🗳️ January 21- School Bond Info Session 6PM in KHS Library

📬 January 24- MP2 Report Cards Mailed Home

☮️ 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 to Come)

🦌 February 10- KAS Board of Education Meeting 6PM

☃️ 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

🎉 We had a great time celebrating student success on Friday morning with our Quarterly Celebration! We started with a quick awards ceremony (see award winners below) and then went straight into our celebration festivities. Students who earned their way into the celebration could choose to play board games, watch a movie, or go sledding. We had a blast celebrating their amazing STAG behaviors!

MARKING PERIOD 1 AWARD WINNERS:

📖 Brady Noffke- Language Arts Award

🔖 Jeremiah Munro- Reading Award

🧮 Jacob Yost- Math Award

🔬 Trenton Hollerback- Science Award

🌎 Peyton Coger- Social Studies Award

🎨 Amara Seeber- Art Award

💪🏼 Karson Kelly- Physical Education Award

🏃🏽‍♂️ Jeremiah Munro- Physical Education Award

🏆 Emma Long- Spanish Award

🏅 Christian Brosier- Band Award

🎵 Bristol Helmreich- Choir Award

🦌 Noel Boyle- STAG Leadership Award

🥔 Amelia Dubrul- Positive Potato Award

🗳️ The Kingsley Area Schools Board of Education intends to place a proposal authorizing the issuance of school bonds on the May 2025 ballot.

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🔗 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.

📌 Upcoming Bond Information Sessions:

• Tuesday, January 21 at 6:00PM at KHS Library
• 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

👠 This week students will finish working with an excerpt from the first chapter of Cinder, a science-fiction book by Marissa Meyer.

📋 Students will:

• Write a summary of the text

• Complete the Cinder Quiz

• Complete an IXL Skills Quiz

• Write a constructed response/R.A.C.E. response for a question related to the text Cinder

👩🏼‍💻 Later in the week students will begin working with the informational article, “The Biometric Body,” by Kathiann M. Kowalski. This text offers a primer on biometrics. The science of biometrics involves using fingerprints and other personal, physical markers to confirm a person’s identity. Graphics detail the many ways that biometrics are already in use, including fingerprints, eye scans, and facial recognition. First-person interviews with experts are combined with thorough research to form a complete picture of biometrics today. In addition to highlighting some benefits of biometrics, Kowalski also shares some of the concerns that technology and security professionals have raised about biometrics.

🔑 This text helps to build background knowledge for students. Biometrics is a newer technology and is becoming a more common alternative to password security. This informational text offers an unbiased perspective about the basics of biometrics, its benefits, and its risks.

📖 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

💯 In math next week we will be NWEA Testing. No homework for the week. Students will begin learning a short poem about Mean, Median, and Mode. As the week progresses, you can ask them if they have it memorized yet.

🌦️ Last week in science class we learned about the characteristics of air and the atmosphere. This week we are moving on to air pressure and wind. Students will be investigating the relationship between changing air pressure and wind. They will develop a particle model for air pressure, then make inferences about wind movement on a large scale.

🌡️ We also continue to document the weather daily using a weather website. Hopefully, sometime in the near future, we will be using our own instruments to measure the weather and document it.

💯 We will be completing our investigations on air pressure and wind by Thursday. There will be an open-book quiz on Friday. Please remember that your child may not retake an open-book quiz. Thank you and have a wonderful week!

☮️ Monday is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Students will complete a scavenger hunt that leads them through an exploration of the life of Dr. King and his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.

🏙️ For the remainder of the week, we will continue to explore the relationship between people and the environment. We will examine population trends, migration patterns, and the challenges of overpopulation and suburban sprawl. Students will also discuss sustainable solutions, such as using renewable resources and pollution-reducing technologies, to address these global challenges.

🎒 Be sure to check backpacks for artwork coming home next week (especially Thursday) so it doesn't get ruined riding around for days!!!

🩷 I am so glad to have been able to mentor your young artists this first half of the school year! I am excited to meet my new incoming students and start the second half with those students who have me all year long!

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