December 2011 Kendall Kaleidoscope KENDALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 2408 Meadow Lake Drive Naperville, IL 60564 Main Phone: 630-428-7100 Attendance Line: 630-428-7100 #3 On the web: http://kendall.ipsd.org Kendall PTA - together making a difference in the lives of our children. Principal’s Message Dear Kendall Parents: We are grateful for your participation in November’s parent-teacher conferences. Suggestions by affirmation from your survey feedback were reviewed by our leadership team and will assist us in maximizing our effectiveness. On December 5 th six Kendall staff members and PDAC (Parent Diversity Advisory Council) liaison, Mrs. Naseem Ghouse, will attend the second annual World Café experience held at Waubonsie Valley High School. Conversations and questions that matter about bridging academics and building community drives our effort in ensuring academic excellence for all. Parents, educators, administrators and PTA representatives will be in attendance and participate in this evening event. I am excited to share that Kendall’s Specials Team including: Mr. Popovich, Mrs. Burck, Mrs. Bader Neczek and Mrs. Gutmann received a $1,500 grant from the Indian Prairie Education Foundation. The Specials Team wrote the grant as part of the application process for Artist in Residence, Ms. Amanda Crockett to perform at United and Unique on December 21 & 22. Please see additional information about this grant in this newsletter. Many culturally significant celebrations and events occur during the fall and winter months. You are encouraged to share your family traditions with your child’s class. It enriches our school community to learn from one another and to celebrate our rich background experiences. Please contact your child’s teacher if you are interested. Winter break will soon be upon us! May your families spend time reflecting on the many blessings of past, present and may you look toward the future with great hope. Sincerely, Lena Guerrieri Principal Home of the PATRIOTS Recess Reminder: With our weather changing, snow may soon be on its way. To participate on a snowy field, snow pants and boots are required.
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December 2011Kendall Kaleidoscope
KENDALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2408 Meadow Lake Drive Naperville, IL 60564
Main Phone: 630-428-7100 Attendance Line: 630-428-7100 #3 On the web: http://kendall.ipsd.orgKendall PTA - together making a difference in the lives of our children.
Principal’s MessageDear Kendall Parents:
We are grateful for your participation in November’s parent-teacher conferences. Suggestions by affirmation from your survey feedback were reviewed by our leadership team and will assist us in maximizing our effectiveness.
On December 5th six Kendall staff members and PDAC (Parent Diversity Advisory Council) liaison, Mrs. Naseem Ghouse, will attend the second annual World Café experience held at Waubonsie Valley High School. Conversations and questions that matter about bridging academics and building community drives our effort in ensuring academic excellence for all. Parents, educators, administrators and PTA representatives will be in attendance and participate in this evening event.
I am excited to share that Kendall’s Specials Team including: Mr. Popovich, Mrs. Burck, Mrs. Bader Neczek and Mrs. Gutmann received a $1,500 grant from the Indian Prairie Education Foundation. The Specials Team wrote the grant as part of the application process for Artist in Residence, Ms. Amanda Crockett to perform at United and Unique on December 21 & 22. Please see additional information about this grant in this newsletter.
Many culturally significant celebrations and events occur during the fall and winter months. You are encouraged to share your family traditions with your child’s class. It enriches our school community to learn from one another and to celebrate our rich background experiences. Please contact your child’s teacher if you are interested.
Winter break will soon be upon us! May your families spend time reflecting on the many blessings of past, present and may you look toward the future with great hope.
Sincerely,
Lena GuerrieriPrincipal
Home of the PATRIOTS
Recess Reminder:With our weather changing, snow may soon be on its way. To participate on a snowy field, snow pants and boots are required.
It's hard to believe that 2011 is coming to an end. Thanks to everyone to who supported our PTA and worked so hard to make it a success. The PTA is looking forward to the many events we have planned for 2012....including our PTA Father/Son and Mother/Daughter events...details will be coming home soon!
Please join us on Dec. 14 for our PTA General Meeting at 7pm. We look forward to seeing you then. We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season and look forward to working together in 2012. If you should have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.
Growing concerns have arisen with the safety of student dismissal and vehicular traffic. Our school provides two dismissal lines including a front and side car option. The safety plan for student arrival and dismissal, as well as crosswalk locations, was determined by the Naperville Police Department.
Kendall is also a school that has no buses. Our school dismisses over 500 children by car. That being said, we know that traffic congestion is a given, however safety still needs to be a priority. Practicing safe procedures is imperative for all of our children.
