
Please join us for the annual Youth Art Month opening at the Germantown Library next Wednesday, March 2nd from 5:30-6:30pm. There will be
approximately 100 works of art on display from KMS students, along with hundreds of works made by K-12 students in the Germantown School District. All of the art teachers, Elementary, Middle, and High School, will be there to celebrate our talented students. We hope to see you there!

MENU CHANGES @ KMS and GHS ONLY
Due to school closing on Tuesday (2/22), there have been changes to the following lunch menu: Wednesday's menu (2/23) will be served on Thursday (2/24). Friday's menu (2/25) will remain the same.

Do you have a talent you'd like to share? Do you do martial arts, slight of hand, tell jokes, sing, play an instrument, act or dance? Would you like to host the event by announcing each act? Then sign up to audition for this year's Variety Show! There will be one evening performance on Wednesday, April 13th. Auditions will be after school on MONDAY MARCH 7th and TUESDAY MARCH 8th from 2:45 until done in the Chorus Room. Students should leave right after their audition is over, so please be sure to have a ride available. If you are interested, sign up for an audition spot for one of the days on the sheet outside the Chorus Room. Please see Mrs. Buettner or Ms. Schell with any questions.

Good luck to the volleyball teams as they open up play tonight at home versus John Long Grafton. 7th grade plays in the gold gym and 8th grade is in the blue gym. REMINDER: For tonight and next weeks home games, all student spectators must be accompanied by an adult to attend. You will need to go home and then return to school with that adult. Thanks!

February is all about hearts… so Help Kiss Heart Disease Goodbye with the Jr. Key Club. We will be running a lollipop sale Wednesday, February 16 - Friday, February 18th to help raise money for the American Heart Association. The Jr. Key Club will be selling Kiss Lollipops to students during their SAS / IDR time.
Each lollipop is only $1, and if you purchase 5, you get ONE FREE! All proceeds will go to help benefit the American Heart Association. Our goal is to raise over $700. So, have a heart and help support us by bringing your dollars to donate for a loving cause.

Our next MESA (Multi-Ethnic Student Association) meeting is in the GAC today, Feb. 10th from 2:45-3:45! We hope to see you there. If you could not make the meeting last month we are always welcoming new students. Any questions email Mrs. Rohde (trohde@gsdwi.org) or Ms. Wong (swong@gsdwi.org)

Busy day today KMS - will you be at volleyball practice, yearbook, MESA, Jr. Key Club , Student Council? A lot of activities today!

Student Council Meeting - Attention all student council members: Our next meeting is this Wednesday, February 9th. We will meet in the GAC during 4th hour block. Please make plans to attend.

Good luck to our Forensics team! Tonight's meet is at Silverbrook Intermediate in West Bend.

February is all about hearts… so Help Kiss Heart Disease Goodbye with the Jr. Key Club. We will be running a lollipop sale Wednesday, February 16-Friday, February 18 th to help raise money for the American Heart Association. The Jr. Key Club will be selling Kiss Lollipops to students during their SAS / IDR time. Each lollipop is only $1, and if you purchase 5, you get ONE FREE! All proceeds will go to help benefit the American Heart Association. Our goal is to raise over $700. So have a heart and help support us by bringing your dollars to donate for a loving cause!

Blind Date with a Book
It's February and you know what that means...The library is looking to play matchmaker and set you up on a blind date (with a book that is). It's our hope that you'll find you're match and fall in love with a book that you may not otherwise give a chance. Starting next week the library will draw names of students who have completed their dates (finished their books) and let us know how their dates went (give a very brief book review) and give away some sweet treat bags. Stop by the library today and see if there's a match waiting for you!

Volleyball tryouts for all 7th and 8th grade girls begin today, 1/31, after school
until 4:30. Please make sure you have your skyward forms filled out, physical
uploaded, and athletic fee paid. Tryouts will be Monday-Wednesday pending the
number of girls trying out for the team. Team practice will begin Wednesday or Thursday.

Our next MESA (Multi-Ethnic Student Association) meeting will today, Thursday,
January 27th in Mrs. Rohde’s classroom E3 (in the Broder House hall) from 2:45-
3:45! We hope to see you there. If you could not make the meeting last month we
are always welcoming new students. Any questions email Mrs. Rohde
(trohde@gsdwi.org) or Ms. Wong (swong@gsdwi.org).

After school STUDY SKILLS has a LOCATION CHANGE, this week only.
Study Skills will meet Jan 25th & 27th in Mrs. Schilling's room E7 (located down
the 6th grade Flood hallway). Please report directly to room E7 after school, NOT the library.

Welcome back! Let's have a great 2nd semester Crusaders! As a reminder, tryouts for girls volleyball begin Monday, 1/31. Please check the calendar for many other amazing opportunities to get involved - we have 2 meetings on Thursday - MESA and Math Counts. Go GTown!

Battle of the Books Kickoff Meetings:
Students that have registered to participate in the KMS Library's Battle of the Books competition should plan on attending their kickoff meeting this week. 6th Grade students should plan to meet in the library this Thursday Jan.20th at 12:20pm and 7th & 8th Grade students participating should plan to meet on Friday Jan.21st at 11:45am. See you in the library!

4th and final trip to Little Switz for Ski and Snowboard Club is tomorrow! See you when you get there!

MATHCOUNTS – Our meeting is TODAY, Thursday, January 13th in Mrs.
Duchscherer's room E16 until 3:45. New members are always welcome!

Attention all student council reps: Our meeting is TODAY!
7th and 8th graders please report to the GAC at the beginning of the 4th block (11:40am). If you are a cold luncher, please your lunch to the GAC. Hot lunchers, please report to the GAC as well - we will wait a few minutes to dismiss you to give all the 6th graders a chance to get their lunches. 6th graders, please report to the GAC at the end of your lunch period. The meeting will begin at 12:15.

Our next MESA (Multi-Ethnic Student Association) has been canceled for this Thursday January 13th! We will see you at our next meeting on Thursday, January 27th! Look for an email from Ms. Wong.