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May 23, 2013
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Upcoming Events
May 27—Memorial Day, No School
JF Burns is hosting a blood drive
tomorrow, May
24th from 10 a.m.
-4 p.m. There’s
still time to make
an appointment.
Call Hoxworth
Blood Center 513451-0910.
May 23— KHS Baccalaureate, 6:30 p.m., Christ
Church, Mason
May 30— JFB 4th Grade Chorus/Recorder Concert,
9:15 a.m., JFB Cafeteria
May 23— #theBIGevent, 5:30-8:30 p.m., KJH
May 30—SLE 4th Grade Recorder Concert, 2:15
p.m., SLE Cafeteria
May 24—Hoxworth Blood Drive, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., JF
Burns
May 26 —KHS Graduation 1 p.m. , Cintas Center
May 30— Senior Picnic, 1:00 p.m., Landen Park
May 30—Last Day of School
More event information can be found at: http://www.kingslocal.net/Calendar/Pages/default.aspx
Congratulations to the fifteen Kings High School athletes who have
committed to play sports at the collegiate level next year! The KHS
Athletic Department recognized these students at its Spring Athletic
Signing Ceremony May 16th.
This year, 160 seniors participated in sports at Kings High School. A
total of 17 of those have
made official commitments
to colleges. Family, coaches,
teachers, administrators, media, and teammates attended
the event honoring these athletes. Congratulations to the
following students:

Kennedy Cook-Football-Wittenberg University

Lauren McLennan-Swimming/Cross Country-Rose Hulman

Austin Copeland-Football-Thomas More

Matt Schlehr-Swimming-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Haley Delaney-Women’s Basketball-Waynesburg University

