King Lion Tracks 🦁

• CMAS REMINDERS - Testing starts next week
  
• Dress like your favorite book character day.
• Kids Heart Challenge
• King Pride
  
• Bingo for Books
• Dinosaur week in Ms. Kathy's class
  
• 2024-2025 School Year intent Form
• 2024-2025 classroom placements
  
• After School Enrichment List - 2024/2025
• lost and found
• 3rd grade glow day

• Parent survey
• Save the date - King graduation date - May 20th
• Kindergarten Round up

• What's Happening - upcoming events
• District News - Doherty High School -This Week in Sparta, Doherty Cheer Camp, Coronado Basketball Flyer, Girl's Golf Flyers, Chipeta Chess Tournament
• PTA News- PTA Meeting, King Shirt Order, Restaurant Fundraiser Night
• Links

CMAS testing is April 8-15 for 3rd - 5th graders. Please help support our state testing window by:

• not scheduling appointments during testing times
• arriving to school on time
• eating a healthy breakfast
• getting a good night's rest

King students enjoyed dressing like their favorite book character day.

Ask your student who their favorite heart hero is and why! Our goal is to raise life-saving funds and for all students to learn and raise awareness of living heart healthy. Download the Kids Heart Challenge App or go to www.heart.org/khc and REGISTER TODAY!

Please contact Jason Poole with any questions - james.poole@d11.org

What an awesome evening playing bingo and winning books! Thank you to PTA for planning this event and to everyone who came out for the fun. A special shout out to our Celebrity Callers who helped call numbers and announce winners. We hope everyone enjoys their new books!

Please complete the following form (click on the button below), once per family. King would like you to communicate your intentions for next school year with us as soon as possible. If you know you will be moving and/or your child will not be returning to King next year, please let us know. This information assists King Elementary in planning for next year and maintaining accurate records. Thank you!

If you have a student entering preschool or kindergarten next year, please be sure to complete the enrollment process online - www.d11.org

If you have any questions, please call the office - 719-328-6000

Dear Parents/Guardians,

It is hard to believe that we are in the last quarter of this school year. Time has flown this year and your children have grown and learned so much! We can hardly believe that we are already thinking about and planning for next school year. One of the important pieces of this planning is our determining student placements and class groups for next year. We would like to take a moment to let you know the process we use.

In making class assignments, we use a number of criteria to guide our decisions. We work to meet the needs of all aspects of our students including social, emotional, and academics. We balance classes based on academics, gender, specific needs, relationships, and consideration of a child’s learning style. Our process includes classroom teachers, specials teachers, and other staff at King. We are very thoughtful in this process and ultimately work to create successful placements for each child at King.

While we do not take requests for specific teachers, we value you as a partner in the placement of your child. If there is information that is important in your child’s class placement that we should be aware of, you are encouraged to describe your child’s specific needs or considerations in a letter (or via email) to Mrs. Krueger (tammy.krueger@d11.org) by Tuesday April 30, 2024.

• Please talk about what your child needs in order to be successful. Give examples of how your child learns best.
  
• Please do not request (or unrequest) specific teachers by name in your letter.
• Please do not ask your child’s current classroom teacher to recommend a specific teacher for next year. This request puts teachers in an awkward position.
• Avoid the pitfalls of gossip; a teacher who was not a great match for your friend's child may be the perfect match for yours.
• Be open to possibilities, knowing that we take many factors that influence the classroom environment into consideration when placing students.

Thank you,

Tammy Krueger

King Principal

tammy.krueger@d11.org

King Community,

Starting Monday, April 22th you may call the King Office at 328-6000 to reserve a spot for your student in the After-School Enrichment Program for the 24-25 school year. We have 40 spots avaliable. If those spots fill up, we will begin a wait list. Please know requests for reservations will only be from Monday, April 22nd - Friday, May 10th. After this time period we will re-open for reservations and/or wait list on Monday, August 5th.

Thank you.

We have a lot of lost and found items looking for their owner.

GLOW Day in 3rd grade was time to shine a light and review all the skills 3rd graders have learned over the year. In math WIN time we created fraction pizzas. Shoutout to Ms. Denee for making the pizza rolls last minute and MOD Pizza for donating the pizza boxes!

Please complete this King survey about school-to-family communication. Click the button below.

King Elementary School's 5th grade and Kindergarten Continuations will be held on Monday May 20th.

8:15 AM Preschool & 5th Grade Learning Parade and High School Graduates walk the building

8:30 5th Grade Continuation

1:00 PM Preschool and K-4 Learning Parade

1:30 Kindergarten Continuation

Save the date - Kindergarten Round up April 25th 5:30-6:30

April 8 - 15: CMAS Testing 3rd-5th Grade

April 8: SAC Meeting @ 5pm in the Mini Gym; PTA Meeting @ 6pm

April 9: 3rd Grade vocal concert 6 pm (students arrive at 5:40);

• Raising Canes Restaurant Night 3pm-9pm

April 10: Solo Ensemble at Chipeta Elementary School

April 18: 5th Grade Battle of the Books - Field Trip

April 19: Popcorn Friday

April 23: Chipotle Restaurant Night

April 25: Kindergarten Round Up

April 30: Band/Orchestra Concert

May 3: Popcorn Friday and King Spirit Day

May 13: SAC 5pm; PTA Meeting @ 6pm

May 17: Popcorn Friday and King Spirit Day

May 20: Kindergarten & 5th Grade Continuations

May 21: Last day of School for Students

Coronado Volleyball would like to invite students entering 5th -8th grade next year to attend our summer volleyball program! All skill levels are welcome.

We hope to see you at our April PTA meeting this Monday, 4/8, from 6-7pm in the King mini gym! If you would like to join virtually, please click on the link below and enter the meeting ID and password.

https://rb.gy/lr4ggl

Meeting ID: 290 025 506 414

Password: uxGWvH

Please join us on Tuesday, April 9th from 3-9pm at the N. Academy Raising Canes for our April Restaurant Night. Mention you’re from King to help raise funds for PTA. Thank you for your support!

Click on the links below for more info. Due to having a new website, links on previous Lion Tracks will no longer work.

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Email: tammy.krueger@d11.org

Website: https://king.d11.org/

Location: 6110 Sapporo Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80918

phone: 719-328-6000

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