Dale Street Blog: October 8, 2021

Greetings Dale Street Community,

What an incredible week here at #beproudbedale! We held our first student-led assembly of the school year, started the Dream Big Marathon, and students and staff worked fantastically and collaboratively on mastering the "I CAN" statements. Please take a minute to check out the awesomeness from this week...

This morning Mrs. Chamblin's and Mrs. Nee's fifth-grade classes facilitated our first student-led social-emotional assembly. These amazing students shared a wonderful and important message about the importance of always choosing kind and showing respect. As a culminating activity, the students challenged everyone at Dale Street to take a minute back in their class to compose a kindness note to someone in the school. So awesome!

Bravo to Teddy for demonstrating respect and selflessness!

Bravo to Olivia for exemplifying our Core Value of Compassion.

Bravo to Dax for showing great respect every day!

This week, Dale Street students started to participate in the Dream Big Marathon. As a connection to the upcoming Boston Marathon, students at Dale Street are participating in a challenge that tasks them with completing a combination of running laps (or healthy exercise), completed reading books, and completed random acts of kindness. The course is decorated with fun signs and students run with pump-up music playing to keep spirits and energy high. When they cross the 'finish line,' classes are rewarded with popsicles. Special thanks to Jill Warner for orchestrating this fun activity and Dale Street Wellness teachers, Mrs. Nawrocki and Ms. Laughna for overseeing the marathon.

Rain Day Make-up for the

DREAM BIG MARATHON

October 18th

Next week, starting on Monday, students will be doing our Boston Marathon celebratory runs during PE.

Students are welcome to wear Boston or Medfield spirit wear next week to their PE classes in honor of our Marathon running celebrations!

Class Schedule:

Classes running on Monday: Isaacson, Plympton, Johnson, Ross/Seaver, Douglas, Fox (Dowd), Sager, Condon, and Nee

Classes running on Thursday: M. Hayes (Gr4) and Flynn

Classes running on Friday: McKenzie, Kaplan (C. Hayes-Gr5), MacDonnell, Dipesa, Burnham, Chamblin, and Scott

Please have your child wear sneakers and bring a water bottle to school on their running day!

I wanted to update you that we were informed on Wednesday that there was a positive pool from Tuesday's Pooled Testing. The positive individual was identified and sent home to quarantine. Several classmates were identified as close contacts and took advantage of the Test to Stay Program and remained in school testing daily. Currently, 84% of students are participating in Pooled Testing. It's working!

If you have not signed up for Pooled Testing (also called School Routine COVID Safety Check program) and wish for your child to participate, you may sign up here consent form

Please continue to monitor your child for symptoms (see COVID Information) and obtain a negative PCR test before returning to school.

Thanks for all you are doing to keep our children healthy and our schools open!

In Ms. Isaacson's Grade 4 class this week, students actively participated in math workshop. Their task...subtraction across zero. These students are awesome!

We at Dale Street believe that personal connections strengthen a community. We are starting a H.U.G (“Help Us Greet”) Program that will hopefully match family volunteers with families that are new to our school. HUG volunteers are available to provide guidance, resources, and support to ease a family’s transition to Dale Street and Medfield. Please click on this link to learn more about the H.U.G program. Please complete this form if you would like to volunteer to be a Dale Street H.U.G family.

Positive Sign Thursday!

'YOU ARE WORTH IT!'

Update

Throughout the school year, both the Guidance Counselor and School Psychologist organize small group lunch bunches in their offices. Students may be allowed to invite different peers and classmates each week. The purpose of these groups is to practice friendship/prosocial communication skills with peers in a social setting. Students typically enjoy the games, discussion, and small group setting in.

Please complete this form only if you do not want your child to be invited to lunch bunch as a guest. If you would like your child to be able to join, you do not need to do anything. Please contact us if you would like any additional information about this program or if you wish to change your decision in the future.

Grade 5 students, working with Señora LeVangie, took time in World Language this week to present their Hispanic Heritage Month Book Creator country projects. Students researched the 7 countries celebrating their independence during HHM. ¡Trabajo fantástico!

Ms. DiPesa's fourth-grade class participated in their first classroom makerspace challenge this week. Students researched a landform and have been busy building a model of it. What a great display of hard work and collaboration!

Halloween at Dale Street

The Dale Street staff enjoys making Halloween a safe, exciting, and consistent experience for all students. On Friday, October 29th, all of our classrooms:

encourage all students to dress up in their costumes. Please note that students’ faces may not be covered with a mask, hood, or other items. Please do not allow your child to bring fake weapons into school to accompany his/her costume, and particularly violent themes should be avoided. Additionally, please leave face paint at home.

will have Halloween-themed activities. Activities will be teacher-directed and run throughout the morning. The classroom teacher will reach out to head room parents if support is needed.

will have a 'Party in a Bag'. Please have your child decorate (if they wish) or simply print their name on a brown paper bag. Please send in the brown bag on October 29th, filled with a few of your child’s favorite food items. Some examples are: juice box or mini water bottle, small salty snack, fun sweet snack (cupcake, cookie), additional items could be a piece of fruit, a small yogurt, or any additional healthy snack. Adding a little note to your child's bag will definitely make them happy! Students' snack times and the Halloween-themed activities will take place at different times in the morning depending on each class' schedule.

We understand and are happy that the children may receive a plethora of treats on Halloween night. Come Monday, November 1st, the staff at Dale Street encourages healthy foods for student snack times to help promote optimal learning. Thank you in advance for your continued support.

This week Grade 5 trumpet groups were able to decode solfege to reveal their first duet. Crazy to think students picked up their instrument for the first time only 4 weeks ago. Bravo!

Grade 4 students in Ms. Plympton's Grade 4 class were so impressive this week demonstrating what they were comprehending following their mini-lesson - identifying the main problem that their character will face in the story.

Destination Imagination (DI) Information Night

Thursday, October 21, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Where: Wheelock Cafeteria

Check out this information

You can find the registration form HERE

Scientists at work...Students in Mrs. Scott's fourth-grade class collaborated this week to identify different landforms and their features.

MCPE Fall Fest is officially sold out! It's going to be amazing!!

If you missed it, sign up for the waiting list on medfieldcoalition.org.

Thank you for supporting the Medfield Public Schools!

In Ms. McKenzie's fifth grade class this week, students had fun collaborating on a jobs scramble in social studies. Students focused on the duty and responsibility of each branch of government.