Joe Shumar-Baseball-Muskingum University

Kacy Dunn-Cross Country/Track & Field-Cedarville University

Kayla Smih-Softball-University of Northwestern Ohio

David Hare-Baseball-Baldwin Wallace University

Brady Vanover-Football-Wittenberg University

Jacob Himes-Basketball-Manchester University

Natalie Weinrich-Dance-University of Toledo

Landon Kirby-Men’s Soccer-Ohio Christian University

Nick Wolf-Football-Carthage College

Paul Koerbel-Lacrosse-Wilmington College
Top Classes 2013:
Top Readers 2013:
Kindergarten—Mrs.
Reitz
Kindergarten—Maniya
Loganathan
First Grade—Mrs. Sova
First Grade—Lydia
Back
Second Grade—Mrs.
Tuggle
Second Grade—Cody
Powell
Third Grade—Mrs.
Waugh
Laps for Literacy—Mrs. Montag Walks 24 Miles!
Third Grade—Blake
Powell
Fourth Grade—Mrs.
Bowman
For the past 13 years J.F. Burns Elementary Principal Cheryl
Montag has encouraged her students to read with the Laps for Literacy Program. From January
to April students log every minute of extra-curricular reading they do. Those minutes are
added up and calculated into laps. This year’s students, once again, broke the building
record reading for a total of 1,273,817 minutes. Last year’s total was 1,121, 922 .
Fourth Grade—Emma
Pratt
So this year, Mrs. Montag walked eight laps around Landen Lake – 24 miles! On the first
lap around the lake Mrs. Montag was joined by the top classes and Superintendent Dr.
Valerie Browning. Mrs. Montag and Dr. Browning wore pink shirts that said “1,273,817.”
Later in the afternoon Mrs. Montag walked with the top readers.
This year’s walking event was in support of two J.F. Burns staff members currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer. The walk also featured a lemonade stand to raise
money for J.F. Burns preschool teacher, Angie Niemann who was diagnosed with breast
cancer in November 2012 and has been undergoing treatments and surgeries since that
time. The lemonade stand raised over $900!
SLE Stewarsdship Fair a Great Success!
The South Lebanon Elementary EClub sponsored their first Environmental Stewardship Fair on May 20th. Vendors from the area including Dogwood Farms,
Whole Foods, Wildflower Café’, and Eddie Merlot’s were on hand to explain their
impact on influencing the community to think about what they are eating and
where it comes from. Some
of the vendor’s had handson activities for the students
to partake in, such as planting, composting, and reading food labels. The Club
has partnered with the
Kohl’s Cares Program in developing an Outdoor Classroom.
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Kings Spanish V Donates to Cooperative for Education
On Friday, May 31st,
there will be a webcast
celebration of the 2013
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National Ceremony. The ceremony
will be held at the prestigious Carnegie Hall and
will honor the students in
grades 7-12 from across
the country who earned
National Medals. King’s
own Sam Huber, Jerod
Allen, and Lauren Lalli
earned national recognition. Click here to sign
up to take part in the
webcast.
On Friday, May 17th, the students of Jorge Gonzalez’s Spanish V Conversation class
officially gave a check for $2,500 to Cooperative for Education (CoEd) so that Kings
can fulfill its promise to sponsor another school in Guatemala. In the last two years,
Kings has been a school-to-school textbook sponsor by raising $5,000 so that students
in rural schools in Guatemala can have the four-core textbooks.
Gina Leiser, a representative from CoEd, came to visit the students who sponsor such
fund raising activities as “Jeans para
Guatemala” for
the teachers and
staff, and
“Dodgeball para
Guatemala” for
the students. The
Spanish V students also hosted
an informal reception for Ms. Leiser
during her classroom visit.
Kings Class of 2019 Ready to Cross the Bridge to Junior High
Transitions are never easy – whether it be new homes, neighborhoods, jobs or schools. The Kings School District continues the
process of evaluating the transitions that our students make from the time they enter Kindergarten until they leave PostSecondary Training to become contributing members of society. With that in mind, the junior high hosted the current sixth grade
class on Thursday morning to continue their process of crossing that bridge between CIS and KJH.
Students, in three equal groups of 100, were met in the multi-purpose room to be welcomed by building administrators and
counselors. Mr. Spinner reminded them that we are all KINGS KNIGHTS. After watching the student created “Welcome to KJH”
video; the sixth grade students moved with their homerooms into two equal groups and met up with an equally divided Home
Base Classroom of 7th Graders. While half of those groups worked on a team-building activity, the other half toured the campus
