Crazy Hair Day at DES


Thank you to DTE for teaching our 4th graders about electrical safety ⚡️⚡️






Our 4th graders visited Lansing 🏛️










Outdoor education club playing a tree game and doing leaf and bark rubbings. 🍁🍂🍃



Moana has been practicing a new skill: Playing Four Corners with students



We've been enjoying the sunshine on the playground! ☀️☀️☀️










Our teachers had the opportunity to learn more about strategies and tools to support students with ADHD and trauma in the classroom at our last professional learning day 🛠️⚒️




Our 4th graders are learning all about team work and problem solving through Adventure! 👏🏼👏🏼

Look out for our two favorite Looper Line attendants 💙🤍

Mrs. Cheney is teaching Personal Space Camp to our kindergarten friends 🫧🫧









Thanks to the DHS FFA for putting on a fun Harvest Day! 🎃


Kicking off the morning with a game of Spiders and Flies 🏃🏃♀️


Thanks to our PTO for providing popcorn and books to all of our students and staff to kick off Read-A-Thon 📚🍿





Our young fives students enjoyed Friday's sunshine at recess ☀️










Moana is official! 💙🐾💙

Moana has been making her way into more and more classrooms to practice appropriate behavior. She's learning so much and students are doing a great job of modeling calm bodies for her. She's still in stage one (no petting) but is able to spend more time out of the office! 🐾🐾


Mrs. Cheney organized a time for some of our 4th grade student leaders to learn proper flag protocol from a local veteran. This is going to be a new responsibility for our 4th graders this year! 🇺🇸







Ms. Erickson’s Y5 students use paint sticks and daubers to work on circles and dots in art class.

4th grade students experiment with art supplies around the room 🎨🎨🎨








Did you know that we have truly amazing veteran teachers in our building like Mrs. Sampson who has taught for over 30 years?! Teachers like her share their wisdom with our new teachers by modeling lessons in their classrooms. We 💙 learning from each other!


