Kingston Elementary 2017 Newsletter
Kingston Elementary 2017 Newsletter Dear Parents,
Calendar of Events
Spring is just around the corner and will be here before we know it. Please pay close attention to information being sent home about upcoming events and field trips that might be planned for your child. During March, our Third, Fourth, and Fifth grade students will be preparing for the Oklahoma School Testing Program. Our students and teachers have been working very hard to master the Oklahoma Academic Standards. State testing will begin in April. Please stress to your children the importance of doing their best and learning the skills required to be successful. Parents please make sure your children are at school and in class on time each and every day. When students are late they miss valuable instruction time. Your support is greatly appreciated! We all must work together to achieve KES Team Success!!! Have a fun filled Spring Break!!!!
David Gill
Crystal O’Steen
Elementary Principal
Elementary Vice Principal
March 2
Dr. Seuss’ Birthday
March 8
First Grade field trip
March 10
NO SCHOOL
March 12
Daylight Savings Time
March 13-17
March 17
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
March 20
1st Day of
March 30
Student of the Month Lunch
Students of the Month PreK: Marisa Cates KG: Kathryn Andrews 1st: Karen Harjo 2nd: Maysie Clark Box Top Supporters: My counter/organizer has been working hard to get Box Tops ready to mail. Our last submission must be postmarked by March 1st. Our last check will be in April for this school year. Keep clipping, we will be mailing more before school is out.
3rd: Kaylei George 4th: Ashlee Rosas 5th: Emily Barthel
Thank you for all you do!
Box Top Coordinator, Bonnie Knape
From the Nurse's Desk.... First, let me say that we are continuing to experience a head lice problem in the student population. The first line of defense for this problem is checking your kids at home. If you catch it at home before they come to school, it will not be a problem here at school. Please check your kids every evening when they get home, even if you think there is no way they could possibly have head lice. Anyone can get it at any time. It can be carried by people from out of town who are visiting, it can be picked up from the head rests on movie theater seats, it can be shared on coats, scarf's, hats, brushes, hair bows, stuffed toys, bedding, etc. Make sure you children know not to share their personal items with other kids. Here at the school, we are spraying and vacuuming rooms, disinfecting buses, and putting rugs and stuffed toys that are in the classrooms in plastic bags. It would help if you could send plastic bags for your child to put their hats, coats, and back pack in while they are hanging in the room. By working as a team, we can keep our children lice free. Thank you for your help! Nurse Monti Walker, RN
LIBRARY CORNER During the month of February, the Oklahoma Department of Libraries held a Britannica Information Scavenger Hunt to promote the use of the online Britannica School encyclopedia for students across the state. All students who successfully answered all 5 questions from the Information Scavenger Hunt had their names submitted to ODL for a drawing for prizes. Two lucky students will win a $50 Walmart gift card and 18 lucky runners-up will each receive a $15 gift card. All KES 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students participated in this fun educational activity during their library time, and we had a lot of students who were able to answer all the questions correctly. Some time after March 10th, we will be notified if we were lucky enough to have a winner from KES drawn! The members of our after-school Sequoyah Book Club are getting ready to vote for their favorite book from the Sequoyah masterlist. Members must have read at least 3 books from the masterlist to qualify to vote and as of right now almost all have met the requirement. We will post our votes online by March 15th and the winner will be announced on March 31st on the Oklahoma Library Association’s website and in The Oklahoman. Unfortunately, the author who won the Sequoyah Award last year will not be able to attend the award presentation at the OLA Conference this April, so our book club has had to cancel our end of the year trip. Instead we will have a pizza and ice cream float party and watch a movie.
