Lots happening at Kilmer this Fall! Mark your calendars for our upcoming Fall Festival and join us for Wednesday’s PTA meeting! Then, read on for more news and highlights from around our Kilmer community, including the opening of our After-School Store! Happy Fall, Y’all! 🍂
Mark your Calendars!!
ALL students are invited to stay after school on Thursday, October 8th, for an afternoon of fun, friends, food, music, games, and more—sponsored by the PTA!
📅 Date: Thursday, October 8, 2026 ⏰ Time: 2:15 PM – 4:30 PM (right after school) 📍 Location: Kilmer Middle School 👥 Who: ALL Kilmer students 🎟️ Cost: FREE! (food available for purchase)
Come hang out with friends and enjoy an afternoon packed with fun activities including:
🎪 Inflatables 🎧 DJ Music and Dancing ⚽️ Sports and Lawn Games 📸 Photo Booth Station 🍿 Concessions 🚚 Food Trucks 🎉 …and MORE!
Late buses will be available! 🚌
Grab your friends and join us for a fun afternoon! We can’t wait to see you there!
Parent Volunteers Needed!
Help us execute a great Fall Festival for our Kilmer students!! We will need many parent volunteers to help make the Fall Festival a fun and smooth-running event. Volunteers will help with crowd control and keeping the lines moving at our inflatables, food trucks, and PTA snack table. Please consider signing up!!
Come hear what the PTA has planned for the school year ahead!
Date: TOMORROW, Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Time: 9:30am – 10:30am
Location: Hybrid – Kilmer Middle School and Online
We’ll introduce our committee leads, share important updates, and vote to approve the 2026–2027 PTA school year budget.
Visit our PTA website for the agenda, financials, and meeting minutes.
An email from school administration will be sent the morning of the PTA meeting with the Zoom link and location of the meeting. We hope to see you there!
One last chance to enter to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card!
Become a member of the Kilmer PTA for just $20 per yearfor your entire family and $10 for staff and be automatically entered into our raffle to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card. Drawing will take place at our September 23rd PTA meeting. (Note: You do NOT need to be present to win!)
Kilmer’s After School Store: Opening Monday, September 28th! 🍿
The After-School Store is a pop-up snack shop offering a variety of food, drinks, and snack items for purchase for students staying after school.
Opening next Monday, September 28th, the store will run Monday through Thursday, 2:15 PM – 4:00 PM, on days when after-school activities are meeting.
Have a student staying after school?
Whether they are practicing for cross-country, rehearsing for the musical, staying for an after school club, or getting extra help from a teacher, send them to school with a few extra dollars to help keep them fueled! Snack items will range from $1, $2, or $3.
Cash, Google/Apple Pay, and tap-to-pay credit cards, are accepted.
Want to help run the store?
We are looking for additional parent volunteers who can help stay after school and run the store on a consistent, regular basis. Email president@kilmerpta.org if interested. Does your child need any service hours? Sign up and have them run the store with you!!
Save the Date: Silver Diner Dine Out
Come support the Kilmer PTA while enjoying a great meal with your KMS friends at the Silver Diner in Tysons Corner!
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Time: 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Tysons Corner, 8101 Fletcher Street
Make sure to mention “Kilmer Middle School,” and Silver Diner will donate a percentage of the amount you spend when you dine in. Hope to see you there!
September’s Food Pantry Distribution
The Kilmer Food Pantry was established to ensure that food insecure students don’t go hungry. Last Wednesday, the Food Pantry committee distributed several weekend food packs to ensure students had access to nutritious meals for the month.
Thank you to Erika Thornton, Jessica Inman, Melissa Hylands, and Mariana Añez Hayakawa for helping with September’s Food Pantry distribution. And thank you to Dan Ruecking for leading this effort.
Thank you also to Rustic Love for their generous donation to our Food Pantry. And thank you to all the families who have supported the Pantry thus far with either Amazon wish list purchases or direct website donations. Your Food Pantry donations make so much more possible.
Know of someone who could use assistance? The Kilmer Food Pantry is here to support Kilmer families in need. If you or a family in need would like to participate in monthly pick-ups or need additional assistance, please contact our Family Liaison, Ms. Mabel Morales, at mvmorales@fcps.edu.
Fueling Our Teachers on Back to School Night 🥪
Last Thursday, the PTA treated our teachers and staff with a special Back-to-School Night snack table! Back-to-School Night is always an extra-long day for our dedicated teachers, who stay well into the evening to help welcome our families into their classrooms. To help keep them fueled, the PTA provided a delicious spread of tea sandwiches, fresh fruit, chips, and soda.
Thank you to Smruti Parekh and Harini Machani for providing our teachers and staff with the delicious snacks. And thank you to all the families who have donated to our Teacher Appreciation Fund so far this year! Your contributions make appreciation events like this possible and help us show our wonderful teachers and staff just how much we value all that they do for our students and our school community.
Thank You! Jeni’s Ice Cream Fundraiser
Thank you to all our Kilmer families and friends who helped celebrate the start of the school year by making a stop at Jeni’s Ice Cream! And thank you to Deepti Jain for organizing our September Dining for Dollars Fundraiser. We appreciate all those who stopped to grab a scoop of their favorite ice cream and helped support the PTA!
PTA Reflections: What My Culture Means to Me
Do you enjoy art, music and dance or have an interest in writing, producing films or taking photos? Then chase this opportunity to unleash your inner artist through PTA Reflections!
PTA Reflections is a national, judged competition and showcase of student art across disciplines. One artist in each category will be submitted by the Kilmer PTA to the County level, with subsequent tiers at the state and national level.
Entries are due to Kilmer PTA no later than November 9th, 2026.
Students and families are invited to a fun-filled community event this Friday, September 25, 2026, from 5:00pm – 6:30pm at Marshall High School! Hosted by the Marshall High School Leadership class, Marshall Mayhem will feature live music, club displays, face painting, games, activities, and more.
Afterwards, cheer on the Marshall Statesmen football team as they take on the Madison Warhawks at 7:00pm at GCM stadium.
