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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Outward Bound 2014

http://www.schooltube.com/video/10a11b7779c1424283de/

Congratulations to this year's Outward Bound team! During the week of May 19-23, eleven 7th and 8th Graders completed a 5-day backpacking, camping and rock climbing peer leadership course. Throughout the expedition, students engaged in outdoor education from sunrise until after sunset along the Appalachian Trail. Despite the rain and various other challenges, students had the experience of their lives!

Ms. McConnell is extremely proud of these individuals for their determination, willingness to overcome obstacles, and their newly attained leadership skills. This year's Outward Bound team consisted of Alexis F., Johnathon S., Kevin S., Seth W., Emma B., Emily C., Janaya F., Jenna G., Oumie S., Jacob S., and Emma S..

 Please click on the here to see a slideshow of this year's Outward Bound expedition.

Monday, May 19, 2014

1st Place Reading Olympians!



James Dobson School competed in the School District Reading Olympics Competition today.  We took  home FIRST PLACE!! Congratulations to all of our students who participated.  Our team showed excellent work ethic.  Their collaboration efforts were simply phenomenal.  We had such great support from the parents as well.  Thanks for supporting this endeavor.  I can't wait to do it again next year.

Congratulations again!
Ms. Heyward

Check out Photos from our competition on our Instagram page!

Monday, May 5, 2014


Artwork from grades K-2 will be on display at this time.  All student work is for sale and the proceeds benefit the Graphic Arts program.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Dobson Celebrates Poetry Month

In celebration of Poetry Month, our students have been sharing their poetry on the morning announcements and in their classrooms.  Teachers have also been getting in on the fun, sharing their favorite poems on the announcements too!

Below is a fantastic poem, written by one of our students in room 202.  We couldn't let April end without sharing his wonderful and heartfelt work!


I Am From...
By: Daiqan R.
 
I am creative and quiet.
I wonder if I will be a cop.
I hear birds laughing at me.
I see a zombie chasing me.
I want my own bed.
I am creative and quiet.
 
I pretend to fly high in the sky.
I feel happy about getting a house.
I touch a hurting heart.
I worry about my grandmom passing.
I cry when my family hurts.
I am creative and quiet.
 
I understand that life can be good.
I say God is good.
I dream about toys in a big house.
I try to come to school.
I am creative and quiet.


Sunday, April 13, 2014

COMING THIS WEEK: April 14, 2014

COMING THIS WEEK: April 14, 2014

S.W.E.B.S. FOCUS: 

 Rule #2- I will follow directions the first time given.



Monday, April 14th and Friday, April 18th


  • School's are closed for our abbreviated Spring Break! Enjoy the sun!! 

Wednesday, April 16th:


  •    Dine to Donate for Outward Bound at Applebee’s (11:00 am to Midnight) in the Andorra Shopping Center!


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Mark Your Calendar

  • There will be an early dismissal (12:10 pm) on Tuesday, April 22 for professional development.

    There will be a Home and School Meeting on Wednesday, April 23 at 3:15 pm in the library.  The topic for our meeting is the upcoming H&S Elections.
  • BUGZ Spring Concert is on May 6th at 6:30pm in the auditorium! The date has been changed from May 7th due to an unforeseen conflict with a district wide event.
    • Tickets are now on sale.  Contact Ms. Tierney at ltierney@philasd.org for details or with any questions!


  • Broadway Beat T-Shirt and Hoodie Order forms are due to Ms. Plumley by April 23rd! Add to your Dobson Uniform supply while supporting you classmates and the Performing Arts Program!  You don't want to miss out on these awesome apparel items.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Dobson Pride: SDP Tech Fair 2nd Place Winners

Congratulations to seventh graders, Emma S. and Emma B. who came in 2nd place at the Tech Fair yesterday!  Your hard work has really paid off.  The Graphic Design category was very competitive this year.  Despite the fact that we were edged out for the win by Penn Alexander, we are proud to say that we have made major strides since last year's honorable mention! Can't wait to see what they come up with for next year!

SDP Tech Fair 2nd Place Winners:

 Graphic Design

Check out their 2nd Place winning project below!


Our Guidelines:

Graphic Design

Graphic Design is the process and art of combining text and graphics to communicate an effective message through the design of logos, graphics, brochures, newsletters, posters, signs, and any other type of visual communication. Put your imagination and design skills to the test to establish your own restaurant complete with its own brand!

The Challenge:

Your challenge is to create a fictitious restaurant and develop its unique identity through graphic design. Projects submitted in the Graphic Design category require the following:
  1. Restaurant Logo: The logo will be the main identifying factor for your restaurant and will affect how the rest of your marketing materials will look and feel. It should be something that represents your restaurant concept and can be adapted to multiple types of media. To clearly distinguish your logo, it should be displayed separately on a stand-alone print copy.
  2. Restaurant Menu: A restaurant menu design is a reflection of the restaurant itself. Restaurant menu descriptions, layouts and colors, and font choice whether formal, casual or playful, should match your restaurant concept, location or theme. Menu items should be realistic and templates should not be used.
  3. Other Marketing Materials: Your project must also include at least one other branded item that would be used in your restaurant such as business cards, letterhead, coupons, promotional displays, signs, aprons, etc.

Our Logo

Dressin' Up Menu

Dressin' Up Business Card

       Describe the project’s objectives, vision and/or overall purpose.  Why did you choose your topic? What kind of effect do you want to have on your audience?

 Our restaurant, Dressin’ Up, is aimed to not only be a salad bar, but to include greens and veggies and so forth. We choose this topic for a few reasons. Our first reason was because it is kind of rare to hear of a restaurant that features fashion related food items, let alone a salad bar. It is our hope that this trendy theme would draw the attention of younger kids and teenagers as well as to encourage healthy eating.  We, ourselves, have never said “Mommy I want to go to the salad bar down the street!” But now, with our restaurant, we hope to change this type of thinking and continue to encourage our generation and the next not all take-out or fast-food type of meals need to be un-healthy in order to be good.

Salad is healthy, pizza is not. Salad is nutritious, cheese steaks are not. See? We aim to bring a new spark of life to the human eye. For our audience, we want to encourage them to eat healthy but also have fun doing it.

Why did we choose this topic? Because one day, we learned in health that more and more each day, more citizens are becoming obese. Each day people are eating pizza, doughnuts, potato chips, etc. but with this unique idea of a salad bar and beyond, how can people still get unhealthily fat? We see our restaurant as a new era of eating happy and healthy.