DCS Ravens' Report

February

18th-Community Forum-ConVal High School-more information below

20th-Community Lunch 12pm

23rd-27th-February Vacation-No School

March

7th-Winter Fun Day-PTO coordinated 11am-2pm-see flyer below

9th and 10th-No School-Professional Development Days

10th-Voting Day

13th-PTO meeting 8:30am

14th-Dublin Town Meeting Bake Sale fundraiser-more information coming.

20th-End Trimester 2, Talent Show 2pm Rehearsal, 6pm Performance

27th-Report cards go home

Hello everyone, what a busy and fun week at DCS! We celebrated the 100th day of school with a food drive coordinated by Deb Lang and collected far more than the goal of 100 items! Students in grades K-2 spent time counting to 100, and in grades 3-5 considered 100 ways to spread kindness.

Library was our special this week and teacher Mary Donovan inspired the older students to consider what literary genre they would most enjoy.

We had outside fun as well with opportunities for students to snowshoe, and cross country ski.

There was also a showcase of the grades 3-5 turtle research and biography puppets. Lots of learning and sharing!

The most exciting part of the week is the Valentine's parties and sharing of kindness. I hope you have a lovely weekend and find many opportunities to show love to those that are important to you. Nicole

Happy Valentine’s Day from the 3/4/5 team! In Social and Emotional Learning, the classes concluded their study with Ms. Gregg on being good friends and standing up for others.

In Language Arts, the third graders read and analyzed free-verse poems, comparing them with rhyming poems. The students learned about alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, hyperbole, and tone. The students discussed vocabulary and poetic elements and wrote several original poems, including Haiku.

Across the hall, the 4th- and 5th-grade students continue to focus on history. Each grade will create a timeline of its grade-level content. 4th graders will focus on NH history & 5th graders on the Civil War. We will also work on idioms and vocabulary, and expand writing with adjectives, adverbs, and stronger word choices.

During Math, third graders are learning strategies for multiplying numbers up to 100, using the four operations to solve problems, and dividing larger numbers. The fourth graders are comparing, ordering, and rounding numbers up to 1,000,000. While the fifth graders are focusing on deeply understanding fractions.

In Science, the 4th- and 5th-graders completed and shared their turtle research projects. Learning with Mystery Science about weather is so fun in the third grade. The third graders finished knitting their hats!!

February has been such a busy (and fun!) month in our classroom! The students wrote about what they would do if they were given $100, and their ideas were such a treat to read. One answer that really stood out was a student who said they would buy a Lamborghini, a mansion, and—of course—a butler to go with it!

We also tried a brand-new activity inspired by Clue. The students had to solve the mystery of who stole our pencil sharpener from a list of nine suspects. By working together to complete tasks and collect clues, they used the process of elimination to crack the case. They worked SO hard and had a blast solving the mystery!

In writing, we practiced Valentine’s Day contractions for our hallway display and learned about how Valentine’s Day began. To wrap up the month, our class created a big thank-you card for the Dublin Highway Department to show our appreciation for all their hard work during our winter snowstorms. Roger Trempe even came in to talk with us about how they keep the roads safe—wow, do they work hard!

One final highlight was a visit from Officer Dalterio, who taught us a new card game called Pyramid Solitaire. It has been a PERFECT way to practice adding to 13, and the students are getting really good at it!

Kindergarten was full of stories, numbers, and lots of love the past couple weeks! We explored Groundhog Day and learned how shadows are made, and we wrapped up the week by learning about post office community helpers. The children were thrilled to visit the post office to mail a special Valentine surprise for their families and to work on our “Love is…” project, sharing what love means to them.

We enjoyed the folktale The Mitten, retelling the story and talking about the characters as they squeezed inside. In math, we worked on "Friends of 10" facts (numbers that add up to 10) and began exploring teen numbers by building them as 10 and some extra ones. We also celebrated the 100th day of school by making necklaces with ten groups of ten and crowns that show skip counting by 10 all the way to 100— a BIG milestone! Check out our latest pics here.

February is "I Love to Read!" month in school libraries across America. DCS K/1 readers are creating fancy placemats with drawings of things they love to read about. All readers have a chance to create a Book Valentine, telling one thing they love about a special character. We've all been enjoying familiar folktales and versions that are the same in some ways, and different in other ways. We've had interesting conversations about what we notice in the stories! Grades K/1 are making some very talented gingerbread cookies. Grades 2-5 have worked with partners using a Venn diagram to compare and contrast two stories, thinking about characters, setting, and plot events. Grade 3 was very lucky to hear a Goldilocks and the Three Bears story read in German by our friend Maya! Enjoy a good book together!

Students in Third, Fourth and Fifth grade just finished four weeks of classroom counseling lessons focused on bullying prevention. They reviewed "The 3 R's" : Recognizing, Reporting and Refusing Bullying and viewed developmentally appropriate short videos illustrating bullying scenarios in which children recognized that bullying was happening, reported this to school staff members, and used assertiveness to become active bystanders/"upstanders." The students each practiced reporting and refusing bullying.

In coming weeks at DCS, students in Second and First grade and in Kindergarten will also learn about bullying prevention. Our district's school counselors use a research-based bullying prevention curriculum from The Committee for Children/Second Step, based in Seattle, Washington. https://www.secondstep.org/bullying-prevention.

Prizes awarded! Get creative and race your homemade sleds. There will be 8

categories: Fastest sled, most creative sled, slowest sled, sled that goes the

farthest, most animal like, most like a US landmark and most minimal but

functional!

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 Chili Sale – Warm up with a hearty bowl

 Bake Sale – Sweet treats for everyone

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 Bring your own sled

 No skis or snowboards permitted

Fun for all ages – don’t miss it!

The ConVal School District invites all residents to a Community Forum discussing the budget, warrant articles, open enrollment, and the proposed withdrawal of Francestown from the ConVal School District

The event will be held on February 18, 2026, at 7:00 PM in the Lucy Hurlin Theatre at ConVal High School. A snow date has been scheduled for March 4, 2026, at 7:00 PM.

We encourage all residents to attend and participate in the discussion on these important topics affecting our community. This event will be live-streamed on the ConVal Events YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@ConValEvents), and it will be available for viewing anytime thereafter.

The Conval district wide choral concert is 3/18 at 6:30pm this year at the CVHS. As always, all 4th graders (and DCS 5th graders) are invited to join in singing the finale song. I have begun to teach "Dance, Love, Sing, Live!" to 4/5 during special this week. Please include this information in your newsletters or messages home to parents. Students will need to arrive at 6pm wearing all black clothing.

68 Hours of Hunger:

End 68 Hours of Hunger provides extra food for the weekend to any child attending school in the ConVal district. No financial paperwork is required. A grocery bag will be provided every Friday at school. It’s easy to register here: registration.end68hoursofhunger.org

Dublin Food Pantry: If you are in need or know of anyone in need, please share this information.

Winter Gear-If your student has any need for cold weather gear, please reach out. We have been offered up supplies if needed.

If you are interested in finding out how you can support please reach out to DCS: 603-563-8332.

DCS website-is here

Plastic Recycling-the DCS community has recycled over 2000 pounds of plastic bags and in return were given a bench from the Trex decking company! Please keep your clean plastic shopping bags and pellet bags coming, we are working toward a second bench and beyond!

DCS also collects metal tabs to be donated toward support for people with prosthetics! Please bring your tabs to school!

If you are interested in ordering some DCS swag for your student(s), please use this link. We will be providing new students with a DCS T-in the near future. https://dublinravens.deco-apparel.com/