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Kiowa Elementary School
525 Comanche, PO Box 128, Kiowa, Colorado 80117
303-621-2042
“Accredited with Distinction”
T ruth R espect I ndividuality B ravery E xcellence
Calendar of Events
October 2014
2nd
Late Start
8th
Walk or Bike to School Day
8th
Farm Day
9th
Fourth Grade Field Trip
14th
Picture Retakes
20th – 23rd
Book Fair in Elementary Library
23rd
Parent/Teacher Conferences
30th
Fall Costume Parade and class parties
Future Events
Nov. 1st
Kiowa Craft Show
Nov. 6th
Late Start
Nov. 22nd
Jr. Class Carnival
Nov. 26 & 27th
Thanksgiving Break
Monthly Meetings
1st Monday
2nd Monday
3rd Monday
4th Monday
2nd Tuesday
3rd Wednesday
Kiowa Community 4-H – HS Cafeteria – 7:00 p.m.
Accountability Meeting – HS Library – 4:00 p.m.
KPTCC – HS Cafeteria – 4:00 p.m.
Booster Club – HS Library – 4:00 p.m.
Kiowa Youth Athletics Assn. – HS Cafeteria 5:30 p.m.
School Board Meeting – MS Workroom – 5:30 p.m.
Walk or Bike to School Day
Walk or Bike to School Day is October 8th. We
are encouraging everyone to walk or bike to
school. We have gotten approval from the
fairgrounds to have any staff/students park
there and walk from the fairgrounds. Parents
may also park there and walk (if you live too
far to walk from your house). If you drop your
kids off there to walk we ask that they walk in
at least pairs so nobody is walking alone. We
have also notified the Police Department so
they know more kids than usual will be
walking that day and they can help us out if
needed for traffic. Please encourage your
students to participate. See attached flyer.
Parent/Teacher Conferences
October 23rd is our Parent/Teacher
Conferences. There will be no school that day
for our students. Teachers will be sending
home more information regarding your
conference soon.
Fall Costume Parade
October 30th elementary will participate in the
Fall Costume Parade. Students may bring their
costumes to school and we will allow them
time to change for our parade at 2:30. (Please
no face paint, hair color or weapons) Our
community businesses share in the fun of this.
They join us and hand out candy for our
students. Make sure to thank them for
participating. Without them we could not do
this. Attached is a form if your business is
interested in participating this year.
Mrs. Sewald - Library
The leaves are changing, the days are cool and
the nights are chilly. That must mean it’s time
to FALL into a good book! Our Kiowa
Elementary Library is a busy place! This year
we have so many new books for your child to
read, and of course many classic books that
have withstood the test of time. Thanks to
book grants and our Scholastic Book Fairs, I
have been able to add to our library collection
ensuring that your child can keep up with the
adventures of their favorite literary characters.
We are exploring all of the fiction and nonfiction genres this year, and library time
features stories and discussion that I hope will
foster their love of reading. October is also
time for our Fall Book Fair. We will open our
book fair on October 20th and stay open
through parent teacher conferences on October
23rd. Books provide families with a great
reason to share time together. They make great
holiday gifts too! Please stop by during the
week and support our library. Scholastic has
provided hundreds of books and items for our
library that benefit your child. See you there!
Student Senate
KPTCC
KPTCC is asking for parents to help us provide
a hot, homemade meal for the teachers during
Parent Teacher conferences on Thursday,
October 23. We will be serving a selection of
homemade soups, salad, bread, and desserts. If
you are willing to provide an item for the meal,
please contact Sue Walker @ 720-245-4541.
BoxTops: Keep those BoxTops coming in. We
will be sending off our first collection at the
end of October and it takes considerable time to
get them ready. Bonus BoxTops, EBoxTops
and/or EScripts are nearing the expiration date
for redemption. Please turn these in ASAP. All
funds collected through these programs benefit
many programs in Kiowa Schools, and are
“free money” so, please don’t throw it away!
Check the bulletin board inside the double
doors of the Elementary school for BoxTop
updates and information on how KPTCC is
helping support Kiowa Schools. Ask your
parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors
and everyone to save Box Tops and EScripts
for us. We also collect Campbell’s soup
labels, used cell phones and computer ink
cartridges. All items collected may be turned
in to your school office. Call Betty Hood at
303-243-0755 if you have any questions.
Do you shop at Target?
Did you know that Target supports Kiowa
schools? Choose your favorite Kiowa school
when you shop at Target using your Target
RED card. Target will donate 1% of your RED
card purchases to Kiowa Schools on any
purchases made at Target and Target.com.
TRIBE Warrior
To be a TRIBE Warrior is a special honor. To
earn this honor you must be showing Tribe
everyday all day long plus not lose any
classroom incentives. Each classroom has
some kind of incentive, sticks, cards, marbles,
etc., to be a TRIBE Warrior you must be giving
your best at all times.