Thank you to our families who are utilizing our pick up lines and following Kendall’s procedures. If you are not using them, I encourage you to please do so for the following reasons:
• There are no parking zones both on Meadow Lake Drive and Pradel Drive in which people are parking. These parked cars block the visibility of our parents who are utilizing our pick up lines. This results in having to pull around parked cars and narrowing the streets for two way traffic.
• There are families parking on nearby streets and children are crossing in the middle of a street rather than an identified school crosswalk.
Please display a sign in the passenger window of your car identifying those children whom you are picking up.
Thank you for making a concerted effort to join our lines provided and supervised by Kendall Staff. Your continued support is appreciated.
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When Sending Money to SchoolWhen sending money to school please make sure it is in an envelope marked with your child's name, class and what the money is for. Example: hot lunch, field trip, book order, chorus shirt, PTA enrichment, etc. Loose checks and money can easily get lost. Also, please make sure your child's name is in the memo section and your updated address and phone number appear on the check.
Thank You!
Thank you to everyone who participated in the "Pennies for Pies" Community Service Project. With all the change donated and pies that were purchased by Kendall families, we were able to donate 53 pies to Loaves & Fishes this year!!
Restaurant Fundraisers
Thank you to all the Kendall families who participated in our Jets and Wendys fundraising nights! Our school has raised almost $500 from the two events held in September and October, which is unprecedented and very much appreciated. We will have other nights with Jets and Wendys in the coming months. For the month of December, we are going to hold a fundraiser through Johnny's Red Hots at the location near 111th and Rt 59 by Caputos. They will contribute 15% of all our sales. The fundraising event will be held ALL DAY on Monday, December 19th from 11:00am - 9:00pm. When ordering, you will NOT be required to present a flyer for Kendall to get credit for the sale. So make sure you mention Kendall when you order and tell all your friends and neighbors to do the same.
Thanks again for supporting our past, and future, fundraising events!
Holiday Shoppe
A huge thank you to all the families who came out to support the annual Holiday Shoppe. There were lots of gifts purchased, and the children really enjoyed spending their money shopping for others! This event would not have been possible without all the wonderful volunteers: Donna Brock, Julie Fulgaro, Kimberly Karshen, Laurie Power, Karen Rush, Jennifer Sheriff, Mary Sorensen, Kelly Sweeney, Donna Tipton and all the kids who helped as well. Please continue to support our gracious vendors for your future needs (see next page). Because of them, our PTA earned a great deal of money on this event which ultimately goes to help support our students.
How do I know when my student's lunch balance is running low?
Create your FREE account by visiting: www.MealpayPlus.com
• check account balances online• receive e-mail reminders when your
student's balance is low• set up auto-replenish payments
You will need your child's student id number to register. Contact the school office (630-428-7100) if you have any questions.
Kendall Attendance Line
The attendance line is accessed by dialing our main number; 630-428-7100 and pressing 3.
Congratulations to the following writers for completing stories in the Publishing Center from mid-October to mid-November:
From Mrs. Dale’s class: Matt, Davis, Ashley Flickinger, Esha Kashaboina, Danijela Lazic, Sam Luciano, Kasey McGrath, Grace O’Donnell, Madeline Sampias, Kate Sexton, Abby Stankus, Lucy Stokes, Patrick Turner, and Shaleen Vohra
From Ms. Schmidt’s class: Alex Aguilar, Megan Bodily, Zach Buckler, Devon Cabrere, Daniella Caracci, Lauren Conroy, Dylan Formento, Charlie Hanneman, Naveed Hasan, Faith Johnson, Jared Moye, Haley Neiman, Aayush Parikh, and Ashley Pollock
From Ms. Sharp’s class: Alyssa Altman, Grace Davis, Lindsey Gies, Ronit Hedge, Jasmina Lasic, Mitchell Lutz, Simon Manaligod, Keegan Murray, Grace Raether, Cole Sampias, Gavin Schwartz, Isha Singal, Cassidy Sutton, Eva Topolewski, Aiden Tugman, Kara Vonnahme, Nick Vourtisis, Kara Webb, Blake Yore
From Mrs. Donivan’s class: Ella Hilbrant, Sam Horvath, Nupur Khanvilkar, Sarah Kuper, Daniel Lougin, Ellen Malone, Claire Peterson, Brain Shaffer, and Lauren Verdun
From Ms. Spires class: Austin Burke, Kelsey Davie, Galvin Thomas, Zack Luciano, Brooke Maimon, Cailey Maloney, Nicholas Pintar, and Angela Tan
From Mrs. Field’s class: Luke Belber, Ryan Buckler, Laim Dorsey, Joshua Drillenburg, John Feehan, Isabela Graham, Hasan Khan, Olivia Kowalczyk, Grace Mason, Caitlin McGrath, Rylan Ehrysse Mendoza, Charles Neiman, Ella Phalen, Jack Reina, Madeline Sell, Keegan Smith, Nicole Sterchele, Delaney Sulzer, Maura Tangney, Melissa Tea, Zach Thompson, Christopher Vonnahme, and Luke Yore.
