PKS Newsletter
March 15th, 2024
MISSION STATEMENT
Monroe County School District
Mission: Working together to inspire and bring excellence to every student every day.
No School March 15th - March 22nd
IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES
MARCH 18TH - 22ND SPRING BREAK
March 28th, NJHS Field trip to Show Biz (Homestead)
April 5th, 4th Grade Awards Ceremony
April 6th, Band Concert MPA at Key West High School
April 10th, PTA & SAC Meetings
April 11th, 8th Grade Orientation at CSHS
SCHOOL-WIDE NEWS
Tower Garden Update
The Tower Garden is growing by the day, we will soon be able to start enjoying our micro greens! We hope that right after Spring Break we will be able to enjoy super yummy and clean salads with the Gourmet Lettuce, Basil, Rainbow Chard, Bibb Lettuce and Arugula.
PTA NEWS AND EVENTS
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAPPENINGS
PBIS BINGO
Everything is better with chickens. Thank you Neal for donating 100 chickens for our PBIS BINGO! For those of you not familiar with chicken legs when B11 is called we all squeak our chickens. It was a funtastic bingo today with our guests Neal and Judy. 💛
PBIS 2nd and 3rd BINGO
We let the chickens out of their coops today for some BINGO fun with grades 2-3. Our celebrity guest caller was our Assistant Principal Mrs. Court.
Thanks again Mr. Neal Gill for the chickens!
MIDDLE SCHOOL HAPPENINGS
PKS Band
Congratulations to the PKS Middle School Band! They received an Excellent rating in Performance and in Sight-Reading at this years MPA state assessment at Key West High School! Great job to all of our wonderful musicians!
The WOW WALL is used to display individual students’ achievements and efforts. It is a space to showcase relevant and timely projects that all students have completed in Ancient World History. This most recent assignment was a review of the rise and fall of the Ancient Roman Republic.
Pi Bracelets
Ms. Corliss’ 2nd period math class had fun making Pi Day bracelets today. 3.141592653…
Media Center/Readers are Leaders
READERS AND LEADERS
Readers are Leaders celebrated the February Challenge in a big way! Students who met the challenge were treated to Jello Jigglers, thank you Mrs. Karen Ciampa for making about a 100 pounds of Jello!! They also celebrated by joining Fun Friday (no matter what day of the week it was). This included changing stations every ten minutes or so. Stations included Lego, puzzles, Duplo, Lincoln Logs and more!
Students Checked out books to read during Spring Break
Students are enjoying reading and
checking out books. Thank you for your support
at home. More information on Challenges after Spring Break. Thank you to my many wonderful volunteers, have a restful Spring Break, Sincerely, Dr. Cash
Tucker loves the PKS Library!
And Miss Sandy and Tucker were back to Read with the Students… the students actually read to Tucker.
PKS Counseling Corner
NURSE'S CORNER
Safety Chat with Officer Mercy
PKS Junior Explorers
Our Explorers cleaned up the PKS Campus as part of their community service duties.