Attached below is information regarding the USD 204 Biometric Screenings April 27, 28 & 29.

Each location contact has a sign-up sheet so people can sign up for a time slot. Walk-ins are also welcome. The screening only takes 10-15 minutes. Employees can sign up for certain tests in advance or they can indicate at sign in which screenings they want. The District will pay $25 per employee towards the screenings. Your remaining payment amount is to be made at the time of screening. Cash or checks will be accepted.

An Edwardsville Elementary student, Mirabella Gibson, in Mrs. McCluer's fifth grade class, has successfully won the school and county spelling bees. Mirabella worked so hard for her success. She studied from the dictionary, 500 flash cards, and even missed her recess to work on her spelling words. Her work showed at all the spelling bees.

Out of about 20 third, fourth, and fifth grade students who participated at the Edwardsville Elementary Spelling Bee, Mirabella took 1^st place. The runner up had the word centennial . Mirabella spelled that word correctly and the word financial to take 1^st place. Because she won the school bee, she was invited to participate in the Wyandotte County Bee. She spelled the word paramecium to take 1^st place among third thru eight grade students at the county bee.

Now on to the state bee! The state bee was held at Great Bend on Saturday, March 13. She placed 67^th out of 84 students from all over the state. She did her best and we are all so proud of her.

By: Brendan Orahood, Sabria Zlitni, Eli VanWinkle, and Logann Stites (classmates and friends who helped Mirabella)

Kid Feel the Power of Poetry in Performance
Through slam poetry, students reach new heights in literacy and in life.
Grace Rubenstein, edutopia 

Kids -- 12 and 13 years old -- pour their guts onto paper in verse. They spend weeks furiously writing, revising, and coaching each other, and revising again. When they are done, they stand alone in front of their peers and recite poetry, using voice and gesture to bring their words to life.

This may sound like an English teacher's pipe dream, but it is becoming a common experience in classrooms across the country. In lower-income neighborhoods in cities like New York and Chicago, students are competing with words and then settling in for discussions of metaphor, assonance, consonance, and allusion.

Read more...  

Delaware Ridge Elementary would like to invite you to a reception in honor of Ms. Jackie Rickert's 36 year dedication to teaching as she retires at the end of this school year.  The reception will be at DRE in the cafeteria on Thursday, May 27 from 3:30-4:30 pm. 

 
For more information please contact our school x1500

Wyandotte County Master Gardeners
Annual Plant Sale - Flowers, Herbs, Tomatoes, Peppers
April 30 and May 1 from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
79th and State Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas
Call  913-299-9300 for details

I will be providing summer child care again this summer! If you need someone to watch your children between the dates of June 1st - July 30, the charge is only $20/child/day and I will provide lunch and a snack. Please email Beth French or call 913.375.5509 if you are interested.

WIZARDS HOST SOCCER DAY 5K FOR AUTISM SPEAKS: 

The Kansas City Wizards have teamed with the Kansas City Soccer Foundation for the first annual Soccer Day 5K. The race will benefit Autism Speaks, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of autism and securing funding for research into the causes, prevention, treatments and cure for the disorder.

"We are extremely excited to be a part of the Soccer Day 5K - It will do wonders for awareness and will provide proceeds that help our research and advocacy," said Jennifer Smith-Currier, Midwest Regional Walk Director for Autism Speaks. "The Wizards players have been so supportive of the autism community over the last few years, and we feel privileged to be a part of their community spirit once again."

Registration is now open for the race, which will take place on Saturday, May 15 in the Village West neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas. The race will start at 8 a.m. outside of Community America Ballpark. Those who act now will get a discount on registration. The cost is $25 for those that register between now and April 18th.

Registration includes a commemorative t-shirt, a complimentary general admission ticket to that night's Kansas City Wizards game against the Chicago Fire at Community America Ballpark and food and drinks following the race. Race participants will also have the option to purchase additional game tickets at a discount. All registered participants and volunteers will be helping raise money for Autism Speaks and the Kansas City Soccer Foundation.

To register, go to http://www.sportkc.com/sportkc.aspx?pgID=866&event_id=368

It would be great to represent USD 204 getting families and students involved that day! 

If you have any questions, please contact Tierney Thompson .

Attention Spring cleaners!  As you go through your children's toys, games, and DVD's please remember the District childcare.  We would appreciate any donations. 
Thanks,
Childcare staff Are you spring cleaning?

USD 204 Safety Driving Competition team is having a fund raiser to compete at state competition. We will be having a fund raising garage sale to help fund these expenses April 17. We are accepting cash donations and donated goods at the bus barn. You can drop them off any time between 6am-5pm thru April 17 or we will pick up if needed. Contact 913-956-1153 for Dustin Arnett or 913-915-5153 for Debbie Elmer for more information.

4/14 - Naomi Thomas
Christy Amon
4/15 - Gina McMahan
4/17 - Michelle Davis
4/18 - Tammy Chladney
4/19 - Tim Ney

Click here to see all details for items For Sale or Wanted listed below!

Wanted

Pair of tickets for the Kansas Speedway for May 1st and 2nd Indy/Truck Races

ne plus ultra ee-plus-UL-truh; nay-, noun:

1. The highest point, as of excellence or achievement; the acme; the pinnacle; the ultimate.
2. The most profound degree of a quality or condition.

He also penned a number of supposedly moral and improving books which . . . were the very ne plus ultra of tedium.
-- Richard West, "A life fuller than fiction", Irish Times, August 9, 1997

If you were a graduate student in the 80's and subject to the general delusion that held literary criticism to be the ne plus ultra of intellectual thrill, then you too probably owned one of these: an oversize paperback with an austere cover and small-type title that, grouped with three or more of its kind on your bookshelf, confirmed your status as an avatar of predoctoral chic.
-- Judith Shulevitz, "Correction Appended", New York Times, October 29, 1995

Ne plus ultra is from Latin, literally, "(go) no more beyond", from ne, "not" + plus, "more" + ultra, "beyond."