Kings Mountain Associated Parents

What do 3 lions, an eagle, a dolphin & a sea lion have in common? COASTSIDE GIVES! Please support our CUSD schools on May 6th! https://www.coastsidegives.org/

We are excited for Coastside Gives and are sweetening the pot! Anyone who donates $15 or more to KMAP via Coastside Gives by midnight on May 6th will be entered to win a $50 gift card to Sams Chowder House or Alice’s Restaurant! We will pull two winners raffle style on Friday May 7th. Small donations make BIG impacts and have the potential for tasty rewards! Donate using the link below. https://www.coastsidegives.org/kmap

Today we welcomed back the 4th and 5th graders and got flocked! Ms Julie was kind enough to pose with the flamingos

Please help support coastside education during this years Coastside Gives. Donations made during the Power Hours listed here help leverage additional dollars for our students. $10 can make a big impact when donated during these hours. #coastsidegives2021 #kmap2021

If you missed our recent virtual school tour & still want info about Kings Mountain Elementary and fall enrollment contact our school admin assistant Lesli. She can answer questions, setup an alternative tour time & help with registration. Spaces are available TK-5th grade. [email protected]

I was recently talking to my friend Diane about an SAT prep course she teaches on Saturdays. She’s been doing this for several years, but this is the first year... she uses the class introduction to offer a pressure-relieving message. Your work has informed my approach, Diane explained to me. I now begin every session reminding them that their scores don’t define them, nor do these numbers determine their worth or how successful they’ll be in life. Diane, who is not much older than the kids, then vulnerably shares her own story, offering hope to the kids who are weighed down by the belief that they need a certain score to be someone. I wish you could see their faces, Diane told me excitedly as she described the collective relief that occurs. It’s like the angst is lifted and you can actually see a shift in the kids. They are then better able to focus, learn, and try their best. Diane knows I am familiar with that look I saw it on my own daughter’s face a couple years ago when she was at risk of not passing a core class due to a poor test score. The pain and fear I saw in my child indicated her mind was going far ahead of that single moment in time, causing her to doubt her capabilities in all areas of her life and in her future success. Although I have it in me to be overly concerned with academics and achievements, I chose to focus on the emotional wellbeing of my child and offer her the Big Picture instead. I said: Average grades do not mean you are an average person. Below-average performance does not mean you will have a below-average life. You are more than the scores you receive. You are more than what you achieved today. There is more than one path to success and prosperity. And this girl, who is not much of a hugger, embraced me long enough that I had the pleasure of feeling her breathing return to normal. As I felt the pressure release, I realized I needed to do more of thisoffer my kids a different message than the one society and the educational system pushes at them. Because the truth is, there is a great, big world beyond the walls of their school and academic life a place where skills like connecting, managing, and creating are needed where attributes like compassion, initiative, integrity, and determination are vital to making important breakthroughs in our world. It’s our kids who are going to be these changemakers, so let’s be sure we make it known that there IS a place for them in this world. No test score can measure their glorious potential. By Rachel Macy Stafford, adapted from the book #LiveLoveNow If this way of guiding, living, and loving sounds like something you like to learn more about, I’ve poured everything I am as special education teacher and parent of teens into this timely resource called LIVE LOVE NOW: https://amzn.to/2Q3ZhC1

Thank you CEF for funding this program! At KMES our 4/5 class get to work with Mr Felts for science each week.

Happy Early Hanukkah

This week we will be highlighting some of the Innovation Grants that you helped fund. At Kings Mountain Elementary School, CEF provided styluses for each stude...nt to develop, maintain and/or enhance their dexterity when navigating the multiple online applications on their Chromebooks. Pictured here is a kindergartener completing the task of matching a letter to the correct picture using a stylus. Support our schools donate here: https://bit.ly/2JslIxq #ceffund #educationmatters #educationispower

Kings Mountain Elementary will be hosting a virtual school tour this Friday 12/4 @ 3pm. Contact Lesli to join the tour and get the zoom link: [email protected] Kinder Registration Begins in January. Spaces available in all grades TK-5 *if this date and time does not work for your schedule ask Lesli about the January tour dates.

This year, the Kings Mountain Volunteer Fire Brigade will rely almost entirely on voluntary donations because our community could not conduct our annual physical Art Fair, the primary source of Fire Brigade funding. The Brigade supports the all-volunteer, unpaid first responders of the Kings Mountain Fire Department. As the KMFD is an all-risk fire department, its volunteers are trained for the same emergency services as provided by paid fire departments. These include me...dical aids, structure, wildland and vehicle fires, rope rescues and mutual aid requests throughout the county. Last year, the Brigade responded to 336 emergency calls, averaging almost one call per day. Please donate here and the KMVFB will receive 100% of your donation: https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/1467906 Thank you for your continued support!