Dighton Elementary School

This week's rewind has important upcoming events as well as happenings around the school this week.

Dear Parents and Guardians,

As we are nearing the end of the first trimester already, we have accomplished quite a bit with our students already! Each classroom that we walk into, we hear student conversations and language that impresses us. Our DES teachers are making great strides in working with our students to clearly and coherently state their thoughts and questions on so many different topics.

In the younger grades, the teachers work with the students to use sentence frames when speaking about the topic as that helps to reinforce the subject content, skills, and concepts. The upper grade students are including more specific information in their communication with their peers. We provide many opportunities for students to show what they have learned through authentic and student-centered learning experiences.

We will continue to strive and cultivate a strong, collaborative school climate and culture that is focused on high academic development and achievement for all students.

As always, please let us know if you have any questions.

Have great weekend!

Mrs. Dessert & Mrs. Lima

ldessert@drregional.org

klima@drregional.org

Mrs. Carter had a coloring contest in room 15 for Halloween and Aubrey St. Ours won first place and Aiden Bell and Riley Almeda tied for second place.

Mrs. Rubano's students excited to share their artwork.

Mrs. Grillo's 4th grade class was learning about how biomimicry is a way of learning about nature! Students were working together to discover how nature in action and how to use that knowledge to inspire new ideas. Did you know that engineers often use these ideas to develop cool new products or better ways to do things to help people? Stay tuned more to come.

Hello Families,

Please look over the CDC Newsletter link attached below. We hope this will provide some guidance to families about treating the common cold/flu and when it is OK to send their child back to school -

Thank you!

Allison Allberto, DES School Nurse

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pdf/freeresources/updated/Everyday-Preventive-Actions_2021.pdf

In honor of Veterans Day, the Dighton Elementary School students worked on projects, cards, letters, and pictures to share with and to honor our local heroes. These heartwarming projects were dropped off at the Dighton Town Hall to be distributed to our local veterans organization.

• We are looking for students, family, and faculty/staff volunteers to join a Portrait of a Graduate creation committee.

What: We are working to create a “Portrait of a Graduate'' (PoG) for the Dighton Rehoboth Regional School District. A Portrait of a Graduate acts as a North Star to help families, students, community members, faculty, staff, and administrators stay focused on what we want all Dighton Rehoboth students to know and be able to do when they graduate after a PK - 12+ journey. The committee we are forming will work with DRRSD leaders, as well as coaches from Great Schools Partnership, to help to shepherd the process of creating the Portrait of a Graduate using feedback from across our community. This will be the springboard to strategic planning during the 2023-2024 school year.

Who: You! We are working to ensure we have community, student, and faculty/staff voice on the PoG committee.

When: We are hoping to launch this team by the end of November or beginning of December, and we will engage in the process of creating the PoG throughout the 2022-23 school year, culminating in the introduction of the PoG as a districtwide vision and tool for the 2023-24 school year.

How do I get involved? Just send an email with the subject: Portrait of a Graduate to Michele D. Blackburn, mdblackburn@drregional.org. The deadline is November 8, 2022.

Our Career & Technical Education (CTE) Marketing class at DRRHS is working with stakeholders on the ways we can "build our brand" as a district. We also want feedback on communication. Committee members' input will be very helpful in this regard. In addition, it helps our Marketing students obtain relevant experience in working with consumers. To join in on this work, please email our Marketing teacher, Laurene Plourde, lplourde@drregional.org. The deadline is November 8, 2022.

Below, please find our monthly newsletter and flyers for our upcoming events. We have a lot of fun things in the works, and would love to see more parents and staff help with some of those events.

We are also looking for someone to join the Executive Board! We currently have an open position for Treasurer, and need that special someone. Please email us if you have questions about the position, would like to nominate yourself, or know someone that would be the perfect addition.

This Saturday November 5th at 11am we are having our first Santa's Secret Workshop meeting. If you would like to join us and be part of the planning committee for this exciting event, please email us for more details. If you cannot attend this first meeting but would still like to be a part of the planning, contact us and we will add you to our committee email list.

Our 12 Days of Cheer calendar raffle is underway! Printed copies should have come home with your students already. You can make as many copies as you need, and for a paperless option you can also pay through your P4SS account for any amount of calendars. They are $10 each, and include five amazing prizes per day for children and adults. These calendars are open to anyone, so share them with friends, family, neighbors, coworkers, etc. For every 6 calendars your student sells they will be entered into a drawing to win an Amazon gift card.

We are also looking for volunteers for our 4th grade step-up and yearbook committees, family bingo night, and donations for bake sales. Please find the links to sign-up on our newsletter. Without our amazing volunteers these events would not be possible! We hope to see you soon!

Sincerely,

Dighton PTO Executive Board

Website: https://dightonrehobothrsdma.sites.thrillshare.com/o/des
Location: 1250 Somerset Avenue, Dighton, MA, USA
Phone: 508-669-4245
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dighton-Elementary-School-107010605404374/