JOHN Y. DATER SCHOOL

👻 Spooky prompts, creative writing, and kind words! 📝 Students in 5Wissell put their imaginations to work during daily writing time, sharing clever ideas and encouraging compliments with their table partners. ✨📚

5McGowan is getting ready to meet our buddy class by decorating the first letters of their names with words that describe themselves! We can't wait to share what makes each of us special and get to know our new buddies!

Students in 4 O’Rourke are utilizing WIN (What I Need) time to strengthen their understanding of skills that have already been taught this year. This time provides students with an opportunity to revisit concepts, address areas where they may need additional support, and build confidence in their learning through targeted practice and reinforcement.

Our scenery artists are bringing Alice in Wonderland Jr. to life with colorful sets and larger-than-life creations! 🎨♠️♥️

So many hands-on learning experiences in 4Kirch last week!🎉 From building arrays in math to exploring potential and kinetic energy with cars, investigating balance and unbalanced forces with ropes, and putting our learning into motion on an amazing roller-skating field trip. Learning is always more fun when we can see it, test it, and experience it firsthand. We can't wait to see what fun learning this week brings!

Unlocking language codes in 5Geist! 🔍✨ Students are using their word lists to build sentences that spark conversation using Greek and Latin roots. 📚💡

Join us for The Power of Positive Sports Parenting!

The Ramsey High School Athletic Association (RHSAA) and the Ramsey Public Education Foundation (RPEF) along with Ramsey High School are proud announce they will host a Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) workshop this November.

🚨 All parents (not only coaches) in the District are encouraged to attend.

📍 Ramsey High School / Auditorium
🗓 Monday, November 2
⏰ 7:30 PM (🚨 Time change!)

What you’ll learn: The Power of Positive Sports Parenting offers practical strategies to help parents/caregivers contribute to a positive and welcoming sports experience for everyone involved. Parents who attend this workshop will be given tools to:

• Align their goals with those of their athletes
• Support their athlete’s mental wellness through empathy
• Model and reinforce a positive sports culture
• Build an effective coach-parent partnership
• Foster a sense of belonging amongst the team community

Why it matters: Sports are a powerful venue for building character, confidence, and community. Learn how we can all work together to keep competition healthy, supportive, and fun for our student-athletes.

The 5Sheehan students have put on their scientist caps and created molecules using atoms! Just as atoms follow specific rules, our students followed rules to build their molecules. Once their molecules were complete, they illustrated them in their science notebooks!🧪👩‍🔬

Dater students are having a blast at the Fall Book Fair! Thank you to the amazing PTO volunteers that helped transform our Media Center into a boo-tiful Halloween wonderland! Don't forget that family night is tomorrow, TUESDAY 10/20, from 3-6, and that students can also wear PJs to school tomorrow and bring in $1 in support of Tommy Strong.

🌟 5Modesto had a wonderful time experiencing our first morning meeting with our buddy class, 4Horton! It was so much fun getting to know each other, making new connections, and playing Night at the Museum together. We loved sharing this special time with our buddies and are already looking forward to our next meeting! 💙📚

Our 4Guarnieri historians kicked off their study of the Lenape through an engaging, inquiry-based learning experience! Students closely examined artifacts valued and used by the Lenape by making observations, asking thoughtful questions, and developing ideas about their daily lives and culture. This hands-on exploration sparked curiosity and encouraged students to think like historians as they began uncovering who the Lenape were and how they lived!

📱✨ Today, Dater students had the opportunity to hear an amazing assembly from Dino Ambrosi, founder of Project Reboot! Dino shared such an important message about building a healthy relationship with technology and being intentional about how we spend our time. 💙 It’s so important to remember that our time is precious and to make room for the things that bring us joy, help us grow, and allow us to build meaningful connections with others. 💛 Want to hear more? Join Dino TONIGHT at 7:00 PM in the Smith Cafeteria for an inspiring talk about how we can take back our time and live life in a way that reflects what matters most!

📚Get ready for some spooky fun at the Dater Book Fair which starts in exactly one week!!! The students are so excited! Don't forget to set up your Ewallet. Other forms of payment will also be accepted at the fair. Dater students love BOOOOOOOOks. 🎃👻

Our fifth graders put on their social scientist hats to solve a history mystery! By carefully examining artifacts and gathering clues, students took on the roles of geographers, historians, archaeologists, and sociologists to uncover the identity of a mystery person. 🌎📜 Through collaboration, critical thinking, and thoughtful observations, our young detectives learned how different social scientists use evidence to better understand people and the past! 🧩✨

💙💛 We wrapped up the Week of Respect at Dater School by wearing our school colors, blue and gold! 💛💙 We are so proud of our students for all of their efforts to show respect, spread kindness, and include others throughout the week. Let’s keep the spirit of respect going every day! 💫

WIN time is all about strengthening the skills each learner needs to succeed as a 4th grader, while using creativity to think in new ways and show what they know! So proud of their hard work!

Today, everyone at Dater got cozy in their pajamas as we dreamed of a world filled with respect and kindness! 💤🌙✨ Even some favorite stuffed animals joined in on the fun and learning! 🧸📚

Dater art students are exploring how artists can create the illusion of depth and space on a flat surface. Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s careful observation, sketching, and study of perspective, students are learning to use one-point perspective, horizon lines, vanishing points, and converging lines to make their drawings appear three-dimensional on the cover of their sketchbooks! From first sketches to finished compositions, our young artists are discovering that drawing is not just about what we see—it’s about learning how to see! 🎨📐