KENWOOD’S TITLE I SCHOOL COMMUNICATOR November 2016 From Mrs. Pickard………. Happy autumn! This time of year is filled with many activities. Our Fall Carnival was a great success. The night was perfect and everyone had a great time! Thank you to our parents, community volunteers, and teachers for helping make this a successful event. On November 10th at 9:00 a.m. we will honor our Veterans with our annual Kenwood Veterans’ Day program and parade in front of the school. We invite you to join us! On Tuesday, November 15, we invite you to join us for our Annual Thanksgiving Family Lunch during your child(ren)’s lunch time. This is also a great time to make sure that we have your correct contact information. Each student’s enrolling parent is encouraged to verify that the contact and pick up information you submitted at the beginning of the year is correct. If you have moved, changed phone numbers, or need to delete or add individuals to your child’s contact/pick up card, this information must be provided in writing by the enrolling parent. - Joan Pickard, Principal VETERANS DAY the art room. Student artwork will be on display in the Please join us in honoring the men and women of our cafeteria for the Thanksgiving feast. The Art room is still Armed Forces in a program and parade on Thursday, in need of baby wipes. Please send donations with November 10th. The program will begin at 9:00 students on their art day. Thank you! am in front of the school. Members from the SOS Squadron and the 33rd THANKSGIVING FEAST Squadron from Hurlburt will be our Our Annual Thanksgiving Feast will be held on Tuesday, special guests. Honorable Dick November 15th during your student’s Rynearson will be our guest speaker. regularly scheduled lunch time! The He is a member of the Fort Walton menu includes turkey, stuffing, Beach City Council and is retired mashed potatoes, green beans and a from the Air Force. The Pryor band and choir will dessert for $3.75. In order to prepare provide patriotic songs, our Student Council will read for guests, please RSVP on the form sent home and the preamble to the Constitution and the Choctaw return to your child’s teacher by Friday, November 4th. ROTC color guard will present the colors. Students are Please include any children who are NOT Kenwood encouraged to wear red, white and blue. Parents and students. Thank you. We hope you can join us! guests please take a few minutes to observe our “Wall of Heroes”, placed by the wall near the cafeteria. The FALL CARNIVAL FOLLOW-UP names found on the bricks are Kenwood family Wow – What a great evening! The weather was perfect members from the past and present, who have served and the turnout was tremendous! From the Rock in any branch of the U.S. military! Climbing Wall to the cotton candy, everyone had a good time! This event would not have been possible without P.E. NEWS the support of so many. Thank you to the teachers and This month we will be having the Turkey Trot Family staff, the dads who spent the entire day Run on Friday, November 18th. Our theme with us, the parents who made signs, will be Thanksgiving Day (Pilgrims, Indians, cleaned and organized supplies, and made and Turkeys). We will also have a spring run copies. A special thank you to the following local in March right before the break. We invite businesses that sponsored our largest booths: Buffalo’s you to join in on the fun with your student(s)!!! Reef, Dr. Tara Harden M.D., David Simpson Law Offices, and Here Wee Grow Again. Many other businesses also ART ROOM NEWS supported us in monetary and/or supply donations. Art to Remember items should arrive by November They are Corner Café, Lowes, Sam’s Club, Publix, FWB 28th. Late Art to Remember orders may be placed online Bowl, and The Macaroon Chef. We’re so glad that so at https://order.arttoremember.com many students and their families were able to join us th through January 4 . Submissions for the for this annual event! Doodle 4 Google art contest are open to all students until December 1st. Like all TITLE I CORNER Google Doodles, each doodle must We have all heard of the importance of incorporate the letters G-o-o-g-l-e. More information is reading to our kids and having our kids available at https://doodles.google.com/d4g/ and in read to us. However, have you ever thought of having a “written book talk” with your child? Here is how it MATH HOMEWORK TIPS FOR PARENTS works: The parent pre-reads the book or a portion of a 