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Fill your blue parent passports to earn free dress day for your child(ren)! View this email in your browser Dragonfly Digest Friday, February 20, 2015 Volume 9, Issue No. 14 Published biweekly Tuesday, February 24, 7pm - 9pm: Governing Board Meeting Friday, February 27: No School, Teacher Work Day Monday, March 3 - Friday, March 6: Parent / Teacher Conference Week - Minimum Days all week Thursday, March 5, 6pm - 9pm: DMCS Baskin Robbins Ice Cream for DMCS PTO. YUM!! Sunday, March 8: Daylight Savings Time Begins Tuesday, March 10, 6:30pm - 8pm: PTO Meeting in DMCS Library (Room 5) Wednesday, March 11, 12:30pm - 1:30pm: Art After School (MPR) Thursday, March 12, 2pm - 9pm: Frozen Yogurt at Big Spoon and mention DMCS Wednesday, March 18th, 4pm - 7pm: Papa Murphy’s Pizza Night. Pick up a meal and mention DMCS Saturday, March 21st, 5pm - 10pm: Dragonfly Dinner, Madden Hall, Dixon May Fair Tuesday, March 24th, 7pm - 9pm: Governing Board Meeting Middle School Science Fair 2015 On Tuesday February 3rd, DMCS Middle School held our first Science Fair.  There were 71 students participating with so many great projects that ran the gamut from hovercrafts and marshmallow catapults to compressed MP3 files and testing homemade mozzarella for stretchiness!  The elementary classes had great fun interviewing the Science Fair Scientists and looking at all the projects. The Middle School students were proud to show their accomplishments. The projects were scored by a team of Middle School teachers.  They were rated on completeness, display visual interest, writing proficiency and most importantly, scientific method and logic.  Here are the winners: 8th Grade winners from left: 1st Place- Daniel Ortiz, Honorable Mention- Michael Playford, Frank Young, 3rd Place Rylie Esquer and 2nd Place Narileen Trejo 7th Grade Winners from left: Honorable Mention- Maddie Cooper, Natalie Stalie, 2nd Place- Hannah Duncan, 1st Place Elise Balance, Honorable Mention- Madison McKee, 3rd Place- Matthew Dudman, Honorable Mention- Wyatt Currie (not pictured: Honorable Mention-Alejandra Ramirez) 6th Grade Winners from left: Honorable Mention- Cailin Bloom, 1st Place- Emma Gracia, 3rd Place-Ricardo Setka (not pictured: 2nd Place- Liam Bailey) EDP NEWS It’s time to sign your DMCS Dragonfly up for their own festival of fun night while you enjoy a child free evening at the DMCS Dragonfly Dinner! The MPR is where it’s at for an activity filled night of Play, Pizza, Popcorn, and Movie from 4:30 – 10:15 on Saturday, March 21. See the EDP Flyer on the DMCS website for all the details! http://www.dixonmontessori.org/dragonfly-dinner.html   Our next Intersession is this coming Friday, February 27. Sign up at the Extended Day Program room 15 or call Ms. Kathy or Ms. Lushawn at 693-4990. We’ll be open from 7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Lunch and snack provided. Bring a bicycle or scooter with helmet weather permitting. Cost is $50 for the day or $7/hour. More info about EDP under the program and events tab www.dixonmontessori.org Class Updates Grades TK / K / 1 Thank you for all  your donations and your help during our Valentine's Day celebration. The students had a lot of fun! Dragonfly auction projects have begun.  Please donate items or money towards your child's classroom project.  It may help to volunteer to help with projects.  Inquire with your child's teacher. Also, please do not forget to purchase your ticket for this wonderful event!    We will be starting our Ocean Animal theme and plant/animal life cycles​ soon! ​ Money, money, money....have your child practice coin recognition at home by using real money.    Would you like to be more involve in your child's education? Please come to our PTO meetings! They are very informative and you get volunteer hours just by attending.  Sock Hop is on February 20th. Please come as a family! K/1 Team Grades 2 / 3 We are looking forward to our first field trip in March to Pena Adobe Park. Please make sure you have turned in all necessary paperwork. If you have not signed up for your parent-teacher conference on Sign-up Genius,  please do by next Wednesday February 25th.   We have really enjoyed all of the community and geometry projects. Students have been excited to show what they learned through this project. It has been neat to see the excitement in the students. Grades 4 / 5 The DMCS fourth and fifth graders are working on practice tests for the SBAC and will be starting a constructed response graphic organizer to answer questions called RACER.  Parent chaperones for Science Camp were chosen in a lottery last Wednesday and chaperones have been notified. Grades 6 / 7 / 8 The DMCS middle school is participating in Kahn Academy's Learnstorm!  This is a competition between bay area schools who are taking it upon themselves to complete extra lessons.  Students take lessons on Kahn Academy in the areas of Math, Science and History! So far, DMCS has made the leaderboard coming in 56th place for Mastery Skills and 20th place for "The Hustle!"  This is especially exciting because we are a small school of 100 middle school students competing against schools with 800 students.  Our students are showing how motivated, and technologically skilled they are!  Keep up the good work middle school!!! Parent Teacher Organization Update Family Dance Night was so fun! Thank you DMCS families for attending our first annual family dance night! We had a blast and we can't wait to host this event again next year!   Box Top Class Competition There is ONE week left before the end of the second Box Tops Class Competition! The deadline for submissions is Feb 27th. The classroom with the most box tops collected will win an Ice Cream Sundae Party! Who's in the lead now?!! Follow the progress of each class on the board hanging on the front gate of the school. Don't forget to ask friends and family to help you collect. The money raised goes towards teacher requests.   Campus Clean Up Time! Join the PTO on Saturday February 28th to spruce up the school picking up trash, raking leaves and sweeping halls.  Don’t  have time to come down to the school?  Please also consider loaning your outdoor rakes and brooms for this project.  Please go to this link to sign up.  Questions?  Contact Rebecca Valentino ptositebeautification@dixonmontessori.org. The PTO Site Beautification Chair is looking for someone interested in sprucing up the school bathrooms for our students.   For more information contact Rebecca Valentino at ptositebeautification@dixonmontessori.org. Please sign up for School Clean Up Day! Here's how it works in 3 easy steps: Click this link to go to our invitation page on VolunteerSpot: http://vols.pt/pFDb4P Enter your email address: (You will NOT need to register an account on VolunteerSpot) Sign up! Choose your spots - VolunteerSpot will send you an automated confirmation and reminders. Easy! PTO Pat on the Back Loraine, the Garden of Awesome Chair, would like to thank all of the parent volunteers who came on Monday for their work in cleaning the garden and filling the NEW garden boxes with compost. It looks wonderful! News from DMCS Staff Acknowledgements Ms Jacy acknowledges Romy Flores for earning the most every points on Kahn academy last week.  Romy is working on 500000 points which equals hours of math, history and science work! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dixon-Montessori-Charter-School/160375697322380?ref=br_tf Copyright *2015* *Dixon Montessori Charter School*, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is 355 North Almond Street www.dixonmontessori.org unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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