D52 Families: If your child enjoyed the LGS Family Science night, you should check out our Summer STEM Camp. You can view more information and register for the camp through the attached flyer. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to our camp Director, Lynn Isbell (d52lisbe@d52schools.com).
Great things are happening in our WMS math classrooms! These students are using the Building Thinking Classrooms approach, working at vertical whiteboards to collaborate, problem solve, and make their thinking visible.
D52 Families: We’d love your voice in this year’s Illinois 5Essentials Survey! This survey gives us meaningful feedback about what’s working well and where we can continue growing in our schools. Your input truly helps guide our improvement efforts.
To receive a Parent Report from the state, we need at least 20% participation from each building. Right now, we’re at 5% for LGS and 3% for WMS.
The survey only takes about 10–15 minutes, and your feedback makes a real difference.
Take the Parent Survey here: https://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois - Select the Parent Survey to begin.
Want to learn more about the Illinois 5Essentials Survey or view reports from previous years? Visit:https://www.5-essentials.org/illinois
Thank you for partnering with us and helping D52 continue to grow and improve!
The LGS gym was electric tonight! ⚡ Thank you to everyone who joined us for Family Science Night. We’re also incredibly grateful to our PTC for helping fund this fun and engaging event! #StormScience
February 2026 Lunch Menus for Lincoln Grade and Washington Middle School.
Best way to start the day! The LGS and WMS Kindness Squads were joined by the WCHS Girls Basketball Team to welcome students at both buildings this morning. Smiles, positivity, and Panther pride everywhere! 💛🖤🐾
100th Day of School fun at LGS!
Big voices, tiny humans, and so much heart! Our kindergarten musicians shined tonight—thank you, Mrs. Maston, for making the magic happen!
Due to the forecasted extreme cold temperatures, District 52 Schools will be closed tomorrow, Friday, January 23rd. This day will be a Connected Learning day for our students.
January 2026 Lincoln Grade School and Washington Middle School lunch menus.
Merry Christmas from the D52 Admin Team!
Our LGS Kindness Squad took their mission out into the community yesterday! Students visited City Hall to decorate a holiday tree for the town of Washington, sharing smiles and kindness with our whole community.
Our kindergarten students wrapped up their CKLA unit on plants today with a very special visitor!
Back in October, during their field trip to Rader Farms, students had the chance to meet Grandma Bee, a favorite character at the farm who helps teach kids all about bees, pollination, and the importance of plants in our world.
Today, Grandma Bee returned to Lincoln Grade School to read her book, The Search for Bella Honeybee, as a culminating activity for the unit. The students loved hearing the story come to life and making connections to everything they’ve learned about how plants grow and how bees help them thrive.
A huge thank-you to Grandma Bee for bringing such joy, curiosity, and buzz to our kindergarteners’ learning!
Back in October, during their field trip to Rader Farms, students had the chance to meet Grandma Bee, a favorite character at the farm who helps teach kids all about bees, pollination, and the importance of plants in our world.
Today, Grandma Bee returned to Lincoln Grade School to read her book, The Search for Bella Honeybee, as a culminating activity for the unit. The students loved hearing the story come to life and making connections to everything they’ve learned about how plants grow and how bees help them thrive.
A huge thank-you to Grandma Bee for bringing such joy, curiosity, and buzz to our kindergarteners’ learning!
District #52 Families: This is a reminder that TODAY, Tuesday, December 2 is Giving Tuesday, and we have a unique opportunity for you to help sponsor D52 students in attending our Camp Invention STEM camp next summer.
Camp Invention is a weeklong STEM program that introduces our K-6 students to the joy of hands-on invention and helps them develop an innovative mindset with confidence, creativity, and collaboration skills. Camp Invention is $285 per student, and last year, we were able to sponsor five students through your Giving Tuesday donations and the matching from the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
This year, on December 2 (Giving Tuesday), the National Inventors Hall of Fame will again match every local dollar given nationwide. Last year, they matched up to $35,000, and this year, they have said the matched amount will be even higher. Every donation received on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, will be matched 1:1 until national matching funds are expended.
If you are interested in donating to help provide a scholarship to the STEM camp for a D52 student, you can do so by visiting the CrowdFunding link below.
Thank you for your continuous support of our students. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our Camp Invention director, Lynn Isbell (d52lisbe@d52schools.com).
give.classy.org/IL141439626
Camp Invention is a weeklong STEM program that introduces our K-6 students to the joy of hands-on invention and helps them develop an innovative mindset with confidence, creativity, and collaboration skills. Camp Invention is $285 per student, and last year, we were able to sponsor five students through your Giving Tuesday donations and the matching from the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
This year, on December 2 (Giving Tuesday), the National Inventors Hall of Fame will again match every local dollar given nationwide. Last year, they matched up to $35,000, and this year, they have said the matched amount will be even higher. Every donation received on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, will be matched 1:1 until national matching funds are expended.
If you are interested in donating to help provide a scholarship to the STEM camp for a D52 student, you can do so by visiting the CrowdFunding link below.
Thank you for your continuous support of our students. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our Camp Invention director, Lynn Isbell (d52lisbe@d52schools.com).
give.classy.org/IL141439626
District #52 Families:
Tuesday, December 2 is known as Giving Tuesday, and we have a unique opportunity for you to help sponsor D52 students in attending our Camp Invention STEM camp next summer. Last year, we had 100 students attend our second annual STEM camp at District 52. Camp Invention is a weeklong STEM program that introduces our current K-5 students to the joy of hands-on
invention and helps them develop an innovative mindset with confidence, creativity, and collaboration skills.
Camp Invention is $285 per student, and last year, the Camp Invention organization provided two sponsorships for D52 students to attend, and we were also able to sponsor 5 additional students through Giving Tuesday sponsorships.
