Don’t forget to purchase your student’s yearbook!!

- Yearbooks are purchases directly through TreeRing.com

- The Deadline to purchase a yearbook is April 10,2023, (Additional fees will be added if purchased after the deadline date.

•Custom pages! - Personalized pages are designed to your liking by you and added ONLY to your students yearbook. Get your student involved it’s a lot of fun crating. Custom page Deadline is April 10, 2023

•Recognition Ads for 5th grade graduating students ONLY -These pages will be printed in every yearbook for all students to view. You create, design and submit your own ad. Additional information will be available on TreeRing after a yearbook is purchased- Deadline April 7,2023.

As our students begin to look towards the end of the year, helping them cultivate a growth mindset to finish out the year on a high note is so important. Author Carol Dweck offers three great tips for parents and caregivers on how we can motivate students at the end of the year:

1. Focus on progress: Emphasize and help your child see just how much they’ve learned so far this year.

2. Use that progress to motivate new learning: Help your child use the motivation that comes from seeing their progress thus far to push through and learn the final concepts of the year.

3. Connect your child’s learning to their own life: Talk with your child about how they can use what they have learned in school in their day-to-day life. (Example: math concepts prove useful in bake sales and lemonade stands!)

Read Dweck’s full article on “Mindsets and the End-of-Year Slump” here. And as always, please don’t hesitate to contact me at evanotten@dcsdk12.org if you or your student needs some additional support.