All students from second grade to fifth grade can complete a story at the Publishing Center. Students are encouraged to talk to his/her teacher about arranging a time to publish a story.
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Market Day
We’d like to thank everyone who supported our Market Day sale in November, and we hope you will continue to help support this amazing monthly fundraising opportunity for our school. Market Day is pleased to offer restaurant quality food at reasonable prices. Please look for your December order guide to come home soon or visit marketday.com to order today.
FREEBIES IN DECEMBER- FREE Single Serve Kraft® Mac & Cheese with any grocery purchase PLUS...FREE Meatballs with any puchase of $90 or more online, when you enter the Promo Code: DECBONUS
COOKIE DOUGH BONUS DAYS- This year there are 10 different flavors of cookie dough to choose from, and will be delivered just in time for Holiday baking!Holiday Cookie Shapes kit- Chocolate Chunk Cookie Dough- Chocolate Mint Chip Cookie Dough- Lemon Cooler Cookie Dough- M&M® Cookie Dough- Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Dough- Peanut Butter Cookie Dough- Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough- Sugar Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough- White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie Dough
NEW THIS MONTH--Variety Cheesecake (#4942) Turtle, New York, Triple Chocolate & Strawberry Swirl. 8 inch/pre-sliced/$13.00-Stuffed Rigatoni with Italian Sausage (#7847) Single serve Italian in under six minutes! Stuffed with Ricotta & Pecorino Romano cheese. Topped with Italian sausage & marinara. 4-10 oz. trays/$15.99-Taco Pizzas (#7816) The original is back! Loaded with cheddar cheese, ground beef, bean dip & black olives, green & red peppers & taco seasonings. Crispy thin crust. 2-12 inch pizzas/$8.99
Freequent Buyer-December is your last chance to qualify for this fabulous bag!! You can earn a FREE Insulated Bag when they make two purchases of $40 between October and December and then place a third order of $40 in January. You will receive your free insulated bag at the January sale pick-up. Large size bag measures 17”H x 13”w x 13”!
REMINDERS: MARKET DAY ORDERS DUE TO SCHOOL: Friday, December 9th.or you can place your order on-line @ www.marketday.com until Saturday, December 10th @ 11pmMARKET DAY PICK-UP IS: Wednesday, December 14th, 6-7pm in the Kendall Gym
AS ALWAYS, WE NEED VOLUNTEERS If you are interested in volunteering just one hour of your time, please consider volunteering for Market Day. Each month we raffle two Market Day gift certificates and each time you volunteer, your name goes into that raffle! Our school sale is Wednesday, December 14th and we need volunteers from 5-6pm. For information on the Market Day program or to volunteer your time, please contact the Market Day chairperson...Christine Henderson (630)922-5424 or Laurie Korinek, (630)922-9926.
Kendall Grant RecipientsKendall School would like to congratulate our specials teachers, Angie Bader Neczek – Art, Andrea Burck – Music, Paul Popovich – PE and Pam Gutmann – LMC for writing and receiving an Indian Prairie Education Foundation grant titled United and Unique: Working Together to Learn.
The purpose of United and Unique is to build a sense of community for all students at Kendall Elementary. This opportunity will foster the sense that students are part of a larger community, but are still unique individuals. Kendall staff members acknowledge the diverse population in our community and want to provide children the opportunity to explore what makes each individual unique in a united community working together to learn. This annual event will expand on the 2010 inaugural concept, incorporating a different performance art each year (2010: storyteller, multi-cultural fine arts activities).
The goals for this grant include: develop self-awareness and self-management skills to achieve school and life success, use social-awareness and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain positive relationships, and demonstrate decision-making skills and responsible behaviors in personal, school, and community contexts.
