This Week at AES
5/1 - 5/5
Important Information
- Our last day with students is May 18th.
- We will have a closing day Breakfast on Friday, May 19th at 8:00 am. This closing breakfast and meeting is for all staff. If you would like to bring something for the breakfast, please sign up using this link: http://www.perfectpotluck.com/meals.php?t=TINW7474
- After breakfast, we will have a brief meeting and then you will need to have the closing checklist complete before leaving for the summer.
- The End of the Year checklist can now be found on the Google Drive
- The last few days of the school year will be nutty. Please check here to see a breakdown of the days.
- This year we will be rolling the Exploration Station to our neighborhoods on Monday evenings from 4 - 7 throughout the summer.
- We have staff interested in working in June and/or July. If you would be interested in working just one of these months, please let me know. Or If you are interested in working on the exploration station, we have funding to compensate 1-2 certified and 1-2 classified staff. Please let me know ASAP if you are interested
- We are in the process of setting up dates for next school year. You are welcome to review those dates here. We are working to get these dates in the Google Calendar. Please feel free to check out these dates on the Calendar dates file in the Google Drive to look ahead to next year. Be sure to click the 17-18 tab.
- Please keep May 2nd and 9th from 3:15 - 4:15 clear on your calendar. Our teams will be working with teams from CHES on those afternoons. K, 2nd, and 4th will meet at AES and 1st, 3rd, and 5th will meet at CHES. Please leave as soon as possible to be able to make it to CHES on time. We will count the extra time toward closing day.
- Our final school wide assembly will be Thursday, May 18th. That morning please follow the normal procedure until 7:10. Keep students in the assigned classrooms until 7:15, at that time transition them to their spots on the bleachers in the gym We will have a brief assebly.
- The schedule for the last day of school can be found here:
- The last day for A Team and Eagle time is Friday, May 5th
- Enjoy Jean Days for May.
- KPREP Testing is May 8 - 12. Please support our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students by wearing your favorite AES attire.
- Purple Cards end on May 17
KPREP Schedules are Below
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Thank you Jessica Scates and Rick Case for your work with our students for the Arts Showcase.
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Kindness
This small act of kindness has stuck with me. Someone that I don't know and I can never thank bought something for me. Not because I was in need, but just out of pure kindness. I have been thinking about kindness a lot since then and how because of multiple factors it is not as prevalent as it has been in the past. We let crazy, hectic schedules, cynicism, and self-centered choices get in the way of kindness. I firmly believe that the less kindness we share; the less kindness we have in the world.
We have one of the best environments for kindness. We have kids who crave our love and attention (even though they don't always do it in positive ways) and are expected to show them love and kindness. As we get to the crazy, hectic time of year; let's all remember to show kindness and love to those around us. Our kids need us to model that patience and love.