Coming This Week: December 2, 2013

Coming This Week: December 2, 2013

Thank you to everyone who worked on, attended or donated to our "Dobson's Night Out" event and fundraiser.  The evening was a huge success.  Thank you for supporting Dobson!

Wednesday, December 4th - Friday, December 6th: Student Book Fair

Monday, December 2nd

• Dance Team Auditions in the Auditorium 
  
  • Lower School: during 1st Lunch
  • Upper School: at 2:25
    

Wednesday, December 4th- December 6th

• Half days for Students!
• Parent/Teacher Conferences
• Student Book Fair 

 Thursday, December 5th

• Evening Parent/Teacher Conferences from 5:00pm-7:00pm

 Friday, December 6th

• Come support the Faculty, Staff and Students of Dobson from 8:00-8:21am.  Help us raise awareness and rally for the need to fully fund our school!  All students must be accompanied by a parent or guardian in order to attend!

 Mark Your Calendar:

• December 12th at 6:30PM- Winter Concert
• Come to Dobson on December 12th to be entertained by  the Dobson Band, Choir, Recorder Ensembles and Kindergarten through 2nd Grade play FLAKES!!  A musical celebration of Snow, Sleet and SNIRT!
• Tickets are on sale now!!! Each ticket is $3 ($4 at the door on the 12th)!  Email (ltierney@philasd.org) or come to see Ms. Tierney if you have any questions!

 
• December 20th: Boogie for Books
• Get your dancing shoes ready for our 1st Annual JDS Boogie for Books dance-a-thon and fundraiser!  More information will be sent home with students in the coming weeks!  

Coming this Week: June 10th

Coming This Week:June 10th

Father's Day Pancake Breakfast for the 

Performing Arts Program is on Sunday!!

Tuesday, June 11th:

• 8th grade Luncheon

Wednesday, June 12th:

• Report card grades are due

Friday, June 14th:

•  DOBSON DAY!  (Rain Date Monday, June 17)

Sunday, June 16th:

• FATHER'S DAY PANCAKE BREAKFAST 8am-10am

  Come and join the Dobson Students for a Father's Day Pancake Breakfast at Applebee's Andorra (8600 Henry Ave.).  All proceeds benefit the performing arts program!  With the looming budget cuts, we are trying to do our best to raise money to restore some of our after school programs like dance team, the annual musical, and the winter concert.  WE NEED YOUR HELP!  Tickets are $7 each for all you can eat pancakes, sausage and juice, coffee or tea!
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 Mark Your Calendar:

• Kindergarten Move-Up Day is on Tuesday, June 18th at 9:30 a.m.
• Student of the Year Assembly will be held on Wednesday, June 19th.
• Eighth grade graduates on Thursday, June 20th at 9:30 a.m.
• Last day for Students is Friday, June 21st. 

Coming This Week: April 29th

Coming This Week: April 29th

Wednesday, May 1st - Friday, May 3rd- 

 Student Book Fair: BOGO

Wednesday, May 1st- Friday May 3rd

• Half days for Students!
• Parent/Teacher Conferences
• BOGO Book Fair

 Mark Your Calendar:

• May 28th at 6:30PM- Spring Concert and Art Show/Sale!

  Come to Dobson on May 28th to view the amazing display of student artwork and be entertained by the Dobson Band, Choir and Kindergarten through 2nd Grade play HATS!!  Discover that it's not the hat that makes a person special, but what's underneath.
  
  Tickets are on sale now!!! Each ticket is $2 each!  Email (ltierney@philasd.org) or come to see Ms. Tierney if you have any questions!
  
  
  
  
  
  

Coming This Week: March 4th

Coming This Week: March 4th-March 8th

 

 

March is Music in Our School's Month

We will be celebrating with daily Music Trivia, a school wide poster contest and bulletin board! Check with your students for more information this week.

Even if you don't always notice it, music is all around us-- from the stereo in the car to the music piped in at the supermarket.  Studies show that music has a wide array of benefits to your health.  Whether you're listening or, better yet, playing, music can have a great impact on your mind!

Why is this important?  Did you know that studying while listening to Baroque compositions at 60 beats per minute helps most students to study longer and to retain more information?  Listening to Mozart can increase your IQ 9 points for 15 minutes!!  Click Here to watch a short video to further explain why music is so important to your child's education!

Don't forget to log on to KidBiz3000 and First In Math everyday!! 

PSSA's are only a few weeks away!!!

GOT CAUGHT READING

Celebrate a love for literacy! Staff will be on the lookout for moments to capture our students’ love for reading. We look forward to our bulletin board (outside of room 104) being filled with Dr. Seuss hats with the names of all our children!

 

 

 

Monday, March 4th

• Music In Our School's Month (MIOSM) Trivia

Tuesday, March 5th

• Music In Our School's Month (MIOSM) Trivia
• Kindergarten Open House 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
• Trip to see Peking Ducks Chinese Acrobats at the Keswick Theatre (Rooms 101, 103, 107, and 108)

Wednesday, March 6th

• Music In Our School's Month (MIOSM) Trivia
• Drop Everything and Read
• SWEBS Lunchroom Re-Teaching

Thursday, March 7th

• Music In Our School's Month (MIOSM) Trivia
• READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY
• Students will celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss and read The Lorax
• 12:10 Dismissal for Students

Friday, March 8th

• Music In Our School's Month (MIOSM) Trivia
• Fun Friday

Mark Your Calendars:

•  March 11 – March 15:  5^th and 8^th Grade Writing PSSA

Kindergarten and First Grade Dance Off!

 Today Kindergarten and First Grade took turns strutting their stuff while playing Just Dance 3 and Michael Jackson: The Experience.  All of the students had a blast while exercising and learning some new moves.  Miss Cruice and room 104 even dropped by to show the students how it's done!

Kindergarten's Modigliani Self-Portraits

Our Kindergarten class just finished a lesson on the Italian artist, Amedeo Modigliani.  They learned how he made portraits and self-portraits, using African masks as his inspiration.  All of his portraits shared similar characteristics.  They all had oval faces, tilted heads, almond eyes, long noses, small mouths, and black outlining.  The students utilized the brush and paint bucket tools in Photoshop to create these masterpieces.  Well done Kindergarten!

               Avriel                                        Brandon

              Domenic                                    Emma

                 Ethan                                       Frankie

                Gabriel                                     Jayden

                  Jolon                                      Joseph A.

                Joseph K.                               Levinia

                Noah                                         Santino

              Sydney