Field Day is Friday, May 11th! (Yes, it will be a dress down day!)

6th Grade - 8th Grade : 8:15 - 10:15

Kindergarten - 2nd Grade : 10:30 - 12:30

3rd Grade - 5th Grade : 12:45 - 2:45

Donations Needed

Cases of Water (10+)

K-2 Volunteers Needed (10:30 - 12:30)

Noodle Games Station

Jump Rope/ Hula Hoop Station (x2)

Parachute Station (x2)

Relays Station

Bucket Toss Station

Builders and Bulldozers Station

DJ Booth Station

3-5 Volunteers Needed (12:45 - 2:45)

Noodle Games Station

Jump Rope/ Hula Hoop Station (x2)

Parachute Station (x2)

Relays Station

Bucket Toss Station

Builders and Bulldozers Station

6-8 Volunteers (8:15 - 10:15)

Relays/ Lap Walking Area (x2)

Indoor Soccer (x2)

Kickball (x2)

Cornhole (x2)

Ultimate Frisbee

Sprints

4- Square

Go Hawks!

Show your child's teacher just how much they are appreciated by sending them a gift next week!

Please click the link below to sign up to volunteer for the Spring BOGO Book Fair...May 16th -23rd. Family Night will be Thursday, May 17th to allow you to shop for books and art.

The Kestrel Heights Food Pantry needs to be cleared out before summer! If your family is in need, please contact Mrs. Kennedy or Mrs. Callahan. We can provide boxes of food from our pantry on a first-come, first-served basis.

Congratulations on our Model UN team for representing Kestrel at this year's Model UN Conference in Black Mountain, NC.

With 40 of the 170 total conference participants, Durham and Chapel Hill represented BIG! Not only did all the kids truly represent their cities and schools impressively, but they represented themselves and their ideas respectfully and boldly-not afraid to speak up when others did not.

Overall Durham represented 3 of the 10 conference officers, 4 of the 9 resolution authors and won 2 awards-one for model speaker and one for overall best country representation!

Students in 1st through 5th grade worked with nouns and adjectives to create beautiful spring flowers.

*Students are working on Literature projects using the digital tool Canva.

*Math projects are focusing on EOG Test review for the 4th quarter.

*Students should have begun their final Passion Project for the school year.

Keep checking Seesaw to see a digital portfolio of your student's work with their Literature projects.

The interest meeting for next year's World Strides Field Trip will be Tuesday, May 8th at 6:00 PM in Mr. Hensler's classroom. The decision has not been made on whether the trip will be to Williamsburg, VA or back to Washington, DC.

This trip will be for the 7th and 8th-grade classes for the 2018-2019 school year.

Kindergarten is excited to announce our Graduation Ceremony will be on June 11th @ 9:00 a.m. We have begun working on our presentation for you all! Here in Kindergarten we have also begun the last few units in our curriculum and will shortly begin a review. We encourage you to continue to have your child read to you each night and practice their sight words. It is amazing to see the growth they've achieved from the beginning of the year, up to the present.

A few big events are coming up in first grade!

Wax Museum Project:

We will be presenting on our assigned historical figures to parents and other classes on May 21st! Students should be working a little each week to complete this take-home project.

Science Fun Field Trip:

We will be having an in-house field trip on May 22nd! Please return your child's permission form and a cash payment of $8.50 no later than May 18th.

Second graders are continuing to learn about genetics. They enjoyed making a model of a DNA molecule.

Ms. Filippone’s class is patiently waiting for their caterpillars to turn into butterflies! We have tied the butterfly life cycle into an addition math lesson to calculate when they will come out of their chrysalides. We then wrote about what our butterflies will look in our predictive writing unit.

Information on our Carolina Ocean Studies Field Trip is posted on our website. A hard copy will be going home in Friday Folders-please look for it!

Important dates and information for parents are on our website, as well as a link to schedule a conference with us.

We have been using our website all year long.

In Math, our last chapter will be completed. Students are working on a dream-home project that is due May 8th.

In ELA this week, students have been trying to ESCAPE! While using their test-taking strategies, in combination with their knowledge and teamwork,

students successfully "escaped" from Mrs. Ross' room after figuring out text structures, themes and meaning in reading passages.

