A beautiful summery day made the day even more fun during our McPherson Spring garden clean up! Big thank you to the garden committee, Kohls volunteers, McPherson staff, parents and our students!

FOM recently provided the school with Gator balls for P.E. classes and the kids had a blast getting into them!

It’s that time of year again where people are glued to their television sets and watching the NCAA’s best battle it out in the March Madness tournament!

We are thrilled to welcome our new sponsor, Cindi Sodolski with Compass Realty!

It’s that time of year again where Chicagoans need a reason to care about the Super Bowl! What better way than supporting our school by purchasing a few Super Bowl Squares! Click here to grab your squares!

We are beyond thrilled to announce our partnership with Amundsen Strings!

We are so excited to announce that the ukuleles that we fund-raised for have arrived and are in the student’s hands!

We are asking for our community’s help to support our wonderful school and teachers by clearing a classroom list! Click here to help support them and give them a jump start in the new year!

We are happy to be the sponsors for our upcoming Math Night on March 10th from 5pm-7pm!

Happy Holidays to our wonderful teachers and staff! We treated them all to a delicious lunch to thank them for all that they do!

THANK YOU SO MUCH to our wonderful parent (and student!) volunteers this morning who got all of our brand new picnic tables and buddy bench assembled!

We still have chocolate and caramel dipped pretzel rods from our Affy Tapple sale so stop by the office and grab a box for the holidays!

Our Garden Committee planted the last of the spring bulbs today!

FOM is a proud sponsor of last year’s art in residence program- Go Get Your Smock!

FOM recently worked with our incredible math coach, Ms. Worthington, to order flip charts for each grade level from Kinder all the way through algebra levels with grade appropriate math skills.

Friends of McPherson is hosting our annual winter coat drive from November 1–November 15.

Our Affy Tapple fundraiser was a huge success! FOM was able to transfer all funds raised to the school to pay for field trip fees, transportation for field trips, and for speakers and authors to come to our school!

How fun is our Harry Potter table at Literacy Night?? We hope everyone had a great time! Thank you to our incredible volunteers for setting this up!

On Friday, our 5th - 8th grade classes attended an inspirational presentation, “Know Your Classmates”, which seeks to end adolescent social isolation and create a community of belonging for all.

We are thrilled to welcome our new sponsor, Windy City Paws!