District Communications

Dear Families, This past Wednesday was our CLiF Family Literacy night. It was an amazing evening of storytelling, free books for students, and a delicious dinner. Elizabeth Parris, Lydia Bourgeois, Jan Kline, and student volunteers ran an infant daycare to allow our...

Dear Families, This past week was Staff Appreciation Week. I wanted to take a moment to publicly thank our amazing staff. I have been in education about 20 years, and I have never had the privilege of working with such a dedicated, compassionate, and professional...

Dear Families, Spring has sprung and the warm weather has visited a few times. Students have begun to ride their bikes to and from school. Please remind your students to wear their helmets when riding their bikes! At conferences you should have gotten information...

Dear Families, It is always amazing to see our families for our spring conferences. We love to see all of you, and share the amazing growth that your students have made during the school year. At conferences you should have gotten information about summer school, been...

Dear Families, Welcome to spring! This week we finally got a glimpse of warmer weather.  With the warmer weather, and the earlier sunrise, we are seeing students at school earlier each day. Please remember that there is no supervision before 7:30. If students come to...

Dear Families, It is Fun Fair Day! The event happens in the cafeteria 4:30-6:30 pm.   I am sure that tonight will go off without a hitch and be a fantastic event for everyone. A huge thank you to our PTO and teachers for making this an engaging event for everyone....

Dear Families, Last Friday in my weekly letter, I asked families to donate cakes for our musical cake game for Fun Fair. In years past it has been called musical cake game, musical candy cakes, musical chairs, and I used the phrase cakewalk. Over the weekend,...

Dear Families, Welcome back! I hope that everyone had a relaxing week off. It was great to see all of the students return on Tuesday! Next Friday, March 15th, is our PTO sponsored Fun Fair. The Fun Fair beings at 4:30 and ends at 6:30. Each year this is a fantastic...

Dear Families, It  has been another wonderful week of learning at JFK Elementary. Our second graders are learning all about sound with a focus on music. Students are building their own instruments to learn about how sound is created. Our 5th graders are doing science...

Dear Families, Happy 100th day of school! Today marks the 100th day that students have been in school this year. Students and teachers celebrated this in developmentally appropriate ways today. Some grade levels spent the day working on the number 100, while some just...