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VALENTINE'S DAY PROJECT SPREADS LOTS OF LOVE

Our Kincaid students made 630 Valentine's Day cards and they were distributed to 6 nursing homes/assisted living facilities in Cobb County just in time for Valentine's Day. The residents were thrilled to receive the cards. They loved the time, effort and thought the students put into each card. Thanks to Kincaid teachers and administration for supporting the project and a special thank you to Diane Middeke, PTA Community Outreach Committee member, for her hard work and dedication to this project. Please watch future editions of Keynotes for upcoming Community Outreach projects.

Congratulations to Kincaid's 2009-2010 Reflections STATE Finalists for the theme "Beauty is..."

Congratulations to Kincaid's 2009-2010 Reflections STATE Finalists for the theme "Beauty is..."

Literature
Dylan L.
Blake S.
Taylor S.

These students will be honored at the State Reception on Sunday, March 21st at the High Museum.  Everyone is welcome to attend and cheer on our Kincaid winners!   Some of these students will move on to compete at the National Level.  Kincaid PTA would like to thank all the parents and teachers for their support in this program.

If you are interested in attending the reception at the High Museum, please contact Michele Rhyne at michelerhyne@comcast.net.  We are trying to get a section together to support Kincaid's winners.

Next year's theme is
Together We Can.  It's never too early to start working on ideas!

Sign Up for Red Alerts! 

Cobb County is now maintaining a Code Red Alert Emergency Notification System for keeping residents apprised of emergency situations in our county. (Reverse 911) To sign up, visit www.CobbCounty.org and click on Code Red. If you don't have internet service, call the county at 770/499-4158.

2009-2010 Reflections “Beauty is...” District Winners

On Tuesday, January 26th, the Eastern Cobb County Council PTA held the District Level Reflections Recognition Ceremony.  Many of Kincaid's students placed at the District Level and received further recognition by placing overall in their division for Best Interpretation of the theme "Beauty is...".  The Special Artists Literature category was represented entirely by Kincaid Elementary 4th and 5th grade students...what an honor!! 

The State Level ceremony will be held on Sunday, March 21st at the High Museum.  Everyone is welcome to attend.  Please stay tuned to Cat Tracks and Key Notes to see if any of our students placed at the state level.  ALL students who entered this contest should be very proud of their effort and achievement.  Put your thinking caps on for next year's theme:  "Together We Can".    There are 6 categories:  Dance, Film, Literature, Music, Photography and Visual Arts. 

Please join me in congratulating Kincaid's District Level winners.

Literature

Carter C. - Honorable Mention 1st Grade

Kayla W. - Finalist 3rd Grade ***Best Interpretation of Theme for entire Intermediate Divsion

Ana G. - Finalist 5th Grade

Special Literature

Foster D. - Finalist 4th Grade

Blake S. - Finalist 4th Grade

Taylor S. - Finalist 4th Grade

Andrew C. - Finalist 5th Grade

Don D. - Finalist 5th Grade

Trenton H. - Finalist 5th Grade

Dylan L. - Finalist 5th Grade

Music

Brendan K. -  Finalist 1st Grade

Andrew R. -  Finalist 3rd Grade

Aidan K. -  Honorable Mention 4th Grade

Briti N. -  Finalist 4th Grade

Photography

Madison R. - Finalist 1st Grade ***Best Intrepretation of Theme for entire Primary Division

Visual Arts

Madison R. - Honorable Mention 1st Grade

Camila G. - Finalist 3rd Grade

Kincaid Chess Club

The Kincaid Chess Club would like to congratulate all of our fall
participants, including our champions, Tyler G and Shrey N!
The winter-spring semester of the Chess Club is starting soon, so
don't miss your chance to sign up. For details about the club, please
contact Greg Giles at
chess@kincaidpta.org.

Honoring Our Heroes

The Kincaid PTA would like to say "Thank You" to those who participated in the Honoring Our Heroes Contest. All participants and their parents are invited to a brunch in the school cafeteria on February 5th from 9:00 until 10:30. We will randomly choose 3 children to read their essays for everyone.  If you have any questions please contact Mary Bowles at heroes@kincaidpta.org or 678-988-5552.

Kincaid PTA Needs YOU!

As per our bylaws, Kincaid PTA elected a Nominating Committee at the December 2009 General Membership meeting. This committee, composed of five members and two alternates, is charged with identifying candidates to fill the 2010-2011 officer positions for our PTA. If you are interested in serving as an officer next year and would like more information, please contact Dawn Bornstein, Nominating Committee Chair, at Nominations@KincaidPTA.org or 770/579-6973.

ROBOTICS

Sunday, December 6th, Kincaid’s own Robobots Team placed 2nd in “Robot Competition” at Regionals against 28 other teams from Cobb County. This performance qualified them to go on to Super Regionals on January 9th where they did exceedingly well, far surpassing their first performance and showing everyone that they knew what it meant to be a team. The team is composed of 10 talented fifth grade students with two alternates: Ana G., Natalia B., Natalia I., Annabelle H., Kate P., Garrett D., Garret L., Zack S., Tyler G., Johnny P., Shrey N., and Dylan B.

