Spring Break!

Have a safe and restful Spring Break. Classes (and blogging) will resume on Monday, April 6.

FYI Online - March 26, 2009

Here's this week's news from KCD.

This week's stories include

• Diversity Day focuses on faith
• Mayor Abramson kicks off Explore Louisville
• Pi Night celebrates math
• French exchange program builds friendships
• Upper school speech team members excel at district tournament
• KCD places sixth in Governor's Cup State Competition
• KCD captures team, individual chess championships
• Middle school speech team excels at state tournaments
• Kindergartners share musical program
• Singers selected for national honors choir
• Lower school art report
• From the Parent Association

Diversity Day fashion show

During Diversity Day, the middle school put on a fashion show highlighting the many different cultures and backgrounds at the school. This was a lot of fun!

KCD theater project covered in The Courier-Journal

Here's the story the Courier ran on our plans to build a new theater and additional classrooms. What a great project!

KCD unveils $7.5 million renovation | courier-journal | The Courier-Journal

KCD welcomes visiting Chinese delegation

Today, we welcomed a delegation from Louisville’s sister city of Jiujiang, China. These visitors included several principals of Jiujang high schools as well as the director of their education bureau. We were also joined by Sister Cities President Wei-Bin Zeng and Executive Director Joanne Lloyd-Triplett.

Our guests toured campus, sat in on an upper school class, and met with KCD administrators to discuss the American education system.

Ayesha Singh featured on Save the Children Web site

Save the Children has posted a really nice profile of seventh grader Ayesha Singh and her work on behalf of the Survive to 5 campaign. This April, Ayesha and Lisa Stringfellow will travel to Washington to advocate for increased support for newborn health issues in developing countries.

Official Site - Save the Children: Helping Children in Poverty and Children in Need

Tapping maple trees for sap

Yesterday, guest speaker Mr. Keith Kirk showed the seventh graders in Mr. Wilhelmi's class how to tap a Maple tree and collect the sap. Mr. Kirk also described the process of cooking the sap into syrup.

Welcome to KCD's blog!

Welcome to KCD's new blog. I'm going to try this out as a way to keep in touch with parents, alumni, and other friends of the school. We'll continue to refine this site to make it more effective in keeping you informed.