K-State Campus Kids Day

K-State to Host USTA/ITA Campus Kids Day

                          

MANHATTAN, Kan. – As part of its regular season finale on Saturday, Kansas State women’s tennis will host a USTA/ITA Campus Kids Day at the Wamego Recreation Complex at 1 p.m., in Wamego, Kan. Saturday’s match is free and open to the public, as the Wildcats host Sunflower State rival Kansas.

The USTA/ITA Campus Kids Day is designed to expose junior players, their parents and coaches to college tennis matches. Any child in the age range of kindergarten to 8th grade is allowed to participate in the USTA/ITA Campus Kids Day activities.

Each participant in Saturday’s Campus Kids Day will receive a free t-shirt, a K-State tennis poster and will be able to enjoy an ice cream social. The kids will also participate in serve contests, tennis trivia and have an opportunity to take a picture with K-State mascot, Willie the Wildcat. On court activities will begin immediately following the doubles matches.

Parents may register their children by e-mailing wildcatfans@ksu.edu.

Saturday’s match will also be Senior Day for the Wildcats, as K-State honors the career of senior Petra Chuda prior to the start of the match.

K-State Gameday will tape a 30-minute show from Saturday’s match at the Wamego Recreation Complex, hosted by Cameron Banning and Craig Holman. Fans can see the show at 6 p.m., on K-StateHD.TV as an on-demand feature. The show will include profiles and analysis on this year’s K-State women’s tennis team.

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RANDY PETERSON

Assistant Director | Athletic Communications

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Vocabulary Parade

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Test-Taking Incentive Video

As an incentive the students were told they could help create a video project if they worked hard on the Kansas reading assessment.  We have spent the last few weeks taking video and pictures in classrooms as well as working on the lyrics.  Many students participated taking video clips and photographs and we recorded 5 different groups singing.  All of these items were then edited and the songs we spliced together.  The final version is posted on youtube but it is not public.  You have to have this link to view it.  http://youtu.be/gtkWHqePvKI  We will watch this before taking our final state assessments this week (April 10 and April 12) for science.  Thank you for the work you have done at home to help students prepare for these assessments as well.

Starbase T-Shirts

Parents,
Unfortunately STARBASE has undergone some budget cuts this year.  We found out last week that the STARBASE t-shirts will not be free this year -- the instructors are asking for $5 per student to cover the cost of their t-shirt.  Of course, purchasing a t-shirt is optional.  If you would like your student to have a t-shirt, and the cost is a problem, please let your child's homeroom teacher know.  Also, we are still looking for parent volunteers to accompany us on any of the STARBASE days.  If you would like to come with us, please let your child's homeroom teacher know so that we can get you a volunteer form.  Thanks so much!
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Newspaper Drive

April 2, 2012

Dear Parent(s),

For the past several years, West Elementary has shown support of our county recycling program by participating in various county-wide newspaper drives. The profits from the drives help fund the recycling trailers in Pottawatomie County.

In conjunction with “Earth Day,” which is April 22, another newspaper drive is scheduled for this month. West students are encouraged to start collecting newspapers now and take them to the marked recycling trailer, located across from the Dutch Mill.

It is important that absolutely no other paper items be included with your newspapers.  Paper items such as magazines, telephone books, junk mail, and children's school papers can be recycled in the other recycling trailers. Also, please remember to remove all paper and plastic sacks and strings.

Students at West will be competing to see which class can collect the most newspapers by April 20, our contest deadline. The winning class will earn a popcorn