Tuesday, 15 students from the DES Dragon Runners Running Club completed the final mile of the 2021 Little Rockers Kids Virtual Marathon! They earned 25.2 miles overtime and completed their final mile during running club this week! Upon completion they received an awesome race medal and t shirt!
This 9 weeks, the 70 students in our running club have ran a combined total of 571 miles! We can't wait to see how many miles they add this spring! This Spring our running club students will also have the opportunity to participate in the 2022 Little Rockers Kids Marathon!
#LittleRockMarathon #LRKM #LittleRockers #DragonRunners
Don't forget, early release today!
All Car Riders release at 1:00 pm
All Bus Riders release at 1:15 pm.
Have a great day!
Recently, our DES Third graders chose and researched different ecosystems in their science studies. As they researched, they also created a brochure with information, photos, and illustrations. Students incorporated research, design, writing, and technology to complete their diorama projects.
December Events at DES
12/6 - 12/15 - Scholastic Book Fair in the DES Library.
Students will be able to shop during their library class. Adults can come and
shop after school from 3:00 - 4:30 each day the Book Fair is open. If students
are shopping after school they MUST be accompanied by an adult.
12/15, 12/16 & 12/17 - Early Dismissal
1:00 pm - ALL Car Riders
1:15 pm - ALL Bus Riders
12/17 - Classroom Christmas Parties & Final Day of Fall Semester
12/20 - 12/31 - Winter Break
1/3/2022 - First Day of Spring Semester
The December edition is now available on the RISE Website and it is all about morphology! In this edition, we explain what morphology is, why it is important, and ways parents can help their students increase their morphological awareness.
Check out the December RISE Newsletter. Don't miss the fun activity on page 4 titled Morpheme Master! All previous Rise Newsletters can be found on the RISE website.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fdawsonesc.com%2Frisearkansas%2Frise-newsletter&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHf8CtdXuSv1tp8oFN2yffwEm4rgw
Parents, this is a friendly reminder that all 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students need to charge their Chromebook nightly and bring them back to school every day. Thanks!
This month DeWitt Elementary School students collected a total of 11,084 items during the annual food drive for the community!!!! We were able to donate 6,835 items to the Caring & Sharing Food Pantry in DeWitt, 4,149 items were split between the community food pantries in Almyra and Gillett and 100 items were kept at DES for our Food Backpack Program! Our students would not have been able to do this without the help of their wonderful parents, grandparents and guardians.
This year there was an added incentive of a Pizza Party for the grade level that brought the most items to donate. It was a close race all month, but on the final day, with a total of 4,035 items, our 3rd Grade students won the pizza party! Congratulations 3rd Grade!
Each classes breakdown is as follows:
PK - 204 items
K - 506 items
1st - 1,517 items
2nd - 593 items
3rd - 4,035 items
4th - 3,941 items
5th - 288 items
Congratulations students, you all did a great job!!! We hope you all have a happy and blessed Thanksgiving break next week!
Tomorrow is the FINAL DAY of the DES Food Drive for the Caring & Sharing Food Pantry! We have collected so much food that we have already had to take two loads to the food pantry! What an awesome group of students we have at DES!
It is a tight race to see which grade will bring the most items - 4th grade is only 68 cans ahead of 3rd grade and 1st grade has moved into competition big time! The grade level who brings the most items will get a pizza party on Friday!!! But really, everyone is winning because we are sharing with others!
Grade Level Counts:
Pre-K - 202
K - 437
1st - 1473
2nd - 564
3rd - 2053
4th - 2121
5th - 286
Parents, please help remind your 3rd, 4th & 5th Grade student(s) that they need to charge their Chromebook nightly and bring back to school every day. Thanks!
DES students are ROCKING their food drive! To date we have collected 4,904 items for the Caring & Sharing Food Pantry!!!
PreK - 174
K - 340
1st - 920
2nd - 424
3rd - 1,533
4th - 1,239
5th - 274
The DES Food Drive for the Caring & Sharing Food Pantry of DeWitt is going strong! We have some friendly competition between the grades going on with 3rd and 4th grade shifting back and forth as the leader on a daily basis!
The item count as of today is as follows:
PK - 131 items
K - 274 items
1st - 344 items
2nd - 294 items
3rd - 977 items
4th - 951 items
5th - 199 items
The grade that brings the most items will get a pizza party for the entire grade level!
Don't forget to bring canned and nonperishable food for the DES Food Drive! The grade level that brings the most food will win a Pizza Party! We will be collecting items through Thursday November 18th, 2021.
DES art students were surprised this past week with a gift from Australian artist Pete Cromer. Cromer mailed two autographed copies of his books “Australia” and “Wildlife”. The hardcover books feature Cromer’s work and facts about the animals featured in his art.
Earlier in the semester, art students learned about the contemporary artist and created painted-paper collages inspired by his work. Art teacher Joli Holzhauer contacted Cromer and mailed pictures of the students’ art and the bulletin board display of collages. Cromer replied with a thank-you email and the surprise package. Students have been thrilled to make contact with this artist and have been looking through the books during art class.
Parents, this is a friendly reminder that all 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students need to charge their Chromebooks nightly and bring them back to school every day. Thanks!
November Events at DES
Monday, November 1st, 2021 - November 18th, 2021 - Canned Food Drive at DES
Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 - Picture Retakes
Thursday November 18th, 2021 - Final day for canned food drive
Monday November 22nd, 2021 - Friday November 26th, 2021 - Thanksgiving Break
Parents, please help remind your 3rd, 4th & 5th Grade student(s) that they need to charge their Chromebook nightly and bring back to school every day. Thanks!
The November RISE Newsletter is now available! This edition of the "RISE Arkansas" newsletter provides parents tips for increasing students’ vocabulary! Make sure to print Page 4 which has several fun vocabulary activities for families to complete together.
To find this month's newsletter, check out the RISE Arkansas website or follow the link below.
RISE November Newsletter - https://sites.google.com/dawsonesc.com/risearkansas/rise-newsletter
All of the previous RISE Newsletters can be found on the RISE website here - https://sites.google.com/dawsonesc.com/risearkansas/rise-newsletter/past-newsletters
Lunch Menu Change for November 1, 2022
Pizza Crunchers
Whole Kernel Corn
Baby Carrots
Apple Slices
Milk
Marinara Sauce
The DES Food Drive begins Monday November 1st, 2021! Don't forget to send canned and non-perishable food items to school with your kiddos! We will collect items from Monday November 1st - Thursday November 18th, 2021. All items will be donated to the Caring & Sharing Food Pantry.
Please use the following link to order the DeWitt Elementary Yearbook
(THIS IS ONLY FOR THE ELEMENTARY YEARBOOK - GRADE PK-5TH GRADES)
http://jostensyearbooks.com/?REF=A01049612
