Friday Focus: Great Things I’ve Seen This Week at DGS!
There’s been a lot of buzz around the building as our staff and students get into the groove and steady pace of the new school year. Classrooms are settling into routine and we’re one week away from progress reports already! This is not a comprehensive list of all the great teaching and learning that occurs on a daily basis, but check out a sliver of what great things happened this week:
- Mr. Wright introduced sketch books to some of his students that will be used to document their growth and learning in art class
- Caterpillars are growing, evolving and soon will be chrysalises. This hands on science project is always engaging and fun for the students.
- Students revising their personal narratives in 5th grade provided fantastic, authentic, and constructive feedback to each other. You should have heard their suggestions for improvement and focus on growth in their writing.
- Students in PE working in collaborative groups while developing stamina, balance, and communication skills in crab soccer
- A life size number line with chalk in the back parking lot to develop number sense for multiplication and repeated addition in 3rd Mrs. Lanser used her megaphone to cheer on her students as they made giant leaps down the number line!
- 4th grade really does a great job with their read alouds. There is a lot of research that supports the power of an effective read aloud and how the modeling by teachers supports student learning and development of fluency and prosody.
- First Grade started number bonds with a simple but impacting craft that will allow students to visual the concept
- Web-Based classroom review of a read-aloud models connected learning, social reading, and aligns with our Regie Reading beliefs