Flanagan-Cornell Unit 74

Mrs. Kaeb's 8th grade Ag class has been learning where their food comes from and how it's made. This week they made butter in a jar. They had different varieties that included honey, garlic, and cinnamon sugar that they enjoyed with crackers. Today they made homemade ice cream in a bag. They enjoyed this with a variety of toppings!

🧡🖤 Another AMAZING PRIDE House Game Friday! 🧡🖤
Today’s challenge: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Cone! 🧠👂🦵🛑
Our Falcons showed up ready to compete and brought ALL the energy! 🦅✨

🏆 Top Houses:
🧡 Iron Will – 70 points with three speedy 3rd-grade finishers!
🖤 Compassionate Guardians – 80 points with two lightning-fast 8th-grade finishers!

Big shoutout to Miss Kegg and Mrs. Burton for cheering their teams to victory! 📣🔥

🎖️ Final Standings:
5️⃣ Kolton
4️⃣ Sadie
3️⃣ Rie
2️⃣ Bryer
1️⃣ Cade – 🏆 Champion!

Way to go, Falcons! 🦅💥
What an awesome way to kick off a Falcon Friday!
Falcon Pride! 🧡🖤

Rt 17 Classic Varsity Boys Basketball game has been cancelled today.

It has been a busy two weeks in Mrs. Kaeb’s agriculture classes! Plant and Crop Science: Students wrapped up their plant anatomy unit by dissecting flowers and identifying each part. They have now moved into monocots and dicots, where they observed plant stems under microscopes to compare the arrangement of vascular bundles. Intro to Agriculture – Dairy Unit: Students sampled 18 different cheeses while learning about the characteristics, processing, and components that makes cheese unique. Dual Credit Animal Science: This class has been hard at work studying nutrition, digestion, and feed rations. Students examined various feed components, comparing crude protein levels and dry matter content. They then applied their knowledge by building their own “feed” mixtures using the Pearson Square method to determine how much of each ingredient was needed to reach a desired protein level.

PM PreK enjoying pumpkin pie in a cup

Ms. Decker's PM PreK enjoying pumpkin pie in a cup.

Ms. Decker's AM PreK enjoying pumpkin pie in a cup.

Ms. Decker’s AM PreK making and eating pumpkin pie in a cup.

The dual credit Success Education students are looking their best for their 30 Second commercials/elevator pitches!

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Giving Tree is all set up outside of the East Gym! Email Mrs. Chipman at jchipman@fc74.org with tags that you take off of the tree OR to get a tag(s) if you won't be coming to the school. We appreciate your help in ensuring all of our students have a happy holiday!

Celebrating the 67th day of school the only way we know how…
6… 7… 😎✨
Our teachers even pulled off an underground dress-up day to join the 6/7 craze — and they did NOT disappoint!

The Fourth Graders were treated to a guest speaker! Jeremy Duffy, the Deputy Executive Director of the IASB came to share his travel adventures with us. We studied the 7 continents and 5 oceans and Jeremy has been to ALL 7 continents and over 70 countries! We had world cookies and ocean punch too. We enjoyed seeing all of the amazing pictures and locating the places on our map! (Mrs. Harms dressed as Cleopatra since his recent adventure was to Egypt) Thank you, Jeremy! 🌎

Congratulations to Flanagan-Cornell High School on achieving Exemplary Status on our Illinois School Report Card! A special thank you to our Flanagan and Cornell communities, teachers, staff and students for their hard work and determination!

In Illinois, an exemplary report card designation indicates that a school is in the top 10% of all schools, demonstrating high academic performance and no underperforming student groups.

Criteria for Exemplary Status: Schools must meet specific performance indicators to achieve an exemplary designation. This includes having no underperforming student groups that fall below the "all students" group of the lowest-performing schools in the state. Essentially, this means that all student demographics are performing well above the state averages.

Congrats, Kaylee!

This Saturday is the FC FFA Christmas Vendor and Craft fair from 9am-1pm! This year we are having a hot chocolate bar! Come get a hot chocolate on us and shop! We have so many amazing vendors along with some of our own students! Hope to see you there!

Flanagan Cornell District #74 has a Paraprofessional opening at the Grade School. If interested please email cover letter and resume to byoder@fc74.org

Start date for this position is Monday, January 5th, 2026.

Tonight is the Orange and Black Scrimmage! Come see our winter teams be introduced! **Please note the 5th/6th grade scrimmage will start around 5:15 pm!