News & Announcements

Our Fall Parent-Teacher Conference Week is scheduled for October 23-27, 2023.

At this conference, your child's teacher will share your child's report card, discuss their strengths and areas of challenge, and share strategies to support academic, behavioral, and social-emotional growth.

We look forward to seeing you virtually on Webex or in person!

During conference week, school will end at 12:45 pm on those days. Please make arrangements for your child's early release from school.

*The first conference block will begin at 1:00 pm. Conferences will be 15 minutes in length.
*Visit our website conference information page at https://www.dkies.org/apps/pages/Conferences. Click on "Choose Your Date and Time" to sign-up for your conference time.
*First Quarter report cards will be distributed at your conference.
*Teachers with special classes are listed at the bottom of the scheduling page.

Students are researching games in the library this week.
They're asking these questions:
-How do you play?
-What's fun?
-What would you change?
Talk about the games your family loves to play and how you could create a game based on one of your favorites. We invite families to bring their games to Eat, Play, Build on September 29 from 5:00-6:30 to share their creation with other families! We'll have games outside the library in "Arcade Alley." YOUR games inspire others!

Dates to remember:
Sept. 29, 5:00-6:30 p.m.: Eat, Play Build Family Event where you can make your child's game at school, shop the book fair & purchase a tasty meal prepared by our DKIES PTO
Oct. 6: 12:50-1:50 Schoolwide Cardboard Challenge: Students bring their games to school for their peers to play

Need more information or want to view photos from our previous school-wide Cardboard Challenges? Visit the library website!

We're celebrating Dot Day this week at DKIES! Dot Day is a book by Peter Reynolds that reminds us to celebrate all the ways we are creative. You can watch The Dot on Tumblebooks. (username: dkies password: recess)

Whether you dance, sing, bake cupcakes, escape from creepers, or tend a garden, we are all creative. We invite you to be creative with your Cardboard Challenge Game! Wondering how the Cardboard Challenge got started? Watch this video, Caine's Arcade, to hear the story that inspired the world! https://vimeo.com/nirvan/cainesarcade

Dates to remember:
Sept. 29, 5:00-6:30 p.m.: Eat, Play Build Family Event where you can make your child's game at school, shop the book fair & purchase a tasty meal prepared by our DKIES PTO
Oct. 6: 12:50-1:50 Schoolwide Cardboard Challenge: Students bring their games to school for their peers to play

Need more information or want to view photos from our previous school-wide Cardboard Challenges? Visit the library website!

The DKIES School-wide Cardboard Challenge is a yearly event that invites students to make games out of cardboard or recyclable materials. It's not required, but it is a lot of fun! As students imagine, design, build, and test their games, they develop critical thinking and creativity skills that stick with them throughout their lives. We hope your family will make a game or two for others to play during school on Friday, October 6! To help you out, we invite you to "make the mess at school" on Friday, September 29 at our annual Eat, Play, Build Family Event. You can buy a tasty dinner prepared by our PTO, shop at the book fair & make your child's cardboard challenge game at school. Save the date & start thinking...what game could your child/family make? More information is on the library website.