End Of School Date Change

At the April 21^st Kings Local School District Board of Education meeting, our board of education approved a recommendation to amend our 2014/2015 school calendar so as to move from days to hours.  The KLSD exceeds the minimum amount of open instructional hours as required by the Ohio Department of Education. 

With this change in the calendar, our student’s last day of school is Thursday, May 28, 2015. 

More information on the calendar change can be found on the Ohio Department of Education website by clicking here.   

New Dates for Your Calendar

Testing Dates

As you may have seen in the Friday Folder, there has been a change to our dates for end of the year testing.  The Social Studies test that was scheduled for this week has been moved to May 4.   Our testing dates are:

April 30 - PARCC Unit 1 Math

May 4 - AIR Social Studies

May 6 - PARCC ELA

May 7 - PARCC Unit 2 Math

All testing will be first thing in the morning and we ask that you please refrain from scheduling appointments on these dates.  NO pre-approved absences will be honored for these specific dates.

Book Fair!

This week is Spring Book Fair in the SLE Library!   Students will visit the book fair during their regularly scheduled library times.  (see "SPECIALS" tab above if you are not sure when your child goes to library.  Family Night is scheduled for Wednesday, April 22.   

Music News

Please mark you calendar for the following music concerts if your child is in 4th grade chorus.   

Thursday April 30

1st Grade / 4t Gr. Chorus

6:30 PM @ SLE

Wednesday May 13th

All District 4th Grade Chorus Concert

7:30 @ KHS

April Updates

Columbia Intermediate Parent Input Forms
In the Friday Folders this past week (April 10) the Parent Input Forms were sent home for class placement at Columbia Intermediate.  This is your chance to communicate the needs of your child prior to class placement for 5th grade.  Please take the time to fill out the form and return to school by April 20.

Mark your calendar for Monday, May 18 at 6:30pm  --- this will be the Columbia Intermediate Parent Information meeting.  The meeting will be in the Columbia Intermediate Cafeteria.  We encourage you to attend this meeting as this will help you help your child in the transition from 4th to 5th grade.   

This is a very exciting time for your child.   The transition can also cause some anxiety.  To assist students in this transition, classes will be visiting CIS the week of May 18 for a tour and interaction with a 5th grade class.  Look for more specific information as the date approaches.

Art to Remember orders due Tuesday, April 14. 

End of Year Testing

We are getting ready to begin our second round of PARCC testing.   This time, we will be completing the End of Year testing, and just as before, testing will be first thing in the morning ask that you please refrain from scheduling appointments on these dates and no pre-approved absences will be honored.  The testing dates are as follows:

April 30 - PARCC Unit 1 Math

May 4 - AIR Social Studies

May 6 - PARCC ELA

May 7 - PARCC Unit 2 Math