Student engagement was had by ALL! Click the link below to see how it went!

The end of the year field trip will be June 8th! The 5th grade will be taking charter busses to Carowinds for the day. We are looking forward to a fun wrap up to all of our hard work this year!

The 6th grade is excited about our upcoming end of year field trip to Myrtle Beach. We will be spending 3 days enjoying the beach, experimenting with Science at Wonderworks and watching the interesting sea life in the aquarium.

Please remember that there are many important assignments still due for the 4th quarter... even after the EOGs!

7th Grade Math

We are finishing up our final unit on Probability. We will begin our EOG review/preparation beginning May 8th and ending June 1st. During this time period, there may or may not be homework as often as we have had throughout the year. I will continue to send the daily math blast via Remind of classwork and homework. We will have an End of Year Test which will be cumulative about May 22nd.

Important Dates to Remember:

• May 8th-June 1st: EOG Prep
  
• May 22nd: End of Year Math Test
  
• May 15th-17th: 7th Grade End of Year Trip
  
• May 28th: Holiday
  
• May 31st: 7th grade Reading EOG
  
• June 4th: 7th grade Math EOG
  
• June 12th: last day of school

You are invited to the annual Kestrel Heights 8th Grade Semi-Formal.

When: Friday May 18, 2018; 7-10pm

Where: KHS Annex Gymnasium

To purchase a $20 ticket, visit the school website at https://kestrelheights.org/payments/

We are looking for volunteers to help make the semi-formal a success. We appreciate all you do to support us and the students.

Save the Date: Tuesday, June 12th at 9 am in the 8th Grade Promotion Ceremony

Are you ready for your math EOG/EOC? Mrs. Higdon is available after school Wednesdays during April and May 3:15-4pm.

Check the team website( https://sites.google.com/kestrelheights.org/kestrel8/home) for a weekly posting on test-taking strategies as we count down to EOGs. This week, we take a look at more multiple choice strategies.

All middle school students will be involved in playing flag football this week. All other classes have a rehearsal for the Spring concert.

Countdown to Showtime........1 WEEK AWAY!!!!

Just in case you missed last week's newsletter information, here are some friendly reminders:

Information, regarding "What to Wear," was sent via email on Tuesday, April 10th.

There is no color scheme; however, we do ask that you follow the specific details regarding your student's dress attire. The following pictures are examples of "What to Wear."

As always, if you have any questions, please contact me: rharrison@kestrelheights.org OR Mrs. Daw: daw@kestrelheights.org.

Here's some additional information:

1. Attendance is mandatory and counts as a grade in Specials for all K-5 students.

Parents need to notify Ms. Harrison by April 15 if their student has a conflict. Conflicts must be in writing. If the conflict is excused by Ms. Goff, only then will make-up work be assigned.

2. Students are to wear Jazzy Professional Dress Attire (see pictures above)

3. Students in Dance team are in both shows.

4. Show Times are 5:30 pm for Grades K-2 and 6:45 pm for Grades 3-5.

5. STUDENTS SHOULD ARRIVE IN THEIR "HOLDING ROOMS" NO LATER THAN 15 MINUTES PRIOR TO THEIR SHOWTIME!!!!

We are having a "Jazzin', Rockin" time, and I'm so excited for the families to see ALL of the hard work that we're putting into making this show be one of the best performances ever!!!!!

Baseball

A long 2nd inning in Tuesday's semi-final baseball match up will keep the Hawks from getting to the championship. The Hawks finished in 2nd place (regular season) in its first-ever MSC baseball season. The Hawks will look to bounce back next season and continue their growth.

Girls Soccer

The Lady Hawks are on their way to the conference championship today against Chatham Charter. The girls won on Tuesday 8-2 in the semi-final round. The Hawks have outscored their opponents by a combined score of 38 to 7 this year!

Go Hawks!

Email: barber@kestrelheights.org
Website: kestrelheights.org
Location: 4900 Prospectus Drive, Durham, NC, USA
Phone: 919-484-1300
Facebook: facebook.com/kestrelheights
Twitter: @kestrelheights