TRIBE Warriors will be announced every
Monday. TRIBE Warriors will be given a
TRIBE Warrior button to wear for the
following week. Every day of the week you are
selected as a TRIBE Warrior, wear your button
so you can go to the front of the lunch line.
Also, the Thursday after you are named TRIBE
Warrior you will be getting a “to go lunch”
and having lunch with a special person in one
of the classrooms. TRIBE Warriors will have
their picture taken and be able to write a
paragraph about how they earned the honor of
TRIBE Warrior to be displayed on the bulletin
board in front of the Elementary Library. Keep
your button; when you are TRIBE Warrior
more than once we will add a sticker to it.
We will be having an Ultimate TRIBE activity
at the end of each semester. To be invited to
attend, you will need to have earned TRIBE
Warrior at least once in the semester and
consistently show TRIBE.
Good luck, we hope to see your picture on the
TRIBE Warrior bulletin board soon.
Congratulations to the following TRIBE
Warriors:
Week of September 15, 2014
Gabehart – Molly Piper
S. Donnellon – Lili Ehlers
J Carnahan – Berkley Schneider
Moorman – Karina Vidales
K Carnahan – Jordan Perreault
Ehlers – Todd Miner
Henderson – Laramie Taylor
Pfeifer – Kenley Sparks
M Donnellon Zach Daughenbaugh
McClain – Kallie Lemon
Kinsey – Trenton Ehlers
Week of September 22, 2014
Gabehart – Ryker Moorman
S Donnellon – Madison Martin
J Carnahan – Myles Erker
Moorman – Liam Eckhardt
K Carnahan – Alex Tatreau
Ehlers – Paola Vidales
Henderson – Raelyn Kelty
Pfeifer – NA
M Donnellon – Kailey Hill-Hermes
McClain – Kinsey Bitterman
Kinsey – Vincent Hermes
Lane – Danielle Bernal
What’s going on in your child’s classroom?
Mrs. Gabehart – Pre-school
In the month of October the Preschool will be
doing units on Transportation, Seasons, fall and
Leaves and Halloween and Pumpkins. We
have been very busy learning how to write our
names, letters and numbers. We have been
learning the days of the week and months of the
year and talking about yesterday and tomorrow.
This month we will start to learn about all the
coins and how much money each of them are
worth. October is a busy month with picture
retakes on the 14th, Parent/Teacher Conferences
on the 23rd, and our Halloween party on the
29th. Please check your child’s folder each day
for information to follow on all of these
events. Fall is here so please send your child to
school with a jacket as the weather starts to
change. Have a Happy October!!
Mrs. Donnellon – Kindergarten
Here we are already into fall. Where is the time
going? This month we will be learning about
plants and their live cycles. We will also be
studying some life cycles of other animals. We
will continue to work hard on our letters and
sounds so that we can begin to write and read
fluently and more easily. We will also work on
our sight words. Once the students have all 40
words memorized from the year, I will bring
them a root beer float during lunch! They love
it. In writing we will continue to work on using
a web to plan our writing and writing complete
sentences using capitals and periods. I am not
worried about correct spelling when they sound
out words, as long as they are hearing the
beginning sounds, middle sounds and ending
sounds of words. All of the spelling rules that
our crazy language uses will come later. We
have parent teacher conferences this month and
I am excited to meet with you all to discuss
your child’s progress!
Mrs. Carnahan – 1st
The first grade class has been working hard and
learning a lot! This month in Math, we will be
working on different strategies for doing
subtraction with numbers up to 10. We will
continue to practice mental math and work with
touch points. Our Reading lessons will have
stories about friends & neighbors, and we will
practice blending words with short vowels.
Our Spelling words each week will also be
short vowel words. The kids are doing a great
job learning the spelling words! We will learn
about nouns, verbs, & adjectives in Grammar.
We will practice handwriting & writing
complete sentences and adding details. In
Science, we will learn about animals & plants
and focus on their characteristics and their
needs. We are going to learn about our
community in Social Studies. First graders are
going to have a busy month!
Mrs. Moorman – 2nd
Second grade has been working really hard at
reading stories and being able to answer
questions going along with the story. Make
sure to ask your student questions about what
they have read from their nightly reading
homework. Asking them basic questions like;
who, what, when, where and how are very
beneficial to their reading comprehension. In
reading we will be learning about using context
clues to help us understand what we are
reading, parts of a story, cause and effect,
author’s word choice and author’s purpose. In
writing we will be wrapping up narrative
writing and working on informative writing.