Artist in Residence, Ms. Amanda Crockett, will introduce students to kinesthetic learning and storytelling through mime. Ms. Crockett will enhance the fine arts curriculum in theater and performance in a unique vehicle of expression. During her visit to Kendall she will meet with students in a workshop setting. The focus of these workshops will foster confidence building, kinesthetic learning and spatial awareness with all students and staff. Each grade level will have the opportunity to explore kinesthetic learning through interpretation and performance.
Ms. Crockett will demonstrate the connection between performing arts and literacy using mime and physical interpretation and addressing 21st century skills such as team building, working together and problem solving in a small-group setting. Learning outcomes for students will include: kinesthetic and intrapersonal learning, risk taking and perseverance.
IPPC Report - October 20, 2011
Dr. Kathy Birkett, Superintendent-Working on the school calendar. After this year, the last day of school in 2013 will be a full day. -Right now we have a 1.9 million deficit. We have to ask what can we eliminate or where can we downsize?-Reminded us not to believe everything we read in the newspaper.
Jason Altenbern, Community Relations Coordinator-Twenty-four schools in the district were involved with the coat drive.
Christy Russell IPPC Representative
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Free Fundraisers for Kendall
Please support our Patriots by participating in these easy fundraisers.
General Mills Box Tops for Education:Keep on clipping those box tops. All those dimes add up to dollars very quickly. We only get two chances in a school year to redeem our box tops; October and March. PLEASE do not hold on to your box tops. They do EXPIRE, so if you have them, send them in. For more information go to www.boxtops4education.com.
Tyson Project A+:Tyson labels are worth $.24 each and can be found on over 50 Tyson products in your grocer’s freezer. For more information go to http://www.tyson.com/projectaplus/. These clippings can be placed in the designated box in the LMC.
Target:Take Charge of Education. Sign up for a Target Visa or a Target Card. Visit www.target.com/tcoe or call 1-800-316-6142 and designate Kendall Elementary as your school to receive up to 1% of your purchases.
Meijer Community Rewards:Sign up for a Meijer credit card. Visit www.meijer.com or call 1-800-962-7011 and designate Kendall Elementary as your school of choice to receive 1% of your purchases. Our organization code is 694295.
Box Tops Marketplace:If you love to shop online, start your shopping at www.boxtops4education.com. Click on the Box Tops marketplace tab and check out all the participating stores and catalog companies that give a percentage of your purchases to our school.
Thanks to all the families who continue to support these free fundraisers! If you have any questions, please call Christine Henderson 630-922-5424.
Indian Prairie Special Needs PTABy Jennifer MayLiaison to Indian Prairie Special Needs PTA for Kendall Elementary
The Indian Prairie Special Needs PTA is a resource of information for children with special needs receiving education in District 204. It is the first and largest Special Needs PTA in Illinois. The PTA meets monthly and information can be found on the districts website at www.ipsd.org, click on Organizations, and then click on Special Needs PTA. The Special Needs PTA meets the third Tuesday of each month, (except December) in the Board Room at the Howard E. Crouse Education Center at 7pm. The meeting schedule for 2011-2012 is as follows:
December: No meeting
January 17: Kathy Birkett: District Update and Joy Pierson: Special Olympics
February 21: Transitions Roundtable & Teacher Grant Recipients
March 20: Sharon Tate – District Staff Training and Services for special needs
April 17: Sebastian Oros – District Social Worker – Video Modeling and Social Skills
May 15: Dr. Kathy Birkett and Recognition Ceremony
(Meeting dates and topics/speakers are subject to change.)
If you have any questions or concerns or suggestions please contact Jennifer May, Liaison for the Special Needs PTA for Kendall at [email protected].
Winter Greetings from the LMC! by Mrs. Gutmann, LMC Director
It’s time once again to catch you up on what’s going on in the Library Media Center (LMC).
Kin ConnectOur Kin Connect program connects materials from the LMC with the curricular focus in our Kindergarten classrooms. The program occurs monthly, and I would like to thank our two coordinators, Kelly Sweeney and Donna Tipton, for contacting Kindergarten parent volunteers to provide the activities for our students. Another thank you goes to all of the parent volunteers who volunteered to implement this program for our Kindergarten students.
The October focus for Kin Connect was Kindergarteners becoming new bookworms, and students heard the book Stella Louella’s Runaway Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst read aloud to them.
