Another incredibly exciting, sugar fueled, FUNtastic Worthy Warrior celebration is in the books! We are so proud of these Warriors! Each and every one was nominated for making a personal improvement, helping someone out, a good deed, etc. Any staff member has the opportunity to nominate someone, and as you can see from this crowd, there were many students who caught their attention. We are already looking forward to the next one, but for now scroll on through to see all the smiles!
Time to pull out the neon 80's clothes! Grab your highlighers or puff paint and craft on an old shirt! Get on the bright colored soccer socks!
We're ready to celebrate the "Glow Up" we've had over the first 100 Days of School! Join in the fun on January 29th!
Are you a steak bowl or chicken taco kind of person? Do you add Queso or Guac? Everyone gets the chips, right?! If you're craving Chipotle as much as we are, fear not! ILIS PTO has us covered with their January Dine Out night!
Join us at Chipotle (by Sun City) TONIGHT! Thank you so much for all your support! Make sure you use the code at checkout both in store and on the App!
💡💡💡Remember all the way back to our Week 18 Newsletter (just before Winter Break!)? Yes, it does feel like a lifetime ago. 😉 We shared our wonderful counselors' "Let Your Kindness Shine Bright" Project with you all! Ms. Healey, Ms. Berry and Ms. Brown have worked so hard to bring it to life and here it is!
A reminder of what they said about it: "The school counseling team wants to shine a light on kindness! We are excited to introduce our school wide kind-o-gram project. Our goal is to have students spread kindness by writing a compliment and kind words to a peer or staff member on a lightbulb. A collage will be created to display these acts of kindness to brighten everyone’s day here at ILIS. Be on the lookout come January for us to share the completed project!"
Well, January is here and they have cut, laminated and put over over a thousand light bulbs on our walls! It is such a beautiful display and we can't wait for students to check it out! Great work, and incredibly inspiring! 💡💡💡
Just a reminder, families!
We will be having menu changes in the cafeteria all week. The menu will now be as follows:
Tuesday 1/16:
Cherry Blossom Chicken
Teriyaki Beef Dippers
Fried Rice
Oriental Vegetables
Luigi Frozen Fruit Cup
Choice of Milk
Wednesday 1/17:
Breakfast for Lunch Day!
Pancakes with Turkey Sausage
Cheese Grits with Turkey Sausage
Steamed Broccoli
Fresh Fruit
Choice of Milk
Thursday 1/18:
Pepperoni Pizza
Cheeseburger
Sweet Potato Wedges
Crowder Peas
Applesauce
Choice of Milk
Friday 1/19:
Beef taco
Chicken Taco
Pinto Beans
Spanish Rice
Peach Slices
Choice of Milk
We have dinner plans covered for Wednesday! Check out the second graphic for more information on how to order on the App (you might need to zoom in)!
Thank you so much for supporting ILIS!
Hello Warrior Families!
We will be having menu changes in the cafeteria all next week. The menu will now be as follows:
Tuesday 1/16:
Cherry Blossom Chicken
Teriyaki Beef Dippers
Fried Rice
Oriental Vegetables
Luigi Frozen Fruit Cup
Choice of Milk
Wednesday 1/17:
Breakfast for Lunch Day!
Pancakes with Turkey Sausage
Cheese Grits with Turkey Sausage
Steamed Broccoli
Fresh Fruit
Choice of Milk
Thursday 1/18:
Pepperoni Pizza
Cheeseburger
Sweet Potato Wedges
Crowder Peas
Applesauce
Choice of Milk
Friday 1/19:
Beef taco
Chicken Taco
Pinto Beans
Spanish Rice
Peach Slices
Choice of Milk
We are throwing it back on this Half Day Thursday with a beautiful project from Mr. Pendarvis’s room!
He writes, “We did a project called “Constellation Creation” for our unit of Observing the Stars. As the name suggests, we created constellations, and the students wrote their own stories about them.
There was a competition between all three classes, where every student voted for their top 5 favorite constellations with the stories that went along with them.
The voting was close but the winner of the Pendarvis’ class Constellation Creation Competition of 2023 is Lauren H. with her constellation Lily the Lion.
Way to go Lauren! Honorable mentions go out to our 2nd place winner, Hannah Largent and 3rd place winner, Camden Sulhan!”
What a creative and interactive project, Mr. Pendarvis. Everyone did a wonderful job!
Don't Forget!
We want to send a H-U-M-O-N-G-O-U-S and G-A-R-G-A-N-T-U-A-N congratulations to our School Spelling Bee winners! First place is Aiden Rabinowitz (6th, Komorous) with the winning word "bassist"! But I promise you, there were some doozies in there that he had to get correct to take the top spot. Our second place winner is Crosby Holst (6th, Mallett)! Both boy showed tremendous sportsmanship as they battled it out for many rounds. 25 to be exact!
