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Parent Night
6:30 PM - Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Solar Energy for a Better Tomorrow - students worked on alternative energy lessons
Mrs. Melissa Levy's 7th grade ELL students learned about forms of energy and studied solar energy in great detail. We were able to build solar houses, solar cars and solar ovens. We even used our solar ovens to bake nachos! Students learned how photovolic cells generate electricity using energy from the sun. We were also able to fund a field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry to visit the “Smart Home” and have a private tour of one of the greenest homes in North America.
The grant was “Solar Energy for a Better Tomorrow” and was funded by Johnson Controls through the D62 foundation.
Chippewa Middle School Inducts NJHS Members
Chippewa Middle School proudly recognized the 2010 National Junior Honor Society Members at a Ceremony, Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at the Middle Schools. Requisites for membership include scholarship, character, leadership, service and citizenship.
Congratulations to Rachel Andersen, Sadie Argus, Joanna Cholewa, Aaron Cunanan, Emily Eby, Melissa English, Eric Etzwiler, Kira Fortin, Gerogina Genovese, Nichole Goumas, Gabriella Griffith, Natalie Grimaldi, Bailey Guenther, Clare Hansen, Kyla Harper, Kyle Harrison-Eklof, Abigail Herling, Matthew Hoferitza, Ania Holubecki, Jessica Horcher, Nicholas Jew, Meghan Johnson, Teena Joseph, Elizabeth Karras, Nicholas Klingenberg, Natalie Kozenczak, Keith Kravis, Caitlin Langan, Amber Larbi, Barbara Leane, Joanna Majkut, Soula Manokas, Karolina Marczewski, Debora Negru, Susana Feliciano Ortiz, Atra Oshana, Mariana Oshana, Karen Pablo, Olivia Pascente, James Payne, Lindsey Pegorara, Presley Racine, Josephine Randazzo, Kassidy Riportella, Kelley Rochau, Erin Ross, Geoff Razo, Megan Sanks, Lauren Scheuneman, Annie Sorejian, Nicholas Spizzirri, Manoj Sunny, Shahroz Syed, Bart Szewczyk, Natasha Tsinonis, Taylor Tsinonis, Tanja Vukasin, Anna Wilieko, Sara Wolk and Syeda Zaidi.
Maine East Scholastic Challenge
On Saturday, April 24th, Nicholas Jew, Nick Klingenberg, Manoj Sunny, Keith Kravis, Aaron Cunanan, and Eric Etzweiler, competed in the Maine East Scholastic Bowl. In this tournament, matches were played against other schools with questions from the following categories: Math, Science, Literature, History and Fine Arts. We are very proud to announce that they took first place and brought back a trophy. Way to go boys!! Thank you for giving up your Saturday morning and for doing such a fine job representing Chippewa.
Chippewa Middle School students and NURTURE are cooking up fun!
April 13th marked the first of six cooking classes offered by Nurture, a non-for-profit group dedicated to empowering family members of all ages (children, teens and adults) with the tools and resources needed to prepare healthy and delicious meals, even when faced with limited time and budget. On our first class, we headed to Morroco/West Africa. Students had a great time preparing and sampling Cinnamon Apricot Couscous and a West African Millet Breakfast Bowl. Each week we will focus on food from a different culture. The final class will be a family banquet on Wednesday, May 19th.
Applied Science 8th grade classes. Students are working on their Design Loop
Process projects as well as their step stools.
Science Olympiad is a national organization, which helps to promote science. Our students will competed in a regional competition on March 6th at Rock Valley College. The team completed in twelve different events from Wright Stuff (where students actually build a propeller plane) to Disease Detectives (where student focus on public health problems). There were five first place finishes: Rachel A. and Jazmine S. in Anatomy, Kevin M. and Nick J. in Disease Detectives, Rachel A. and Nick K. in Road Scholar, Nick J. and Natalie K. in Meterology, and Natalie K., Nick K., Rachel A. and Sara W. in Pentahlon. Sara W. and Phillip V. received a second place medal for Write It/Do It. The two third place finishes were earned by Natalie K. and Nick K. in Ornithology and Sara W. and Nick K. in Shock Value. John M. and Brad M. also completed in the regional contest. Congratulations to the students for all their hard work.
Congratulations to the District 62 “You Be the Chemist” team who competed at the state Chem Challenge. Ian Mann, Algonquin Middle School, finished third place. Haripriya Mehta, Iroquois Community School, earned a second place finish. If the first place winner is unable to participate at the national “You Be the Chemist” Challenge, Mehta will represent the State of Illinois. Other District 62 competitors included Adeel Afshar, Algonquin Middle School, and Aaron Cunanan, Chippewa Middle School.
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Twenty-four students from throughout the Des Plaines area proved that they are “chemists in the making” when they participated in the sixth annual competition that tests their knowledge in chemistry concepts, discoveries, and chemical safety awareness tips. The “You Be the Chemist Challenge” is an annual event sponsored by UOP of Des Plaines and organized nationally by the Chemical Education Foundation to challenge youngsters’ scientific knowledge in the spirit of competition. The academic competition created by the Chemical Educational Foundation (CEF) is a question and answer event that is open to fifth through eighth graders nationwide. Participants included students from Algonquin Middle School, Chippewa Middle School, Friendship Junior High, Gemini Junior High, Grove Junior High, Iroquois Community School, and Lincoln Junior High. When it was over, a “first” had occurred- all qualifiers, including the alternate, were District 62 students.
