on to victory. Good luck Grace at this weekend’s State Meet!
IES 4th grade scientists were hard at work today during week two of Science-Pa-Looza! Students mined for gems today and learned about Earth Science!
Attention 4th-6th Grade Students at IES: Click the link below to learn about several upcoming band events! Link: https://bit.ly/363OhfP
Attention students in grades 4-6: Iroquois performing arts will be having a spring musical extravaganza! Instead of one show, it will be a revue of several popular musicals. For those interested in auditioning, click the link below. Auditions will begin next week. If you have questions you can reach out to Ms. Conti.
Link: https://forms.gle/fEkgME4tMvaSZ75d8