We also want to acknowledge Anirudh Prassana (5th, Hensley) and Ritesh Dhokte (5th, Riggins) who tied for third place! Everyone did such a great job, and we are so proud of our Warriors!
Wishing you lots of luck at the district spelling bee, Aiden! 💙💛
Check out what's going on at ILIS! The semester's almost over, but we're still working hard! :)
We hope you're enjoying the last few days of your break! If you're out running any errands before school resumes, please keep our nurse's station in mind! We are looking for donations of travel sized deodorant (both boys and girls), as well as feminine hygiene products. Thank you so much for your help!
Ms. Buck wanted to share what she had going on in her neck of the woods! She writes, “These pictures were taken during our sound and light wave unit. Students were asked to apply their learning about the behavior of waves by designing an optical security system to protect a fictitious gemstone exhibition. In groups students were tasked to design a system using lenses and mirrors to direct a beam of light from a flashlight around an obstacle so that it hits a target. Students were given certain constrains and criteria to follow and everyone hit the target!”
Thanks for sharing Ms. Buck! The project looks AWESOME!
ILIS’s first ever Heart & Sole team completed their 5K on December 2nd! The girls spent ten weeks training for this goal and we are so proud of their accomplishments. The girls not only found the confidence within themselves to run, but also developed meaningful friendships along the way.
Thank you coaches Ms. Crider, Ms. Metcalf and Ms. Chiravelli for taking your time out of your personal life to coach these girls and form a new community within this school!
We have another fun project from the 6th graders at ILIS!
Ms. Kiel's students were tasked with completing 3D models of plant and animal cells. They had a great time and helped put their knowledge of this topic to the test! She also made it a point to say that all her students worked SO hard, and they should be very proud of themselves!
Enjoy the photos of the projects, and be sure to zoom in to really get a good view! You did awesome, Kiel's Kiddos!!
Ms. Garrison and Ms. Norton had a creative, interactive and festive project for their classes! Earlier in December, their students wrote haikus to go with ornaments they made. The following week, they did a "tree lighting" where students shared their haikus and ornaments, and then hung them on their class "poetrees" (Ms. Garrison knows it's actually spelled poetry, but she is very proud of her dad joke level pun, so we're going with it 😁). Teachers were then invited over two days to nominated a "guest from honor" from another class to come light the trees! It was such a great project, and a lovely gesture to invite the school to participate! Great job Ms. Garrison and Ms. Norton!
From B hall to J Pod, and everywhere in between, the halls at ILIS are full of staff members who made the NICE list! To close out an incredible December to Remember, the Admin Team (rocking the sweatshirts they gave to everyone last week!) took the Snack Sleigh all around! Teachers and staff were able to grab as many sweets, salty snacks and drinks as they could, followed by Mr. Johnson usually saying, "Wait! Get more!"🍫🥨🍪🥤🍬
We also want to take a moment to thank Admin for all they did for us this month to close out the calendar year with a bang. They kicked off December to Remember with a beautiful breakfast from Famous Toastery, wrote over 115 personal notes attached to candy for Candy grams, gave us awesome sweatshirts and closed it out by bringing out the snack sleigh. 💙We always feel loved and appreciated at ILIS💙. Thank you so much for going out of your way to downright spoil us!
We want to give another big thank you to PTO for our Pizza lunch (with lunch coverage!) and T-Shirts for staff, as well as donuts for the kids! We are so grateful for all you do! 💛
And lastly, thank you to all the students and staff who dressed up on all the days. It was a marathon of creative, festive frocks and we hope you had as much fun as we did.
We will see you in 2024, Warriors!!
Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season!
Even with all the excitement of Winter Break ahead, our 5th graders got to have a field trip to Winthrop University! Over the course of two days, our 5A and 5B teams loaded up on buses and traveled to what could be their future college campus!
The goal of this visit was for students to “Begin with the End in Mind”, start to plan for their future and learn all about college! They got a chance to see what a university looks like, go on a scavenger hunt, and ask questions to gain further knowledge about careers they can attend college for.
Overall it was such a successful experience and our Warriors had a blast! Now parents- you know what to do! Swipe, swipe, swipe to check out all the fun! There are a TON of photos on Facebook, so be sure to check that out!
Thank you Winthrop University for hosting us!
Our amazing Nurse Leslie and her assistant Michaela are looking for supplies for the nurse's station! We are asking for donations of travel size deodorant (for boys and girls) as well as feminine hygiene products. Thank you so much in advance for your help!
