Kelso C-7 School District

We have what’s shaping up to be an exciting week ahead! Thank you to our families for their understanding with the last minute closing of the after school care in the last minute. Water main break: The water is expected to be restored this evening, but our district will be under a boil water order until at least mid-day Wednesday. Please send a water bottle with your child to school tomorrow. The water fountains and bottle fillers will not be accessible. There will be extra bottled water on hand. Beta Club: The field trip will have to be rescheduled again due to staff shortage. We will get it rescheduled ASAP. Its Dinner Auction Week!! We are excited to see all of our community members together to celebrate on Saturday evening. If you have any last minute class basket items or auction items, please send them to school by Wednesday. We are working to make final preparations for the big night. PTO Meeting: The final auction planning meeting before the auction will be Tuesday, 2/1 at 6:30 pm at the school It’s not too late to purchase your admission tickets! Stop by the school or purchase at the door the night of the auction. We are excited to see all of our community this weekend!

NO AFTER SCHOOL CARE 1/31/2022 We apologize but there will be no after school care today. We were just informed the district's water will be shut off within an hour due to a water main break. Students will be rest rooming and filling water bottles prior to the shutoff. The district will also have bottled water available. There is not an estimated time for the water to be restored, without access to water we feel it is best to cancel after school care. Thank you for your understanding.

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Checkout Counselor Creech's most recent update below! There is a ton of good information for our families. Focus on Spring. https://www.smore.com/m4u56

Please send back dinner auction packets tomorrow with your student ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Didn't receive any notifications last week about school dismissals and closures? Here's a couple directions to look for solutions: - If you haven't downloaded the app yet, its not too late! We have transitioned to pushing out all notifications through the apptegy app. Here's the links to download: Android: https://bit.ly/3jpMKoq or iPhone: https://apple.co/38oM7VF - If you have the app, your settings might need to be adjusted. Check out the how-to video to help! https://youtu.be/8P0cJ3icV3s - If you don't have a smart phone, then you probably don't have the app. Call the school (573.545.3357) or email Dr. Burger (kburger8@kelsoc-7.k12.mo.us) to let us know. We are working on an alterative message method to make sure we can get in touch with our families for time-sensitive events, like a school dismissal or closure.

Kelso C-7 WILL be in session Friday, January 21. Donuts with Dad is rescheduled next Friday, January 28. The temperatures continue to be dangerously cold. Please bundle up at the bus stop and wait for buses to make a complete stop before moving towards buses. This is always important but extremely important now with the chances of black ice, it is crucial to reinforce this. ❄️We will see all of our families back at school tomorrow! ❄️

Rescheduled: Donuts with Dad With the uncertainty of the ice melting today and having to make arrangements with the bakery, we have decided to reschedule Donuts with Dad until next Friday, January 28th. We hope that all of our dad and father-figures can join us then! If your RSVP changes as as a result, please send any changes with your child the next day of school. We look forward to seeing all of our families soon!

2022 Dinner Auction is just around the corner! Pre-Auction Packets went home last week with tickets for admission, class basket raffles, Michael Kors purse raffle, St. Louis Top Golf Getaway Raffle Tickets, and MORE! All items are due back to school January 26th. Want to join the fun? 3 ways to connect: -Call the office at 545.3357 and we would be happy to help you! -Catch any Kelso C-7 Student and they can sell you any of the available tickets! -Raffle Tickets can be purchased online at: https://charityauction.bid/kelsoc7auction See you there!!

Update: 11:10 am January 19, 2022 The National Weather Service has predicted that our area will receive snow and/or sleet mixture this afternoon. The temperatures are predicted to drop below the freezing point between 3 and 5 pm. This is at peak of our travels home. To ensure that ALL of our school family makes it home safely, we are dismissing at 2 pm. Buses will run normal routes. There will be no after school care. If this changes your child's transportation home, please communicate any changes ASAP. We appreciate both your efforts and understanding as we work to be proactive about our family's safety.

January 19, 2022 Weather Update To ensure that all of our school family makes it home safely, there will be not after school care today, Tuesday, 1/19. Please call the office if any changes of transportation home need to be communicated. We continue to monitor the weather moving in. Safety of all of our school family is always our number one priority.

Good morning all, Even after an extra day of resting and to ourselves, germs (of all kinds) continue to hit our district. A few things for today: Any messages of sick kiddos or absentees, please send them directly to the office. (573.545.3357) Nurse Rongey and Dr. Burger are out of the office, so please direct communications to the office so that we can keep communication as efficient as possible. Like always, if your child is not feeling well, please keep them at home. We know that means a parent missing work, but this is what is best for not only your child to rest and recover, but best to keep all of our school family safe. We are working so hard to keep a balance of school well being and maintaining the flow of instruction. Thank you for your help Kelso C-7 Family!

