Wednesday, March 6, 2013
What will Grayslake school students come up with at Saturday's Regional Science Olympiad at the College of Lake County?
About 700 middle and high school students, including those from Grayslake Central and North high schools, Grayslake Middle School, Frederick School, Park School and St. Gilbert Catholic School, will demonstrate their creativity and science skills at the 2013 Grayslake Regional Science Olympiad at the College of Lake County on Saturday, March 9. With event titles such as "Disease Detectives," "Designer Genes," "Rotor Egg Drop" and "Mission Possible," the events allow students to do cool science experiments and participate in heated competitions. The Oympiad runs from 8 a.m. to 2:50 p.m., Saturday with an awards ceremony at 4:30 p.m. The competitions will be held at locations throughout the CLC Grayslake campus at 19351 W. Washington St. …
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
A St. Gilbert Catholic School seventh-grader is the state's first place winner of the VFW's 2012-13 Patriot Pen Essay Contest. In addition, a fifth-grade teacher has been named the district's first place winner of a VFW teacher award.
Saint Gilbert Catholic School is pleased to announce that seventh-grader Celia D. (last name withheld per archdiocese rules), is the state first-place winner of VFW’s 2012-2013 Patriot's Pen essay contest. Celia, who was sponsored by VFW Post 4551 and Ladies Auxiliary in Grayslake, wrote her winning essay based on this year’s theme, "What I Would Tell America’s Founding Fathers." The youth essay writing contest is a worldwide competition that gives students in grades 6, 7 and 8 the opportunity to write a 300-400 word theme-based essay expressing their views on democracy. We are also pleased to announce that Jeanine Fout, a fifth grade teacher, is the district first-place winner of VFW’s 2012-2013 SMART/MAHER VFW National Citizenship …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
A Halloween candy buy back program through local dentist and orthodontist offices will benefit Operation Gratitude, which sends holiday care packages to troops overseas.
Did your kids collect way too much Halloween candy? Do you really want them (or you) eating it through Christmas? Why not donate it to our troops overseas by dropping it off to Dr. Michael S. Stosich at iDentity Orthodontics in Grayslake? "Starting Nov. 1 through Nov. 8, we are buying back new, unopened candy for $1 per pound up to 5 pounds per person," said Dana Ellicson, treatment and marketing coordinator at iDentity Orthodontics. Children will also receive a new toothbrush for their donation. Ellicson said students at St. Gilbert Catholic School are also donating their Halloween candy to the cause, which will help the troops and their school. Dr. Stosich will give the school $1 per pound of candy that is donated by the students. …
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Fourth-graders at St. Gilbert Catholic School in Grayslake released the Monarch butterflies they raised from caterpillars for their hands-on science curriculum.
It was a sad to see them go, admitted St. Gilbert School fourth-graders of the eight Monarch butterflies they raised from caterpillars, but it was time to take flight, hopefully all the way to Mexico. Students from Mary Fink and Cathy Green's fourth-grade science classes have spent weeks observing the life cycles of their butterflies and writing in journals about what they had learned. They even created their own illustrations. Here are some of the comments students made about their fun and educational experience: "We've been raising them since they were caterpillars," said Abby. "They ate milkweed because it's poisonous to predators," said Anthony. "We saw them turn into chrysalis. They were green underneath," said Molly. "They shed their…
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Ralf Landmesser
11:05 am on Monday, March 11, 2013
A follow up article would be great. St. Gilbert, GMS, and Frederick all advanced to the state competition April 20 at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. more ›