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Thank you for your continued support and for choosing Kellond every day. As of Monday, we are at 400 students and are so excited to see our enrollment growing. We are also at a 93% attendance rate, with the goal of 95%. It is incredibly important that when able, students come to school everyday and on time. We have about 30 more days until the state test!

We are pleased to announce that through the expansion of the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) of the National School Breakfast and Lunch Program, we are now able to provide breakfast and lunch at no charge to all students effective immediately. All students enrolled may receive one breakfast meal and one lunch meal at no charge every school day. Household applications for free and reduced priced meals are no longer required.

Breakfast and lunch menus are available at https://meals.tusd1.org/. We look forward to serving your student nutritious meals at school!

For those students that have balances on their student meal account, additional information about the refund process will be sent out by the end of the week.

For any questions, please contact TUSD Food Services Department at foodservices@tusd1.org or call (520) 225-4700.

Are you in need of a new emotional support water bottle? Grab one, or ten, from our fundraising website between now and March 8th and Kellond receives 10% of the order. Please follow the directions below.

• You'll have to sign your student up as a 'seller' and then use their seller id to make the purchase.
• Register the student at store.zagfundraising.com, choose Arizona and Kellond Elementary PTO. Enter student's information as 'seller' (uploading a photo is optional), click next to get your Seller ID.
• Using that ID number you can click "Online Store" at the top, input your seller ID in the Customers Field and start your shopping! You can also share your student's seller id with family and friends for them to get their own personalized water bottles!
• There's an option to have it mailed directly to you for a fee or it can be sent to the school for free and sent home with your student.
  

We have a track and field coach and are so excited! Practices start Feb. 12th and generally run from 4-5-pm every regular school day at Palo Verde High School. Dates will change as high school track starts competition. Parents are responsible for transporting their students from Kellond to the High School for practice and are encouraged to stay and watch. Please see the front office to get the necessary paperwork ready!

We continue to have adults parking illegally to drop off and pick up their students. This includes leaving their car in the fire lane, in the accessible spots, and even in the middle of the lane in the parking lot. Even though it may be inconvenient for you, you must park your car in a legal parking space. If you refuse to follow the parking regulations, and continue to leave your parked car in the fire lane or the accessible spots, or if you are hostile and aggressive to the staff when you are asked to move your illegally parked car, the consequences could range from your license plate getting reported to you being trespassed from the campus. I truly do not want to do that. So please please park legally.

We have so many items in the lost and found. Please stop by the cafeteria and have a look to see if any of them belong to your student. We will keep them until spring break and then they will be donated.

We are changing how the sock hop runs this year and we need help with the planning and setting up of various areas so that everything flows smoothly! We have volunteers for the day of to help running games, we need volunteers for the behind the scenes work! Please come to our planning meeting on Wednesday 2/7, 7pm. Zoom ID 886 5218 3678

Areas of need are:

• GAMES (planning, building, arranging/setting-up)
  
• ADMISSIONS (strategizing a smooth admissions process to eliminate long lines to get in, helping man the admission tables)
  
• CAR SHOW (contacting car owners, organizing voting materials, arranging participants, planning the trophy)
  
• DECORATIONS (inside cafeteria/ out in courtyard decoration planning and set up)
  
• FOOD TRUCKS (contacting, planning where they'll set up and coordinating set up on the day of event)
  

• 2/8: Early dismissal at 12:25
• 2/9: Early dismissal at 12:25
• 2/9: Wear your NFL gear
• 2/14: Wear Red/Pink/White to celebrate Love Day
• 2/20: MOD pizza fundraiser, all day
• 2/22: Rodeo Break
• 2/23: Rodeo Break

The locally owned coffee cart will be in the south parking lot on Wednesday, 2/28. Please park, buy yourself a cup of coffee and say hi to us.