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FINE ARTS -
Congratulations Musical participants! Great show!

• LANGUAGE ARTS -
  TEAM 7 READ-IN --Thank You Mayor Gruber and Rada for being our Guest Readers. FASCINATING! Team 7 is planning more READ-IN's for next year.
• ART -
  CONGRATULATIONS Ernie K. - SCHOLASTIC ART AWARD - SILVER KEY AWARD WINNER! The Best Art Project out of over 2,000 regional entries! Itasca District #10 Art Students ALSO received two Honorable Mentions! Congratulations Joanna M. & David Z.  
  
  Fine and Applied Arts Festival PEOPLE'S CHOICE Art Award Winners -
  6th Grade - 1st - Dani D., 2nd - Amand B. 3rd - Elizabeth R.
  7th Grade - 1st - Tim B., 2nd - Brianne F., 3rd - Morgan W-V.
  8th Grade - 1st - Jessica L., 2nd - Julie P., 3rd - Acaisha B.
• ECONOMICS & ART - Congratulations Brian M. - ILLINOIS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION Poster Contest Winner!  Congratulations Enrique V. - High Honorable Mention.
• FAMILY TREES -
  The 29th Annual FAMILY TREE FEST!
  Itasca Dist. #10 SIXTH GRADERS in Mr. Peel's Social Studies Classes once again took on the Genealogy/Itasca History Challenge and created INCREDIBLE Family Tree Albums.
  
  ONE HUNDRED YEAR OLD PHOTOS, IMMIGRATION PAPERS FROM ELLIS ISLAND, BAPTISM AND BIRTH CERTIFICATES, AND REALLY UNIQUE OLD FAMILY PHOTOS. THAT'S HISTORY!
  
  Each year the FamilyTree Fest starts anew, and yet has grown bigger. It outgrew the school's display cases a few years ago and has been invited to Special Engagements during the month of January at the ITASCA COMMUNITY LIBRARY. The FamilyTree Fest is now part of Itasca's Winterfest. It's the largest genealogy display in DuPage County!   Pictures!       More Pictures!

• ECONOMICS -
  Congratulations Stock Market Game Winners!
  #1 Peacock Team - Rachel K., Pat P., & Emily V. - 74.9% Annualized Return ! Top 1% against the High Schools in the State! Over 12,000 Illinois Students played the game.
  Our Teams represent less than 1% of the teams in the game and should win ONCE every ONE HUNDRED Years!
  Yet, Mr. Peel's Social Studies students have won 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in the STATE 18 TIMES IN 20 YEARS!
  Winning Teams       Interdisciplinary!
  
   Stock Market Game.

• COMMUNITY SERVICE -
  SPECIAL THANKS TO ITASCA BANK C.E.O. Mr. Jack Mensching and Senior Bank Officers - Mr. Sam Book, Mr. Al Rogers, Mr. Jim Mensching, Mr. Chuck Threewitt, Mr. Gerald Hansen, Mr. Gary Hoger & Mrs. Barbara Love for teaching Junior Achievement in www.HistoryClassroom.com over the past 18 years. What an example of committment and giving back to the community! Thank You for 18 years of teaching economics in our classroom!   Pics!    More Pics!

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COMMON TIME - Civil War Hard Tack & Donuts!
ECONOMICS/HISTORY EXTENSION EDIBLE PROJECTS
Mr. Peel - An INTERDISCIPLINARY Approach -

Students learn how to research stocks & mutual funds & use their internet search skills (SOCIAL STUDIES - Mr. PEEL) to select a "Buy and Hold Stock", a "Get Rich Quick Stock", and a Mutual Fund (they Dollar Cost Average into the Mutual Fund). Then they use the Excel skills that they learned in Champion MATH Team Coach Ms. KAYE'S class to create elaborate graphs showing Price Movement and Profit (Loss). Students chart their stocks every day and begin work on their History Extension projects. At the end of the term we compare which method of investing worked best. LANGUAGE ARTS research skills learned in Mr. POREMBA'S class are used to investigate a particular aspect of American History that is not covered in the regular Social Studies curriculum. STUDENT PRESENTATIONS include Digital Imaging Skills learned from Ms. SMITH in INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY and special life skills learned from Miss AHN in FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES.The Stock Market Gametm gives students the chance to invest hypothetical dollars in a real-time portfolio. They think they're playing a game. Actually, they're learning economic and financial concepts they'll use for the rest of their lives. OVER 12,000 students play the game in Illinois. Itasca District #10 Seventh Graders in Mr. Peel’s Social Studies Class have placed 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in the state EIGHTEEN times in TWENTY years! Statistically, with just 1% of the students in the game, F.E. Peacock Middle School students should win only once every 100 years.

     Circular Flow Diagram Archive for School Discovery GREEN$TUFF Economics Test.

Student Projects  Archive CONGRATULATIONS Peacock class of 2002 ! You successfully painted the 36 foot by 20 foot World Map with flying colors!(On the blacktop, not your classmates or clothing.) We used the world map in our Olympics Interdisciplinary Unit AND in our first CELEBRATION OF LEARNING! The World Map is much more difficult than the U.S. map that others schools have done. GREAT JOB! WORLD MAP UPDATE :-( The blacktop was resurfaced during the summer. Unfortunately, nobody told us, (we would have suggested seal-coating around the map like other schools have done), and the world (map) has vanished. Fortunately,you can still view your work on this website. Cultural History of the 1990's Cooperative Learning Project Cultural History of the 1990's  Cooperative Learning Project  SCHOOL YEAR HIGHLIGHTS: ·Junior Achievement with five senior officers from the Itasca Bank and Trust Company ·Family trees and Twenty-third Annual Family Tree FestTM and videos ·Lake Park Math Contest The team placed second with David Z. finishing as the top seventh grader. ·Green Stuff Economics ·Stock Market Game Zach F. & Jim B. finished first; Julia N., Julie P., & Heather N. second; and Mike C., Liz H., & Laurie C., third. ·Mr. Peel’s and Ms. Kaye’s websites ·Letters to soldiers and USO contribution ·Volcano eruption TV broadcast ·Simulated country ·Practice tests online ·Power plant project ·West Nile Virus research ·Itasca Historical Society video ·Website evaluation project with the combined efforts of IMSA and Mrs. Bernahl ·Guest readers, including Mayor Gruber and the Itasca librarians ·Science Fair Julia N. and Emily W. won the Golden Test Tube. ·Career Fair and thank you letters ·Edible projects ·Holiday projects for the Arbor ·Healthy Heart/Smart Heart ·Filmed Spanish skits ·Memorial to Casualties of War in Iraq ·Haiku presentation by published writer and poet ·Holocaust pennies ·Asian Calendars ·Mathematicians projects ·Spreadsheets and graphs ·Writing contests Joanna M. won a prize in the VFW Essay Contest. ·Mineral reports ·Mythology ·Geometric solids ·Origami ·Santa Clause Delivery Project & Video ·Panagaea maps ·YWCA Harassment Prevention Program ShowYourClass (Page 1)