December 5, 2025
Dear Kenwood Families,
Happy Friday! This past week we celebrated our STAR students for the month of December as we recognized our students for Citizenship, Academics, Most Improved and Conduct awards. The Star students for the month of December are:
Teacher | Student | Grade |
Mrs. Kirby | Adam Grey, Oliver Leverenz, and Ari Williams | Kindergarten |
Mrs. Dunford | Ainmire Sangster, Dahlia Gonzalez Cassiano, and Nicoll Carrera Carrera | Kindergarten |
Mrs. Yoo | Londyn Walker, Francilia Nembalemba, and Kamonn Tanksley | Kindergarten |
Mr. Bicknell | Oliver Leverenz | Kindergarten |
Mr. Bicknell | Wenona Clem and Nell Clem | 1st Grade |
Mrs. Lehr & Mrs. Denzer | Gahel Rojas Gonzalez, Charlotte Dicken, and Emily Tran | 1st Grade |
Ms. Nelson | Emily Tran and Noelle Sanders | 1st Grade |
Ms. Lauren | Jaxon Golding | 1st Grade |
Ms. Geraldi | Rubi Nham | 1st Grade |
Mrs. Donovan | Addison De Jesus, Joshua Uduevbo, and Alaya Maroof | 1st Grade |
Ms. Pape | Jonathan Lamberson, Ariah Stevens and Maddy Nelson | 2nd Grade |
Julie Norcross | Karmyn Carter, Ellie Nguyen, Sheppard Hopper, and Bruna Romero Basile | 2nd Grade |
Mrs. Gilliland | Eli Barnhart and Parker Heckel | 3rd Grade |
Mrs. Abbott | Peytience Brunt, Bassam Bassam | 3rd Grade |
Mrs. Barnett | Prestyn King | 3rd Grade |
Jessica Leverenz | Corii Brown | 3rd Grade |
Mr. Bicknell | Abella Meeks | 4th Grade |
Mrs. Currie | Garnett Arnold, Seyah Won, Gy'Aire Hampton, and Kendall Du | 4th Grade |
Mrs. Cervantes | Tyree Harris, Julius Hightower and Wali Abbas | 4th Grade |
Mr. Dreste | Andre McGuire, August Krogmann, Elzbieta Swiatek, and Oriole Groff | 4th Grade |
Mrs. Hopper | Noah Washington, Ry'Lynn Anderson, Elliot DeJesus and Kinisha Conerly | 5th Grade |
Ms. Yasunaga | Matthew Daniels and Lena Swiatek | 5th Grade |
Ms. Geraldi | Margo McKnight | 5th Grade |
Next week, we will be celebrating National Computer Science Education Week. This is an important week at Kenwood as we celebrate our focus on Computer Science and Computational Thinking. Our students will be taking part in a number of activities all week related to computer science and robotics. We are also excited to enjoy a grade level night with our Kindergarten and 1st grade families on Monday night at 6:00pm. We hope to see you there.
Have a great weekend!
Dr. Trevor Nadrozny
Principal
