Kingston Elementary Newsletter 2016
Kingston Elementary Newsletter 2016
Calendar of Events December 8
4th & 5th Basketball @ Madill 4:30
December 9
4th & 5th Basketball @ Tishomingo 4:00
December 9
Kindergarten Field Trip
December 13
Student of the Month Lunch
December 15
1st Grade Field Trip
December 16
End of Semester
Dec 19-Dec 31
Christmas Break
December 25
Merry Christmas
Dear Families: Kingston Elementary has been very busy. The students, teachers, and staff are working very hard to achieve all the goals that we wish to accomplish by the end of the school year. It takes everyone working together to reach all of our goals. I would like to thank all who participated with the Fall Festival! It was a great success and we had a great turn out. Thanks to everyone who donated items to help make this a great event. We have several coats left here daily, please put your child’s name in his/her coat. There are several coats in the auditorium. Coats not picked up will not be kept at the school for a long period of time. It is not the schools responsibility to keep up with lost coats. I would like to remind parents of our school time. School begins at 8:00 A.M. and ends at 3:20 P.M. Please make it a priority to have your child here on time. If class is interrupted by children entering the room late other students are distracted. The district provides a free breakfast for all students. They need to be here on time to make sure they all receive a good breakfast to start the day. It is vital they are here on time.
January 2
Classes Resume
Please be considerate when coming into the building early to pick up students. School does not end until 3:20-students are in transition and we are placing them in the appropriate lines to be picked up or ride the bus. It interrupts the process if we have parents wanting to beat the traffic. Please do not make it a habit of picking your child up early. As principal I am required to be aggressive toward student attendance-whether they are absent, tardy or leaving early. I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving break. It is always fun to spend time with family and friends during the holidays. I am very thankful for getting the opportunity to work with such wonderful students and staff here at Kingston. Please take time to enjoy the holidays with your family and friends. Have a safe and wonderful holiday season! David Gill
Students of the Month
Elementary Principal
Crystal O’Steen Elementary Vice Principal
PreK: Sophie Hockersmith Kindergarten: Joesy Beal 1st: Cutter McKaughan 2nd: Olivia McAlister 3rd:
Bristol Mealor
4th: Dalton Beshirs 5th: Kaylea Denny
The numbers are in for our 1st Box Tops Contest of the year. Congrats to Ms. Hogstad's 4th Grade Class for 1st Place & Mrs. Smith's Kindergarten Class for 2nd Place. Overall we had 4,969 Box Tops turned in. We’ll get our 1 st check in December. With the upcoming holidays be sure and clip those Box Tops! Thank You for all of your support. Bonnie Knape KES & KMS Coordinator
From the Nurse's desk.... Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope everyone’s families are having happy holidays this year! We have seasonal flu to contend with for the next couple of months, but I think the good practices of hand washing, covering coughs, and cleaning will help make this a better flu season. I appreciate the teachers and staff for all their hard work in helping to contain the recent flu outbreak. Keep up the good work! We will start head checks after the Christmas break. Parents, start checking your children now for head lice. You are looking for small brownish insects on your child's scalp. The nits or eggs they lay are glued to the hair shaft and are very difficult to remove. They are whitish and tear drop shaped. If you find either one of these in your child's hair, they must be treated and removed before the child can come back to school. There are many, many treatments out there on the market as well as home remedies. Do some research and find which one is best for your family. If you have any questions, you may call me at 564-0904. I will also be starting follow-up calls for those children who were referred to an optometrist by Prevent Blindness. If you received a letter in the mail notifying you that your child did not pass the vision test, please have them checked by their optometrist as soon as possible. If they have been checked, please call me and let me know. A report must be sent to Prevent Blindness by January regarding those referrals. Thank you for your help and cooperation! Have a joyous New Year! Monti Walker, RN
The first meeting of our after-school Sequoyah Book Club was held on Tuesday, November 8th. Our normal weekday to have book club is on Thursdays but due to the Fall Festival being scheduled for the first Thursday of book club, we held our kickoff meeting on Tuesday. All following meetings will be held on Thursdays after school. Twenty-six of the thirty-two students who signed up for book club were in attendance. There was a conflict with basketball that kept a few students from being able to attend this first meeting and a couple of others “forgot”! As this was our first meeting, I provided snacks for everyone (but for future meetings they will need to bring their own snack if they want one). We then discussed the requirements for being in book club, and I introduced all of the books on the Sequoyah Masterlist with a short book talk. To encourage my book club members to read as many of the Sequoyah books from the Masterlist as possible, I introduced a new system of “Sequoyah Bucks”. For every Sequoyah book a student reads and passes the test on, he/she will receive a Sequoyah Buck. The students can use these bucks to purchase different items – snacks, posters, books, book fair gift certificates, or Wal-Mart gift cards. This system seems to already be working as we have had the Sequoyah Books flying off the shelf! It’s going to be a great club this year!!!!
