Kindergarten having fun, being creative and loving art class!!
In PE, our 3rd grade students are working on all things basketball 🏀 while getting a great workout in the process. They are practicing multi-step directions, strengthening their hand-eye coordination, building teamwork skills, and most importantly, having FUN while staying active! 💪
In Music, students were engaged in interactive games while learning their music notes 🎶. What a fun and meaningful way to build foundational music skills! It’s always exciting to see learning come alive through movement, rhythm, and play.
One of the best traditions of FFA Week — Drive Your Tractor to School Day. Proud of our students for celebrating agriculture and the strong farming roots that make our community what it is. Great to see the parking lot filled with hard work, responsibility, and Tiger pride! #IBTigerPride
We are proud of our 6–12 IB Tiger Band for a great performance. It was awesome to see all grade levels come together for the final song. Strong work by our students and Mr. Darren Seymour. #IBTigerPride 🐯🎶
📣 Last Call to sign up for the 2026-27 Kindergarteners Round-Up!
Join us at Illini Bluffs Elementary School on Saturday, February 28th, from 9–11 AM for Kindergarten Round-Up!
👉 Click here to see the flyer for more information: https://aptg.co/YRH2f0
📞 Questions? Call the IBES office at 309-389-5025.
Please share this info with families of future kindergarteners. We can’t wait to meet them! 🎉
Join us at Illini Bluffs Elementary School on Saturday, February 28th, from 9–11 AM for Kindergarten Round-Up!
👉 Click here to see the flyer for more information: https://aptg.co/YRH2f0
📞 Questions? Call the IBES office at 309-389-5025.
Please share this info with families of future kindergarteners. We can’t wait to meet them! 🎉
Scholastic Bowl Senior Night! We are proud to recognize our seniors, Carson and Lauren, for their outstanding leadership, dedication, and commitment to our Scholastic Bowl program. Their hard work, teamwork, and positive example have made a lasting impact on their teammates and our school community. Thank you both for everything you’ve given to IB; we are incredibly proud of you! #ibtigerpride
This Week at IB! #ibtigerpride
Next week is National FFA Week, and we will be celebrating at IBHS! Check out the dress up days and events that Ms. Harmon and the high school FFA chapter set up! Great work!
Mrs. Jatkowski had the privilege of presenting to fellow educators at the Illinois Association for Career and Technical Education Annual Conference in Springfield, IL! She shared strategies for integrating science and math into nutrition education while promoting body positivity through the Health at Every Size® framework. Great work, Mrs. Jatkowski!
Back-to-back-to-back Regional Champions! IBHS girls basketball beat Elmwood 48-41 to win the Regional! Congratulations players and coaches! The girls move on to play Havana in the Sectional Semifinal at Bushnell next Tuesday! #ibtigerpride
Congratulations to our IBMS National Junior Honor Society inductees. We are proud of our newest members and our returning NJHS students for their leadership and commitment to excellence. Thank you to Mrs. Dunn and everyone who helped make the ceremony a great success. 🐯 #IBTigerPride
Fifth graders in Mr. Graham's science classes are exploring the properties of matter. Today, they focused on measuring volume in various ways, and had so much fun doing it. They practiced calculating the volume of rectangular prisms using mathematical formulas. Additionally, they learned how to determine the volume of liquids and irregularly shaped solids by using the water displacement method. This hands-on activity helped them understand how different objects occupy space.
3rd grade enjoyed Peoria County Farm Bureau ag in the classroom today, with special bunny visitors!
Congratulations to our terrific tiger winners this week! We are so proud of all of our terrific tigers!
Today at Illini Bluffs Elementary, our Tigers focused on two powerful character traits: Ownership and Responsibility!
We talked about what it means to:
✔️ Own our choices
✔️ Take responsibility for our actions
✔️ Fix mistakes instead of making excuses
✔️ Be leaders in our classrooms, hallways, bus, at home and our community!!
Students participated in engaging discussions and activities that helped them understand these very two important tiger traits! We are so proud of all of our students!
Good luck to Barret Speck as he heads down to the IHSA State Finals for wrestling! Barret's first match is tomorrow at approximately 11:00am. #ibtigerpride
Using handmade clinometers, Mrs. Strantz's and Ms. Matzke's Informal Geometry class applied their knowledge of right triangle trigonometry to indirectly find the height of our school greenhouse. We love to see classroom concepts reaching new heights!
Ms. Harmon's Animal Science class has been learning about different cuts of meat, so today they had to cook and sample some!
Mr. Stremmel's Physics class did a lab today to investigate standing waves by using a slinky! Students enjoyed the hands-on experiment!
As we plan for the 2026-2027 school year, the high school will be hosting Freshman Orientation on March 4th at 6:00 PM in the Illini Bluffs High School theater for current 8th grade students. If you have any questions, please reach out to the high school office or the middle school office.
