Important Announcement – Title I School

Des Moines Public School Parents and Guardians who have students that attend a Title I schools have the right to know about the qualifications of their child’s teacher. This includes: state licensure requirements for the grade level and …

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Fourth Graders Express themselves through Poetry

4th Grade students have been expressing themselves through their poetry. They have been risk takers by not only creating their own poetry, but sharing it with others. This week they will be presenting their own poetry to the …

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First Graders work together

Students in first grade have been working on SOCIAL SKILLS to complete challenges in EL (literacy curriculum) such as the cup tower challenge and the string challenge.  They practiced working together to make the highest cup tower and …

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Schedule Your Conferences

Families, On October 27th and 28th we will be holding conferences to discuss your child’s progress in school this year. We are asking that families use the following link to sign up for a time. Once you open …

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‘Falling’ in love with Math using Apples!

This month in Kindergarten, we used apples to help us practice our math skills. We counted apple seeds, taste tested apples, created graphs to show our preferences, read many stories about apples, learned to read a decodable reader …

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Fifth Graders enjoy reading outside

Mrs. Stange’s class read independently in our outdoor classroom. Our whole class has also been reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. An important moment in the book is when Esperanza lays on the ground and hears what her dad …

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