Hello Kildeer Families!

We ended the week on a great note. Our entire staff and all of our amazing students joined to celebrate the end of the first trimester at the Cougar Pride Assembly. (Check out the link for some photos: COUGAR PRIDE ASSEMBLY) The feeling in the room was full of energy and positivity. We sang, we asked for some audience participation, and we talked about our goal moving forward with really digging into the concept of "empathy". I was also honored to receive a beautiful portrait by a 5th-grade student. She drew this for Principal Appreciation. 

If you know Greg Grana, Principal at Woodlawn Middle School, then you know he's pretty entertaining. I received a call from him the other day when he saw this portrait. Do you know what he said? "Mrs. Kieser, I have to say there is a lot of buzz around here about this portrait of you. I mean, come on, this student totally 'nailed it' with your hair!"

We are leaving trimester one with a sense of accomplishment and feeling really proud of our students and staff! Thank you for your continued partnership with our school. We look forward to a fabulous trimester 2!

*NEW INFORMATION*

New to conferences this year are Parent Workshops and Child Care!  

Parent Workshops:  Instructional coaches will provide learning opportunities for parents during each day of conferences.  Please click on the link provided to learn more about the workshop sessions and times.

Kildeer Parent Workshop Schedule

Child Care: Child care will be available at each of the elementary schools during conferences.  Children ages 2 and up are welcome to join District 96 staff in the cafeteria so that parents can attend conferences and parent workshops.  There will be a variety of quiet activities available for children to participate in. Stop by, sign your child in and you are all set! Click on the CHILD CARE link below for more information. 

Kildeer Child Care

*NEW INFORMATION*

Art Room Request

The Art Room needs empty plastic gallon milk or juice jugs.

Please make sure they are emptied and washed out. Have your student bring them down to the Art Room. 

*REPEAT INFORMATION*

Family Reading Night

Family Reading Night is Thursday, November 15th from 6:30-7:45. Families will be able to enjoy quality time reading with your child right here at Kildeer! Mrs. Smith from the Vernon Area Public Library will also be at school to share information about their library programs. In addition, we will have teachers reading aloud with fun activities to go along with each book! Our theme is Reading Takes You Everywhere.

Please keep in mind that children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.  There will be two sessions. Your family will decide which stations to attend.  Once a choice is made, we ask that you remain with your child inside the classroom for the entire session.  We look forward to seeing you there for this community event to celebrate READING!

*REPEAT INFORMATION*

Student Council:

-Unwanted Halloween candy drive Nov. 5-16.

-Have some candy you don’t like? Put it into our unwanted candy boxes.

-Coat Drive: Please bring in new coats or barely used, we will not accept worn out ones.

-Family Reading Night Nov. 15, 6:30-7:45

From the Band & Orchestra Boosters:

Find the latest information from the District 96 Band & Orchestra Boosters in their BLOG.

Congratulations to our orchestra students for a wonderful concert this week! We are very proud of you! 

Click HERE to catch up on very important information from our PTO!

Highlights:

• Please Send in Class Gift Donations

• Holiday Spiritwear Sale is OPEN!   

• Kildeer Coat Drive HAS BEGUN…Send in your outgrown coats Please!!

• New Dessert Day Choices and a link for Nutritional Information/Ingredient List  

• 5th Grade Parents: Send in your 5th Grader’s Baby Picture for Yearbook!

To close out our assembly, I wanted to take a moment to make sure we recognized someone else in the room. I shared with the students that we have recognized me as the principal a lot lately, but there are others that deserve it even more!

"Take a look around the room at every single adult in the room. We are lucky with the best staff around and that they are working so very hard to help YOU be successful. Can we please say 'thank you'?"

We proceeded to cheer and clap wildly in support of our fabulous staff. I'm not sure how many principals get to stand up in front of nearly 600 people to say, "I just might have the best job in the whole world because of each and every person in this room!"

As staff exited the gym, they got a high-five, fist-bump, or even a hug, from me! I handed them a rose, looked them in the eye, and thanked them for all that they do! (I might have gotten a little into it like "The Bachelorette" if you ever have watched that. Mrs. Fineman, do you accept this rose?")

We have really great things happening at Kildeer and I continue to be extremely proud of our school's adventure! 

I'll leave you with a little video of how our trimester began when we came together for I AM ME...WE ARE KILDEER. Please enjoy a trip down memory lane.

I hope any families that have recently celebrated El Día de los Muertos or are currently celebrating Diwali are enjoying the family time together. If you ever have something that your family celebrates and would like to share with us, please feel free to send me an email! We'd love to feature the different celebrations in our blog. Happy Veteran's Day on Monday!

Have a lovely weekend and we hope to see your family at Family Reading Night this week! Let's continue to learn from and about each other!

Warm Regards,

Mrs. Vail Kieser

Principal