KMS NEWSLETTER

Dear KMS Families,

As we get settled into a new school year, we would like to inform you about three different programs that Kodiak Middle School offers to help keep students on a track for success:

• • Reading Lab
  • Math Lab
  • Learning Lab

  
  

  Reading Lab or Math Lab will address unfinished learning in either of these content areas. MAP assessment data is used to identify students with learning gaps. Identified students and families will be notified of this opportunity before enrollment. Each of these labs would take the place of a 9-week elective.

  The Learning Lab is utilized for students with one or more failing grades. Students with failing grades will be placed in Learning Lab during their 7th period elective until they complete the required work to get their grade up to passing. Students will return to their scheduled elective once their grades are back up to passing.

We would also like to send a friendly reminder that here in Kodiak, the weather can be fairly unpredictable. However, on most days, we do continue to have outdoor recess year-round if possible. Please send your students to school with appropriate gear for the cold/rainy/snowy weather that sometimes catches us by surprise. It's better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it. If the weather is too extreme at recess time, of course, we will have indoor recess.

Sincerely,

Rena Rankin, Principal

Judith Bruns, Assistant Principal

This is where we will have a quick reference for the upcoming week. More info is usually listed lower in the newsletter, if needed.

• SEP 16: VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY - help assemble fundraising packets (8th graders only) KMS Library, 3:30

• SEP 17, 18, & 19: MAP Testing (See modified Bell Schedule below)

• SEP 18: PTSA Meeting, RM #216 @ 6:00PM (ALL PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND STUDENTS INVITED!)

• SEP 20: Morning Assembly

• SEP 20: KMS XC Race at Abercrombie, 4:15PM Start

MAP stands for Measures of Academic Progress and KMS will administer these tests 3 times this academic year. Please see the attachment below for more info.

The KMS PTSA is getting ready to kick off our annual Cookie Dough Fundraiser! It's the only fundraiser we do all year, and it helps pay for all the fun things like Friday Night Lives, Popcorn and Smoothie Days, Teacher Conference Dinners, and things like Middle School Beautification and Upgrades.

We could really use some help from 8th graders! On Monday, Sep 16, we will be in the KMS Library to assemble the Cookie Dough Sales Packets that will be given out the following week. We have 2 flyers that need to be placed in the envelopes, instructions glued to the front, and then sorted into each Advisory Teacher's stack. It's an easy project, but it takes a long time for one person to do, so that's where you come in!

If you'd like to earn Citizenship Project Volunteer Hours, see Mrs. Norton or Mrs. Kim to sign up. It should only take 1-1.5 hours after school on Monday 9/16. We would like to get 4 to 8 students to help out.

Thank you so much!

KMS PTSA only meets about 4 times a year, and our first meeting is right around the corner!

You do not have to be a member to attend.

We'd love to see parents, teachers, AND students at our meetings!

Please join us if you can to hear about our plans this year, Cookie Dough fundraising, volunteer opportunities, and a little budget talk. :)

Hope you'll be there!

It's almost time!!

More info next week!

Athletes showed up three weeks before school started to train for their season. Records will fall this year, don’t miss it. Come cheer on your Grizzlies at their remaining races:

Races start at 4:15

Here you will find events that will be happening in the next couple of months, but not during the coming week.

We want to give our families plenty of time to plan around our activities and opportunities.

Details will be posted later in this newsletter and/or another newsletter in the near future.

• 10/7: Cookie Dough Sales Packets Due back to KMS
• 10/14 - 10/15: No School for Students (District Inservice)
• 10/21 - 10/25: Scholastic Book Fair
• 10/23 - 10/24: Parent/Teacher Conferences

KIBSD-issued iPads are to ensure each student has the technology to participate and complete the coursework for each of their classes.

If you would like to enable parental controls to manage your student's device, the app below is free to use and compatible with iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Android.