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Wunderlich is AVID for a cure
Wunderlich Intermediate School had 41 students and 6 faculty members participate in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Walk to Cure Diabetes at Reliant Park. Students and staff raised about $2,000. Wunderlich’s T-shirt also won first place in the T-shirt contest.
AVID is a program that supports students who show great potential, but who were not originally enrolled in a college prep curriculum. It is offered at all four KISD high schools and at Wunderlich and Klein Intermediate schools.
KEF awards grants
The Klein Education Foundation awarded five grants totaling $14,700 at four schools Dec. 3.
Klein Forest High School teachers received funds for the Holiday Bread Shop. This grant will provide start-up funds for developmental students to learn to bake, market and sell loaves of sweet bread. A second grant awarded to KFHS will allow students to take a virtual Egyptian visit.
Krahn Elementary School received funds to provide a guest speaker and learning tools related to the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
Frank Elementary School received funds for a musical playground that will extend music, science and reading instruction to an outdoor environment.
Ehrhardt Elementary School was awarded funding for family-friendly games for at-home review of mathematics and reading skills.
Musicians selected for annual state conference
The Haude Performing Arts Ensemble, an un-auditioned choir and percussion ensemble composed of students in grades 3, 4 and 5, will perform at the annual conference of the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA).
IBA students lead campus project
In support of Northwest Assistance Ministries (NAM), the International Business Academy collected canned food for the NAM Food Drive.
The project was created in the Algebra II IBA class where students used algebraic functions to determine how much money could be raised from donors based on a canned food drive.
Students presented the information for staff approval, then had to determine how to market the information to their peers, how to advertise to the school and how long to collect cans.
In the end, students had collected 2,197 cans/non-perishable food items to donate to NAM.
IBA sponsors International Week
Teachers in the International Business Academy provided International Week to create interest in world cultures.
Students enjoyed food samples representing India, learning about similarities in fairy tales from other countries and went on an imaginary trip to Thailand.
Epps Island conducts food drive
The Student Council of Epps Island Elementary School proposed an idea to have a food drive for families that do not have any food.
Students collected more than 600 pounds of food for Northwest Assistance Ministries (NAM).
On Nov. 20, the school partnered with the Willowbrook Mall area Chuck E. Cheese for a PTO fundraiser. If a student took a can of food to Chuck E. Cheese, the student was given four tokens to play games.
Wunderlich Intermediate School had 41 students and 6 faculty members participate in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Walk to Cure Diabetes at Reliant Park. Students and staff raised about $2,000. Wunderlich’s T-shirt also won first place in the T-shirt contest.
AVID is a program that supports students who show great potential, but who were not originally enrolled in a college prep curriculum. It is offered at all four KISD high schools and at Wunderlich and Klein Intermediate schools.
KEF awards grants
The Klein Education Foundation awarded five grants totaling $14,700 at four schools Dec. 3.
Klein Forest High School teachers received funds for the Holiday Bread Shop. This grant will provide start-up funds for developmental students to learn to bake, market and sell loaves of sweet bread. A second grant awarded to KFHS will allow students to take a virtual Egyptian visit.
Krahn Elementary School received funds to provide a guest speaker and learning tools related to the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
Frank Elementary School received funds for a musical playground that will extend music, science and reading instruction to an outdoor environment.
Ehrhardt Elementary School was awarded funding for family-friendly games for at-home review of mathematics and reading skills.
Musicians selected for annual state conference
The Haude Performing Arts Ensemble, an un-auditioned choir and percussion ensemble composed of students in grades 3, 4 and 5, will perform at the annual conference of the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA).
IBA students lead campus project
In support of Northwest Assistance Ministries (NAM), the International Business Academy collected canned food for the NAM Food Drive.
The project was created in the Algebra II IBA class where students used algebraic functions to determine how much money could be raised from donors based on a canned food drive.
Students presented the information for staff approval, then had to determine how to market the information to their peers, how to advertise to the school and how long to collect cans.
In the end, students had collected 2,197 cans/non-perishable food items to donate to NAM.
IBA sponsors International Week
Teachers in the International Business Academy provided International Week to create interest in world cultures.
Students enjoyed food samples representing India, learning about similarities in fairy tales from other countries and went on an imaginary trip to Thailand.
Epps Island conducts food drive
The Student Council of Epps Island Elementary School proposed an idea to have a food drive for families that do not have any food.
Students collected more than 600 pounds of food for Northwest Assistance Ministries (NAM).
On Nov. 20, the school partnered with the Willowbrook Mall area Chuck E. Cheese for a PTO fundraiser. If a student took a can of food to Chuck E. Cheese, the student was given four tokens to play games.
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