1:1 Devices

This year, every student in Dalton in grades 3 through 12 has a personal laptop device.  Permission forms this year included both school and family owned devices.  You can read more about the program and access the permission form and insurance information here. 

Fourth and fifth graders received their devices during the first week of school and the roll-out for third graders was completed today. 

Celebrating Summer Reading!

We had so many students participate in our Summer Reading Program this year that we actually held TWO parties - one for the lower grades and one for the upper grades!  Students who sent a summer reading picture received their choice of a hard cover book.  Everyone went down the line and choose their prizes - at least two paperback books and one hard cover book, plus some toys, trinkets, and of course, everyone got a Kellogg's cereal bowl again this year. (Thanks to my wonderful brother-in-law!)

In addition, we had over 800 books checked out of the library for the summer!!!  This makes me SO happy - those books were not lonely all summer - they were loved!   We had a great response to trying this and I am already planning on offering it again next summer.

Here are some pictures from our celebration.

First Week

We are back! Only three days into the new school and we have checked out almost 200 computers to 4th and 5th graders and made sure everyone could log in and connect to the Internet. Students will be bringing home acceptable use agreements next week. They must be signed and returned before students will be allowed to bring their computers home. We will be focusing on Digital Citizenship a lot this year, but especially for the first nine weeks. We have also had 9 classes (for library class) and they have checked out over 400 books!

Summer reading lists are due back to us by Wednesday, August 17th. For the first time ever, we allowed students to check out up to 10 books for the summer and we checked out OVER 800 books!!!! Students have until August 19th to return any books that they borrowed for the summer. I think this was clearly a success and something we will continue! I have always felt the books were "lonely" sitting in the library over the summer and love that they were read over the break!