Dale Street Blog: January 14, 2022

Hello Dale Street Families,

I hope that you all had a fantastic week. Your children continue to work incredibly hard under continued difficult circumstances. They are ROCKSTARS who continue to show resilience and a dedication to learning and growing. Please take a look at the photos below of just a few snapshots of activities at #beproudbedale.

How can you protect a house you won in a sweepstakes from being demolished by a landslide? Students in Mrs. Flynn's fourth-grade class used their critical thinking/engineering skills engineering to plan how to prevent this natural hazard from destroying their house. Fantastic job!

Check this out...This week, Grade 5 students are learning about the Big 6 research model and how to apply it to their History and Me project. The conversations and ideas in the Makerspace with Ms. Sweeney have been great!

Random Acts of Kindness Board

For the month of January, the Dale Street PTO has set up a Random Act of Kindness Bulletin Board by the teachers' room to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day. Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day is a national day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. The bulletin board has envelopes that have cards with acts of kindness written on them. Students can choose a card from an envelope and perform an act of kindness. Students can then have a family member or staff member at Dale Street take a picture of them performing the act of kindness. Students can turn that picture into the office and office staff will hang it up on the bulletin board here at school. “Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr

Although the pandemic forced us to shut down our January concerts, the fifth-grade band had an outstanding performance on Wednesday morning for the recording of their winter concert. We are so proud of their hard work this semester!

Today, Mr. Cole (husband of Dale Street staff member, Mrs. Cole) visited our Garde 5 students. Mr. Cole helped students with their History & Me projects by assisting them in learning about the interview process.

Grade 4 students in Ms. Plympton's class took time this week to find the main idea of nonfiction articles related to their science unit on rapid changes. Great work, young learners!

Positive Sign Thursday!

'WE ARE DETERMINED!'

Check this out...This week, Grade 5 students in Mrs. Ross' and Mrs. Seaver's class worked incredibly hard solving a very tricky math problem. Great perseverance!

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. Additionally, students need to have snow boots and snow pants if they want to play in the snow. Students without snow gear will have to remain on the blacktop.