JOHN Y. DATER SCHOOL

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In Ms. Gulino's class, students are working on analyzing poetry to help understand perspective.

Happy Principal’s Day, Mrs. Glebocki! 💛 💙 Dater School is so lucky to have a principal who always sticks by us and lifts everyone up. Our 360 students filled her office with Post-its sharing all the reasons we’re so thankful—turns out appreciation really adds up! Thanks for making our school such a bright, positive place to learn and grow. ✏️📚🚌

The compost crew from 5Gesualdo/Thomson & 5Modesto/Azouri have been doing a great job composting with the guidance of Miss Celestine from Source Compost.

"Which ball will hit the ground faster due to gravity?" was the question students in 5Davidson and 5Johnstone tried to answer.

SPRING HAS FINALLY SPRUNG! Enjoying our book club al fresco. We highly recommend you check this book out! 📚🐊🚽🌸🌻🌷☀️

⚠️ Attention Ramsey! The 2026-2027 District Calendar has been updated! 🗓

Check today's edition of Ramsey Review and/or your email for additional info.

¿Dónde vives? 4th graders practiced their interpersonal speaking skills in Spanish class! Students pretended they lived in different Hispanic countries and had to find their match by asking, "¿dónde vives?"

4O’Rourke is hard at work learning about figurative language.

So much fun doing our Teacher Treasure with these girls! 💅

Dater loved Take Your Child to Work Day!! 💕 Introducing our home family to our school family was the best!

Earth Day, Picturing America, bedroom designing using perimeter, STEM experiments, and creating symmetry creatures... this week was filled with educational creativity and challenges in Mrs. Kirch's classes!

5Gesualdo/Thomson enjoyed celebrating Earth Day! We want to send an extra thank you to our wonderful class parents for coming in to help, and to Mrs. A. for sending in such a cool craft! 🌏🌲🎨🙂

Standing tall like the Great Wall itself! 📸Students from 5Johnstone and 5Davidson transformed into a historical timeline, recreating the Great Wall of China across different eras. What a creative way to kick off our Ancient China unit and help the students visualize how this incredible structure evolved over centuries!

4Groenveld's science classes discovering the effects of weathering on rocks!

5Gesualdo/Thomson, we couldn't be prouder of you for showing your compassionate hearts! 💕 Our students collected new and gently used pencils, pencil cases, pencil sharpeners, and erasers that were given to students in Africa who didn't have these valuable resources. ✏️

The 5th grade GATE crew started building their robots! Eventually these bots will deliver ice cold beverages to the staff. A fully automated refreshment bot is headed your way! 🤖🦾

Students in 4G have fully immersed themselves in our biography unit! After thoughtfully interviewing their relatives, Ms. Guarnieri sparked curiosity and inquiry-based learning by sharing artifacts from her own life. Students eagerly observed, wondered, and made inferences by collaborating with one another to build ideas, share perspectives, and deepen their understanding of how we can learn about a person’s story through meaningful details. We can’t wait to see how this curiosity continues to grow as students begin exploring the lives of notable figures!

5 Modesto/Azouri had an engaging and informative Picturing America lesson led by one of our class moms. The students were fully involved and enjoyed creating their own unique pieces of artwork to share with the class. 🎨🖌️🖼️

4O'Rourke at the Dater School Silent Disco!!! 💃 🕺 🪩 🎧