2008 State Assessments Results
ISAT Reading results show that D62 fifth and eighth grade student performance mirrored State results. Learn more...
The students at Terrace Spring Concert with Ms. Mary Wuestenfeld, Music/Drama Teacher.
Des Plaines Gallery 62
Our own Terrace 4th Grader Alexis Badami’s artwork was chosen to be the newest addition to the Des Plaines Gallery 62 Exhibit. Her artwork will be on display at the Administrative Building for two years, then which it will return to Terrace until she graduates in 8th Grade. Alexis attended the March 15th Board Meeting where her artwork was unveiled and presented to the Des Plaines School Board members. Alexis did an excellent rendition of a Chinese brush painting Panda sitting on bamboo. She even learned the Chinese characters for bamboo and panda. Congratulations to Alexis for her beautiful piece of artwork!
District 62 Schools Listed to 2009 Illinois Honor Roll
As students and teachers prepare to take the 2010 Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT), two District 62 schools received news from the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) that they made the Illinois Honor Roll for continued academic progress.
“We are very proud of the students and staff of our 2009 Illinois Honor Roll schools,” announced Dr. Jane L. Westerhold, Superintendent of Schools. “We celebrate their success and share this accomplishment with our students, parents and community partners.”
Plainfield Elementary School received a Spotlight Schools Award. Spotlight Schools Award winners are high poverty schools where high academic performance is closing the "achievement gap." Located throughout the state in urban, suburban, and rural locations, 425 Spotlight Schools earned honors in this year. They exhibit achievements that are contrary to the conventional wisdom that test scores will reflect demographics despite local efforts.
At least half the students are from low-income families in 2009.
At least 60 percent of students must have met or exceeded standards in both reading and mathematics in 2009.
At least 50 percent of students met or exceeded standards in both reading and mathematics in the two previous years; 2008 and 2007.
Schools must have made Adequate Yearly Progress in the two previous years as required by No Child Left Behind.
Terrace Elementary School earned an Academic Excellence School Award. Academic Excellence Awards recognize 438 schools that have sustained very high academic performance over the past three years. Some of these schools often receive national recognitions placing them among the nation's most outstanding. The number of Academic Excellence awards more than doubled since 2007. Research is not yet available to explain this dramatic increase, especially in middle schools.
In these elementary schools, at least 90% of students met or exceeded state standards both in reading and in mathematics for at least 3 consecutive years. All Academic Excellence schools achieved Adequate Yearly Progress for the past two years.
ArborDay
National Arbor Day was celebrated across the country on Friday, April 30, 2010. The City of Des Plaines will mark the occasion with a tree planting ceremony at 9:30 AM, Friday, April 30, 2010, at Terrace Elementary School, 735 S. Westgate Road. Mayor Martin J. Moylan will read the City’s Arbor Day proclamation to students and other ceremony attendees before planting a tree on school grounds. Lurvey’s Garden Center of Des Plaines has generously agreed to donate the tree for this year’s ceremony.
Arbor Day serves as an opportunity to plant trees on reflect on their value. Trees reduce erosion, cut heating and cooling costs, moderate the temperature, clean the air, produce oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife. According to the USDA Forest Service, healthy, mature trees add an average of 10 percent to a property's value. And The Arbor Day Foundation states, "Trees can be a stimulus to economic development, attracting new business and tourism. Commercial retail areas are more attractive to shoppers, apartments rent more quickly, tenants stay longer, and space in a wooded setting is more valuable to sell or rent.”
For twenty-two years, Des Plaines has been recognized as a Tree City. To qualify for annual Tree City designation, Des Plaines must meet standards established by The Arbor Day Foundation and the National Association of State Foresters. These standards ensure that every qualifying community has a viable tree management plan and program.
The students at Terrace with their holiday music performance with Ms. Mary Wuestenfeld, Music/Drama Teacher.
Terrace Students Come to America
The sounds of the ocean, a view of the Statue of Liberty, a promise of a new land, and a bevy of stations awaited Terrace fifth graders as they took a simulated journey to Ellis Island. The simulation, which included eight stations, was organized by Jennifer Sharko and several Terrace teachers. Parent volunteers also manned many of the stations. As students boarded the “ship,” they found out whether they were on the upper deck (the stage) or in the hold. Once they landed in America, costumed students carrying their luggage waited in line to have their passports and health checked. A few experienced the frustration and anxiety of being held while their papers were checked or being sent to the back of a line for insufficient information. Several were greeted by officials, but could not speak the “language".
Kimberly Roth's First Graders Welcome Mystery Readers Friday afternoon Mystery Reader is a new program this year for the first grade classes at Terrace School in Des Plaines. The program is designed to promote literacy by inviting working professionals, community leaders, and parents to visit the classes and read a story to the children. The readers supply four clues about their profession early in the week and the children try to guess who is coming to read.
Terrace Elementary School
Make Up Day
A make up day is scheduled as a student attendance day to replace inclement weather day that may be called during the school year. At this time, the last day of school is Wednesday, June 08, 2011
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