March 7th, 2025
Dear Kenwood Families,
Happy Friday! This past week, we celebrated Read Across America and we welcomed families to participate in our Book Swap with families getting a chance to exchange and take home a number of books. This past week our 5th grade students completed the Illinois Science Assessment which measures their understanding of a number of science topics. This upcoming week we look forward to parent teacher conferences scheduled for Thursday, March 13th (3:00 - 7:00pm) and Friday, March 14th (8:00 - 11:00am). We look forward to sharing the progress of your child during this past quarter. If you have not had a chance to schedule your child’s conference please be sure to reach out as soon as possible to your child’s teacher. The following week, our district will be on Spring break (March 17th - 21st) and schools will be closed.
Scholastic Book Fair
Scholastic book fair is approaching soon and will take place during parent teacher conferences next week. The book fair will be held in the cafeteria as follows:
Thursday, March 13th, 3-7pm
Friday, March 14th, 8-11am
You can also shop our book fair online starting on Monday, March 10th. Here is our book fair website: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/kenwoodelementaryschool7
All purchases made during the book fair benefit our school. We hope to see you at the fair!
Battle of the Books
Our students recently participated in the Battle of the Books at the Champaign Public Library where our team led by Mrs. Lehr and Mrs. Denzer captured 2nd place! Our team was represented by the following students: Charles Zych, Wali Abbas, Pippa McKnight, Sam Hall, Ben Nelson, Margot McKnight, Lena Swiatek, Sam Thomas, Tessa Widdicks, Lilly Mathews, Everly Smith, Miles Miller, Brian Cole, and Aiden Turner
Just a reminder of your opportunity to share your thoughts on the important elements of school effectiveness in a survey about Kenwood. For a more detailed overview of the 5 Essentials survey please see the link above. You can access the parent portion of the survey at the following web address.
https://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/login/
Have a great weekend,
Dr. Trevor Nadrozny
Principal