I am excited to report the success our last Scholastic Book Fair. We had over under $9000.00 in sales, our biggest book fair to date! The library receives a portion of that in cash profit and in books. The week prior to the fair, we held a sucker pull to allow students, for the price of 50 cents, a chance to win a gift certificate for a book from the fair. We were able to raise enough money to give out over 70 gift certificates! Book fairs are one way for us to raise money to purchase new books and supplies for our library as well as put books into the hands of students. We couldn’t do it without the generous support of the wonderful parents and extended families we have here at Kingston Elementary. THANK YOU!!! Karen Thomas Elementary Library Media Specialist
Calendar of Events
Spring is just around the corner and will be here before we know it. Please pay close attention to information being sent home about upcoming events and field trips that might be planned for your child. During March, our Third, Fourth, and Fifth grade students will be preparing for the Oklahoma School Testing Program. Our students and teachers have been working very hard to master the Oklahoma Academic Standards. State testing will begin in April. Please stress to your children the importance of doing their best and learning the skills required to be successful. Parents please make sure your children are at school and in class on time each and every day. When students are late they miss valuable instruction time. Your support is greatly appreciated! We all must work together to achieve KES Team Success!!! Have a fun filled Spring Break!!!!
David Gill
Crystal O’Steen
Elementary Principal
Elementary Vice Principal
March 2
Dr. Seuss’ Birthday
March 8
First Grade field trip
March 10
NO SCHOOL
March 12
Daylight Savings Time
March 13-17
March 17
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
March 20
1st Day of
March 30
Student of the Month Lunch
Students of the Month PreK: Marisa Cates KG: Kathryn Andrews 1st: Karen Harjo 2nd: Maysie Clark Box Top Supporters: My counter/organizer has been working hard to get Box Tops ready to mail. Our last submission must be postmarked by March 1st. Our last check will be in April for this school year. Keep clipping, we will be mailing more before school is out.
3rd: Kaylei George 4th: Ashlee Rosas 5th: Emily Barthel
Thank you for all you do!
Box Top Coordinator, Bonnie Knape
From the Nurse's Desk.... First, let me say that we are continuing to experience a head lice problem in the student population. The first line of defense for this problem is checking your kids at home. If you catch it at home before they come to school, it will not be a problem here at school. Please check your kids every evening when they get home, even if you think there is no way they could possibly have head lice. Anyone can get it at any time. It can be carried by people from out of town who are visiting, it can be picked up from the head rests on movie theater seats, it can be shared on coats, scarf's, hats, brushes, hair bows, stuffed toys, bedding, etc. Make sure you children know not to share their personal items with other kids. Here at the school, we are spraying and vacuuming rooms, disinfecting buses, and putting rugs and stuffed toys that are in the classrooms in plastic bags. It would help if you could send plastic bags for your child to put their hats, coats, and back pack in while they are hanging in the room. By working as a team, we can keep our children lice free. Thank you for your help! Nurse Monti Walker, RN
LIBRARY CORNER During the month of February, the Oklahoma Department of Libraries held a Britannica Information Scavenger Hunt to promote the use of the online Britannica School encyclopedia for students across the state. All students who successfully answered all 5 questions from the Information Scavenger Hunt had their names submitted to ODL for a drawing for prizes. Two lucky students will win a $50 Walmart gift card and 18 lucky runners-up will each receive a $15 gift card. All KES 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students participated in this fun educational activity during their library time, and we had a lot of students who were able to answer all the questions correctly. Some time after March 10th, we will be notified if we were lucky enough to have a winner from KES drawn! The members of our after-school Sequoyah Book Club are getting ready to vote for their favorite book from the Sequoyah masterlist. Members must have read at least 3 books from the masterlist to qualify to vote and as of right now almost all have met the requirement. We will post our votes online by March 15th and the winner will be announced on March 31st on the Oklahoma Library Association’s website and in The Oklahoman. Unfortunately, the author who won the Sequoyah Award last year will not be able to attend the award presentation at the OLA Conference this April, so our book club has had to cancel our end of the year trip. Instead we will have a pizza and ice cream float party and watch a movie.
I am excited to report the success our last Scholastic Book Fair. We had over under $9000.00 in sales, our biggest book fair to date! The library receives a portion of that in cash profit and in books. The week prior to the fair, we held a sucker pull to allow students, for the price of 50 cents, a chance to win a gift certificate for a book from the fair. We were able to raise enough money to give out over 70 gift certificates! Book fairs are one way for us to raise money to purchase new books and supplies for our library as well as put books into the hands of students. We couldn’t do it without the generous support of the wonderful parents and extended families we have here at Kingston Elementary. THANK YOU!!! Karen Thomas Elementary Library Media Specialist
