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Owl Pellet Dissection

Fifth grade STEM students are dissecting owl pellets to see what prey was eaten.  They will use this in connection with studying food chains and food webs in their science class. Several groups found skulls that they were able to… Read the rest
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Youth Softball Clinic

We are springing into Softball Season! The KHS Softball Team is hosting a Youth Softball Clinic on March 8th and 15th. Girls in grades 1-3rd and 4-6th will be bringing home registration forms. Registration is due Friday, February 28!







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February Leadership Award

February Leadership Award 2025

Character Trait -  Fairness: Fairness is to treat people in a way that is right.

Habit - Synergize ~ Together is Better.


Bryer Hollingsworth, Charles Wilcox, Aurora Highley, Aubreigh Walter, Christian Lawrence, Alayna Battles, Carter McPheron,

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KES 3rd Grade Visits Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum

KES Third graders had a great day in Wapakoneta at the Neil Armstrong Museum today! We watched a movie, took a tour and listened to a special speaker. On the tour they saw Neil Armstrong’s space suit, a moon rock,
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Fun with ramps and cars with special guests!

Engineering students from Ohio Northern University joined us today for a fun lab exploring kinetic energy! We read a story about the three little pigs making sleds out of straw, twigs and bricks. Then the university students worked with small
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Writing in Kindergarten

There are many people who believe that kindergarteners are not developmentally ready yet to write complete sentences, let alone a full paragraph.  However, Sarah Fackler has shown that with steady support and modeling of how to do just that, her Read the rest

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STEM Sticker Design Challenge

We received an email this week that announced the finalists for the OSLN  Sticker Design Challenge.  Mrs. Dilley and I have submitted entries for several years and have never had a finalist selected.  This year we are excited to announce… Read the rest
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Viking Quest

This week, our classes have had a blast going on our Viking Quest where we pretend to be Vikings traveling the seas! Every day, we “row” our longship to a new island and meet famous Vikings from history: Lief Erickson,
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ZoomDairy Virtual Farm Tour

Mrs. Gammon's class participated in a virtual tour today of a dairy farm in New York. The farm took the students to see all the calves and how they fed them. Then they took the class virtually to the milking… Read the rest
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The Mitten by Jan Brett

Today we read the book The Mitten by Jan Brett. Then we acted out the story two times, each student getting to be one of the characters. They LOVED this! After we acted it out, we colored pictures of the
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