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The Colts Connection
1.5.20

Dear Kennedy Families,

We hope that you were all able to enjoy some time together as a family over the winter break. We have been excited to see your child(ren) again and start a new year and month of the school year setting goals for success. We look forward to what a new year and new start will bring!

Sincerely your partner in education,

Anna Willhite

Announcements

Class of 2024 Parent Night

We are excited to invite you to the Class of 2024 Parent Night, hosted by Apollo High School Counseling Department on Monday, January 13th, at 6:00 pm. The night will include information regarding course choices for your incoming 9th grader. Counselors will be present to answer your questions. Please enter door 7 at Apollo High School, the session will take place in the Apollo Preforming Arts Center.

Howdy Partners

January is here and that means it’s time for FITNESS FEVER MONTH!!!! Get ready to “Stampede into Fitness” because on Monday we’ll officially begin our challenge to eat more than five servings of fruits and veggies and to “Play 60” minutes everyday! Let’s see if we can improve our health and wellness this year while we “Partner Up” with another cowpoke buddy to meet our goals. Good Luck Kennedy Colts!!

Fitness Fever Calendar

Fitness Fever Events

Grades Second - Fifth

Kids Heart Challenge (formally Jump for Heart)

As part of Fitness Fever Month we will once again support the American Heart Association in grades 2-5. Throughout the month we will learn how to keep our hearts healthy for a lifetime and also improve our jump rope skills. One way to support the cause is to know how to take care of your heart. It may be fun for you and your family to play Heart Bingo at home. If your child returns this Bingo card to his/her Physical Education Teacher, he/she will have their name entered in a drawing for a prize on January 30th.

Get a jump start! Take a moment to register your student online over break – upon registering your student can select their healthy challenge and share their page with others. Students who register and/or raise an online donation by January 9 will be recognized at the kick off. To register, visit http://www2.heart.org/goto/Kennedy742

Snow Playground/Outside Play Requirements

With winter well under way, we want to take this opportunity to review winter clothing requirements when outside. With safety in mind, below are the requirements:

If you do not have winter boots on you must stay on the plowed areas (side walks and the tar where the basketball hoops are)
Your body should only be in the snow if you have snow pants, jacket, hat, mittens/gloves and boots on.
We are not allowed to throw snow at school.
We are not allowed to go on the service road that separates the playground from the nature trail and garden area.
The nature trail may only be used by students who have boots and snow pants on while snow is present.

*If you have financial difficulties and providing these winter items is not possible for your family at this time, please reach out to our main office and we can support your family with these winter items.

Special Education Paraprofessional Opening

Do you want to make an impact on our school community? Are you interested in working with students? If so, please consider applying for one of our open Special Education Paraprofessional openings. Please click here for more information.

Parenting Gamers

"Parenting rather than policing video games equips children to build good habits and a healthy relationship with digital media for when they leave home and parents aren’t around to enforce the rules. One challenge can be finding the kinds of games you want your children to play. There are good resources to help you with this. There are also websites that provide video game suggestions like AskAboutGames https://www.askaboutgames.com. Also, there are good Twitter accounts that help, like Wholesome Games (@_wholesomegames) and Non-Violent Game Of The Day (@NVGOTD)." excerpt taken from Andy Robertson, "Parenting Gamers".

Submitted by Holly Nelson, Kennedy School Librarian/Media Specialist

Parenting Gamers Information

Book Fair Volunteer Sign-Up

Volunteer Sign-up: Kennedy Community School Scholastic Book Fair - February 2020

Please consider helping your child's school with the Scholastic Book Fair coming February 4 - 12, 2020. There are many opportunities to help and we would greatly appreciate any time you can give to this fundraiser. Last school year we were able to add $3613.42 worth of new library books to our library and 57% of our enrolled students made a Book Fair purchase.
Thank you, Mrs. Nelson, School Librarian/Media Specialist

Middle Level Activity Day

We will be having our middle level activity day on February 21st for students in grades 6-8. Registration Forms with more information will be going home on January 6th.

School Happenings

Loving Literacy

Students in Ms. Rivard's first grade class working on their literacy skills.

Blanket Making
Student Ambassadors and Student Council members made blankets prior to winter break to donate to Anna Marie's Shelter.

Upcoming Events

January

1 Kwanzaa

1 New Year’s Day: NO SCHOOL

7 Orthodox Christmas Day

9 5th Science Fest

9 Kennedy PTA, 6:30-7:30

13 8th grade Apollo Family Night @ 6:00pm

13 Northside Band Concert

14 Orthodox New Year

16 Fitness Fever Family Night 6: 00 -7:30pm

17 8th grade semester one is over

20 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: NO SCHOOL

21 Professional Development: NO SCHOOL

24 Kindergarten Open House 8-10am (presentation at 9am)

28 Middle School and Kindergarten Open House;
Preschool Registration 5-6:30pm (Presentation at 5:30pm)

30 2nd-5th Grade Jump for Heart During P.E.

31 Family/Elementary Dance, 6:00-7:30

31 One Act Play, 8:15 a.m. & 10:15 a.m. @ CSB

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