1. Encourage your student to use a daily math book and then writes down a question for the child to assignment book. Follow the progress your answer. For example, “Can you tell me what is going to student is making in math. Check with your happen next?” or “What did you like in this book?” Any student daily about his/her homework. leading question will do and you can use sheets of 2. If you don't understand your student's math notebook paper or a notebook. This practice is fun, assignments, engage in frequent insightful and it increases reading and writing fluency at communication with his or her teacher. the same time. November is Florida’s Parental 3. If your student is experiencing problems in Involvement in Education Month. Please get involved math, contact the teacher to learn whether he and try these tips. You will like it, and it will improve or she is working at grade level and what can be your child’s skills at the same time! done at home to help improve academic progress. MEDIA CENTER NEWS 4. Use household chores as opportunities for The Media Center would like to send out a reinforcing math learning such as cooking and huge THANK YOU to all of our volunteers repair activities. for helping to make our book fair a huge 5. Try to be aware of how your student is being success! There is no way that we could do it taught math, and don't teach strategies and without all of the support that we receive. Keep an eye shortcuts that conflict with the approach the out for information about our Read S’more Holiday teacher is using. Check in with the teacher and Reading Challenge coming home at the end of ask what you can do to help. Ask the teacher November. At the end of each nine week grading about online resources that you can use with period the Accelerated Reader Star Award will be given your student at home. to the student with an 80% accuracy rate and the st highest percent toward their goal. Our 1 nine weeks DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR party was held on October 14th and our stars listed below had a great time! NOVEMBER Parental Involvement Month Congrats to our 1st Nine Weeks Stars!! National Child Safety and Protection Month Lane Daly (Baker, M) Tina Le (Baker, M) th Brooklynn Killingsworth (Mundy) Blaize Barkley (O’Berc) 1 – Krispy Kreme Fundraiser through the 17 Atlantis Carroll (Mundy) Traquarius Wesley (O’Berc) 1 - Kindergarten Conferences through the 4th Porter Harden (Osborn) Melea Miller (Muckridge Andrew Cochran (Ball) Emberlee Cox (Pulliam) 2 – PTO (PACK) meeting @ 5:00pm in Media Center rd th th Joshua Rayen (Bittakis) Maximus Whitaker (Robinson) 1 – 3 , 4 , 5 grade DEA testing through 12/16 Elijah London (Catledge) Joshua Glaze (Sasser) 3 – Volunteer Training @ 8:45am in Media Center Mason Snodgrass (Herbert) Demarion Tidwell (Swanson) Kalden Eastwood (Mason) Riley Ridley (Howell) 3 - Volunteer Training @ 12:00pm in Media Center Alyssa Brooks (Vu) 4 - Box Tops & Labels Collection Day 8 – 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade Spelling Bee 1:15pm in Cafeteria

9 – 5th grade Science DEA testing through 12/16 CLINIC CORNER 10 – Veterans Day Celebration & Parade Cold and Flu Season has arrived! Practice good hand 11 – Veterans Day Holiday, NO SCHOOL washing techniques with your families. To help your 15 - Thanksgiving Feast in Café during lunch times child get through this time, you can 15 – SAC meeting @ 3:30pm in Media Center have medications like Tylenol, 18 – Turkey Trot during PE times Motrin, Cough Syrup, and lozenges 21-25 – Thanksgiving Day Holidays, NO SCHOOL in the clinic for them. Please do not

send ANY medications to school with your child! You must register DECEMBER them in the clinic. Since the 1 – Volunteer Training @ 8:45am in Media Center weather is changing so often now, please remember to 1 - Volunteer Training @ 5:00pm in Media Center dress your child in layers. If your child has asthma, 2 - Box Tops & Labels Collection Day please make sure his/her rescue inhaler is in the clinic. 3 – Breakfast with Santa @ 8:00am in cafeteria Also, please remember to pack an extra change of 5- 9 – Student Council Candygram Fundraiser clothes for your child to keep at school. These clothes 7 – PTO meeting @ 5:00pm in Media Center will only be used for your child and kept in their cubby. 12 - 16 – PTO Candy Cane Lane Shop Fundraiser 12 – Christmas Luncheon in Café during lunch times rd 19 - January 3 - Winter Break Holidays NO SCHOOL