The November focus for this program was Thanksgiving. Students heard a funny story ,”An Alphabet Turkey” using every letter of the alphabet and then participated in their first cut and tell story entitled “The Pilgrims Find a Goblin.” Students listened to the story and followed directions to cut a piece of paper into a special shape that coordinated with the story.
The December program will use gingerbread as its theme. Students will hear the Hawaiian version of the Gingerbread Man called The Musubi Man. They will also participate in a Gingerbread Men fingerplay and complete a special glyph (pictograph) based on following directions.
“Carry Out a Good Book” Reading ProgramOur fall schoolwide reading program concluded in November. Each week students who met their reading goals returned a special topping cutout for our big wall display in the LMC. Students who reached their reading goals for all four weeks of the program qualified to receive a free ticket to one of four Chicago Wolves hockey games.
Illinois State Award Reading ProgramsThere are four state reading award programs in which Illinois students may participate. The Monarch Award program is for students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade. The Bluestem Award program is for students in 3rd grade through 5th grade. The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award program is for students in 4th grade through 8th grade. The Abe Lincoln Award program is for students in high school. These programs are all readers’ choice award programs which means participating students vote for their favorite books from the 2012 master lists. Kendall students’ votes are combined with those from the other Illinois students participating in the programs to determine the state winner for each program. Here are the links to the 2012 Master Lists for each program. Just click on the 2012 Master List link once you are on the award program page.Monarch Award: http://www.islma.org/monarch.htmBluestem Award: http://www.islma.org/Bluestem.htmRebecca Caudill Award: http://www.rcyrba.org/Abraham Lincoln Award: http://www.islma.org/lincoln.htm
Accelerated ReaderKendall students in grades 2 through 5 are able to participate in the Accelerated Reader program. This program requires students to read selected books and take quizzes on them. Students accumulate points when passing the quizzes. Upon reaching certain point milestones, students qualify for AR rewards. The point milestones are: 5, 15, 25 and then 25-point increments to 300. From 300 points students may continue to accumulate points up to 500 points. At this milestone students will start again at zero. All AR points carry over each year so students do not have to start all over again until they reach 500 points.
There are two ways students can determine which LMC books are Accelerated Reader titles that have quizzes available. They may check the library shelves for books with orange spine label protectors or use Quizlist Interactive to search by reading level, author, title or subject. This website can also be found on the Kendall School webpage under Patriot Favorites or by using this link http://www.quizlist.net/(S(yf4gfde55u43djbg4y5mtcj2))/search.aspx?id=12341.
At the end of each quarter the student at each grade level (2nd through 5th for Q1) who has accumulated the most points during the quarter receives special recognition on our AR Stars bulletin board. For Quarter 1 these students are our AR Stars: Katherine Grawe (2S), Christopher Smith (3D), Jared Moye (4LS), and Hari Sridhara (5P) Congratulations to these AR Stars!
First graders were introduced to the Accelerated Reader program in November and will be included in our AR Stars for Quarter 2.
Information Literacy ClassesEach class meets with me once a week either in the LMC or the computer lab to address either library or technology skills. These skills are integrated as much as possible with the classroom curriculum. Recently these are some of the topics students have been addressing.Kindergarten: Monarch Award program introduction, Monarch read alouds, alphabet bingo and alphabet match in the computer lab and site word practice in the computer lab.First Grade: Monarch Award program introduction, Monarch read alouds, math enrichment and site word practice in the computer lab.Second Grade: Monarch Award program introduction, Monarch read alouds, math enrichment and site word practice in the computer lab.Third Grade: Monarch and Bluestem Award program introductions, survey on bullying and the completion of a fall poem template in the computer lab.Fourth Grade: Bluestem and Rebecca Caudill Award program introductions, survey on bullying in the computer lab, introduction to the Big 6 research model for body systems research, advance preparation and Skype event for author Laurel Snyder on November 18. Fifth Grade: Bluestem and Rebecca Caudill Award program introductions, survey on bullying and completion of Fall Senses template in the computer lab.
Students in grades 2 through 5 took a technology pre-assessment in the computer lab to see how much they know about using computers, Kendall’s online catalog and the research process (grades 4 & 5). They will repeat the assessment in late spring to check what they have learned.
Winter Schoolwide Reading ProgramComing in January, the LMC will sponsor a winter reading program where students can earn a voucher for a free Six Flags admission and a free ticket to a Kane County Cougars baseball game.