The FLL robotics competition is not all about their robot and “missions” they run, but these children also had to design a research project and a way to share information found with others. This year’s theme was “Smart Move” and their project was based on transportation. The Kincaid team chose to examine how many children ride the bus versus the car, and also how many of these children could ride the bus but do not. They found in counting cars in carline that up ward of 250+ cars go through car line in the morning at Kincaid. The team has now created a campaign at school through posters and a blog on the Kincaid website to inform students and parents of the harmful effects of the amount of cars on the road and what they can do to help. Please check out their blog at www.cobbk12.org/kincaid.

If you see any of these 5th grade students, make sure to congratulate them on this great accomplishment!

2009 PTA Holiday Store:

The Kincaid PTA Holiday Store 2009 was once again, a huge success thanks to the many parent volunteers.  Over 1000 gifts were purchased to help bring Holiday cheer into Kincaid homes this season.  It was truly wonderful to see the kids putting a lot of thought into their purchases!  A special thank you to the Student Council 4th & 5th graders for all their extra help.  We are lucky to have so many responsible students who enjoy helping others at Kincaid. 

Community Fund Raising:

Thanks to all of you and your collection efforts in our Box Tops and
Campbells Labels Collection Drive, our school ordered and received 40
wipe-off white tablets and will also be receiving from Box Tops a check for
over $900.00!  This money will be used toward supplies for our teachers.
Remember, continue to save those Box Tops and Campbells Labels as a new
drive will start in February.



Family Fun Night:

Thanks to all the families, teachers, staff, and volunteers who joined us for Family Fitness Night!!! Everyone had a ton of fun learning Pilates, Martial Arts, Gymnastics, and Football warm-ups... Also a huge thank you to Carla Stone (Pilates), SCA Gymnastics, Marietta Martial Arts, and the Sprayberry Football team. If you would like more information about our vendors, please feel free to contact Crystal Brooks at welcome@kincaidpta.org. Thank you again to all the volunteers, teachers and staff who joined us and participated in all the fun!!!



Family Fun Night!


Family Fun Night!


Family Fun Night!


Fall Book Fair:

A big THANK YOU to everyone who supported our Fall Book Fair! Your volunteer efforts and patronage helped to make Destination Book Fair a huge success. Our volunteers worked very hard and we would like to thank each and every person who stepped up to fill all the available slots. Thanks to our school community's generosity, we were able to add over $1,700 worth of new books to Kincaid’s media center, and each class has more books in their classroom libraries, too. Still hungry for books? Plan to stop by the Book Fair Diner located in Kincaid's Media Center coming up March 2010!

And who raised the most money for the One-for-Books contest? The GIRLS!!

 

Thank you Ambassadors

The Kincaid PTA Ambassador Program is a family-to-family mentoring program that helps newcomers to Kincaid.  A big thank you to everyone who participated in the program, especially those who helped share their knowledge of Kincaid and welcome our new families. They are: Jill Pierce, Alene Lee, Changeon Yoon, Vanessa Edmonds, Carla Stone, Kris Kell, Kris Mintz, Melinda Benson, Jennifer Mannelly, Kerri Griffen, Jill Wilson, Jennifer Bolt, Claudine Lusk, Pat Falatico, Amie Fann, and Amy Cooney.  A special thank you to the Kindergarten teachers for working with us on this program.

If any of you have any questions about the program, or are new, please contact Stephanie Holden at Ambassadors@Kincaidpta.org.  We are happy to help!



Membership Campaign-a Success!

And the winner is...    Kincaid PTA!  Thanks to all the parents, families, and friends who joined PTA, we achieved our 100% Membership goal on October 30th!  The winner of the Kincaid PTA Membership Classroom Contest is Ms. Blackman's class with 211% (38 memberships)!   In a very close 2nd place, Ms. Taylor's class had 206%!  Thank you to all Kincaid families who joined PTA this year to support our students. Ms. Blackman's class will receive a pizza party and bird-house kits for each student, generously donated by Home Depot. Ms. Taylor's class will receive a pizza party.  If you are not currently a PTA member, it's not  too late to join! Simply go to the Kincaid PTA website at www.kincaidpta.org, download the membership form, fill it out and send it in to school with your child. A big thank you to Kathy Contreras and the membership committee for their hard work.




Boosterthon Success!

Boosterthon was a great success and the results are in! First the PTA would like to thank all the friends and families who came to support the children during their run. Your enthusiasm was overwhelming! We know that families worked hard to get pledges and collect money and we appreciate that. Kincaid raised $31,814.00 this year for our children!

