Yet Another Student Earns Principal's Helper

Students at Dayton Avenue School continue to demonstrate Safe, Honest, Accountable, Respectful, Kind, and Successful behavior through our Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS) system.  Congratulations to Andrew Hawthorne.  Keep up the good work. 

Dayton’s Fifth Graders Visit the Tundra

Dayton Avenue’s fifth graders spent the afternoon among polar bears on one of the coldest places on the planet—Churchill, Manitoba in Canada.  Visitors can only get to Churchill by plane or train, as there are no roads into the town. However, our students lucked out and traveled to Churchill virtually. No luggage required!

Students entered the Library Media Center at 2:30 pm with their plane tickets to Cananda in hand and headed straight into the video conferencing area for the next hour with Mrs. Marone and Mrs. Zambelli. Through the Mondopad, the students connected with a live expert panel broadcasting from the tundra! Classrooms from around the world connected to the event made up of a science coordinator from the Churchill Northern Studies Center working in Arctic science, the principal of the school in Churchill as well as a few teachers and employees of the parks and conservation. 

During the live-streaming event, the panel answered the questions fifth grade teachers Mrs. Lukas and Mrs. Chiavola brainstormed in the classroom with their students. The panel also answered questions Mrs. Marone typed into the live chat as Dayton streamed the video. Students from Dayton asked about the wildlife in Churchill to the power outages to the culture on why someone would want to live on the tundra. One student even wanted to know if a polar bear ever got into the school!

Students learned that before trick-or-treating on Halloween in Churchill, a helicopter scouts the area to look for polar bears in the community as well as patrol vehicles. The town has a polar bear alert line and almost everyone has had an encounter with a polar bear at some point or another. While construction was happening on a part of the school, the principal shared that a polar bear went inside! He even shared how he encountered polar bears while snowmobiling and saw them jump over a fence! Another expert on the panel said he faced a polar bear that was over 1200 pounds who was about 15 years old. Additionally, one teacher shared she saw a mother and cub together only two car lengths away the day before the live-stream.

Other attractions in Churchill are dogsledding, diving with beluga whales and seeing the Northern Lights. The Northern Lights appear about 300 days out of the year, but can only be seen clearly when there is little moisture in the air. Winter is the best time for viewing the lights the science coordinator shared!

However during the winter, some of the town has to drive snow machines around to get from place-to-place as the temperature can be -45 degrees Fahrenheit as well as being very windy. However, it can get warm up to almost 30 degrees Fahrenheit on hot, summer days.

Aside from weather, other animals and wildlife in Churchill include wolves, various types of owls, and even killer whales! The new appearance of killer whales or orcas are being tracked in the Hudson Bay to find out more information such as the impact of that large of a predator.

For more information and to view the recorded videos from the live sessions, visit the site below: http://new.livestream.com/fsd/churchill. 

6th Grade Students Participate In Team Building Field Trip to Sunken Meadow

Grade six students participated in the Outdoor Environmental Education Field Trip to Sunken Meadow State Park.  Students had an opportunity to conduct a number of science experiments as well as complete team building Project Adventure activities.  This is a great way for students to get to know one another during the Association for Middle Level Education's Month of the Young Adolescent. 

Another Principal's Helper at Dayton Avenue School

Students at Dayton Avenue School continue to demonstrate Safe, Honest, Accountable, Respectful, Kind, and Successful behavior as part of our Positive Behavior Interventions and Support system.  Keep up the good work. 

Students Eager to Earn Shark Bites to Help Dr. Christie

We had our 2nd Principal's Helper of the year today.  Students continue to do a great job demonstrating the Safe, Honest, Accountable, Respectful, Kind, and Successful behavior that is the hallmark of our Positive Behavior Intervention and Support system.  Keep up the good work. 

Breanna Dierlam is the First Principal's Helper of 2014-2015

Students earn Shark Bites for demonstrating Safe, Honest, Accountable, Respectful, Kind, and Successful (SHARKS) behavior as part of our Positive Behavior Intervention and Support system.  Breanna earned enough Shark Bites to be the first Principal's Helper of 2014-2015.  Breanna was a Principal's Helper in 4th grade as well.  Keep up the good work!

Dayton Avenue School's Annual Open House

Faculty and staff at Dayton Avenue School welcomed parents in grades 3 through 6 to our annual Open House.  Parents met teachers and received an overview of our curriculum.  We are grateful for the support of our parents and in particular the South Manor PTA.  It was a great evening.