This year's musical was Into the Woods, Jr. by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. The students had a delightful time stepping into familiar fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack & the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel - but with new friends and unfamiliar twists! They transported the audience "into the woods to get the thing that makes it worth the journeying" and make sure that everyone got their happily ever after. BRAVO to the cast of actors, singers, and dancers who brought the story to life; to the Stage and Sound & Lights crews who made the show run smoothly; and to the Scenery crew who made the sets look beautiful! Thanks to the Staff sponsors who helped out, too: Mr. Chavez, Ms. Murray, Ms. Peterson, Mrs. Seiler, and Ms. Sutter.

Orchestra started off the Spring concert last week with a great show, and our concert season has finished up this week with the D23 Chorus concert on Tuesday and MacArthur Band on Thursday. Great performances by all groups. The highlight of each night was when the 8th graders are recognized for their dedication. Thank you for supporting our young musicians in all their practice and transportation needs!

One last performance for the year still remains, the Art & Music Night is happening this coming Wednesday, May 24th from 4pm-7pm at MacArthur.

For the past month MacArthur PE classes have been competing in the special end of the year event, The Decathlon. All the PE classes are split into six competitive teams and strive to win the daily competitions. The events consist of the mile run, softball throw, soccer, ultimate football, volleyball, swamp ball, flickerball, handball, and basketball knockout. The teams are working on sportsmanship and cooperation. What a fantastic way to end the Mac PE 2022-23 year!

In Pre-Algebra classes, we are in the middle of one of the longest units to finish the year. Students are finding volume of all sorts of 3-dimensional shapes and figures.

Our Algebra students have finished their chapter on radical functions and started an introduction to trigonometry. They are now starting to learn about rational functions. While rational functions may not sound as cool as radical functions, they make sense (laugh now.) 

All of our math classes also finished their iReady Spring Diagnostic Test. All of the hard work has paid off, and the students have shaken off the “Covid Cobwebs.” We have seen incredible growth this year. As these 8^th grades prepare to start high school in just a few months, we are looking forward to hearing from our colleagues at Wheeling and Hersey about their performance.

With only 500 students in our building, our mighty track team, consisting of 30% of our student body, had an awesome year! The 7th grade boys team won the sectional meet last week and sent a number of athletes to Peoria for the state meet today and tomorrow.

State bound runners include:

1600m (mile) Run - Dalia Gondek & Gracie Mabry

800 m Run - Abby Stonequist

High Jump - Jackson Travis

Long Jump - Jackson Travis & Gustavo Quiroz

Hurdles - Gustavo Quiroz

4x100m Relay - Jackson Travis, Gustavo Quiroz, Jenner Smith, Patrick Zelinski, Cal Newhouse

4x100m Relay - Zoe Brill, Dalia Gondek, Sophia Parapitev, Valentyna Popperl

Electronic access to report cards are scheduled for 9:00am on June 2nd.

PowerSchool Accounts

Parents! As we end this school year and prepare for the next, please check your PowerSchool account to ensure that it has your student(s) connected to it. (If you have paid for registration through PowerSchool before, then you are all good!) If it doesn't, reach out to your school's office for help. This greatly helps when it comes to paying school fees (as will happen in July, for the 23-24 school year)! Thanks for checking on this! 

May 26th 1:10pm

8th Grade Parade

May 26th 6:30pm

8th Grade Dance

May 30th (School Day)

Main Event Field Trip

May 31st 7:00pm

8th Grade Promotion

Pick up your Yard Signs from the MacArthur Office 7am - 4pm.

-Holidays: No School

  -Memorial Day: 5/2

-8th Grade Promotion: 5/31

-Last Day of Student Attendance: 6/2