Spring Sharing Concerts - Mark your calendar! We hope you can join us! 2nd and 5th Grade: Thursday, March 2 at 8:15am VIVA CITY AT THE GUTHRIE THEATER MARCH 27th Aloha from March Magic! We'll see you on March 4 at DanceLife Ballroom! Committee co-chairs: Sarah Kuhn (2,5)/Dani Sartori (4,5) Committee members: Janet Bomar (2,5), Ally Marshall (1,5), Sarah Walter (1), Shannon Gunaca(K, 2, 4, 5), Jennifer Knutson (5), Rebecca Lee (2, 4), Katie Elden (1), Lisa Moore (K), Heather Paciotti (1), Charlie Wolfe (4), Erica Onsrud (5) (committee members' kid grade levels noted) As a side note, if you are interested in serving on the March Magic committee, feel free to let us know and learn how the event goes behind the scenes. We'd love to see some new faces and new ideas. See you on March 4th! A committment to create lasting equity and excellence in education for all students Please join us for a community conversation as we gather input to embark on a plan that creates equity, integration and excellence in education for all Minnesota students.
Click here for flyer: Immigrant and Refugee Families Meeting Page 1 of 2 (8 items) Minneapolis Superintendent Ed Graff released a statement today in support of immigrant students and families in Minneapolis Public Schools. Click here to read his statement Kenny Community School along with the Kenny Foundation is partnering again this year with The Sheridan Story: Fighting Child Hunger. Over 200,000 children in the state of Minnesota live in food insecurity and do not always know when they will receive their next meal. The Sheridan Story’s purpose is to respond to this need by closing the weekend food gap between Friday and Monday by delivering individual bags of dry and canned food to Kenny School every Friday. The bags are then discreetly sent home in student's backpacks, always keeping the student's and the family's information confidential. If your family needs assistance with food or if you have any questions, please contact Susie Friederich, Community Resource Liaison at susan.friederich@mpls.k12.mn.us or (612) 668-3365.
Congratulations to Kenny School for being validated as a 2016-2017 SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE! This prestigious honor was awarded to Kenny School by the Minnesota Elementary School Principals' Association (MESPA). Thanks to the commitment and dedication to teaching and learning by Principal William Gibbs, former Principal Intern Jessica Peifer, teachers, staff, students and community, Kenny School is one of six Minnesota schools to earn this award! Minnesota Elementary School of Excellence Validations Eagle Bluff - 4th and 5th Grades Connecting People, Communities, & the Natural World (Click on title to view recent pictures of our students!) Eagle Bluff is a private, non-profit residential environmental learning center located in the beautiful bluff-country of southeast Minnesota that provides experiences which empowers people to take care of the earth and each other. Let's get our kids back to nature! Eagle Bluff offers many quality educational experiences for youth.
Through dynamic classes in an outdoor setting, Eagle Bluff's accredited residential learning program enhances a student's education in a way that is simply not duplicated in a classroom. Students come with their teachers and chaperones to stay for three days during the week. Students are immersed in full days of environmental science, outdoor recreation, team-building or cultural programming. Some of the Environmental Science Classes our students will participate in are Animal Signs, Big Freeze and Birds. They will also participate in some history classes such as Oneota Native American Life and Pioneer Life. The Outdoor Adventure and Team Challenge classes such as Archery, Winter Survival, Group Challenges, Rock Climbing and Tree Tops High Ropes course are always the top favorites! The students will be challenged by these courses and will learn a lot about themselves and how far they could push themselves. Kenny students will come home with a better appreciation of their natural world and we hope that they will take with them a better understanding of their role in helping take care of our world.
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Today I will be reviewing set from the new Ultra Agents theme! This theme is similar on some levels to one of my favorite themes, the Agents theme from 2008, but its subject matter is more overtly futuristic, taking visual cues from various sci-fi movies. And to create this new and unique aesthetic, the LEGO designers packed the theme with lots of great new elements and recolors. Let’s take a look! New supervillain Infearno includes some minifigure parts and accessories that deserve special mention. The Tr. Bright Orange [TLG]/Trans-Orange [BL] (Element ID 6076535 | Design ID 15404) has been highly anticipated by Super Heroes fans since it seems like a perfect fit for characters like the Human Torch or Ghost Rider. It also looks like it could have great versatility as a building element, perhaps as fiery exhaust from a rocket. The also appears for the first time without printing in a versatile Bright Red [TLG]/Red [BL] (Element ID 6081974 | His hover board uses a , appearing in New Dark Red [TLG]/Dark Red [BL] (Element ID 6083150 |
Design ID 17947) for the first time. This year’s new (Element ID 6076599 | Design ID 15391), discussed extensively in Tim J’s , appears in White for the first time in the Ultra Agents theme, though it appears in all six sets. It’s not the most useful color for a gritty military look, but it looks quite nice as a sci-fi weapon. And let’s be real: the color is hardly this piece’s only difference from real-world firearms. This is my first set with one of these launchers, and I think they function brilliantly. Props to the designers and engineers who made them possible! Other than minifigure parts, the set does boast one other new printed element: a with an exclusive targeting computer pattern (Element ID 6083346 | The simplicity of the pattern feels much like computer terminal slopes from past decades, though modernized with flashy silver printing. The LEGO Group introduced the color Silver Metallic [TLG]/Flat Silver [BL] back in late 2010, and by 2011 it completely replaced the earlier Silver [TLG]/Pearl Light Gray [BL].
