Cougar Clips
4 April 2025
Happy Friday Kipling Families,
I hope you all had a wonderful spring break. Thank you to all who attended conferences last week. Your partnership in your childs’s education is essential to everything we do here.
What an amazing turnout at McTeacher Night on Wednesday! Thank you to our PTO for organizing this event and for all the students, staff, and families who came out to participate. I was filled with gratitude and pride to see our community come together in such a resounding way.
We are looking forward to seeing many of you at Bingo Night tonight from 6-8pm in the gym. There will be a concurrent, low-sensory option taking place in the LMC during the same timeframe.
All my best to you and your families over the weekend.
Respectfully,
Mr. Matthew O. Lombardo, NBCT
Principal
Kipling Elementary School
Kipling PTO
Don't forget to log in/sign up at the PTO site. Visit https://kiplingpto.membershiptoolkit.com/home to get started.
A huge thank you to all the staff members and families for making McTeacher’s Night a tremendous success! We had so much fun and we can’t wait to do it again next year!
BINGO Night
We hope to see everyone at BINGO Night tonight from 6-8pm!
Join us at Potbelly's following the 5th-grade music show and Choir concert.
Student Council Game Night - 4/25/25!
Please feel free to email ptokipling@gmail.com for any questions!
Kipling Read-a-Thon!
The second annual Kipling Elementary School Read-A-Thon is happening March 22 through April 11. It's SUPER EASY to get your child/ren signed up and logged on in order to start tracking their minutes.
Click on this link to get started.
Why participate?
Students can easily monitor their reading minutes and see how they stack up against classmates, other students in their grade, and the entire school
Students can set personal goals and work towards achieving them and they can win really cool prizes
Important things to know about our read-a-thon:
Students must log their minutes on this site for the minutes to count towards the class competition and individual prizes
All reading at school and at home counts
Students can read by themselves, read out loud, be read to, or listen to an audiobook
Students can log up to 200 minutes per day
Students do not have to participate in the fundraising in order to participate in tracking minutes to earn prizes
Happy reading! Please reach out if you have any questions.
-Mrs. Thurman (lthurman@dps109.org)
Incoming 6th-Grade Parent Night at Shepard
April 17th 6:30-7:30 pm: Please join the Shepard administration in person at Shepard for this ADULTS ONLY night. The team will be going over what you need to know about Shepard and middle school to support your students during the upcoming school year! If you cannot make it in person, here is a virtual link to join! Click here for more information.
Deerfield Police Department Safe Screens Parent Workshop
Deerfield Police Department Safe Screens Parent Workshop
Seeking Cultures to Showcase
Thank you to the Strobel family for filling our Cultural Collection case with your beautiful and rich Chilean artifacts. Thank you for taking the lead this year for our school community. We all have so many unique and special cultural perspectives and lived experiences to share with each other and I am very proud and eager to learn about each of yours.
In an effort to ensure inclusion of diverse populations and perspectives, we are looking for other Kipling families to use the Kipling Cultural Collection to teach the Kipling community about your culture! Display objects may include 6-8 traditional or cultural objects, a family video describing the significance of each object, recipe, flag, map, music, etc - anything to bring your vibrant culture to life!
Volunteering at Kipling
Composting
We need volunteers to help compost during lunch periods. This is a great chance to help the planet and see your kids in action!
LMC
The LMC is looking for volunteers every day between
8:50-11:20am and 12:50-3:25pm (Wednesdays 12:50-2:25pm)
Sign up for a slot and come in any time you are free.
DPS109 Info
Erin’s Law
Erin’s Law (House Bill 6193) was signed by Governor Pat Quinn on January 24, 2013. This law requires schools to implement an age-appropriate sexual assault and abuse awareness and prevention curriculum for grades Pre-K through 12. District 109 partners with Childhood Victories, Inc., an organization founded by Victor Pacini who is a motivational speaker and a survivor of sexual abuse. Speakers from Childhood Victories, Inc. provide programming for our students that teaches them basic skills to keep them safe from dangerous or abusive situations. The program, Be Seen and Heard 2.0, is developmentally appropriate, interactive, aligned with learning standards, and will cover the following topics:
Distinguishing safe from unsafe touches
Safety rules at home and school
Saying “NO”
Secrets
It’s not the child’s fault if someone touches them
Telling a trusted adult
The staff from Childhood Victories, Inc. will be presenting to our elementary students on the following dates:
Wilmot: Thursday, April 24th
South Park: Thursday, April 24th
Walden: Wednesday, April 23rd
Kipling: Friday, April 25th
Requests to Opt-Out: If you prefer that your child opt-out of this prevention education session, please email your child’s principal by Thursday, April 17.
Missed a Tech Tip? We got you covered!
In October, we began sharing weekly tech tips in our newsletters to encourage digital safety. If you missed a tech tip or just want to review them, we have a Digital Hub for you to view them at your convenience. Make sure to keep your eyes open for more tech tips to come in the following weeks.
Upcoming Important Dates
-Fri 4/4: BINGO Night!, 6-8pm
-Mon 4/7: Young Authors Breakfast Celebration, 8am - MPR
-Tues 4/8-Thurs 4/17: 3rd-5th IAR Testing Continues
-Wed 4/9: 5th Grade Music Show and Choir Performance, 5:30pm
-Fri 4/11: 2nd Grade Invention Convention, 9:15am
-Mon 4/14: Goals and Concerns Forms Due, 4pm
-Thurs 4/17: 3rd-5th Grade Art Show, 5-6pm
-Fri 4/18: No School
-Fri 4/25: K-5 Erin’s Law Presentations
-Fri 4/25: Student Council Game Night Fundraiser, 5:30-7:30pm - MPR