No School - Monday - January 17 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr Day. Enjoy your day off! When we come back, we will kick start our week with the Lazy L Safari presentation on Tuesday, 1/18. All kids will be able to enjoy the presentation for FREE (Thank you Lazy L!!!). Permission notes and money are only needed if your child wanted a picture with one of the animals. If you already sent a note with money for the initial date, that will be honored. An image of the permission note is included just in case you need a new one.

Coming to backpacks near you! Dinner Auction Pre-Auction Sales! Admission tickets, raffle tickets, class basket raffles, and more-all coming home today! All items are due back Wednesday, January 26. Updated School Calendar: School will be in session March 17th to make up the missed day in November. December Student of the Month Signs. Congratulations to our December students. We are so proud of you! If there are any previous student of the month signs still out, please return them to school.

Report Cards: Coming home today and tomorrow! Some report cards are ready to go home today, but there will be some classes sending theirs tomorrow. The company that hosts our student information system was down today. Some report cards were printed prior the problems. These classes will go home today. The remainder will of report cards will go home tomorrow after the service has been restored. If you would like to view your child's grade, parents always have the ability to login to the parent portal as well. If you need help logging in, please contact the office. We are glad to help!

We can’t shout it, praise it, or share it enough-what a great weekend for our Falcons! 👏Over $3600 was raised for one of our student’s family in a time of need. 👏The varsity boys didn’t come home with a win, but they played sooo hard at the tournament. They always have so much 💙💙. 🥁🥁🥁 and….we just got word that our cheerleaders should be present for the Notre Dame Tournament trophy presentation on Monday!! That means they have placed in the top 5!!! Thank you again for all those that packed the stands, cheered our teams on, and had or served lunch to support one of our own. We have the best school family-hands down! Now here’s the line up for the week: 🔵Tuesday, 1/11: PTO meeting @ 630 pm 🔵Wednesday, 1/12: Board of Education meeting 6:00 pm 🔵Thursday, 1/13: Boys basketball game @ 6 pm, 8th grade night between JV and Varsity games with the cheerleaders performing at halftime of the varsity game. 🔵 Monday, 1/17 - No School MLK Jr Day, Notre Dame Tournament Trophy presentation after 745 pm game. We are excited for another great week for our Falcons!

Wow! What a great weekend to be a Falcon! The crowd turnout yesterday at the game was record breaking! Thank you to all who came out to support our teams yesterday! 💙💙💙 The score didn’t turn out like we wanted but the crowd definitely took the trophy! Falcons will be playing today at 1:15 pm at the Drury Gym at Notre Dame High School. The Hennecke Spaghetti Benefit is also today at Eisleben Church in Scott City from 11-2 pm. If there are any who would like to work the benefit, they could use help starting at 10:15 am. It’s shaping up to be another great day for our Kelso C-7 family!

Calling all Beta Club! We missed our meeting with the snow, but if anyone is available we’ve been asked to help tomorrow with the benefit for Jayden Hennecke. Help serving, cleaning tables, etc. is needed starting at 10:15 am at the Eisleben Lutheran Church at Scott City. All are invited and welcome to attend the benefit to one our families than could use some community support. Details of the event are on the image attached. Thanks in advance for any and all support! 💙💙

Its time for the annual Drury/Notre Dame Regional Jr. High Boys basketball tournament!! The Falcons will play their first game tomorrow (1/8) @ 4:30 pm in the Notre Dame High School Gym. Our Kelso C-7 cheerleaders are competing in the tournament, too! They’ll be judged during our 4:30 game Saturday for overall cheering, stunts, and crowd participation. In fact, crowd participation is a big part of their score. They will also perform a 2-minute routine at halftime for the first time, which will also be judged. They are up against seven other local squads for the tournament title of 1st or 2nd Place Best Cheer Squad. They would LOVE it and really appreciate it if you could yell and clap with them even harder than you have been and wear your Falcon blue/white/yellow! Good luck to all of Falcons teams!! 💙🏀📣💙

❄️No School Friday 1/7/22❄️ Kelso C-7 will not be in session Friday, 1/7/22. Our rural roads are still very hazardous, with little hope of warmer temperatures over night to thaw them. We will keep our families safe and warm tomorrow and see all of you on Monday!