stopping at 16 stops. The incoming 6th
graders also had an opportunity to ask
questions about what life was like at KJH.
The students enjoyed lunch together in the
KJH Café’ along with KONA ICE. The day
concluded with a Scavenger Hunt in the
Kings Stadium where students were challenged with little known facts about Kings
Mills, the history of Kings Schools and trivia
about the 7th Grade Teachers.
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J.F. Burns Raises Money for Autism Speaks
Kings Kids Offering 5 Day
Preschool
Beginning this fall, Kings Kids, Kings Local
School District’s preschool and childcare
program, will offer a new 5 day preschool
program for four and five year olds. The 5
day class will be in the afternoon, taught by
one of the King’s kindergarten teachers.
Space is still available for the 2013-2014
School Year. Registrations are currently being accepted. For more information call,
(513)398-8050 ext. 10043 or click here.
Students in Mrs. Kaercher’s Science classes at KJH were visited by Ron Terranova from Bella Balloons in Lebanon, Ohio.
Mr. Terranova talked to each of the classes about being a hot
air balloon pilot and what makes balloons fly. The students
are currently studying weather and will be building and
launching their tissue paper hot air balloons at the end of the
unit. The launch will take place next Thursday in the auditorium. Mrs. Kaercher, Mr. Winebrenner, and Ms. Seitz have all
flown in hot air balloons with Bella at one time or another!
Students in Mrs. McVay’s and Mrs. Hull’s class and the entire 4th
grade at J. F. Burns set up tables in the cafeteria to sell puzzle pieces
for $1.00. With the help of Judy Nekolny, who is involved with Autism Speaks and also has an autistic son, Scotty, the students also
posted signs advertising the puzzle piece sale. The
students raised
$173.10 for Autism.
Pictured: (L-R)
Judy Nekolny, Karen Nekolny, Chris
Chapman and Lauren Lehr.
Last Thursday evening, 22 seniors, 8 of whom have been a special part of the
Kings Choral Department for four years or more, took the stage for the final
time. There were many amazing solos, serenades, and shenanigans as they
sang farewell. Following three wild and crazy finales choreographed by Lauren Abernathy, Zack Middleton, Niki Walter, Allison Herndon, and Grant
Abbott, awards were distributed, which included the National School Choral
Award/Chuck Mason Scholarship and Fred Waring Director’s Award/Jared
Adamson Scholarship. This year’s recipients, Zack Middleton and Emily
Haddix (respectively), were selected by the students in the choral department and the awards were presented by Dr. Browning.
Pictured: Dr. Browning, Zack Middleton, Emily Haddix, Mrs. Milthaler, and
Mr. Hayward
This past Friday, the Kings Junior High School 8th Grade Band performed at the District XIII Large Group
Contest at Lebanon Junior High School. The KJHS 8th Grade Band under the direction of Mr. Maegly, Mr.
McDonough and Mr. Polen, earned a Superior Rating. Congratulations 8th Grade Band!
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Project TRUST
Annual KABC Golf Outing
As one part of the 6th to 7th grade transition, the staff at Columbia Intermediate and the Junior
High selected over 20 students, each with potential leadership skills from both 6th and 7th grade
to attend Project TRUST. TRUST stands for Teaching, Respect, Understanding, and Student
Teamwork. The program is an anti-bullying program created to end bullying and create positive
school culture to encourage youth development. On Friday, May 17th, the students traveled to
Camp Kern for a day of leadership building activities. To learn more about Project TRUST,
please visit: http://www.beniceoutthere.com/.
The Kings Athletic Booster Club Golf
Outing will be held on Sunday, August 11th at Walden Ponds Golf
Course in Fairfield. Your day includes
a round of golf, tee prize package,
opportunity to win contests and
prizes, followed by dinner catered by
our own Buck’s Tavern. All proceeds
from the event benefit the Kings
Athletic Booster Club and our Athletic Facilities. Entries are limited to
the first 128 golfers by August 1st.
For more information and the registration form click here.
Author Visit at J.F. Burns
Stacie Vaughn Hutton came to JFB last week.
She is the author of "Shovelful of Sunshine" a
children's book paying tribute to coal miner's
and their families. It is a story of hope and
inspiration that shows how a young girl copes
with her father's perilous job as a coal miner.
Read more about Stacie and her other books
click here.
Pictured is Liza Golod and Maleena Ewing
"digging for coal.”
Kings Junior High Jazz Band Performs at the Governor’s Art Show
