December 21, 2018 - Week 17

Hello Dale Street!

What an amazing and exciting week here at #beproudbedale.  Take a minute to scroll through to check it out.  

We had our Final Competition for the 2018-2019 Geo Bee on Thursday morning.  All 18 contestants did a remarkable job!  Congratulations to all of you for making the final round.

Congratulations to Jack from Mrs. Foley's class for winning this year's Geo Bee.  Jack will now take an online exam with a chance to join the state competition and eventually the national competition with a chance to win a $50,000 college scholarship and a trip sponsored by National Geographic!

This week, students in Ms. Costello's fifth grade class tackled decimal operations with an escape room.  The whole class broke out!  What awesome young learners! 

It was great to have students from Medfield High School here yesterday to share valuable life lessons through the use of picture books.  Special thanks to Library Media Specialist, Mrs. Cowell, and HS teacher, Mrs. Lohan, for organizing this great event! 

Congratulations to our Positive Referrals this week.  Thank you for making our school such a great place!   We are very proud of you!

This student took a leadership role!

This student has been an overall positive role model!  

This student showed some great compassion! 

This student has been a role model for behavior, attitude, helpfulness, and academics!  

This student has been a wonderful role model!  

This student demonstrated the Core Value of compassion! 

Thanks to Will in Mrs. Crable's class for reading today's book recommendation.  Will recommended I survived the Eruption of Mount Helens 1980 by Lauren Tarshis for "someone who likes I Survived and who likes reading about life-threatening books."  Will  rated this book '1,000,000 stars!'  Thanks Will!

Check out the PTO update.  Next PTO meeting will be held at Dale St on January 11 at 9:30.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Flea Market.  There were so many great items for sale and a lot of enthusiastic shoppers.  The Flea Market raised $3,579.38 for the Medfield Home Committee. Wow!  Thank you to all of the students, families, and staff who supported this wonderful cause. #compassion 

Students in Mrs. Scott's fourth grade class spent time this week finishing up their mythology unit by participating in reader's theater.  

A HUGE thank you to our incredible PTO and all the parent volunteers for organizing an amazing holiday luncheon last Wednesday.   The food was delicious!  We are grateful for your support every single day!    

Congratulations to Warren and Jack for winning December's Math Challenge Raffle.  

Students in Mrs. Crable's fourth grade classroom took our MCPE funded Pro-Bots for a spin this week as they participated in an Hour of Code coding activity.  #talentedstudents

Special thanks to the Medfield High School music students who visited Dale Street today to spread some holiday cheer.  These groups were outstanding!

Winter is here!  Please make sure your children come to school dressed appropriately for the cold weather.  Students will have recess OUTSIDE if the 'feels like' temperature is 20 or above.  Hats, gloves and coats are strongly encouraged. 

All of us at Dale Street would like to wish you and your family the happiest of holidays.  There will be no school for students on Monday, December 24, 2018, through Tuesday, January 1, 2019. Students will return to school on Wednesday, January 2, 2019.

Enjoy the well-deserved winter break and we will see you in the New Year! 

Warm regards,

Steve

Respect • Compassion • Collaboration • Continuous Growth 

December 14, 2018 - Week 16

Hello Dale Street Community!

On behalf of the Dale Street staff, I would like to thank all of you for taking time out of your busy schedules to meet with our teachers over the past two weeks.  We strongly believe in the importance of the home/school connection and recognize that a strong working partnership results in the greatest success for our students. Thank you for all of your continued support!

Dale Street had a school-wide assembly this morning highlighting our school's Core Values.  Special thanks to the students in Ms. Isaacson's class for creating and leading the assembly.  They did an outstanding job! Please check out the video shown at the assembly.

Ms. Bertschmann's grade 5 classroom spent time this week creating a holiday/winter themed poetry book.  Google slides and #collaboration = a lot of laughs and many compliments!  

Thanks to Ryan in Mrs. Ross' class for reading today's book recommendation.  Ryan recommended Big Nate Goes for Broke by Lincoln Peirce  for "someone who enjoys comedy"  Ryan rated this book '5 1/2 stars'  Thanks Ryan!

This week, students in Mr. Douglas' fourth grade classroom participated in math workshop.  Students moved throughout centers to gain a deeper understanding of long division.   

Check out the artwork created by our Dale Street students under the direction of Mrs. Delaney.  It is fabulous and brightens up our already beautiful cafeteria!  

Has your child lost something?  It may be in the Dale Street Lost & Found!  The Lost & Found has been temporarily moved to the office lobby for easy access.  Please have your child look (or feel free to come in yourself) to see if any of the many, many items belong to your child.  All unclaimed items will be donated to charity on 12/21.

Check it out...Mrs. Ross' fourth grade class is piloting chromebook tablets for Google for Education.  Recent uses include how to best represent division, learning more about immigration, and differentiation in typing to record students' thoughts.  So neat!  

The Federation for Children with Special Needs will present "Understanding Basic Rights in Special Education" on December 18th at 7pm in the Blake Library. In this presentation families will learn about their rights under special education law, special education procedures, and other information so they can better participate in the team process and support their student. To learn more about Medfield SEPAC, please visit  our website: https://sites.google.com/mail.medfield.k12.ma.us/sepac/

Thank you to the Patriots for answering Brady's letter.  So cool!  

Thank you to all of the students and staff who participated in this week's Hat Day to benefit the Medfield Home Committee.  This day raised over $105!!!

Thank you to all of the Dale Street students and their families for creating holiday cards for the residents of the Thomas Upham House, the patients at Children's Hospital and members of our military.  What an extraordinary display of #compassion!   

Winter is here!  Please make sure your children come to school dressed appropriately for the cold weather.  Students will have recess OUTSIDE if the 'feels like' temperature is 20 or above.  Hats, gloves and coats are strongly encouraged. 

Only those children wearing a coat, snow pants & boots

 may go out onto the field to play in the snow. Without these items, children may go out, but must stay on the hardtop. Thank you for your support!

Medfield Food and Nutrition Services

Part Time Employment

Are you looking for a job with school hours and the school schedule?

We have a job for you!!

The Medfield Food and Nutrition Department is looking for friendly employees who like working with kids to work in the school lunch program

We are looking for substitute food service workers to join our team.

If you are Interested in applying

 Please contact Karen Markowski or Jeanne Johnson

(508)242-8897

kmarkowski@email.medfield.net

Jeannej@Dedham.k12.ma.us

Substitutes and Assistants

We continue to need substitutes at all levels in our schools please apply on SchoolSpring. Just imagine, if you could give only one day per week and many other people did as well, we would not be in such need of substitutes.  If you feel qualified, please consider this helpful role.

Reminder: 

Dale Street's 

due on Monday, December 17th.  

December 17th - School Committee Meeting - 7:30 p.m. HS
December 18th - Dale Street Flea Market 11 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
December 21st - 1/2 Day 11:40 a.m. dismissal

As always, thank you for reading.  Have a great weekend!

Steve

Respect • Compassion • Collaboration • Continuous Growth