This is amazing and everyone should be proud of the teamwork and pride that Kincaid students showed! Congratulations to Mr. Glass’s fifth grade class for collecting the most pledges and to A. Collier, in this class, for having the highest amount of pledges at Kincaid! Congratulations also to Ms. Garner’s first grade class for collecting pledges from the most states!

Because of your generosity, our main fundraiser was a complete success and we look forward to providing wonderful programs and opportunities to all Kincaid students!

Community Outreach:

VETERANS DAY CARD DRIVE – A BIG SUCCESS!......WOW! Kincaid students completed over 400 cards for our nation’s veterans! That beats last year’s total by more than 100 cards! The cards have been delivered to the VA Medical Center in Decatur and will be distributed to veterans in the nursing home and on the medical/surgical floors on Wednesday, November 11th, in honor of Veterans Day. The PTA Community Outreach Committee would like to thank the teachers and staff for being so supportive of this project – we couldn’t have done it without you. We would also like to thank the Kincaid students for completing such wonderful cards – they were sincere, funny, full of life and will be appreciated by all the veterans who receive them.

Reflections:

Thank you to all the students, parents and teachers who attended the Reflections Awards Brunch on October 22nd. Congratulations to all students who entered materials in the Film, Literature, Music, Photography and Visual Arts categories. Kincaid had 60 students who entered 86 entries in this year's contest. Our goal is to double the amount of students who enter the contest next year!!! So, be on the lookout for next year's theme sometime in the spring and get those creative juices flowing! All first and second place entries will move on to the District level for further judging. A big thanks to Elise Carter for doing a fabulous job with the food and decorations. We'd also like to thank Mr. Henry for his help getting everything ready. And, a huge thank you goes out to the entire Reflections TEAM: Sean Bolt, Pam Kulpa, Valerie Harris, Kris Kell, Carolyn Metts and Patsy Rauch. There still time to submit theme ideas for the 2010-2011 Reflections Theme. Deadline is Friday, October 30th. Please submit your entries and turn them into the Reflections mailbox. Blank copies are located in the mailbox as well. Please contact Michele Rhyne at reflections@kincaidpta.org or at 770-321-6268 with any questions. Thanks!

Reflections Brunch

Hands on Atlanta Day at Kincaid!

On Saturday, October 3, the grounds at Kincaid Elementary seemed to be magically transformed! But it wasn’t magic. It was about 70+ hard-working people, including Kincaid families, staff, and IBM volunteers who dedicated their Saturday morning to making Kincaid a better place. This collaboration between Kim Cook-Boyd from IBM, Henry Landers, Kincaid Facilities Manager, and Dawn Bornstein, Kincaid PTA Environmental Committee, made for a highly successful day. Some of the projects completed include: removing the old fence along Kincaid Road, planting camellias and mulching; adapting the outdoor classroom by the gardens to accommodate wheelchairs; clearing, mulching and planting throughout the front areas and the main building; weeding and planting the Kincaid garden areas, and trash pick up. We would like to thank our IBM Partners in Education, the Kincaid families, teachers and staff members who volunteered to help make our school beautiful! Everyone attending, working, or visiting Kincaid can enjoy the beauty of the school grounds and feel pride for this wonderful community school!

International Walk To School Day:

Thanks for being Cool and Walking to School! The Kincaid PTA Environmental Education Committee would like to thank all the students, parents, teachers, and staff members that helped make our participation in International Walk to School Day a big success. Although the morning of Oct. 7th was quite soggy, our walkers turned out in record numbers. 40+ participating students and teachers passed through our Welcome Station! Way to go! Your dedication to a healthy and environmentally friendly lifestyle is to be commended. Thanks also to our bus riders and carpoolers for “riding there for cleaner air”! We are so proud of all of you! Kincaid’s commitment to environmental awareness, advocacy and action is leading the way for others to follow. Thanks again and be on the look out for more walking fun to come in the spring!!

It's dark and rainy!

Reduce, Reuse Recycle!

Do you know how much trash you throw away each day? If you are like an average American, it’s 4.6 pounds per person. To educate Americans on the topic of recycling and to encourage them to act, the National Recycling Coalition designated November 14, 2009 as America Recycles Day.

Here are a few ideas to teach your child that your family can make a difference:

Take the pledge on the website: http://www.nrc-recycle.org/takethepledge.aspx

Use both sides of all paper, including homework assignments, and then recycle.

Contact your trash company about their recycling services.

Check out the Georgia Recycling Coalition recycling locations for batteries, electronics, and just about any household item: environment@kincaidpta.org to help with recycling efforts at Kincaid. We are always looking to benefit our students, school and community through expanding our recycling program.

Get started recycling today and make your family a part of the solution!

Facts from this article were taken from the NRC America Recycles Day website: http://www.nrc-recycle.org/americarecycles.aspx



Congratulations to Mr. Pete Bush Kincaid's 2009-10 Teacher of the Year!

Kincaid PTA would like to congratulate Mr. Pete Bush for being named Kincaid Elementary School's Teacher of the Year!

 




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