In phonics/language arts we will be working
with words that have a common final blend (nd,
ng, nt, ft, xt, mp), double consonants and ck
words, consonant digraphs (th, sh, wh, ch, tch,
ph), base words/endings (-s, -ed, and –ing) and
contractions. In math we will be continuing
place value and adding and subtracting. In
math we will be finishing place value and then
moving on to addition facts. We will be
working with doubles facts, adding 3 addends,
making a ten to add and repeated addition. In
science we will be wrapping up learning about
science safety and the scientific method and
moving on to learning about the different layers
of the Earth and Water. In Social Studies we
will move into what it means to be a good
citizen all around the world and about history
and time and how our world has evolved over
the years. Please watch for information about
the Fall Costume party/parade. If you signed up
to participate for the Halloween festivities
during back to school night, please expect a
phone call coming from our room mom Ashley
Kinman. I’m very proud of each and every one
of your students. They are growing and
learning so much already in second grade!
Mrs. Ehlers/Ms. Carnahan – 3rd
Time is passing quickly; it’s hard to believe
that we are halfway through the first quarter.
The 3rd Grade enjoyed an exciting field trip,
chaperoned by Mrs. Miner, Mrs. Buker, Mrs.
Lindaur and Mrs. Clausen, to the new History
Colorado Museum. They took an interactive
tour about people and places in Colorado
History. They had farm chores to complete;
attended a rural school; rode in a Model T;
mined for gold, including setting dynamite
charges, and sat through a Colorado dust
storm. In the afternoon we toured the State
Capitol and saw the brilliant new gold dome.
We also took lots of notes about the building
materials used in the Capitol as we are studying
rock and minerals in science. In math we finish
our first chapter about strategies for
determining sums and differences. We will
now be working on graphs and interrupting
data in addition to working on multiplication;
addition and subtraction. In reading we are
working on cause and effect, along with finding
text evidence to support answers. In writing we
are working on personal narratives. In
language we are reviewing proper and common
nouns, identifying different parts of speech and
writing complete paragraphs. The 3rd Grade
has settled in very nicely to their routines.
Homework is taking less time and being turned
in on time – YEA! We appreciate all the time
and support that you give to your student; this
is time well spent and will enhance their future
in ways that you won’t even know about.
Thank you!
Mrs. Henderson/Ms. Pfeifer -4th
Happy fall! We are definitely hard at work in
4th grade! We are finishing up our energy unit
in science and will be moving into social
studies, which will find us learning about the
geography of Colorado. We have been
working on personal narratives in writing and
are finishing those up as well. The students
have written about memorable moments and
their most embarrassing moments. Math has us
working with multi-digit multiplication
problems. PLEASE encourage your student to
be practicing their multiplication facts at
home. Knowing their basic facts is so
important as we move into these harder
multiplication problems! We continue to read
great stories in reading and work on reading
skills and strategies the students need to be
great readers. Make sure they are reading as
much as they can each day. We will be taking
our field trip on October 9th. Please make sure
to send a lunch and water bottle with your
student that day and also have them wear tennis
shoes. At the end of the month will be our Fall
Costume Parade and Halloween party. If you
are interested in helping with that please let
either Mrs. Henderson or Ms. Pfeifer know!
We are planning on combining for this and will
be sending home more information in the next
couple weeks.
Mrs. McClain/Ms. Donnellon - 5th
5th grade will be starting informational writing.
We will be doing research to help with our
writing and focusing on our word choice and
ideas. During reading we will be talking about
cause and effect, main idea and details, and
author’s purpose. During science we are going
to start talking about the human body and our
body systems. We will see how cells connect
and make up everything in our body. In Social
Studies we will be studying the 5 regions of the
United States starting with the West Region.
Students will be learning the spelling and
location of each state within the region. We
will start learning about division in math.
Please make sure you are practicing math facts
at home every night! Watch for information
about Fall Costume Parade and the party.
Mrs. Kinsey P.E.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
IMPORTANT
Parents, please make sure that you have signed
and returned my physical education form if your
child has any medical conditions that may affect
them in PE.
Coming up in October we will be focusing on
kicking, footwork, balance and activities that
involve the lower body. Students will be able
to demonstrate how to kick a ball, control a ball
and how to
increase their lower
body strength
and their balance.
This month you
can practice
kicking and
balance with your
students and if
you are feeling really
ambitious you can play a game of “keep away”
with a ball with them as well.
Students are already taking several steps in PE.
We are continuing to use pedometers and
encouraging activity throughout PE class. If
you would like to help your child get extra
physical activity each day, purchasing a
pedometer and rewarding them for steps is a
great way to motivate them.
Physical activity each day increases children’s
ability to process and retain information.
Eating healthy and getting plenty of exercise
will give your student the best chance for
success in school and in life. Remember, your
encouragement is very important to your
child’s health; you are their best and strongest
role models.
I look forward to another great year with your
students.
Have a wonderful October. Happy Halloween!
Mrs. Kinsey
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It has lots of new information:
Go to www.kiowaschool.org