Karen Thomas Elementary Librarian
4th & 5th Basketball December Schedule December 8 At Madill 4:30 December 9 At Tishomingo 4:00
Calendar of Events December 8
4th & 5th Basketball @ Madill 4:30
December 9
4th & 5th Basketball @ Tishomingo 4:00
December 9
Kindergarten Field Trip
December 13
Student of the Month Lunch
December 15
1st Grade Field Trip
December 16
End of Semester
Dec 19-Dec 31
Christmas Break
December 25
Merry Christmas
Dear Families: Kingston Elementary has been very busy. The students, teachers, and staff are working very hard to achieve all the goals that we wish to accomplish by the end of the school year. It takes everyone working together to reach all of our goals. I would like to thank all who participated with the Fall Festival! It was a great success and we had a great turn out. Thanks to everyone who donated items to help make this a great event. We have several coats left here daily, please put your child’s name in his/her coat. There are several coats in the auditorium. Coats not picked up will not be kept at the school for a long period of time. It is not the schools responsibility to keep up with lost coats. I would like to remind parents of our school time. School begins at 8:00 A.M. and ends at 3:20 P.M. Please make it a priority to have your child here on time. If class is interrupted by children entering the room late other students are distracted. The district provides a free breakfast for all students. They need to be here on time to make sure they all receive a good breakfast to start the day. It is vital they are here on time.
January 2
Classes Resume
Please be considerate when coming into the building early to pick up students. School does not end until 3:20-students are in transition and we are placing them in the appropriate lines to be picked up or ride the bus. It interrupts the process if we have parents wanting to beat the traffic. Please do not make it a habit of picking your child up early. As principal I am required to be aggressive toward student attendance-whether they are absent, tardy or leaving early. I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving break. It is always fun to spend time with family and friends during the holidays. I am very thankful for getting the opportunity to work with such wonderful students and staff here at Kingston. Please take time to enjoy the holidays with your family and friends. Have a safe and wonderful holiday season! David Gill
Students of the Month
Elementary Principal
Crystal O’Steen Elementary Vice Principal
PreK: Sophie Hockersmith Kindergarten: Joesy Beal 1st: Cutter McKaughan 2nd: Olivia McAlister 3rd:
Bristol Mealor
4th: Dalton Beshirs 5th: Kaylea Denny
The numbers are in for our 1st Box Tops Contest of the year. Congrats to Ms. Hogstad's 4th Grade Class for 1st Place & Mrs. Smith's Kindergarten Class for 2nd Place. Overall we had 4,969 Box Tops turned in. We’ll get our 1 st check in December. With the upcoming holidays be sure and clip those Box Tops! Thank You for all of your support. Bonnie Knape KES & KMS Coordinator
From the Nurse's desk.... Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope everyone’s families are having happy holidays this year! We have seasonal flu to contend with for the next couple of months, but I think the good practices of hand washing, covering coughs, and cleaning will help make this a better flu season. I appreciate the teachers and staff for all their hard work in helping to contain the recent flu outbreak. Keep up the good work! We will start head checks after the Christmas break. Parents, start checking your children now for head lice. You are looking for small brownish insects on your child's scalp. The nits or eggs they lay are glued to the hair shaft and are very difficult to remove. They are whitish and tear drop shaped. If you find either one of these in your child's hair, they must be treated and removed before the child can come back to school. There are many, many treatments out there on the market as well as home remedies. Do some research and find which one is best for your family. If you have any questions, you may call me at 564-0904. I will also be starting follow-up calls for those children who were referred to an optometrist by Prevent Blindness. If you received a letter in the mail notifying you that your child did not pass the vision test, please have them checked by their optometrist as soon as possible. If they have been checked, please call me and let me know. A report must be sent to Prevent Blindness by January regarding those referrals. Thank you for your help and cooperation! Have a joyous New Year! Monti Walker, RN
The first meeting of our after-school Sequoyah Book Club was held on Tuesday, November 8th. Our normal weekday to have book club is on Thursdays but due to the Fall Festival being scheduled for the first Thursday of book club, we held our kickoff meeting on Tuesday. All following meetings will be held on Thursdays after school. Twenty-six of the thirty-two students who signed up for book club were in attendance. There was a conflict with basketball that kept a few students from being able to attend this first meeting and a couple of others “forgot”! As this was our first meeting, I provided snacks for everyone (but for future meetings they will need to bring their own snack if they want one). We then discussed the requirements for being in book club, and I introduced all of the books on the Sequoyah Masterlist with a short book talk. To encourage my book club members to read as many of the Sequoyah books from the Masterlist as possible, I introduced a new system of “Sequoyah Bucks”. For every Sequoyah book a student reads and passes the test on, he/she will receive a Sequoyah Buck. The students can use these bucks to purchase different items – snacks, posters, books, book fair gift certificates, or Wal-Mart gift cards. This system seems to already be working as we have had the Sequoyah Books flying off the shelf! It’s going to be a great club this year!!!!
Karen Thomas Elementary Librarian
4th & 5th Basketball December Schedule December 8 At Madill 4:30 December 9 At Tishomingo 4:00
