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May 14, 2025
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Elementary School Stories and Songs
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Thanks to all who attended the Elementary School evening of music and performance. Music Teacher Rachel Matos deserves the leadership credit for brainstorming, creating, preparing, and supporting the performance. We really do have the most amazing students! Believe it or not, we are already preparing for next year's performance. Thanks also to parents who remained behind to help clean up the Social Hall for the Church.
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Teacher Appreciation
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On behalf of the entire staff, I want to share a heartfelt thank you to all KAS parents for your support of KAS Teacher Appreciation Week. Teachers enjoyed their breakfasts, class coverages, lunches, and gifts over the course of the entire week. It was a pleasure to get a few minutes over lunch as a team to relax and laugh. We appreciate you - and we're so grateful to be part of this amazing school.
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Graduation & Moving Up Ceremony
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Each year the time comes when KAS eighth graders complete their course of study and graduate from our school. KAS will host this year's graduation Friday morning, May 30th in the Church as it has done for years. It is a bittersweet event that is followed by the Moving Up Ceremony - an event that symbolizes the move from one grade to the next for all our students. The day prior, Middle Schoolers also enjoy the tradition of a final graduation brunch with their teachers to celebrate a year of hard work while they wish our graduates well as they look to begin high school.
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Kids of Steel Run Success. Thanks to coaches Zach Milton (Evey's parent), and Saralinda Haskell (Nathan's and Andrew's parent) for all their help with running club, the KAS cross country team, and preparation for the Kids for Steel Run (picture above). It's been a hugely successful program and one we will hope to expand in the fall. As a point of reference, over half the school participated in our program in one form or another.
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STEM CHALLENGE 2 THIS WEEK!
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STEM 2 is here! This week, KAS will launch its second all-school Science-Technology-Engineering-Math (STEM) challenge of the year. Unlike the Tower Building (our first event), teachers will be more participatory, and students will work in smaller groups of age-level peers. We look forward to sharing the results with you on social media next week. The goal? Create a vehicle that will roll and transport a kangaroo stuffie from the top of a ramp, across a room, and into specific location. Good luck to all students: we look forward to you sharing your creative ideas.
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CMU Graduate Students Engage with Grades 4-8
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KAS parent Dave Culyba is a Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center and helped organize a wonderful event for our students in grades 4 through 8. With Dave's help, Team Leader and Graduate Student Eva Chang brought her team to KAS to play test a program they created that interfaces in real time with ChatGBT. Our students had the opportunity to learn some of the coding methods, and create unprompted commands for the game's main character. Each play test lasted 30 minutes and was a great joy for the students who participated.
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Read-A-Thon Concludes this Week.
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Thank you readers - and donors - for supporting the KAS Read-A-Thon this past two weeks. Our goal is to raise funds to enhance our classroom book sets, order more reading materials for our library, and start the process of improving the library physical space. We'll provide an update regarding the read-a-thon success next week.
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Artwork and Making Abounds! This is a special thank you to our teachers who embrace art and making as necessary components of learning at KAS. We have very creative and engaged artists at every grade level
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Traffic Calming Feedback. Thanks to our community members for working to make street safety a focus on Kentucky Avenue. I received a response from our Traffic Calming rep who stated that - at the moment - there is no plan to initiate changes to our street to improve pedestrian safety bu that at this will remain under consideration for the future. We will continue to press the City for safer traffic flow outside our school. That aside, PLEASE avoid parking on the yellow curb in the afternoon.
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Penny Wars Continue!
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For the last week, students, teachers, and parents have been voting on their favorite cereals in head-to-head competitions each day. This will continue for the next 2 weeks when a KAS Cereal Champion will be crowned! Please send in your extra change with your child: voting happens by placing pennies in the jar FOR their favorite choice, and silver coins AGAINST the cereal they don't want.
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