Bags & Turkey Ready

The bags are all packed full of stuffing, potatoes, sweet potatoes, veggies and cranberry sauce, and the turkeys have all been delivered. Now it just time for them to be picked up. Thank you Ms. Bachman, PTO, teachers, students, STEPAN and Publix at Winder Crossing for working together to supply Thanksgiving Dinner to over 45 families. It was truly KES being Ready, Respectful, and Responsible!

Kennedy Gives Thanks by Giving Back

This week we have started our Thanksgiving meal drive. Our Habit from the book 7 Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey this week is: Begin with the end in mind or have a plan. At Kennedy, we decided to look at how many families we have that will need some assistance over the Thanksgiving holiday and have identified 45 different families that will need help. By beginning with that number, we knew just what our goal was and then we took the next step. That next step was to have a plan to get to our goal. Our plan was to assign each grade level a different food to bring in to help us reach our goal.

• Pre-k brought in Gravy




• Kindergarten brought in Mashed potato mix




• 1st grade brought in Stuffing




• 2nd grade brought in Corn bread/muffin mix




• 3rd grade brought in Canned veggies (green beans or carrots)




• 4th grade brought in Canned yams




• 5th grade brought in Marshmallows




• teachers brought in cranberry sauce




• Our business partners are helping with the turkeys

With our plan in place, we have already provided enough meals for over 50 families and we have not even gotten to our November 11th deadline.

I guess beginning with the end in mind and creating a plan really works! Great Job Kennedy

Vocabulary Parade 2011

Monday, Halloween Day, KES did its 3rd annual vocabulary parade. Students and teachers were encouraged to dress as their favorite vocabulary word. The parade had to be moved inside due to some cold temperatures, but it did not simmer the heat from the competition for the best vocabulary word costume. The winners were Cayden as "Scrumptious" in Pre-K, Ella as "Monochromatic" in Kindergarten, Dayla as "Neon" in 1st Grade, Anna as "Historical" in 2nd Grade, Luke as "Monumental" in 3rd Grade, Brett as "Asymmetrical" in 4th Grade, Ariel as "Flashback" in 5th Grade, Eddy as "Love" in our Special Friends, and Ms. Liptak as "Country Bumpkin" for the teachers. It was a lot of fun and we enjoyed having our parents and our new business partner, Chick-fil-a, here. The Chick-fil-a cow came as "Mascot" and "Bovine". Thanks for participating.