Kendrick Lakes 1350 S. Hoyt St, Lakewood, CO 80232

Phone: 303-982-8324 Attendance: 303-982-8331 Fax: 303-982-8325

April 2017

Message From the Principal

Welcome back to all of our Kendrick Lakes’ families and staff! I hope you all had a

great Spring Break. We are getting close to the last chapters of our stories this school

year and want to make sure you have some important dates on your calendars:

Field Day – Friday, May 19th

6th Grade Continuation – Tuesday, May 24th at Dunstan Middle School 5:30 – 6:30 PM.

Kindergarten Graduation – Thursday, May 25th in KLES Gym at 9:00 am.

Thursday, May 25th students will be dismissed at 12:15 PM.

On Tuesday, April 4th we sent our 6th Grade Students to Outdoor Lab at Windy Peak.

They left in some pretty inclement weather, but they made it safely and are having a

great week so far.

PARCC/CMAS testing is still going on throughout the building; the window closes 4/28.

Thank you all for your continued support and cooperation with helping us to give our

students a successful testing environment.

Sincerely,

Dave Singh

Principal

Kendrick Lakes Elementary

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April PTA Newsletter

Upcoming Events for April:

April 18th: Spaghetti and Spelling night, 6pm-8pm -in place

of PTA/Accountability meetings

April 20th: Panera Community Night

April 28th: Early Release

Coming up in May is Teacher and Staff Appreciation week! 5/1-5/5. Please look for more information on events and sign ups to help spoil our great

teachers and staff.

Spaghetti & Spelling Night!

Tuesday, April 18th 6-8pm. FREE spaghetti dinner provided in the provided

in the K-Lakes Elem. cafeteria! Join us for fun filled activities supporting all

aspects of literacy, pre-K to 6th grade.

Activities will be hands-on and will incorporate a variety of learning

experiences. • Published authors read aloud & Q & A Jonathan Fenske &

Jonathan Fenske & Eleanor Perry- Eleanor Perry-Smith • Special Guest

Readers! • Grade specific activities for Students/Parents • Informational

Booths - Jeffco Public Library, Tattered Cover.

Donate your gently used books to the Book exchange/book drive benefiting Reach out and Read Colorado. Reach out and Read Colorado.

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Welcome Back!

We hope you had a great Spring Break! At the March PTA meeting a new KLES PTA

Executive Board was elected. We welcome Elise Williams as the new PTA President,

Darcy Wood as the new Vice President, and Allysen Santilli as the new Secretary. They

will join Beth Zange-Sellers, Vice President and Amanda Farmer as Treasurer. We are

excited for this amazingly talented group of people to run our Executive Board for our

kids and community. They start July 1st.

We have 4 committees left we are looking for team leads and

volunteers to help run.

After School Program: This committee needs 2-3 people who can

help organize the sign ups for clubs and snacks for kiddos before clubs

begin. This committee has a lot of behind the scene work as well as

being at school for snacks and attendance 2-4 times a week. (The more people we have

the less time at the school).

Community Nights: This committee is at home work. You would schedule community

nights with restaurants and Skate City. It is making calls and coordinating dates with

school and PTA calendars.

Intercultural Fair: This event is a large fair celebrating all cultures held in cooperation

with South Lakewood Elementary School. This event needs several people to help run

performers, food, decorations, fundraising and activities. This committee is a time

commitment but the more people we have join the easier the work becomes. It is so much

fun!

Reflections Art Show Program: This program is run through the Jeffco, CO and

National PTAs. We run an Art show for our KLakes students to showcase their art and

submit our winners on to Jeffco PTA. The kids can move on through state and national

programs as well. This program is organizing and scheduling the Kendrick Lakes art

show and reception as well as working with Jeffco PTA for submitting art and

documentation for our kids. The Reflections program typically runs in October and

November with the Jeffco Art Show in the beginning of December.

These four committees are favorites for our kids and community. We need help to run them or they run the risk of being scaled way back or dissolved. Please let us

know if you think you can help us with any part of any of these three committees.

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Thank You

Thank you to TequiLeno’s for a great community night! We

had lots of KLES families go for dinner and we made $378! Join us at Panera April 20th for another chance to support the PTA provide events, programs, fun and so much more!

Logo Wear

Get your logo wear! Order forms on line as well at by the PTA

box in the main hallway. Logo wear sweatshirts and t-shirts

make great gifts for the holidays! We have some in stock!

Contact Beth at klespta@gmail.com.

2017-2018 School Year

Parents, as we are approaching the end of this year and are looking toward the 17/18 school year, we are asking if your student will NOT be returning next year to please let the office know. 303-982-8324 Thank you again for your help with this!

School Calendar

4/13-Spring pictures

4/18- Spelling & spaghetti night in lieu of PTA/Accountability meeting 6-8 pm

4/28- Early release 12:15pm dismissal

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continued...

Thank You Gracias Merci 谢谢

Wow! Our third Intercultural Fair was a HUGE success! As you know this event

took months of planning and help from families, staff, and the community. As ICF

Committee Chair, I wanted to take a moment to personally thank all those involved.