On Monday, May 13, the
KJHS Jazz Band performed
at the Governor’s Art Show
in the Rhodes Office Tower, Columbus, Ohio. There
were many positive comments about their performance from the workers in
the Rhodes Office Tower.
Prior to their performance,
Jazz Band Members had a
walking tour of the Ohio
State University.
May 23, 2013
Current 6th Grade and
7th Grade girls interested
in playing tennis for
Kings Junior High this
fall, information packets
are available in the Offices at Columbia and KJH. Girls are encouraged to
sign up for the Kings Tennis Camp
that will take place on June 10-13.
Visit www.kingsathletics.com for a
camp brochure. Junior High Tennis
starts in August, so pick up the information packet, grab your racket,
and get ready to have fun! Any
questions contact Coach Sichterman
at [email protected].
Time for Junior High Cross
Country Sign Ups
6th grade boys and girls interested
in running Cross Country for Kings
Junior High this fall are invited to
sign up now. Official summer practices will begin in mid-August. For
more information click here.
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Honoring our Scholar-Athlete Seniors
For the past 18 years the Kings Athletic Booster
Club and the Kings Athletic Department have
honored student athletes who have maintained
excellent academic standards while dedicating
their time and energy to Kings athletics. On
May 22, the Annual Senior Scholar-Athlete
Luncheon was held at the Golf Center at Kings
Island. Thirty-two students were recognized at
the luncheon with their parents and their most
influential person joining them.
To qualify for this award, an athlete must have earned a cumulative grade point average of 3.6 or better for their entire academic
career at KHS while earning a minimum of five Varsity letters in multiple sports, or four Varsity letters in one sport.
Every scholar-athlete honored is continuing their education at the collegiate level, many of them will also play sports.
Congratulations to the Kings High School Scholar-Athletes: Lauren Abernathy, Caity Adams, Ryan Anthony, Thomas Archibald,
Paul Beeson, Evan Berg, Henry Cooper, Justin Crull, Haley Delaney, Olivia DeMumbrum, Matthew Drew, Kacy Dunn, Nick Guiliano, Cooper Harris, Will Hollingsworth, Garrett Householder, Paige Jones, Alaina Kappner, Christopher Koloseike, Aaron
Matheus, Brenton Mathias, Luke McLelland, Lauren McLennan, Cassandra Murdoch, Meghan Parton, Alec Paulson, Matthew
Schlehr, Mackenzie Seiter, Joe Shumar, Allyson Sovinsky, Allison Stelmack, and Brandon Voorhies.
KHS Elects Student
Council
The student body at
Kings High School
elected their new officers for the 2013-2014
school year. Congratulations to incoming seniors, Katie Gould and
Matthew Fowler who
were elected President and Vice President, respectively.
Members of Americanism 40 & 8 spoke to the J.F. Burns first
graders about the American Flag. Each student received a
small American Flag at the conclusion of the program.
May 23, 2013
KJH Teacher to Study Overseas
Beginning in mid-July, Kings Junior High
staff member Andrea Kaercher will
study Neotropical ecology in the Central
American country of Costa Rica. Her trip
is part of her graduate coursework from
Miami University’s Project Dragonfly.
The Project is based on Earth Expeditions, which has engaged more than 1,400 people since 2004 in
firsthand educational and scientific research at critical conservation field sites in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. Mrs.
Kaercher said, “I am looking forward to the opportunity to learn
and enhance our ecology curriculum in such a rich environmental ecosystem.” More information about Kaercher's course click
here.
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Kings Freshman Camp
Moving up to the high school from the junior high can be a scary time for some students. To make that transition a
little less stressful and a little easier, Kings High School hosted Kings Freshman Camp Thursday, May 16, and Friday,
May 18. This 2day event introduced incoming freshman (this year’s eighth graders) to some upperclassman who will
ease them into their first year as high schoolers.
On the first day of camp, incoming Freshman were divided into ”families.” Upperclassmen parent those families—
hopefully making the Freshmen feel more comfortable in their new high school home. The families participated in
skits, a scavenger hunt, and team building activities. The upper-class leaders outfitted their families with something special to wear whether it was a colored bandana, a visor, beads, or a Hawaiian Lei.
KHS Assistant Principal Rob Burnside said he hopes this will help bring the students together. Another part of the
