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Treasurer’s Report

All funds from pledge drive and dodgeball tournament shall be applied immediately to our discretionary fund for the remainder of 2024-2025.

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Current unallocated discretionary funds: $ 2,873.20

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Current unallocated pledge drive funds: $13,887.43

Future unallocated subscriptions: $ 3,945.20

Dodgeball income (estimate): $ 8,000.00

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Immediately available discretionary

funds, should we allocate our pledge

drive money: $16,760.63

Budget Update Proposal

Requisitions

International Baccalaureate

The Middle Years Program at KMS

The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

IB Mission Statement

What is IB MYP?

The Middle Years Program is a framework that encompasses eight subject groups. Students must take classes in each of these groups in each year of the program.

IB emphasizes learning within global contexts, exploring issues and concepts from a local and a global perspective. This helps them to develop awareness and understanding of their own culture as well as other cultures and societies.

Global Perspectives

Secondary education organizes learning into disciplinary compartments as a response to increasing specialization, but our ever-changing world also demands education that empowers people to integrate disciplines in novel and creative ways.

Students demonstrate interdisciplinary understanding when they bring together concepts, methods, or forms of communication from two or more disciplines so they can explain a phenomenon, solve a problem, create a product, or raise a new question in ways that would have been unlikely through a single discipline.

Interdisciplinary Connections

Interdisciplinary units, done in each year of the program, are planned collaboratively within two subject groups.

In order to intentionally help all members of the school community learn to respect themselves, others, and the world around them, the MYP helps to develop learners who are: inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced, and reflective.

Learner Profiles

Service as action is a foundational element of the MYP. It seeks to develop caring members of the community who act to make a positive difference to the lives of others and their environment.

Service as Action

Developing students’ skills is about more than simply developing their cognitive skills. It is also about developing affective and metacognitive skills, and about encouraging students to view learning as something that they “do for themselves in a proactive way, rather than a covert event that happens to them in reaction to teaching” (Zimmerman, 2000, p 65).

Approaches to Learning

8.W.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence

a. Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically

b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text

c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence

d. Establish and maintain a formal style

e. Provide a concluding statement that follows from and supports the arguments presented

Example: In Practice

Academic

skills

Student

skills

Q & A

Restaurant Nights

Upcoming:

January 9

We made:

Who knows, it was just yesterday!

We made:

$321.81

Sports Booster Table

Q2 Sports:

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November 12, 14, 18, 26 and December 5

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4pm - 7pm at every event

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So far:

$162, missing some checks

KMS Connect

Gift Card Drive

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December 2-6

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See the Signupgenius link in our next newsletter

Cookie Exchange

Our goal is 60 dozen cookies.

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60 x 12 = …

SO MANY COOKIES

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So. Many.

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Cookie overflow goes to KMS Connect.

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See the newsletter for the Signupgenius and get baking.

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(Store bought is okay too).

Looking Ahead to Our Second Semester

Fifth Grade Showcase: January 15

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Winter Planning Session: January 29

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Dodgeball Tournament: March 7

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International Festival: April 11

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8th Grade Dance: May 16

Upcoming Dates

Subscribe to our calendar:

🍪 Wednesday, December 18: Cookie Exchange

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💳 Until December 20: Gift Card Drive

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❄️ December 21-January 6: Winter Break

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🍻 Thursday, January 9: Restaurant Night at Freely

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😍 Friday, January 10: Next PTO Meeting

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