DCS Ravens' Report

September 22th, 2023

Important Dates

September 24th-Children's DeMar in Keene at 8:30am

October 4th- Harris Center Field Trip and Community Meeting 7:00-8:30pm see flyer below

October 13th-Harvest Supper/Open House 5:30-7pm

October 18th-School Picture Day

Message from Principal Nicole Pease

Dear DCS families, it is so wonderful to see us all settling in to the return of school and it's routines. Classroom teachers have used their Morning Meeting time to have students identify their Hopes and Dreams and using this information to develop classroom rules.

Students are learning and growing in many ways and it is exciting to see this in action. We are moving into the fall benchmark time and students in Grades 1-5 will take the MAP online assessment. Students are working hard to show all that they know. Teachers will use this information to focus upon areas that need extra attention to continue to ensure academic progress. You will receive a copy of the test results.

The mums are here! With the help of the 4th and 5th graders, 300 mums were unloaded for the PTO fundraiser! Spread the word!

We are busily preparing for our Open House and Harvest Supper. For new families, please park at Yankee Magazine at the top of the hill, unless you have very small children. There will be a bus providing rides to the school as our parking lot is so small. We will gather in the multipurpose room for supper, then move out into individual classrooms. This annual tradition is the first time we gather as a whole school community and it is a very special evening.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, Nicole

T-Shirts and DCS Gear

Through a very generous donation from the Dublin Community Foundation, we will be purchasing teal green T-shirts with the DCS logo for students in grades K-2 and other new students who have not already received one.. We love our wonderful community!

If you or your child would like to purchase your own t-shirt, or other DCS Gear, please check out the link below. https://dublinravens.secure-decoration.com/

Bus Drivers and Food Service workers

The ConVal District needs your help! DCS would love to have a community member come to our school and help serve lunch. This would take approximately and hour each day and it is a paid position. Please call DCS for more information.

Did you know we have one bus this year? The bus company STA is short many drivers. If you are interested, please call 603-924-9211

Kind Kindergarten and First Graders

Kindergarteners and first graders have been learning about butterfly metamorphosis and learning the names of insect body parts. Ask your child to sing "Head, Thorax, Abdomen" for you! We are all so excited to watch our painted lady caterpillars begin their journey to becoming butterflies.

Super Second Graders

Learning the edible plant parts was the objective at our last Cornucopia. The students explored our amazing gardens, recorded edible plant parts on their tally sheets, and then enjoyed eating the plants! This lesson is actually my favorite lesson— I LOVE watching the students dig up the potatoes in the garden (and now you know why your child came home extra dirty!). They did not hold back and found potatoes of all sizes. I did hear that some parents even enjoyed a couple potatoes for dinner!

Last week we worked on making journals with Ms. Jeannie. The students enthusiastically chose a design for the cover and carefully watercolored their design. They are super excited to begin writing in their journals this week! Ms. Jeannie was kind enough to stay and help us with our self-portrait banners. The students painted them and now they are a lovely, colorful addition to our classroom. We can't wait for parents to see them at the Open House in October!

In Social Studies we have been learning about goods and services, producers and consumers, and wants and needs. We are working on making our own town to show our understanding. Stay tuned for progress on that!

Terrific Third Grade

The Third is easing into the routines of a whole week of school and establishing their classroom learning community. The children thought about what DCS Cares means as “rules” for our school and classroom, listing their ideas to follow these guidelines. Then, each child took an idea and illustrated it for our reminder board in the classroom. They also played Zones BINGO to practice our different Zones’ emotions.

For Language Arts, the class has started reading groups along with our UFLI phonics/spelling lessons. Our grammar study topic is Nouns.

For Math, the class continues to learn about graphs, including scaled graphing. The graphs are being used to see the relationship between groups and multiplication. The children enjoy the center games that practice the skills addressed in the lesson and support skills from past lessons.

In Science, they focused on clouds and weather patterns. The students listened to Tomie DePaula’s story - The Cloud Book, and then went outside with “cloud finders” to identify the different clouds. Then, they did experiments to see how wind affects cloud movement and participated in a Mystery Science Experiment on Cloud formation.

Fun in Fourth and Fifth Grade

The 4th and 5th are really beginning to be in the swing of things!

In math we are exploring place value as large as the millions and decimals as small as the thousandths.

Reading, writing and spelling routines are reviewed and the class is looking forward to diving into some new materials.

On Wednesday, we started taking our fall NWEAs. The students are showing real dedication as the work through this task.

We have used some other time for letting our creativity show!

This week in Wellness

Students revisited the Wellness Wheel and shared how they could make sure to be active and make healthy choices outside of school and at home. We revisited each part of the wheel - physical, social, and emotional and shared examples of each. We continued to play cooperative games and to establish the learning environment. Some of the games we played include- chicken/ball toss using the paratossers, locomotor corners, team tic tac toe, hula hut relays, secret agent, locomotor listen and move, everybody's it, hula hut throwdown, and animal walks. Additionally, we learned about the 'work it out' corner...where students go to resolve a minor concern and problem solve to move forward.

Plastic Recycling at DCS

We need your help! We are recycling plastic bags as we did last year, with a slight change. We will only take clean shopping bags and in the winter we will take pellet bags. Please help us by making sure the bags are clean. Thank you for your help!

DCS collects aluminum can tabs for "Tabs for Taylor"

Taylor is 15 years old and has been a patient at Shriners Hospital since birth. She has benefitted greatly by receiving prosthetics and her family gives back by collecting can tabs. The can tabs go to purchasing items for patient care. Taylor is the niece of Sarah Precourt (Mrs. Hopkin's daughter).

DCS has been collecting tabs for years and countless students and their families have contributed to this effort. Please send in any tabs from aliminum cans and we will add them to the collection. Thank you!