Red Ribbon Week

This week is Red Ribbon Week for Barrow County. Red Ribbon Week is the nation's largest and most successful drug awareness and prevention program done in educational facilities. Students will be educated on the dangers of drugs and encouraged to make healthy choices that will help them be successful. We will celebrate each day in a different way.
Monday is wear Red Day
Tuesday we will sock it to drugs by wearing crazy socks.
Wednesday is use your head and don't do drugs crazy hair day.
Thursday is give drugs the boot and wear boots and western wear.
Friday we will follow our dreams and not use drugs by wearing pajamas.

Friday will also be our costume dance from 5:00-7:00 pm and then we encourage everyone to cheer on the Chee as they battle Winder Barrow at 7:30pm.
It should be a great week.

Thank You Barrow County Fire Department

I would like to thank the BCFD for coming out and doing a fire safety presentation with our Pre-K through 3rd graders. Our students were given a chance to talk about what to do when the smoke detector goes off in their house, how firefighters use tools to protect people, and the importance of having a fire safety plan for their homes. They also got to see all the really "COOL" firefighter equipment. Thank you to Scott Dakin of Barrow County Fire Department for coming out and sharing with our kids.

Fabulously Fun Figurative language Fridays!!!

October marked KES's Love of Literacy push for the school year. Each Friday in October, teachers will be dressing up to represent different examples of figurative language. This week we had representation of idioms (an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is comprehended in regard to a common use of that expression that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made.); similes (a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words "like", "as", or "than".); metaphors (literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea); Onomatopoeia (refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises, such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar".) and alliteration (the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words and/or phrases.) Look at the following pictures to see if you can come up with each one?