In February, the Mattoon Middle School Scholastic Bowl team competed in the Crestwood Classic tournament hosted by Paris Crestwood. The Wildcats were victorious throughout the entire pool play portion of the tournament by posting wins against teams from Chrisman, Crestwood, and Shiloh. By doing so, MMS was able to earn the tournament Runner-Up Championship! Congrats to the team!
MMS is asking for parents and guardians to take the 2023 Illinois 5 Essentials survey.
Please take the survey with the link below:
bit.ly/mms5essentials
Thank you!
6 MMS wrestlers are state bound with Coach Fryman and Coach Edwards!
Four 1st 🥇 🥇 🥇 🥇 place!!!!
One 2nd 🥈 place!
One 3rd 🥉 place!
1st place:
70 Creed Cole
75 Jaxtyn Howell
85 Memphys Howell
215 Mitchell Clapp
2nd place:
275 London Miller
3rd place
126 Brody Goonan
Congrats to all of our kids!
Congratulations to the MMS 8th grade volleyball team for an amazing season and congratulations to Coach V and the family on an adorable addition to your family!🍼
Congratulations to the MMS 7th grade volleyball team on a great season!
Diapers to Diplomas! MHS Senior Jason Skocy holds one of LIFT's littlest leaders, illustrating just how lucky we are to serve families and kiddos as they grow into the incredible young adults they are meant to be!
Check out this photo from when the MMS 8th grade boys Basketball team defeated rival and 2nd seed Charleston in the 2nd round of regional play 38 to 35 on February 1st. Mattoon lost in the regional championship at Mt. Zion against the No. 1 seed from Rochester.
Students in MMS Mass Media, STEAM Club, and Mattoon Innovation Team (MIT) have been working with our Instructional Technology Coach, Claire Vogel and Media Specialist, Ingrid Minger on increasing Computer Science and Computational Thinking in a variety of ways over the past few months. Based on student interest, teams have been collaborating to code a light display at the MMS Winter Wonderland event, fly drones to capture and produce media, and explore robotics with Sphero RVRs, MicroBits, and VEX robots.
Through a partnership with EIU, Mattoon Middle School was selected to be a Pathways to the Future Pilot Program to receive a grant to purchase new technology to support our students' learning. We are very excited to see what the future holds with these technology learning opportunities!
#CoachingBrightSpots
Congrats to the 7th grade Volleyball team!
All MMS practices/open gyms are cancelled for Wednesday, January 25th. The building is closed. Please focus on e-Learning tasks and be safe.
All events for Thursday, Jan 26th will continue as scheduled at this time.
The MMS Student Lighthouse Committee would like to invite members of the community to visit their school and take a guided tour to see all of the great things happening! Tours will be offered on February 1st, March 1st, and May 3rd and each will last approximately thirty minutes.
To participate, please call the Mattoon Middle School at 217-238-5800, and leave your name and contact information (phone number and/or email address) with a secretary. A student will call you back to schedule your tour date and time. The students even created this digital invitation, so please help them share it out!
Congratulations to the 8 Gold Champion Winners from last month at MMS- Daniel Rucker and Arely Gonzalez. We are so proud of you both!
A reminder that Mattoon CUSD #2 will be closed tomorrow in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Some of the MMS Mass Media students were recently able to visit Downtown Design Studio in Tuscola to learn about all things embroidery! The visit will help them prepare to begin utilizing the embroidery machine in the Media Center.
Kelley at Downtown Design took an afternoon to teach Zion, Cora, Mrs. Minger & Mrs. Vogel how to design files with software programming for students to be able to create projects utilizing textiles in the Maker Space.
These community partnerships allow us to expand learning opportunities in our area.
MMS volleyball score update from the Tolono matches on 1/9/23.
Congrats MMS Volleyball! They won the season opener vs Shiloh
7th wins in 3:
26-24
11-25
15-13
8th wins in 2:
25-20
25-20
The MMS Basketball Academy is offering Boys Basketball Open Gym opportunities for MMS students in grades 6-8, starting this month and in February. The Open Gyms are scheduled on Saturday’s from 2:00pm - 5:00pm Please see the link below for additional details
bit.ly/mms-basketball-academy
If you have any questions, please reach out to Jamie Sharp at jamiesharp@mcusd2.com.
Today we want to welcome our students back to school! Wishing you a wonderful day and an amazing semester.
Today we welcome teachers back and tomorrow students return from break to begin a new semester!
Army Veteran, author, and Mattoon native, Jarrod Taylor, was a guest speaker at Mattoon Middle School on December 19th. 7th grade students had the opportunity to learn about Mr. Taylor's military service to our country and what life was like for him growing up in Mattoon. Mr. Taylor currently lives in Kentucky with his family and is an Educator. Thank you Mr. Taylor for coming to speak!
