Kindergarten Buddies

Calen and Jeremiah

One of our favorite things to do is to spend time with our Kindergarten Buddies. Friday, March 13th we enjoyed playing games with our buddies. This was a culminating activity for Kindergarten. They have been working with letter g.

Americanism Essay Contest

Timmy, Lanie, and Molly are the winners of the 2009 Americanism Essay Contest. This contest is sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Dehart-Rossman-Wenner American Legion Post in Salem. This year students wrote an essay entitled Soldiers, Past and Present . . . America Honor Your Veterans. The essays were judged on content, grammar, originality, neatness and spelling. The students will be honored at a dinner in April.

Special thanks to the auxiliary for giving the students such a wonderful opportunity.

Go For The Greens

March 17th is Go For The Greens day. This day is designed to help remind students of the importance of eating healthy. If you wish to donate vegetables to our classroom for this event please send them in on March 16th. Vegetables will be used for class activities as well as for some healthy snacking.

Parents: Please watch for some important papers about this activity to come your way.

PSSA Tests

PSSA test will be given the week of March 16th. Students in 212 have been working hard all year to prepare for these very important test. To help relieve test anxiety and encourage students to do their best on the test, Mrs. Wingard as established a PSSA student committee. These students have created encouraging posters, and will provide us with a fun filled assembly on Tuesday, March 10th. McKenna is the 212 representative on the committee. Thanks for all your hard work McKenna.

REMEMBER it is very important that students get enough rest, and eat a good breakfast during this week.

New Friends

New Friends

Room 212 recently finished reading the novel Number the Stars. The novel is a wonderful story of a Jewish family,the Rosens, that must be relocated during the war. The family is best friends with the Johansen family. The Johansen's are instrumental in helping the Rosen family escape from the Nazi forces. During the reading of this book the theme of friendship is evident.

For a final activity the students were given a partner that would be their new friend. The student collected information about their new friend and completed a information sheet. Students were amazed to find out how much they didn't know about their classmate.

Save Those Box Tops & Labels

Keystone Elementary saves Campbell's Soup labels for Education & Boxtops for Education. We would appreciate it if you, and all extended family members, save these labels for our school. . Boxtops for Education coupons are small rectangular shapes usually found on the box top or bottom area.Keystone's CATS organization collects and counts the labels & redeems them for educational supplies.Please help support our school with these labels! For more information on the CATS organization visit the KES Home Page & click on the CATS link.