camp will extend to the first day of classes next
year. The upperclassmen in charge of families will
go out of their way to find the freshmen they
worked with at the camp to say ”hi” and help them
through that first day.
Pictured are the families working together to form
a perfect rectangle during their team building activity.
4th Grade District Chorus
The 4th Grade District Chorus,
made up of the chorus groups from
J.F. Burns Elementary, Kings Mills
Elementary and South Lebanon
Elementary performed on May
22nd in the KHS Auditorium. Here
they are rehearsing under the direction of Mr. Jenkins, Mrs. Maegly,
and Mrs. Sherby.
J. F. Burns Principal, Cheryl Montag was recognized at
the Kings Board of Education meeting this week. Mr.
Mark Jones, from the Ohio Association of Elementary
School Administrators (OAESA) presented Montag
with her 2013 Ohio National Distinguished Principal
Award.
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Summer
Opportunities
Attention bowling fans:
Need a fun way to start your summer break? Come to
the Kings Bowling Camp. Be sure to check out the Kings
Athletic website to register for summer bowling
camp. All students grades 7-12 BOYS AND GIRLS are
welcome to attend. Camp will be June 4-7 from 1-3 at
Loveland Lanes. Grab a friend and plan on attending.
Don’t miss out on the fun!! Questions? Contact Coach
John Karabinus at Kings Junior High.
KABC Sports Camps
Summer is just a few short months
away! Start thinking about what
Sports Camps your children might
want to attend this year. Click the
link below for more information
on the KABC Sports Camps.
Your kids can play football, bowling, baseball, soccer, golf, lacrosse, and so much more!
KABC Sports Camps Brochure
Kings High School Women’s Soccer ID Camp
The Kings Women’s Soccer Program is hosting an ID
camp for girls entering 7th, 8th , and 9th grades, that
are interested in trying out for high school soccer.
The camp, run by the high school coaches, is designed to identify and get to know the junior high
players before they get into high school. The ID
Camp will be held at the Kings Stadium June 12-14,
from 8-10 a.m. For more information and registration forms click here.
Kings Youth
Football
Youth Camp
will be held
next Thursday
and Friday, May 30 and 31st.
Students in grades K-7 are eligible to attend. KYO Camp will be
held at the Kings Stadium from
6-8 p.m. For more information
click here.
The Deerfield Township Fire Rescue is looking
for Safety Town Counselors for their summer
Safety Town Program. For more information
contact Lt. Patrick Strausbaugh at 513-4590875, email at pstra@deerfieldtwp,com, or
visit choosedeerfield.com to sign up.
There is only one more date available to
get a physical at Beacon Orthopaedics and
Sports Medicine. Physicals for student athletes entering grades 7-12 will be performed
on July 27th. The cost is $20 per athlete but $10 per athlete will be returned to the Athletic Department to use
for sports medicine supplies. Click here for the form.
May 23, 2013
For more registration forms and more information
Laffalot Summer Camp at Columbia click here.
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Kings Local School District
1797 King Ave.
PO Box 910
Kings Mills , Ohio 45034
Do You Have Talent?
Dawn Gould
Community Relations Coordinator
Phone: 513.398.8050 ext. 10014
Fax: 513.229.7590
E-mail: [email protected]
The Warren County Fair is hosting “Warren County Fair Has Talent” again this
year. They are looking for talent from all of the area schools. The contest starts
July 16 and runs through to the Finals on July 20th. They are looking for participants with a variety of talents. Pre-registration ends July 1st. For more information click here.
www.kingslocal.net
Kings is on Facebook!
Find us at: http://
www.facebook.com/
KingsLocalSchoolDistrict
Kings High School Cheer Camp will be
held from June 10-12 in the KHS Gym
from 6-9 p.m. The cost is $60. For information including the registration brochure
click here.
Find KJH on
Twitter!
KME PTO Blog
The Kings Mills Elementary PTO is excited to announce a
new way to keep
parents informed of
what’s going on at
KME. Click here to
check out their new
blog!
May 23, 2013
A benefit Golf outing to support the David
J. Segrist Fund will be held at the Golf Center at Kings Island on Saturday, June 1st.
Dave was a teacher and football coach at
Kings for many years. He later went to
Mason and was an administrator. The
fund benefits Kings and Mason students.
For more information and the registration
form click here.
KHS Final Exam schedules are now
posted. Click here for the schedule.
Also, for a complete list of FAQ’s for
the end of the year at KHS, click here.
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