Dale Street Blog: September 30, 2022

Dear Dale Street Families,

What a great week here at #beproudbedale! There was a lot of learning, a lot of fun, and great enthusiasm throughout the week. Scroll through to take a look...

Congratulations to this week's Positive Referral!

Caden was recognized for modeling wonderful compassion and respect.

Check out these cartographers from Ms. MacDonnell's grade 4 class. This week students collaborated to highlight the cardinal directions, map scales, key/legend (symbols for mountains, rivers, deserts, lakes, cities), and map titles to locate and identify important physical features on a map of North America.

Positive Sign Thursday!

'YOU BELONG!'

Tickets to the 2022 Fall Ball are now available! The Fall Ball happens every two years and is MCPE’s biggest fundraiser. All proceeds from the event will support grants made to teachers and administrators at all five Medfield Public Schools. Be sure to get your tickets!

Did you know that MCPE is a nonprofit organization that supports the entire Pre-K-12 public school system in Medfield? We raise money through community events, corporate sponsorships, and special campaigns. The generosity of the Medfield community enables MCPE to provide monetary support for all schools through grants for specific projects and initiatives that support the development of innovative programs, curriculum, and enrichment that would otherwise be outside the parameters of the school budget. Here are some fun examples of recent MCPE-funded projects that Medfield kids are benefitting from right now!

Science & Engineering Visiting Science Unit at Dale Street School, providing five hands-on engineering lessons from visiting scientists for grade 5 students
Modernizing the LMC/Makerspace Learning Spaces at Blake Middle School, including purchase of a GlowForge 3D Printer and space-appropriate furniture
Funding for Numicon kits for each Kindergarten and grade 1 classroom, allowing our youngest learners to build a developmentally appropriate conceptual understanding of numbers.

Students in Mrs. Scott's fourth-grade class loved having a visit from Dale Street reading specialist, Mrs. Bassett. She shared some great strategies for solving tricky words students may encounter when reading.

State-mandated vision screening will be conducted next week during PE classes.

Please make sure if your child wears glasses/contacts that they have them with them.

Please contact the school nurse at kthompson@email.medfield.net

with any questions or if you would like your child excluded from the screening

Please read: Updated Guidance 8/15/22: Covid 19 Guidelines

Grade 5 Dale Street students will be raffling off this long rainbow loom chain to support Administrative Assistant, Mrs. Gilberti who will once again participate in the Jimmy Fund Walk. Raffle tickets will be on sale for $1 starting Monday and will be sold until Friday, October 14th. Students are able to buy more than one ticket if they would like. Tickets can be purchased in the main office. All collected money will be donated to the Jimmy Fund Walk.

Creators Sarah, Anna, Olivia, Lucy, Jordyn, and Madison

This week Grade 4 students in Ms. Isaacson's class worked on creating story arcs during writer's workshop. Students listened to the story Nana Akua goes to School and learned about some Ashanti traditions while making a story arc to go along with it.

2023 TESTING SCHEDULE

Dale Street's testing schedule is set for the spring. As always it is most important that students attend school on the days of testing, so please plan appointments in a way that does not interfere with your child being in school on the following testing dates:

ELA Testing

Grade 4 April 4th and April 5th

Grade 5 April 10th and April 11th

STE Testing

Grade 5 May 9th and May 10th

Math

Grade 4 May 11th and May 12th

Grade 5 May 17th and May 18th

Thanks to our Friday DJ's who kept the lunchroom rockin' today.

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This week, Mrs. Chamblin's fifth-grade class had fun participating in a project-based learning activity. Students are building food trucks and will “shop” for food (on a budget) at each other’s food trucks as a creative way to practice adding and subtracting decimals! Very cool!