Harmony-Emge School District #175

🎉 CITIES IN HARMONY: FREE FAMILY EVENT 🎉 📅 April 26th, 2025 🕚 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM 📍 Southwestern Illinois Justice and Workforce Development Campus (Formerly Lindenwood) 2300 West Main Street, Belleville, IL 62226 Join us for the 2nd Annual Cities in Harmony celebration — a day of fun, unity, and community spirit! In partnership with Touch A Truck, this event brings families across the Metro East region together for an unforgettable experience. 💛 Belonging Begins With the Metro East 💛 Here’s what you can expect — all for FREE! 🎁 Raffle Prizes 🏰 Bounce Houses 🎨 Face Painting 🎶 Live Music 🎯 Games 🖍️ Crafts 🎉 Giveaways 🚒 And of course, Touch A Truck! Bring your whole family and come celebrate the diversity, strength, and connection of our communities.

Mrs. Zeveski's class enjoyed the beautiful sunshine during Mrs. Becherer's monthly social-emotional lesson. This month's lesson focused on Sportsmanship. They were able to practice several social-emotional skills by completing a relay race!

🎉 Huge congratulations to Madelyn Eapen for being named 8th Grade Valedictorian! 🎓✨ Your hard work, dedication, and perseverance have truly paid off, and we couldn’t be prouder. This is such a well-deserved honor, and we can’t wait to see all the amazing things you’ll accomplish in the future. Keep reaching for the stars! 🌟📚

Miss Hasenstab’s class worked on creating their own civilizations and presented them yesterday and today. They came up with so many great ideas, like PBJ land, Blox Fruit, Girls World (Ms H made an appearance there), and so many other great civilizations!

Kindergarten is celebrating all things Peeps with “Peeps Week!” We used our five senses to describe peeps, we tasted all colors of peeps, graphed our favorite peeps color, built homes for our peeps with jelly beans and toothpicks, and learned that peeps float. We have been busy!

🚀✨ Save the Date: Ellis Family Night! ✨🚀 📅 When: Wednesday, April 30th 📍 Where: Ellis School ⏰ Time: 5:30 – 7:00 PM 🌌 Everyone Loves Learning in Space! 🌠 Join us for an unforgettable Family Learning Night packed with fun literacy activities, crafts, and a free book & snack for every child! 📚✂️🍎 🔭 BIG SURPRISE ALERT! The Challenger Learning Center is bringing a portable planetarium 🌍✨ to our gym! Students can explore space in an interactive 15-minute session (25 students per session). 🚀 It's going to be OUT OF THIS WORLD! 🌟 Don't miss it!

Today in kindergarten, Ms. Edwards’ students constructed homes for their peeps. They even got to design their own peep!

Miss Clendenny’s kindergarten class uses their five senses to explore a Peep. They wrote their details then got to enjoy their treat!

Good Morning! With the Master's starting yesterday, I think it's fitting to send out information about our Emge Athletics Golf Scramble this June. All proceeds from the scramble will benefit Emge athletics and extracurriculars (uniforms, equipment, chess clocks, etc.). If you are interested in getting a team, or if you would like to sponsor a hole for the golf tournament, please see the attached links. IF you know someone that would be interested in supporting, please pass the information along to them. Emge appreciates all of your help and support! Reserve your team's spot soon, as spots have quickly been filling up. Team Registration - https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1NaSsJOtQIP2wTYBWL8GECW3xrMQbIZeROpQ6HColZ-A/edit?usp=drive_link Golf Hole Sponsor - https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/18UJHQCe7k1G9SOBqDVJvSoH56iKnXck4LgbJuGBBRBM/edit?usp=drive_link

📚 Mrs. Keck’s class enjoyed a book tasting this morning. Students got to sample books from different genres. They had a blast expanding their reading interests and picking up books they might not otherwise.

📬 This Month's School Newsletter is Here! 🎉 Hey parents, families, and community friends! April is in full swing, and so is all the amazing stuff happening at our school! 🏫🌷 In this month's newsletter, you'll find: ✨ Highlights from recent student projects & events 🎨 Sneak peek into upcoming spring activities 🎓 Updates on end-of-year prep and celebrations 💡 Helpful tips and reminders to keep everyone on track We love keeping you in the loop and showing off all the awesome things your kids are doing. Trust us—you won’t want to miss this one! 📰 Check it out now and share the love! Thanks for being such a vital part of our school community. Let’s finish the school year strong—together! 💪💙

Mrs. Barbeau’s Kindergarten Class created Plant Pals today-we are so anxious to record our growth in our plant journals for the next 15 days!

Good Afternoon, I just received word from Shiloh that our track meet today has been canceled. The bus will be bringing the track team back to Emge, in front of the Emge gym, for students to get picked up. The bus is turning around from Shiloh now.

The Emge Cheerleading Program is excited to offer a Cheerleading Camp for current Harmony #175 School District Kindergarten through 4th-grade students to close out the 24-25 school year! This fun and energetic camp will take place on May 12th, 13th, 15th, and 16th in the Ellis Gym from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM each day. The camp is designed to introduce young cheerleaders to the fundamentals of cheerleading, including basic cheers, jumps, and team-building activities. The cost of the camp is $30, and all proceeds will go to the Emge Cheerleading Team to help purchase new uniforms. Cash is preferred, but checks may be made out to "Emge Sports Boosters". Paper Flyers were sent home with students. Please return the permission slip and payment to your child's teacher to give to Coach Fuhrmann at Ellis or Mrs. Nelson at Harmony/Emge. Deadline to register is Friday, April 25th. For questions, please email Coach Fuhrmann at pfuhrmann@harmony175.org. We look forward to seeing our future Emge Cheerleaders at this exciting event! *Extra flyers are available in Ellis office

Another month and another group of hardworking students who made it to the top of our IXL leaderboard. We are so proud and celebrated with some free time with our friends, a snack, and soda!

⭐Free Developmental Screening ⭐Age 2 months to 4 years 📆Friday, April 25, 2025

🌟🎉 Happy National Assistant Principal Day to the one and only, Mrs. Laurent! 🎉🌟 Harmony & Emge are extremely luck to have you! Thank you for all you do!🙌

Here are three of our Ellis Character Kids for March! These students have shown Perseverance throughout the month of March, great job!

Good Afternoon, Unfortunately, due to the weather, we will have to cancel our Flag Football game scheduled for today. Next practice is 4/9/25 (Wednesday).

Mrs. Hibler's class enjoyed their reward by making slime!