It’s probably one of the LEGO Group’s best “pearl” silver colors, with a smooth, consistent value. This set introduces some useful new parts in this color: the two (Element ID 6078607 | Design ID 11153) and three (Element ID 6083508 | Design ID 15068) are exclusive to this set, while the two (Element ID 6076604 | Design ID 50943) appear only in this and . The (Element ID 6083456 | Design ID 57719) last appeared in Silver back in 2008, so naturally the two in this set mark its first appearance in Silver Metallic. More common Silver Metallic parts in this set include four 1X1 round tiles (five, counting the usual extra), two robot arms, and four Technic tubes. Some people prefer lacquered metallic colors like Silver Ink [TLG]/Metallic Silver [BL] to pearl metallic colors like this, but I find the pearl colors more “LEGO-ish”. Perhaps that’s my history as a BIONICLE fan speaking, since it was one of the first themes to make copious use of pearl colors. The interceptor itself includes some beautiful new Tr. Light Blue elements.
Appearing for the first time in this color are the (Element ID 6078608 | Design ID 92579) and four (Element ID 6081809 | Both are currently still exclusive to this set, but the cockpit glass in particular might have plenty of use in this color in future sets. Also new and rare in Tr. Light Blue are the four (six, counting extras) or “Cheese Slopes”. They also appear in the Speedorz set . Previous sets have used either Tr. Blue [TLG]/Trans-Dark Blue [BL] or Tr. Fluore. Blue [TLG]/Trans-Medium Blue [BL], but having them in this additional blue color could still be incredibly useful in certain applications. More common in Tr. Light Blue, but still useful, are the set’s thirteen and eight (nine, counting extras) . The new (Element ID 6048898 | Design ID 15400) has appeared in 28 sets since it came out earlier this year, not counting co-packs. But it still deserves special mention here since this is one of just three sets to include the in Tr. Bright Orange. This set includes two shooters and three arrows.
The function is brilliant, with great power, range, and accuracy. As a bonus, you can load the arrows into the launcher in either direction. The only disadvantage is that it’s very easy to fire the arrows by mistake. Thankfully, the shooters in this set can fold down into a safe, concealed position (see picture below) where they can’t fire by mistake, but on sets like you might want to remove the arrows when you’re not using them. This set boasts a few new and rare Technic elements. In Dark Stone Grey [TLG]/Dark Bluish Gray [BL] it boasts two copies of a new design for this summer, (Element ID 6066952 | Five other sets released this summer (including another I’m in the process of reviewing…) include this same part, but even the two in this set should allow for lots of new building opportunities. Another new design is the Black (Element ID 6073231 | Design ID 15100), which was discussed in this site’s earlier . This set includes four of these. Finally, this is one of just two sets to include a in Bright Blue [TLG]/Blue [BL] (Element ID 6061202 |
The sticker sheet is small but stylish, with two Ultra Agents/Astor City logos, a head-up display for the cockpit glass, and two circuit board patterns for the 1X10 bricks with bows. All this is printed on clear film, which I don’t entirely like since it shows dust, fingerprints, and bubbles, but this is a necessity since three of the stickers are supposed to have backgrounds that match the transparent or metallic parts they are applied to. And mercifully, the other two stickers are entirely printed with black backgrounds so the transparent film becomes a non-issue. I’ve chosen to apply all of them, as I normally do with my sets. But the set is beautiful with or without them. The first numbered bag includes the parts to build the minifigures, Infearno’s hoverboard, and the boxy “cab” of the main vehicle (including the ejector seat function). The second numbered bag adds the wheels, launchers, and other details. Infearno’s hover board is obviously much smaller than the main vehicle.
It’s very swooshable, and looks somewhat cobbled-together with its many colors. This was clearly a conscious choice, since the designers used a Bright Yellow [TLG]/Yellow [BL] Technic half-bushing instead of a Medium Stone Grey one like those used elsewhere in the set. To even the odds, Infearno is equipped with two bundles of dynamite and two flamethrowers clipped to his back. The “mission” highlighted on the box is retrieving the glowing fuel canisters on his back, but it’s not clear whether this is because they are valuable or simply because they are extremely dangerous in the hands of a pyromaniac supervillain (they are not mentioned in the official product description, and I can’t find mention of them on the unless they are described in a game or video). The main vehicle is a work of art, with colors and motifs that evoke the light cycles of and a shape that resembles the Spinners from the movie (to my regret, I have not seen either movie — I’ll turn in my nerd card when I leave).
It transforms from a rolling “street mode” to a flying “hover mode” by hinging the rear wheels down and the front wheels up, though thanks to the angle of the wheels it can still roll even when in hover mode. It would be cool if the four hinged wheel hubs were linked, but this is probably not possible on a set this size, so each wheel hub hinges independently. The concealed arrow shooters are both stylish and effective, as is the ejector seat (it became jammed when I first finished building the set, but this was easily remedied by pulling the interior walls apart very slightly — apparently they had caved in slightly during the build process). On the whole, the Ultra Agents theme is not my cup of tea — I generally prefer the more modern-looking designs of the 2008 Agents theme to this expressly futuristic take, where the high-tech nature of the vehicles is not the least bit covert. Only in a world where everyone drives a car like this would it not stand out as state-of-the-art spy gear.