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KPES Tuesday News
Looking Ahead
- Feb 12-16 Kindness Week - Food Drive and Spirit Week
- Feb 19th Presidents' Day no school for students and staff
- Feb 20th Picture Day 1st and 3rd grades
- Feb 21st Picture Day Kindergarten and 2nd grades
- Feb 23rd PTA Basket & Bingo @LBSS
- Mar 5th School Planning Day and Presidential Primary no school for students
- Mar 20 2:30pm 2024-25 Kindergarten Orientation
- Mar 25-29 Spring Break no school for students
- April 1-2 School Planning Days no school for students
- Full FCPS School Year Calendar of Events
Kindness Spirit Week Feb 12-16
Help us celebrate the Spirit of Kindness during Virginia Kindness Week 2024 (February 11-17) Flyers will come home in Friday Folders!
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Wednesday 2/14 Celebrate Peace, Love, and Kindness! Wear Tie Dye and/or Valentine’s Day attire.
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Thursday 2/15 Kindness is a Muscle Day! “Work Out” problems with kindness: wear workout, gym clothes or team jerseys.
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Friday 2/16 KP Spirit Day! Celebrate the Spirit of Kindness by wearing KP spirit wear or our school colors: purple and green
Kindness Week Food Drive Feb 12-16
We invite you to join us in a schoolwide act of kindness by donating to our Food Drive. Try our daily themes!
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2/12 Superhero Spirit Day: Send in a can of soup, baked beans, canned beans, canned vegetables, or canned fruits.
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2/13 Taco/Tuna Tuesday: Send in canned tuna/salmon, canned meats, bags of beans ( red, black, garbanzo, pinto) bagged tortillas, cooking oil
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2/14: What’s for Dinner Wednesday?: Send in pasta, pasta sauce, macaroni and cheese, instant potatoes, bagged rice ( white, jasmine, basmati) bagged lentils, salt, pepper, garlic
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2/15: Thankful for Breakfast Thursday: Send in pancake mix, maple syrup, oatmeal, breakfast bars, canned fruit, cinnamon, instant coffee, tea, instant hot chocolate, juice boxes.
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2/16: Favorite and Healthy snacks Friday: Send in goldfish crackers, granola bars, fruit bars, dried fruit etc. juice boxes.
Proceeds will go to ECHO, an all -volunteer charity that provides food and household items to those in need. The items listed above are on their “needed” list. KPES supports ECHO in February as they receive fewer donations this time of year. https://www.echo-inc.org/
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Class Pictures and Individual Photos
Tuesday, February 20th, First and Third Grades
Wednesday, February 21st, Kindergarten and Second Grade
Order forms from Strawbridge Studios will be sent home in your student’s Take Home Envelope and can also be found on-line at Strawbridge.net. If you choose to order Class or Individual Photos, please fill out the order form and return it to your student’s teacher prior to Picture Day. Class Photos are $10.
Photo Days are: Tuesday, February 20th for Grades 1 and 3
Wednesday, February 21st, Kindergarten and Grade 2
If you choose to order a Class Photo on-line, please enter our school code FM427363.
If you choose to order an Individual Package on-line, please enter code FM427368.
Kindergarten Orientation, March 20th
We are excited to welcome our rising Kindergarteners for the 2024-2025 school year.
Kindergarten Orientation for incoming kindergarten students and their parents will be held on Wednesday, March 20 at 2:30pm.
Details are in the works and more info to come. Please save the date and mark your calendars! If you have a child who will be age 5 on or before September 30, 2019, then it is time to register your child for the 2024-2025 school year.
We request that you begin the registration process as soon as possible.
Registration information and forms are available online at: https://www.fcps.edu/registration/kindergarten-registration.
For questions, contact the Registrar, Nancy Sawicki at 703-426-7000 or nesawicki@fcps.edu
FCPS Tech Adventures Camp Registration Open
These camps are a summer enrichment and exploratory program in career and technical education for students in grades K - 5.Current Kindergarten - grade 5 students explore STEAM, culinary, health, trades, business, and marketing by rotating through daily classes. Checkout this link for more information.
KPES Snack Donations
In addition to the Kindness Week Food Drive, Kings Park gladly welcomes snack donations for our children in need throughout the school year. Bulk packs of individual serving snacks such as Goldfish, Pirate Booty, Popcorn, Teddy Grahams, Fruit Bars, Granola Bars, Cereal Bars, Applesauce Pouches etc. are greatly appreciated.These can be labeled Attention: School Counselor.
PTA News
Spring after-school activities for both KP and KG are being finalized - details should be available here within the next week!
Baskets and Bingo is coming up on Friday, February 23rd at 5 pm at LBSS! Check out our flier for tons of information; and browse and pre-purchase raffle and food tickets here. Bingo will be free to play. Please reach out to baskets@kpkgpta.org with any questions.
Our Family Fitness Night is coming up on April 11th. Interested in volunteering? Sign up here to be on the committee. Planning has also begun for our annual Earth Day event on April 27th at KG. Please reach out to us at volunteer@kpkgpta.org if you are interested in being part of the event committee!
We’re still looking for candidates for the Nominating Committee. The PTA plans to elect the nominating committee at our February 29 meeting. Are you interested in serving on this committee? Please contact PTA president, Charlotte Hannagan, at president@kpkgpta.org. Similarly, please reach out to Charlotte if you have any interest in serving on the 2024-2025 PTA board.
Sincerely,
Dotty Lin
Mrs. Dotty Lin
Principal
Kings Park ES
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