The Cub Reporter
April 12, 2018
Dutch Fork Elementary School Academy of Environmental Sciences
DFES Goals 2017-2018
- Excellent Customer Service
- Effective Small Group Instruction
- Building Teacher Capacity with Environmental Education
Upcoming Events
- 4/13 Tag of Honor (1st-5th grade)
- 4/16 Tag of Honor (4K-K)
- 4/19 Early Release @ 11:40 am
- 4/20 Learning Celebration (McWhirter 8:15 am)
- 4/21 Spring Consortium 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
- 4/27 Bingo Night 5:30 pm
- 4/30 NO SCHOOL
- 5/2 2nd Cup of Coffee
- 5/7 D5 Board Meeting (Ballentine Elementary)
- 5/7-5/11 Teacher Appreciation Week
Tag of Honor
1st 9:05 am
2nd 12:20 pm
3rd 8:05 am
4th 11:05 am
5th 10:05 am
4/16
4K 8:15 am
5K 9:30 am
SC READY & SCPASS
Did you know...
- L - Live and Learn Safely
- E - Effectively Communicate
- A - Act Kindly and Respectfully
- F - Focus on Learning
We are proud of our students and want to keep encouraging them to be successful. We seek to acknowledge, reward and celebrate with them. Ways we do that:
- Passing out leaf bucks
- Silver Fox Store
- Fox Fun Friday
- Fox Star of the Day
- UnbeLEAFable Student Celebration
Ask your child today about how they earn leaf bucks and how they spend their leaf bucks.
UPDATES:
- We have earned $525.90 in box tops so far this year
- We have collected over 600 pounds of plastic for Trex Recycling- and we are currently in the lead for the Southeast! Keep them coming!
From the Cafeteria
Lunch Accounts:
Please remember that lunch and breakfast should be paid for in advance. You can set up an account at paypams.com to monitor monies incurred and paid. You can also pay on line at this site.
From the Registrar:
If your family is planning to take vacations, participate in team sport activities or other short-term absences from school, please let the attendance clerk, Sharon Clemens, know. These events must be approved by the principal before leaving to be considered an Excused Absence (EX). You may send in a note or submit a DFES Student Absence Excuse Form found on the DFES website at https://www.lexrich5.org/domain/4607
Please call me at 803-476-3917 for more information.
As a reminder:
DFES Famiies have a new way to send absence excuses to the attendance office. We have implemented the online DFES Student Absence Excuse Form that is accessible two ways: if your child is absent on a given day, a link is provided in the email sent to you through BlackBoard Connect (please be sure that we have a current email address for you on file); the second way is on the Dutch Fork Elementary School, Academy of Environmental Sciences website under the "Resources" menu. Either option will allow you to upload an appropriate notice or doctor's excuse as well.
Once the electronic note or E-Note has been received, your child's attendance record will be updated and his or her teacher will be notified.
Please contact Sharon Clemens in attendance for questions or concerns about this new, and hopefully easier, process to send in absence notes.
Literacy Spotlight
The Reading/Writing Connection
It is educator’s beliefs that reading and writing are mutually supportive. For example, when a child learns the structure of a story they are then able to deepen their knowledge of how to structure a story within in their own writing. The more we read, the more we understand about stories and language which then in turn will improve our writing.
As parents, there are ways you can support the reading/writing connection at home.
Write about reading. Children’s comprehension is improved when they write about what they have read. After reading with your child, ask them to write a response to their reading (personal reactions or what their interpretation of the story was). Summaries, notes, and questions are also important for students to write.
Support children’s writing skills. Help your child with spelling, sentence structure, and paragraph skills. By supporting spelling, children’s word recognition will improve in reading. Supporting sentence structure will improve reading fluency (how a reader sounds). Lastly, supporting paragraph skills will improve reading comprehension.
Write more often. Encourage your child frequently. Practicing making sense of written stories will also help improve a child’s reading comprehension.
Read, read, read! Make time to read a minimum of 20 minutes a day. The more your child reads the more improvement you will see in both reading and writing!
Praise your child! Encourage and support your child as they read and write. If they make mistakes praise their effort and work to correct them. Build your child’s confidence so they want to read and write more often.
DFES is proud to be a Title I school.
Have you visited our website lately? Check us out: http://www.lexrich5.org/Domain/10