Mokena School District offers a developmental screening for children ages 3-5 residing in district boundaries. The next screening date is March 4th at Mokena Elementary School. Call 708-342-4850 to schedule your child's screening!
MES Teacher Mr. Steve Hippleheuser was recently recognized by the American Heart Association for his leadership in raising over $550,000 over the 21 years he has led the Kids Heart Challenge at the school. You can learn more about Mr. H's recognition and contributions at
Registration for the Color Run is open! Visit https://bit.ly/PTAColorRun2026 to register today! Also, volunteers are needed for the event. Visit https://bit.ly/ColorRunVolunteers26 to volunteer!
Here are our Week 3 5Essentials Parent Survey completion rates! In order to receive a school report with the results, we need at least a 20% participation rate. Visit https://survey.5-essentials.org/Illinois/ and select the appropriate survey to begin. Please remember to fill a survey out for each school your children attend.
2nd grade students in Ms. Lagunas's class proudly shared their knowledge, posters, and songs about the 50 states with parent and family visitors today! Great work, Stars!
The Mokena Junior High musical production of Annie Jr. is a week away! You can purchase your tickets at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/mokena-jr-high/annie-jr-1942063955#/ .
At the February Board of Education Meeting, the results of the district's efforts to support our country's veterans were presented to the Board and community by two of our teachers, Mrs. Arduino and Ms. Green. We are proud to announce that MES and MJHS raised $3171 towards Honor Flight, which will fund two veterans to embark on a special trip to Washington DC and MIS raised $721 towards the Wounded Warrior Project. Thank you to our students, families, and community for supporting these impactful projects!
We are looking forward to the many PTA sponsored events taking place this spring. Here is a list of events with sign-up QR codes for all of the fun that is to come!
At last night's Board of Education meeting, seven 1st grade students shared each classroom's riddle they wrote after interviewing someone who works in the school. This activity was part of their Social Studies unit "Who Works in Your School?" The riddles included clues about the person's job including skills needed to do the job and information about how the person's job helps the school. Our Board of Education and Adminstrative Team had a lot of fun guessing who each class guest was! Great job to Mila, Connor, Maya, Lily, Logan, Chris, Cole and the first grade teachers!
🦷It is National Children's Dental Health Month! Nurse Therese is visiting all of our 1st graders to teach them about the importance of dental hygiene and seeing the dentist regularly. Students are also receiving a toothbrush and dental health activity pages! 🦷
RSVP to tonight's PUNS presentation hosted by our Student Services Department at https://forms.gle/6wYemGj87deAFFLYA. We hope to see you there!
The Mokena PTA would love your help in celebrating our amazing staff during teacher appreciation week in May! You can donate to help with their plans at https://bit.ly/159Teachers2026 !
3rd grade students in Mrs. Janes' class had some messy fun with their special someone as they made paper mache globes as an extension to their social studies geography unit! Thank you to all of the special someones for coming in to help with this project!
Save the date for the Color Run! We look forward to ending the school year with this awesome event!
MES students created over 700 valentines for local senior citizens as part of our state representiative's Valentine's Day Drive. We hope the cards brought happiness and joy as they were delivered this weekend!
Friendly reminder that there is no school on Monday due to the observance of Presidents' Day.
❤️ Happy Valentine's Day! MES students enjoyed their parties celebrating friendship with fun activities! Thank you to our teachers and parent volunteers for planning a memorable afternoon! ❤️
Here are our Week 2 5Essentials Parent Survey completion rates! We would love to have your feedback! Visit https://survey.5-essentials.org/Illinois/ and select the appropriate survey to begin. Please remember to fill a survey out for each school your children attend.
The good news keeps coming! We are excited to share that Sharon Youngblood, Instructional Coach at MES and MIS, has received the Will County Educators of Excellence Award in the Certified Student Support Staff category! This is a brand new award given by the Will County Regional Office of Education and honors one county educator in each award cateogy! To learn more about the award and Sharon's contributions, visit https://www.mokena159.org/article/2706564.
Save the date for this fun, family event at MES!
