Dale Street Blog: September 18, 2015

Hello Dale Street Community,

The Dale Street 'Thursday Packet' has been updated. Please click here to view the latest announcements and event information.

Last Friday our school gathered for our Opening of the Year Assembly. Using the Schools of Fish Philosophy, our students learned about our theme of the year - Play! Special thanks to Grade 5 teacher Ms. Walunas for organizing this great event. It was a fantastic assembly!

The staff had fun too!

Mr. Mason added words of inspiration.

Mrs. Read and Mrs. Curran were great guest readers!

I had a great time this week visiting and reading to fourth and fifth grade classrooms. I hope to visit all of the classrooms by the end of next week.

The PTO Back to School Picnic was a blast last Friday! Special thanks to our incredible PTO for organizing this wonderful event and all the families who attended the picnic!

Registration is now open for MCPE's November trivia events. The Coalition is pleased to announce not one, but TWO trivia events this fall featuring the trivia company Putterboy Productions. These events promise to be fast-paced and humor-filled, testing your knowledge in geography, sports, music, science and history. The Community Adult Trivia Night is set for Friday, November 13th, and the Student Trivia Challenge is set for Tuesday, November 10th. Click here to register: MedfieldCoalition.org.

Medfield Day Update. Please look for the Medfield Coalition for Public Education (MCPE) booth on Medfield Day, Saturday, September 19th. We will be located right outside the Montrose School on North Street. Enter our children's book raffle and try your luck in our prize raffle to win an amazing Medfield basket. Come learn about our exciting plans for this year and the many ways you and MCPE can work together to help enrich your children's education.

The Medfield Coalition for Public Education (MCPE) is a non-profit organization funded to provide academic enrichment for all Medfield Public Schools. MCPE awards grants submitted by staff, teachers, administrators and counselors to support the development of innovative programs, curriculum and enrichment. Thank you for supporting MCPE and its initiatives.

Members of our fourth grade have been visiting our Library/Media Center for an introduction of the great things it offers. Special thanks to library assistant, Susan Read for introducing our fourth graders to the library.

Mrs. Crable's fourth grade class

Please visit our website http://medfieldpto.weebly.com and review the open PTO volunteer positions and see how you can get involved, including volunteering to be a room parent.
Please consider submitting your PTO dues envelopes.
Bay State Textiles - Donate clean and dry clothing, linens, pocketbooks, stuffed animals, accessories and shoes in the textile box located outside each school. The PTO generates a rebate of $100 per ton on textiles collected.
At the PTO board meeting yesterday morning there was a change made to some of the meeting date times. The new times are: October 20th at 9:00 am, January 7th at 9 am, March 4th at 9 am, and May 12th at 9 am.

The Book Fair will take place at Park Street Books on the afternoon/evening of October 7th. More information will be available closer to the date.

On Tuesday after school, the Dale Street staff participated in a Life Threatening Allergies and Epinephrine training. Special thanks to school nurse, Kathy Thompson for facilitating this important training.