Kindergarten Enrollment for the Class of 2023

If you have a child or know of someone with a child who will be five years old on or before December 1, 2010, who will be enrolling in school for the 2010/11 school year, please call one of our elementary schools to begin the process of enrolling your child. Elementary offices are now accepting enrollment forms for the kindergarten class of 2023.

Earlier this month over 50 parents gathered at Alpine Elementary to attend the English Language Learners (ELL) Parent Night. The Alpine staff offered families refreshments as they presented information on MAP Testing, ELPA Testing, the importance of conference attendance and how to use the new Honeywell Instant Alert System.

Parents were also given 2 breakout session options. Parents with children at the secondary level (Middle/High School) were offered information about Powerschool and study techniques. Parents with children in the elementary buildings learned new math and reading strategies for helping students with homework and various skills.

Special thanks to Jackie Haisma for assisting with organizing the great events. It was a wonderful way to provide our parents with information and celebrate our community.

Thank you to all the parents who attended!

The Farewell to Fairview Hardcover Cookbooks are on sale for $10 each.

Staff, students and families from Fairview have submitted favorite recipes to create this very special book. Proceeds will go to support end of the year/school closing activities. To purchase a cookbook stop by Fairview Elementary office during school hours or call 363-3879 to place an order.

Thank you for supporting Fairview Elementary!

KHPS now uses the Honeywell Instant Alert system as a primary way to communicate information to families. The instant alert system will notify families of school closings, event times, schedule changes, conferences, and much more. The system sends a single clear message to students’ parents or guardians by telephone, cell phone or email in any combination!

Instant Alert is internet based, allowing each family to maintain a secure, password protected online profile. The instant alert system offers families 5 different alert categories to choose from:

1. School Closings/Delays
2. High Importance (urgent messages)
3. Transportation (i.e. bus delays due to traffic or weather)
4. Building Events (i.e. teacher conferences, field trip reminders)
5. District Announcements (i.e. Community Events, Student Count Day and election reminders).

Each family must UPDATE THEIR PROFILE in order to receive accurate instant alerts. By creating a profile users will be able to select which type of information they would like to receive on each of contact device (i.e. email, cell phone, etc.). Currently, only staff or families with students enrolled in KHPS can create a profile. In mid-January instructions on how to access the system were mailed to families with students enrolled in KHPS. If you have a child enrolled in KHPS and did not receive instructions, please contact your child's school office.

Superintendent Tom Martin and many other area educators, board members and parents recently attended a meeting with Governor Granholm to discuss the school budget crisis in Michigan. School aid for the 2009-10 year has been reduced by $165 per student. This reduction adds an additional $575,000 to our district’s current $1.5 million deficit.

Even with this $165 per-pupil reduction, a $212 million shortfall remains in the state school-aid fund. In dollars and cents, this means unless the state legislature funds this $212 million in the next 30 days, school districts will receive a second funding reduction of $127 per student, for a total 2009-10 reduction of $292 per student.

These combined reductions, along with the loss of 30 students more than projected, will bring Kenowa Hills’ projected deficit for this 2009-10 school year to $2.3 million.

Lansing has a variety of options on the table to fund public education without this additional $127 per-pupil reduction and without a general tax increase. Should you wish to contact our state legislators – please follow these appropriate links:

Representatives: http://house.michigan.gov/find_a_rep.asp
Senators: http://senate.michigan.gov/FindYourSenator/michiganfys.asp?lookup=
Governor: http://www.michigan.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168-21995---00.html

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Fairview Elementary (grades preschool-4) collected over 1100 food items for the 2009 food drive. This equates to almost 12 items of food donated per student. Mrs. Bradford’s 1st grade class collected the most items (356) followed closely by Mr. Jone’s class who collected 334 items. These items will be delivered by the Crinion family to a local food bank.

We are extremely proud of the caring and sharing of all our students demonstrated during this food drive. The food drive is a great way to teach and remind us of the life skill of caring.

Thank you also to all the parents and staff who went far above and beyond to make this a meaningful experience.