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(3/18) Ms. Luther’s class put their rounding skills to the test with a fun game of Rounding Jeopardy! Students stayed engaged, worked together, and sharpened their math skills while having a blast!

(3/17) Mrs. Steele and Ms. Luther's classes celebrated their awesome benchmark scores and St. Patrick’s Day with some lucky Shamrock Floats! 🥤💚 Hard work + sweet rewards = a great day to be a student!

(3/16) Teachers at DTC are getting ready to finish the year strong! 💪📚 Today, our teachers spent time in grade-level data meetings looking at student progress and planning ways to help every student continue to grow and succeed.
We can’t wait to welcome our students back tomorrow, and hope everyone had an awesome Spring Break! ☀️🎉

(3/6) What a fun week celebrating Read Across America! Our students showed their school spirit with some super fun dress-up days! We also loved having special guest readers visit classrooms to share their favorite stories.
From wacky socks to Seuss-tastic hats, we read here, we read there…
We had fun reading everywhere! 📚✨

(3/6) Mrs. McNeal’s class wrapped up Read Across America Week with a fun Horton Hears a Who Day! 🐘🌼 Students compared the movie and the book, enjoyed some yummy snacks, and even made their own clovers—because after all, a person’s a person no matter how small! 💚📚

(3/6) After reading How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss, students in Mrs. Hodum's class designed their own snowflake “Name-Villes” inspired by Whoville. Each student imagined a unique town based on their name and illustrated it before cutting it into a snowflake. After creating their towns, students wrote narrative stories describing what life is like in their Name-Ville, including the characters, traditions, and activities that happen there. This activity encouraged creativity, narrative writing, and text-to-self connections with the story.

(3/6) Today Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Hodum combined classes and read Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss. After reading, they talked about the strange green oobleck that fell from the sky in the story. Then, students became little scientists and followed measuring instructions to create their own oobleck. While making it, they practiced measuring, following directions, and observing how matter can act like both a solid and a liquid. Students explored the texture and discussed how their oobleck was similar to the oobleck in the story.

(3/6) Today, 4th grade ELA classes had a sweet way to work toward their AR goals! Students read about cakes, decorated their own, and labeled each layer with themes, settings, and character traits from the books they’ve read. They topped off the lesson with a delicious shortcake treat!

(3/6) Math + sunshine = the perfect lesson! ☀️📐 Our 4th grade teachers took learning outside with a Geometry Scavenger Hunt, where students searched high and low around campus to find shapes and angles in the real world. Hands-on learning makes math even more fun!

(3/5) The Pontotoc Choir put on a magnificent performance today for our students. Thank you so much for coming and sharing your voices with us!