Good afternoon Parents, We are asking all of our parents to complete the 5 Essentials Survey. You can complete the survey at this 2025 Illinois 5 Essentials - Parent Survey link: http://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/ . Thank you in advance for your participation and time to complete this survey about our GRF District! Kind regards, GRF Administration.
Tomorrow is the last day of Kindness Week! Be sure to fill out a Caught You Being Kind card for your child for the Wall of Kindness. All students with cards will be entered into a prize drawing on Friday!
Today was Twin Day here at Pine Crest as part of our Read Across America week. Check out some of these awesome 3rd grade twins.
The Senior vs Staff game will be one for the ages... Buff Nation, Let's Ball!
Buff Media will be streaming live on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6M2vAwhWzCN4pm4mhYkNzw/live
Our GRHS chorus and band all-stars will be performing next week! Always a fun event.
The GRHS seniors play the staff in their annual basketball game after lunch tomorrow. Here are interviews with some of the seniors and staff members. The 8th graders will also play the staff tomorrow after the game with the seniors. Buff Nation, Lets Ride!
https://youtu.be/wpJ6QA7feTI
The GRHS scholastic bowl team won their pool and ended up placing 4th in the VVC tournament last night. Liam Courtwright earned All Conference honors with his 35 tossups answered during VVC matches. Maddie Digby and Cale Cavanaugh each answered 6 tossups during pool play last night earning their spot on the All VVC Tournament Team. Congratulations!
Look for the Caught You Being Kind cards that came home with each student. All week, parents, teachers, students, and staff should catch each other being kind and fill the Wall of Kindness! On Friday, students with a Caught You Being Kind card will be entered into a prize drawing!
"Sunrise on the Reaping, the new title in the Hunger Game franchise, is available for presale purchase through our MMJH Book Fair! This presale is EXCLUSIVE to Middle School Fairs only! The release date for this title is March 18, 2025. This book ships FREE to homes when the exclusive code FAIRSHIP is used at checkout. Don't miss out on this opportunity to get your hands on a coveted book AND support our school! Use the link below to place your order now!
https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/marymillerjuniorhighschoolbookfair
The GRHS Scholastic Bowl team is battling in the VVC Tournament. Georgetown's First match will start at 5:15. We will play Watseka and Schlarman in our pool. Buff Nation, Lets Go!
📢 Attention Pine Crest Families! 🎉 Get ready for our Sticker Shop TOMORROW! 🗓️✨ Students can shop from 7:25-7:55 AM . 🌟 Stickers are just 2 for 25 cents, with a $1 limit (that’s 8 stickers)! 💰 Don't miss out on the fun! See you there! 😊🍀💚
#WeAreGRF Always proud of our Buffalo Alum! Austin Hinchman, class of 2018, recently earned the "Kristy Miller Beat Partner of the Year", for the Champaign Police Department! Keep up the great work Austin! He is on the left.
Kindness Week is THIS WEEK – March 3-7! 🎉
Join us in spreading kindness at home! Christine "Coach" Leeb from Team Up Parents has put together a fantastic resource with fun activities you can do with your kids to encourage kindness. These activities are designed for grade schoolers but can be adapted for kids of all ages. Let’s make kindness the theme of the week at home! 🌟
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JAwrq0_GAvS4Zb--2-28aCTMurJeSEbR/view
Reminder, that the GRHS CHEER Monical's Community Day is TODAY! !
If you purchase an e-gift card through this link GRHS CHEER will receive 10% of that profit and then you can use that giftcard to purchase Monical's during our Community Day or anytime after. ! Anything that you purchase on Monday GRHS Cheer will receive 20% of your bill. This is a 2 for 1 fundraiser! We appreciate your continued support! :) https://www.monicals.com/dd-grhs/
Here are the events for GRHS for the week of March 3rd - 9th.
MMJH Scholastic Book Fair
It’s Scholastic Book Fair time! From March 5th-March 14th, with online ordering available starting TODAY! Every purchase benefits our school and students.
https://www.scholastic.com/bf/marymillerjuniorhighschoolbookfair
Students in Mrs. Davis’s class planted radish seeds a few weeks ago. They conducted an experiment to see how the plants would respond in the sunlight and in darkness. Students had the responsibility of watering their plants daily and checking to see how they were doing!
Kindness Week:
From Monday, March 3 to Friday, March 7, everyone in GRF is invited to join Kindness Week! We’ll all focus on being kind and noticing others being kind too. Parents, students, teachers, and staff can give out Caught You Being Kind cards to anyone showing kindness. Each school will have a "Wall of Kindness" to share all the kind things happening at home and school. At the end of the week, students with a Caught You Being Kind card will be entered into a prize drawing!
**Sponsored by the Parent Support Team and Project Success.
This week, students in Miss Cavanaugh's 8th grade ELA classes conducted a mock trial!
Students had to use forensic evidence from a lab in Miss Franzen's science class, and integrate textual evidence to prove their stances. During the mock trial, students learned how to professionally and effectively prove a claim while using both hard and soft evidence.
We are excited to announce that Mrs. Esteppe is the recipient of a $325 Empowering Education Grant from the Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative! She plans to use the money to fund an egg incubator project to teach students about the life cycle of chickens.
