☮️ January 27-31- Great Kindness Week (Spirit Day Details Below)

🧡 February 4- KMS PTO Meeting 4PM

🗳️ February 4- School Bond Info Session 6PM in KHS Library

🍎 February 10 & 11- Parent-Teacher Conferences (Details Below)

🦌 February 10- KAS Board of Education Meeting 6PM

🎲 February 13- KMS PTO Game Night 6-8PM (Details to Come)

☃️ February 14-17- No School/Mid-Winter Break

🧡 March 11- KMS PTO Meeting 4PM

🗓️ March 20- End of Marking Period 3

🌷 March 21-30- No School/Spring Break

🍎 March 31- School Resumes

💕 Throughout the week, staff and students will engage in meaningful discussions and activities focused on cultivating everyday kindness. In addition, students are encouraged to participate in a schoolwide food drive and enjoy themed dress-up days all week long (details below)! We’ll conclude Kindness Week with an assembly featuring the highly-anticipated annual dodgeball tournament.🤾🏽

🥫Families who would like to participate in the non-perishable food drive should have students bring items to their 1st-period classrooms. Thank you!

🍎 Conferences will be held on Monday, February 10th and Tuesday, February 11th. All conferences will take place in ROOM 13, unless otherwise arranged.

🗓️ Monday: The sixth-grade team has scheduled specific meeting times with select families. If Mrs. Roussety reaches out to schedule a time with you, please confirm your appointment as soon as possible so we can plan accordingly. Thank you!

⏰ Tuesday: The sixth-grade team will be available by appointment to meet with any interested sixth-grade families. If you’d like to meet with us, please use the link below to select a time slot that works for you.

🧡 We look forward to seeing you and discussing your child's progress and success in sixth grade! See you soon!

🗳️ The Kingsley Area Schools Board of Education intends to place a proposal authorizing the issuance of school bonds on the May 2025 ballot. Transparency and communication will be our highest priority as we move through this process. Use the link below to find updates, dates and times for informational event sessions, and more.

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📌 Upcoming Bond Information Sessions:

• Tuesday, February 4 at 6:00PM at KHS Library

☕ Upcoming Coffee Chat with Superintendent Rothwell:

• Thursday, February 20 at 8:30AM at the Kingsley Branch Library

⭐⭐⭐ BOND UPDATE: Please use the link below to view the most recent updates on the Kingsley Area Schools Board of Education bond proposal. The presentation includes new details and drawings for the proposed changes.

💯 NWEA Testing

Students will begin NWEA testing for ELA this week. Please encourage your child to give their best effort on this assessment.

📖 Homework:

• 15-20 minutes of reading from a book of their choice.

• Work that students are unable to complete during class.

• Work that students miss when they are out of school for sickness, travel, etc.

• Retake Assignments

🧮 We are starting our big algebra unit this week! Students will learn what a variable is and how tricky mixing letters and numbers can be. Handwriting is important for math! We are also learning our Averages Poem and how to find the median.

➡️ Ask your student if they have the poem memorized yet! It starts with, "Hey Diddle Diddle, the median's the ________."

👩🏼‍🔬 This week in science class we will be talking about convection in nature. We have an exciting lab this week exploring density. Your child will develop the concept of density on their way to explain the phenomenon of convection as a process of mass movement of fluids and a mechanism for energy transfer.

🚫 We will not have a quiz this week but we will be working on some bookwork questions preparing for next week's quiz. Have an awesome week!

🌏 This week, we will wrap up the final lessons of our People and the Environment unit. Students will explore the following topics:

• Migration Patterns
  
• The Challenges of Urbanization

💯 Students will take the People and the Environment test on Thursday, January 30th. They will be encouraged to take their lesson notes home on Monday to use as study materials over the following days. Students can also access all unit lessons and resources on Google Classroom. *Please note: While practice quizzes can be a fun and engaging way to study concepts, the absolute BEST studying resource will always be the lesson notes!

Last Monday, we took a meaningful break from our regular unit studies to focus on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Students participated in a scavenger hunt to uncover important facts about Dr. King and his contributions to the civil rights movement.

Additionally, some students worked together to create a mural featuring Dr. King’s most famous words. The final result was truly inspiring—I think it turned out GREAT!

🥣 The art room could use more large yogurt or similar containers.

📦 Also if anyone is downtown and can pick up free cigar boxes from Nolan's we need about 12 more for a future student projects. They are placed in their window when available.

📔 This week we are gearing up for a fresh semester of learning about Art Materials, Methods, and Art Movements! Students are creating and personalizing their art portfolios and art journals that they will be using the rest of their time here in the art studio.

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