Thanks to a Clinton County Farm Bureau Grant, fourth graders venture out for an Ag Day, complete with a tour of Behrmann Meat Market, Top Ag, Dairy King and Thole Farms! 🐖🐄🚜🌾

7th Grade Earth Day 🌎 and STEM class... Students created arcade games and enjoyed putting them into play!

What do you want to do when you grow up? The 8th grade explored a variety of careers using VR headsets...working in an emergency room, resporing power to a town, performing knee surgery....just a few of the modules they could choose! Thank you, Southwestern Illinois Leadership Council, for sharing with us today!

Lego Club masters! 🔻🔸🔹 So many Eagles are grateful for this latest addition to the opportunities at AGS! Way SOAR, way to SOAR! 🦅

It was a beautiful day for Mrs. Hamil's Early Childhood class to enjoy interacting with horses at the Chakota Riding Center! 🤩🙌💛 Eagles making memories!

🔶🟡 LEGO CLUB NEWS 🟡🔶

Preparing for an agricultural based field trip to Behrmanns Meat Market, Top Ag, Dairy King and the Thole Farm, fourth grade teachers went to the expert, student Kaden Keele, to share his smarts with classmates. Quite the process 🐷🐓🌾🐄🚜 leading up to a delicious cheeseburger and milkshake!

Our three sections of first grade are "moving on up" to second grade next year. We want to welcome a great 2nd grade teacher to our team! For more information on how to apply for the 2nd grade position, please follow the link on our employment opportunity page: https://www.avistonk-8.org/page/employment

Making memories 2024 😎 500 eclipse glasses ordered ✔️ Assembly presentation on eclipses ✔️ Safety reminders for eclipse viewing✔️ Lawn party on the baseball field ✔️ 2:00 pm - Eclipse Totality! 🌕🌖🌗🌑🌗🌖🌕

Eagles who demonstrate a FAIR disposition with friends and in the classroom were recognized at today's Eagle Squad Assembly! What an important and fabulous character trait. ❣️

It was a YOU GOT A FRIEND Toy Story kind of day! 🤠 Nice job, third graders! #EagleSquadGoals

Congratulations to the Aviston Scholar Bowl team on a 2nd Place finish at the ROE Tourney! They defeated Odin, New Horizon and Casey Middle School before falling to Damiansville in the championship. It's a great day to be an Eagle!!! 💙🦅💛

Eagle musicians gathered today with seven neighboring schools and their honor band and chorus members to collaborate, combine talents and put on quite the show at the Clinton County Music Festival. Way to shine Eagles! ✨AGS is proud of you, grateful for Mrs. Netemeyer's direction and all those who support the arts!

✨ Eagles are grateful for the Bledsoe family who has embraced both the Aviston community and school, again donating $2,500 in memory of their son, Nick Bledsoe 🩵 - sharing memories of his hard work ethic, happy personality and love for singing - even in the shower! Nick has to be proud of how his parents, Don and Vickey, and sister Hanna, now pay it forward. ✨

Come grow with us! Aviston Elementary District 21 is currently seeking an amazing person to fulfill the position of Office Systems Secretary. The main focus of the position is to manage the "behind the scenes" programs and data that help our students learn and to provide assistance in the main office. If you have experience in data systems, office procedures, and enjoy working with children and the public, please visit the full job description here: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4622/avistonelem/4145087/Office_Systems_Secretary__1_.pdf

🔭🥼 🔬 Mr. Scheibel and his students have been KEEPING IT REAL with an evening star gazing lab, daytime labs exploring wavelength, amplitude, frequency and reflection of waves, testing acoustics throughout the building - and their latest, designing a catapult to shoot hoops in honor of March Madness! Way to SOAR Eagles, way to SOAR!

Fraction unit➗RTI problem based learning ➕awesome teacher✖️engaged learning 🟰mathematical geniuses❗️ Ms. O’Brien’s 4th graders created a sweet bakery - with their own secret recipes and main selling points. Who knew solving equivalent fractions, finding simplest form, comparing, ordering and multiplying fractions could be so fun❗️

💛🌟⭐️🌼gOoD moRnINg✌️🤗💛from the 〽️🙌 SUNSHINE SQUAD 〽️💛☀️

4•2 Autism Awareness Day ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 ... encouraging Eagles to wear red or rainbow in support of acceptance and inclusion for all! 🌈

Aviston is growing and so is our teaching staff! We are adding a third section of Kindergarten next year and are seeking the best candidate to bring energy and great instruction to our newest classroom! Application information can be found on our employment opportunity page: https://www.avistonk-8.org/page/employment