First, I would like to thank the PTAs from South Lakewood and Kendrick

Lakes Elementary School for sponsoring the event. We could not host the fair without your support.

Principal Loren Huwa for allowing us the use of the school and Coach Kallendar for letting us take over

his gym.

Staff: All the teachers who contributed classroom assignments. Our teacher liaisons Jennifer Durso and

Colby Hansen, and RaeAnn Overholt who made our selfie station.

Every family who brought in a potluck dish. The food was delicious!

All our performers with a special thank you to Café Cultura and the Medicine Heart Dancers for donating

their time to our cause.

All those who donated prizes for our raffle including Lori Laurita, and Jen Wheeler (and the other

unnamed families who donated prizes too).

The décor for this event was a huge undertaking and required many hours of hand crafting the beautiful

flowers that lined the gym. I would like to thank Elisa Hansen, Vicky Minshall, Marivel Gonzales,

Sharon Koenig, Yanet Ylantas, Jen Granbery, Lynette Huntley, Beth Zange-Sellers, Dan Hutchings,

Darcy Wood, Mike Weathers, Kathy Williams, Julliana Hermosillo, Rosa Simkins, Chloe Cheshire,

Crystal Coffee, Tammy Kerr, and Tracy Sluzalis.

Thank you to Mr. Short who shared his African Mask collection with us.

Our other exhibitors for Jeffco Public Schools Leroy Saiz and Arianne Rivera.

From Belmar library Rhoda Yeager who brought in the lovely oversized games and Marie Meyer from

Adolesco.

The SLE sixth graders who ran our international game table.

My parents Bea and Abraham Ogaz who travelled 12 hours from El Paso, Texas to come and help with

this event. Bea worked our prize table.

Tracy Sweezy for getting our programs printed and helping me tie up all my loose ends.

We would like to thank our Facilities Manager Blaine Myers who volunteered his own time and helped

us recycle our water bottles.

Sara Reed and all those parents who stayed after the event help clean up when were done.

Ben Bezjak and Javi Guajardo from Creighton Middle School for working the origami table.

Cathy Hatfield for lending us the beautiful African tapestries that were on display In the cafeteria.

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We would like to thank our food servers and dessert station volunteers, Beto Sifuentes and Raquel

Mendoza and our cafeteria manager Crystal Jiron. I am missing names here, I know we had help from

parents from both KLES and SLE in the kitchen/dessert station. Thank you for stepping up. You rocked

it!

Our ushers Omar and Isreal Sifuentes.

Victoria Abeyta for managing our water station.

Our students Lily Reed and Riley Esteep who worked the craft table and Neveah Rodriguez who was our

face painter.

Adam Esteep who spent a lot of time on a ladder hanging up our flags and lanterns.

From Lakewood High School, I would like to thank Parita Wattanasupt and Kathy Hong who helped us

run our game station and Amanda McCray for working our sound system.

Our wonderful MC Scott McCray.

We would like to thank Lakewood Mayor Adam Paul, Senator Andy Kerr, and Councilors Gutwein,

Johnson, and Able for coming out and supporting our event.

And a thank you to Colorado Media School for filming the festivities and our photographer David Lynn.

Our community sponsors: A to Z Rentals, Alameda Burrito, Brodo Italian Scratch Kitchen, Chick-fil-A,

Costco, Creative Rentals & Décor Inc., Einstein Bagels, El Tequileño, Jeffco PTA, Jimmy John’s Little

India, Olive Garden, Panaderia Rodriguez, Perogie Factory, Rock Salt Spa, Rural Project Services,

Tamales by Juana Sifuentes, Timuk Toys, Village Roaster, and Zero Waste Services.

Last but not least, this fair would not be possible without the dedication of our Intercultural Fair Committee:

Ashley Short and Jane McCray on performances

Melissa Esteep who was the visionary of our décor scheme and made it happen

Ella Battalova on Crafts

Andrea Guajardo on Exhibitions

Kirsten Gnagy TCB (Taking Care of Business)

Gaby Sifuentes our Food Chair

Judy Davis and Kathy Schmidt on Business Outreach who secured all of our restaurant donations

This is a long list and I am sure I missed some folks. Thank you

to everyone who helped. You see what can happen when we all

work together.

Respectfully yours,

Sandie Weathers

ICF Committee Chair

Thank you Gracias Merci 谢谢, continued...

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These are easy ways to support KLES PTA

and school all year round!

Use a reloadable Kings Soopers gift card at any Kings Soopers or Loaf and Jug filling station for groceries or fuel. EVERYTIME you shop and refill your gift card designated for KLESPTA, King Soopers donates 5% of all funds for Kendrick Lakes PTA! Pick up your card and re load all year round.

Use reloadable Safeway gift card designated for KLESPTA and Safeway will donate 5% for every $500 loaded! Pick up your card and re load all year round!

When you shop on Amazon, go to Smile.amazon.com and choose to support Kendrick Lakes PTA. A percentage of your purchase will come back to KLES PTA! Easy Peasy!

All funds support KLES PTA activities such as Family Movie Night, Community

Breakfasts, Teacher Appreciation, Daughter Dance, Son Bowling, Classroom Technology, After School Activities…..and much more!