NEWS: Year-end Awards, 360 Degree Math, Mapping Paris

June Snapshots

Top left, clockwise: Students reading work at Do the Write Thing, a writers workshop for fourth and fifth graders at Katonah Elementary. Meadow Pond Elementary students harvest greens for Salad Day. Second graders at Increase Miller Elementary treat families to a Flag Day concert. Redmond Margie wins the John Jay Middle School’s Geography Bee. Team Tapestry hosts a Greco-Roman Museum. Shu-Min (Jasmine) Chang’s appointment to the United States Military Academy is announced at Senior Awards Night.

360 Degree Math Expands to Fifth Grade

The students gather in small groups around about a dozen whiteboards, talking through math problems. If any seem stumped, the teachers encourage the students to look at other groups’ work, and at their example, to determine how to proceed.This is 360 Degree Math, a simple yet revolutionary approach that is used at John Jay Middle School and now expanding to the district’s fifth grade classes. MORE

Learning about Paris by Creating its Monuments

Although the seventh graders were working in the Maker Space on the bottom floor of John Jay Middle School, in their minds' eyes they were in Paris, gazing at some of the city's most-visited monuments.Together, they created a three-dimensional map of Paris complete with miniatures including the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs-Elysées and Sacré-Cœur. MORE

Transit Skills Support Independence

John Jay Middle and High Schools’ special education classes have been participating in a Westchester County program called Be Educated About Transit, or B.E.A.T. Plus, which supports travel skills—an important key to independence. The program culminated in a Bee-Line bus trip from Katonah to Mt. Kisco with students taking the lead in planning the trip. MORE

Celebrating Accomplishments

It's awards season at John Jay High School! Join us in congratulating Valedictorian Kaitlyn Varriale and Salutatorian Victoria Fenton, recipients of Senior Awards, the 9th, 10th and 11th graders who received awards and seniors who have committed to continue their sport in college, as well as all members of the Class of 2022!

Celebrating School, District & Community Initiatives

All community members are invited to a showcase of Katonah-Lewisboro's green initiatives at the district’s first Sustainability Celebration on Thursday, June 16, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, outside of John Jay High School's library. The indoor-outdoor celebration will be followed by a student-led sustainability presentation to the Board of Education at 7:30 pm. MORE

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Upcoming District Events

Elementary schools' Field Day: June 16
JJHS Senior Prom: June 16
KLSD Sustainability Celebration: June 16
KLSD Board of Education meeting: June 16
Elementary schools' early dismissal: June 17
KES Variety Show: June 17
Juneteenth observed, schools closed: June 20
JJMS and elementary schools' early dismissal: June 21
JJHS Graduation: June 21
SEPTO end-of-year event: June 21
Eighth grade Moving Up: June 22
IMES, KES, MPES fifth grade Moving Up: June 23
JJMS - no students: June 23
JJMS early dismissal: June 24
Last day of school: June 24
Relay for Life: June 24

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