As you may know, Illinois Governor, J. B. Pritzker held a COVID-19 press conference today where he issued new rules regarding indoor masking, educational employee vaccination and testing requirements.
The indoor masking order, statewide, begins Monday, August 30, and the requirement for educational employees to begin their COVID-19 vaccine regimen is September 5. All educational employees must get a COVID-19 vaccination or submit to testing weekly (or more frequently if ordered by the local health department).
We will communicate internally with our staff on the specifics of how we will verify staff vaccination status, and coordinate weekly testing as appropriate.
Our consistent and continuous aim is safety, learning, and communication. We’re proud to be open, full day and full time and fully in person. Thank you for your support and understanding, and thank you for allowing us to lead and serve the educational needs for each child, every day!
Students in Mrs. Scott’s class learned about geography and cardinal directions by dividing the room into four hemispheres and moving to the correct hemisphere of the given location.
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Students in Mrs. Scott's class using hands on manipulatives to learn about place value. Love to see our budding mathematicians!
Each student made a personalized note for the board as Ms. Purlee gets to know her students in music class. Looking forward to a fun year in music at Madison!!!
Mrs. Bork's class sharpening their number sense while playing multiplication "bump it" in partners.
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Mrs. Bork's class working on self-portraits in art. Very talented!
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Our fabulous 4th grade team! #gopurple #madisonmighty
Click on the links below for this week's COVID data. This data reflects those out due to being positive or quarantined.
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Tower building and team building in Mrs. McPhillips' class!
Sharing from our friends at The Dixon Historic Theatre
Ms. Kurschner's students take a STEM challenge and work together to build the tallest tower. Looking good!
Students got to have some fun getting to know each other during the Marshmallow Challenge this week in Mrs. Martin-Graber's class. While engineering with difficult time and material constraints, we learned about the power of group communication and cooperation.
Mrs. Bork‘s class completing Pentomino challenges. Working together to put the random shapes together to form a rectangle.
Love to see our kids having hands on fun! Tie dye today in Ms. Sherlock's room!
Ever hear of Gaga ball? Ask your kids; it's all the rage at Madison School! We are grateful for this new game courtesy of the Dixon Foundation!
Just a reminder that Picture Day is tomorrow (Thursday, August 19th).
4th grade students enjoying the new Madison cafeteria! We are grateful for all the hard work from maintenance and custodial to have it ready!
We are so excited to see everyone for the first day of school tomorrow! Schools dismiss at 11 am tomorrow. Please allow enough time to get to school with all the road work. Click below for the Return Plan approved by the Board of Education. #GoPurple
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We are looking for two classroom assistants for Madison School available to start immediately. If you are interested to be a part of a great school team, please call Mr. Sagel at 815-934-9662.
Madison School's Back to School Night is this Thursday 8/12 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. Please come by to meet the teacher, drop off supplies, and be welcomed to Madison. We are looking forward to it!!!
