Update: 40 Book Challenge!

Whenever you challenge yourself to stretch, grow, strain toward a difficult goal, it is important to build your endurance by celebrating your victories along the way. Today we held our official celebration of ALL of us completing at least ten books on our way to reading forty just-right books this year. Keep cheering us on!

April 10, 2010 by Cherie Blessing

The Unbirthday Tea Party

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Thank you, Mrs. Shedd, for our marvelous tea party. Now, please pass the scones.

March 19, 2010 by Cherie Blessing

Read Across America Week

Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss! We celebrated reading in grand style all week long, with book themes for each day.

I think Mr. Van wins the grand prize for looking just like Dr. Seuss.

Can you tell them apart?

Our Read-a-Thon

The grand finale of our Read Across America week was our all-school Read-a-Thon!

February 2, 2010 by Cherie Blessing

Operation N.O.U.N.

Rumor has it that a strange character was seen lurking at DES, singing noun songs and handing out noun missions. Could it be true? Check out these pictures and judge for yourself whether this C.I.A. (Chief of Intelligent Answers) is real or not!

The ransom note had fingerprints, so we used our observation skills to classify fingerprints. We hunted down some suspects to fingerprint, and analyzed the prints until we found a suspect to interview.

Each detective created a mystery snack. Some were foods in disguise, some were foods we might not recognize, and some followed the detective theme.

We captured the moose “kidnapper”! Thank you, Miss Holloran, for being such a good sport. What a joyous day of learning! (Too bad Miss Blessing missed it all–ha ha!)