Ian Mann, an 8th grade student from Algonquin Middle School, was crowned the local You Be the Chemist Champion this year. Other winners were Aaron Cunanan, an 8th grade student from Chippewa Middle School, who placed second, and Haripriya Mehta, last year’s regional winner and second place state finisher, from Iroquois Community School. Mehta placed third. Reahman Atta Afshar, an eighth grade Algonquin student, will serve as the alternate. Each of the students qualified to compete in the State You Be The Chemist Challenge to be held on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at Prairie Lakes in Des Plaines.
All contestants at the State Challenge will be competing for a free trip for themselves and a parent to compete in the You Be The Chemist National Challenge to be held in Philadelphia. At the National Challenge first, second, and third place winners receive educational savings bonds.
A smorgasbord of sight, sound, and music was offered at the Chippewa Middle School’s 8th Annual Poetry Café. Sixth grade teachers Rochelle Carman and David Becker and their students recited original and authored poetry. Many of the readings were accompanied by student musicians.
It’s Science.
Recently, Maine East High School students demonstrated chemistry experiments with Helga Liller’s eighth grade science class. One of the experiments was the construction of “silly putty.”
6th grade science students dissecting owl pellets and discovering vole bones. Mrs. Levy's class just finished the ecology unit and had been discussing food chains and webs. This was Team Liberty's culminating exploratory activity. They had a blast being junior scientists and they learned quite a bit along their journey.
Ms. Liller's 8th grade science class studying the assembly of a skeleton!
Chippewa School - Teamwork website - Authors: Susan Dixon, Phil Graver, Casey Halverson, Jennifer Pufpaf, and Wendy Spyrison
Mrs. Carmen sponsored first Chippewa Bucket Band concert
The Chippewa Middle School Bucket Band performed their first concert of the year in the cafeteria. The 18-person drum corps performed 3 small group pieces and 2 whole-band songs. Humor and rhythm was appreciated by all.
One Night-So Many Cultures The night began with Chippewa Middle School sixth grade students welcoming their families in sixteen different languages, but it ended with families and students learning facts about countries from around the globe. Before students manned their exhibits, several students reported on international festivals and holidays. A packed house of parents visited each of the 200+ exhibits. In preparation, students researched and prepared storyboards with facts, maps, and other information about their native countries or countries that they would like to visit. Several classrooms were filled with the sights, sounds, and food from those countries. Some students even dressed in ethnic clothing.
Modeling the B’s
Team Liberty sixth graders learned about hypotheses and predictions, comparing/contrasting, and measuring volume using graduated cylinders in a recent science lab. They modeled the three B’s of hypothesis during this experiment while experiencing a great time. Way to go sixth graders.
Chippewa Principal Announced
DES PLAINES, IL (Tuesday, November 17, 2009)- The Des Plaines School District 62 Board of Education appointed Cumberland Elementary School Principal Leah Kimmelman to the Chippewa Middle School principalship, effective July 1, 2010.
Kimmelman has served as principal of the preschool through fifth grade elementary school since 2005. She began her teaching career as a seventh grade teacher at Jack London Middle School in Wheeling. Prior to coming to District 62, she was an assistant principal at Hawthorn Elementary School in Vernon Hills and taught sixth grade Language Arts at Maple School in Northbrook.
As an educational leader of a diverse student population comprised of eleven regular education and eleven self-contained special education classrooms, Kimmelman introduced, implemented, and lead school-wide participation in the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) network. She collaborates with staff using student achievement data as a standard of professional teaching practices and decision-making. Kimmelman supervises and evaluates approximately 40 certified and 50 classified staff members. In addition to guiding the teaching and learning of 311 students, she oversees student discipline, coordinates community relations efforts, manages state and local standardized tests, facilitates parent communications, and maintains fiscal responsibility.
Kimmelman contributes to district-level improvement efforts by participating on the parent/student handbook, board of education policy alignment, teacher recruitment, professional development, student safety, and architectural committees and activities. She is the District 62 principal representative to the Midwest Principal’s Center.
Kimmelman earned a bachelor’s degree in Education from the University of Kansas. She holds master’s degrees in Educational Leadership and Curriculum from Northeastern Illinois University and North Park University, respectively. Kimmelman will earn a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership/Superintendent from Argosy University in May 2010.
Kimmelman resides in Northbrook, IL.
Des Plaines School District 62 educates more than 4,700 students in eleven schools and employs more than 770 employees.
After reading about the Great Chicago Fire, Chippewa sixth graders met the “Great Fire Lady,” who brought the story to life. Rochelle Carman, Chippewa Language Arts Teacher, played the Fire Lady role.
Seventh grade students work to develop a vehicle that uses only human bodies.
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