📢 Johnston City Sports Hall of Fame - Nominations Now Open! 🏅
The Johnston City Sports Hall of Fame is currently accepting applications for 2025 inductions! If you know an outstanding athlete, team, coach, or friend of JC Sports who deserves recognition, now is the time to nominate them!
🏆 Categories for Nomination:
▪️ Athlete/Team – 2020 Graduates or earlier, who have demonstrated excellence in their sport.
▪️Coach – Individuals who have had a lasting impact on our athletes and community.
▪️ Friend of JC Sports – Anyone who has shown exceptional support and dedication to our local sports programs.
⏰ Deadline: April 1, 2025: Don’t miss out on the opportunity to honor those who have contributed to the spirit of sports in Johnston City. Submit your nominations now!
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Let’s celebrate the champions of our community! 🎉
WOW! These are just some of the raffle baskets for our Spring Open House on Friday. There's a little something for everyone from candles to candy and cute home decor.
Remember our BIG raffles are a PS5 and a $100 gift card. Raffle tickets are just $1 in advance with profits going back to support Lincoln Elementary and our students.
Please join us March 28th from 5-7 p.m.
Lincoln Elementary celebrated students who went detention-free during the school year's 3rd quarter!
Our 3rd and 4th grade students had a wonderful time at Herrin Bowl on Friday from trying to get a strike to playing in the arcade and chatting over some snacks!
The school's Spring Open House and raffles this Friday, March 28th support events and activities like this one!
Parents and Guardians,
The deadline for the 5 Essentials Survey is this Friday, March 28th. Please take this short survey to give your input on school improvements.
https://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/?target_name=parent&p=1
For those who have taken the survey, thank you!
🏆 Lincoln Elementary is the 4th Grade Brain Games Champions. 🏆
We're so proud of our team team, who went to competition at Rend Lake College today 🧠📚 They dressed in clothing inspired by the 30s and 40s since that's the content of their testing.
Brain Games is a friendly competition that provides a structured academic atmosphere filled with creative thinking and problem solving exercises.
Student teams navigate an array of hands-on activities, questions, and challenges across the curriculum of Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, and the Arts.
The Scholastic Book Fair kicks off tomorrow that's Tuesday, March 25th. Your child can purchase books during school hours through Friday, March 28th.
The book fair will have extended hours on Friday for our Spring Open House from 5 to 7 p.m. This event is a major fundraiser for our school with profits going right back to supporting our students with PBIS Incentives:
🌸 Rental of facilities for our good behavior parties
🌸 Transportation costs to get there and back
🌸 Rentals at the end of the year for field day
🌸 Special assemblies
A week from today is our Lincoln Elementary Spring Open House. We can't wait to see all of YOU at this event bringing together our families and staff for a fun night.
We sent home raffle tickets for our two large raffle items -- a $100 gift card and a PS5 with a network card. Each raffle ticket is $1 🎟 🎟 We use these funds to help pay for events for our students, so please sell those raffle tickets!
The Spring Open House is Friday, March 28th from 5 - 7 p.m.
One last reminder -- all schools have early dismissal today at 11:30 a.m.
📚 We're SO excited for our Scholastic Book Fair kicking off next Tuesday, March 25th. 📚 Students can purchase books all week during school hours. The book fair will have extended hours on Friday, March 28th during our Spring Open House from 5 - 7 p.m.
The Spring Open House is the perfect opportunity for some family fun, and for parents to connect with school staff! It's free entry and there will be plenty of games. For purchase, there will be tasty concessions, and $1 tickets for raffles including some BIG prizes like a $100 gift card and FortNight PS5
All proceeds from these raffles go right back to the school and supporting our students through:
🌼 Buying prizes for our PBIS parties
🌼 Assemblies
🌼 Field trips
🌼 Quarterly parties
Friendly reminder: Tomorrow, March 21st, is a Half Day with dismissal at 11:30 a.m.
March is Music in our Schools month 🎵🎵 A time of year to raise awareness about the importance of music education for all children, and the educators who are in the classroom teaching students the fundamentals of music and how to build on them.
Today, we're highlighting Mr. Smith, who has a deep passion for music education and years of experience as a band director. He brings music, inspiration, and a whole lot of rhythm to Washington Middle School and Johnston City High School.
We hope everyone enjoyed Spring Break and are returning back to school refreshed and ready to learn during our 4th quarter!
We'll see you back in the classroom tomorrow morning. Remember it's March 17th, so wear your green for St. Patrick's Day! 🍀🍀
No school this week for Spring Break!!
We'll see you back in the classroom on Monday, March 17th.
Be safe and have fun 😎
We hope everyone enjoyed their weekend and are now ready for Spring Break, which starts tomorrow, March 10th, and runs through Friday, March 14th.
That means we'll see you back in class on Monday, March 17th, just in time for St. Patty's Day!
🎼 March is Music in our Schools Month. 🎼
This month, let's celebrate the power of music and its incredible impact on our students from fostering creativity to improving academic performance, music education opens doors to endless possibilities.
At Lincoln Elementary School, 3rd grade students are learning how to read sheet music and play the Recorder.
https://youtu.be/318JaUjzhCI
We're continuing to highlight our social workers during National School Social Worker Week including Ashley Gauldoni.
Social workers support the the emotional well-being of students and their families from providing counseling and resources to advocating for every student's needs.
Thank you to ALL our amazing school social workers for your compassion and dedication.
#SSWWeek2025
All schools have early dismissal today, Friday March 7th, with our elementary schools and middle school letting out at 1:50 p.m. High School students will be dismissed at 2 p.m.
Spring Break is March 10th -14th. 😎😎
We'll return on St. Patrick's Day with a full day of classes, so be sure to wear your green! 🍀
National School Social Work Week is an opportunity for schools, communities, and partners to acknowledge and recognize the impactful work social workers do to support students, families, and their communities.
Whether it’s leading group sessions, one-on-one counseling, or developing strategies for overall student well-being, our social workers including Ashley Huey are always there with a compassionate heart and expert advice.
#SSWWeek2025
A friendly reminder that tomorrow, March 7th, all schools have early dismissal.
Elementary and Middle School students will be let out at 1:50 p.m. and High School students will be dismissed at 2 p.m.
This week is School Social Worker, and we're continuing to recognize our social workers including Maranda Sink.
We want to highlight the incredible work of our school social workers who make a world of difference in the lives of our students and families.
They provide support, guidance, and a caring presence that helps students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
#SSWWeek2025
