Enable field trips & classroom enrichment by paying your iGNITE fees

All grades will have approximately 10 activities per year, including 1-2 off-site field trips. Your fees net out to ~$10 per activity.

With the support from the PTA, teachers identify the field trips and enrichment opportunities that students will experience throughout the year. These programs tie directly to the curriculum and are designed to enhance what students are learning in the classroom.

What you might not know is that these programs are NOT paid for by the school district – they are solely funded by McKenzie families through this annual iGNITE fundraising initiative.

The iGNITE program’s core focus areas are to:

  • Enhance curriculum-based learning.

  • Build skills that drive characteristics of successful learners.

  • Promote social and emotional awareness.

iGNITE: Field Trips & Enrichment

Suggested Fee Per Student for 26/27: $100

$
3% Cover the Fee

    • Author visits

    • Music performances

    • Artist in residence

    • Wilmette Public Library Visit: Cozy Reading Celebration

    • High Touch High Tech Science Experiment: Forces

    • Mindfulness Lessons

    • The Grove Seasonal Changes

    • High Touch High Tech Science Experiment: Weather

    • The Talking Farm Seed Planting 

    • Theater Performance

    • High Touch High Tech Science Experiment: Adaptations

    • Frog Lady

    • Mindfulness Lessons

    • River City Puppet Show

    • Kohl Children’s Museum: Vibration Explorations

    • High Touch High Tech Science Experiment: The Power of Light

    • Theater Performance

    • High Touch High Tech Science Experiment: What’s the Matter

    • Theater Performance (Marriott Lincolnshire) 

    • Wagner Farm Site Visit

    • Wilmette Public Library Cozy Reading Celebration

    • Mindfulness Lessons

    • Wilmette Historical Museum 

    • Chicago Botanic Gardens: Flower Lab

    • Peggy Notebart: Reptiles Up Close

    • River Trail Nature Center 

    • Halloween STEM Experiments & Activities

    • Flamenco Dance Performance

    • High Touch High Tech Science Experiment: Edison’s Workshop 

    • Winnetka Historical Society: Artifact Discoveries

    • Annie Aggens, Polar Explorer

    • Field Museum: Paleontology Practice, Fossil Examination

    • Tenement Museum Virtual Visit

    • High Touch High Tech Science Experiment: Extreme Weather

    • Outside Speaker: Writer & the Writing Process

    • Service Learning Opportunity & Upstander Training

    • Museum of Science and Industry Field Trip (U Boat Tour)

    • Holocaust Survivor Speaker

    • Lincoln Park Zoo Field Trip (Structures & Senses Program)

    • Ranger Ryan Visit (Birds of Prey)

iGNITE activities we have planned for this year (expand to see activities by grade)

*Events in italics are offsite field trips.