This year, on December 2 (Giving Tuesday), the National Inventors Hall of Fame will again match every local dollar given nationwide. Last year, they matched up to $35,000, and this year, they have said the matched amount will be even higher. Every donation received on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, will be matched 1:1 until national matching funds are expended.
If you are interested in donating to help provide a scholarship to the STEM camp for a D52 student, we will be sharing the CrowdFunding link on Tuesday, December 2.
We are also attaching the STEM Camp flyer in case you want to get your child signed up as there is a $30 discount until 12/31.
Thank you for your continuous support of our students. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our Camp Invention director, Lynn Isbell (d52lisbe@d52schools.com).
Tuesday, December 2 is known as Giving Tuesday, and we have a unique opportunity for you to help sponsor D52 students in attending our Camp Invention STEM camp next summer. Last year, we had 100 students attend our second annual STEM camp at District 52. Camp Invention is a weeklong STEM program that introduces our current K-5 students to the joy of hands-on
invention and helps them develop an innovative mindset with confidence, creativity, and collaboration skills.
Camp Invention is $285 per student, and last year, the Camp Invention organization provided two sponsorships for D52 students to attend, and we were also able to sponsor 5 additional students through Giving Tuesday sponsorships.
This year, on December 2 (Giving Tuesday), the National Inventors Hall of Fame will again match every local dollar given nationwide. Last year, they matched up to $35,000, and this year, they have said the matched amount will be even higher. Every donation received on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, will be matched 1:1 until national matching funds are expended.
If you are interested in donating to help provide a scholarship to the STEM camp for a D52 student, we will be sharing the CrowdFunding link on Tuesday, December 2.
We are also attaching the STEM Camp flyer in case you want to get your child signed up as there is a $30 discount until 12/31.
Thank you for your continuous support of our students. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our Camp Invention director, Lynn Isbell (d52lisbe@d52schools.com).
December 2025 Lunch Menus for WMS and LGS. Happy Holidays from the Lunch/Recess Staff.
First graders at LGS took learning out of this world this week as they celebrated the end of their Astronomy unit in the CKLA (Core Knowledge Language Arts) program. To wrap up the unit and bring key concepts to life, teachers Jessica Wentz, Nicole Rice, Ali Beachy, and Alayna Lopez organized a hands-on Astronaut Day, giving students the chance to rotate through interactive space-themed stations.
One of the most popular stops was Astronaut Training, where students discovered that becoming an astronaut requires focus, strength, and plenty of practice. They crawled through tunnels to simulate the tight spaces astronauts navigate, completed balance checks to understand how the lack of gravity affects movement, and jogged in place for one minute, mirroring the hours astronauts spend running on treadmills in space. Students also tried constellation navigation, spotting star patterns projected on the ceiling, and took part in the ice water challenge, dipping their hands into cold water to experience the temperature conditioning astronauts endure. The station wrapped up with a taste test of freeze-dried fruit, just like the special food astronauts enjoy during missions.
Another highlight of the day was the Make Your Own Rocket station. Students designed and built their own rockets and then launched them, applying the vocabulary word launch in the most exciting way possible.
Additional stations enriched the experience even further. Students played Space Vocabulary Bingo to reinforce key terms from the unit and worked with space tangrams, building astronaut- and space-themed shapes that challenged their spatial reasoning and creativity.
Throughout the unit, students also created astronaut art, designed their own planets, and made moon dials, which were all projects that helped deepen their understanding of space while tapping into their creativity.
Astronaut Day was the perfect finale to a unit filled with wonder, discovery, and hands-on learning. Our first graders truly reached for the stars!
One of the most popular stops was Astronaut Training, where students discovered that becoming an astronaut requires focus, strength, and plenty of practice. They crawled through tunnels to simulate the tight spaces astronauts navigate, completed balance checks to understand how the lack of gravity affects movement, and jogged in place for one minute, mirroring the hours astronauts spend running on treadmills in space. Students also tried constellation navigation, spotting star patterns projected on the ceiling, and took part in the ice water challenge, dipping their hands into cold water to experience the temperature conditioning astronauts endure. The station wrapped up with a taste test of freeze-dried fruit, just like the special food astronauts enjoy during missions.
Another highlight of the day was the Make Your Own Rocket station. Students designed and built their own rockets and then launched them, applying the vocabulary word launch in the most exciting way possible.
Additional stations enriched the experience even further. Students played Space Vocabulary Bingo to reinforce key terms from the unit and worked with space tangrams, building astronaut- and space-themed shapes that challenged their spatial reasoning and creativity.
Throughout the unit, students also created astronaut art, designed their own planets, and made moon dials, which were all projects that helped deepen their understanding of space while tapping into their creativity.
Astronaut Day was the perfect finale to a unit filled with wonder, discovery, and hands-on learning. Our first graders truly reached for the stars!
MENU CHANGE FOR THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20TH, 2025. LGS will be serving chicken sandwich instead of turkey shaped pretzel w/cheese.
4th Graders took all of our food drive items from last week and delivered them to Midwest Food Bank today. Together students packed over 10,000 tender mercies! Each tender mercy is about 4 servings. Students also packed a total of 550 disaster relief boxes!
November 15th marks the official statewide observance of School Board Members Day in Illinois. Each year, this day is an opportunity to show support for our board of education and the individual school board members who are committed to providing a local voice for your educational decisions. School board members are volunteers serving as advocates striving for quality education opportunities for every student. Our board members act as front-line advocates providing a local voice for the community, a vision for the district, and a pathway to success for our students. The men and women serving WGSD #52 are President Maggie Mose, Vice President Whitney Klinke, Secretary Katie Heinold and Board Members Andrew Kistner, John Mitchell, Abby Novak, and Shelby Yocum. Thank you for all you do!
