Next week is our BOGO Scholastic Book Fair! You can shop during Parent/Teacher Conferences on Monday evening from 4-6pm. Students can shop before and after school (8:35-9am, 3:30-3:45pm) or it will be open on Sports Day! You can also set up an e-wallet for your student. https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/dealislandes
As a reminder, schools & offices are closed tomorrow, Tuesday, May 14, 2024 for the MD Primary Election.
Here are our new DIS vocabulary words of the week! In an effort to improve our vocabulary usage across all grade levels, we have created these vocabulary cards for our school and families to use at home and in the classroom. We encourage you each week to try to incorporate our DIS word(s) of the week into your conversations at home. This week's words are inspired by the Disney movie, "Tarzan" Thank you for your continued effort in supporting our students' education!
Happy Birthday to our students born in the month of May!!
A HUGE thanks to everyone who donated, sent in gifts or said kind words to our teachers this past week! Our teachers felt very appreciated. Thank you!! Next week we have no school on Tuesday for Election Day. Wednesday-Mid-Terms are coming home. On May 20th, Monday is Parent/Teacher Conferences from 4-6pm.
May 7, 2024 is National Teacher's Day. With the most sincere appreciation, Happy Teacher's Day to our #TeamSCPS educators! #ThankATeacher today, and everyday for the impact they make on our community. #TeacherAppreciation #TeachersDay2024
Hello DIS Families!
Please save the following dates as we approach the end of the year!
Here are our new DIS vocabulary words of the week! In an effort to improve our vocabulary usage across all grade levels, we have created these vocabulary cards for our school and families to use at home and in the classroom. We encourage you each week to try to incorporate our DIS word(s) of the week into your conversations at home. This week's words are inspired by the Disney movie, "The Jungle Book" Thank you for your continued effort in supporting our students' education!
Good afternoon DIS families! It's Teacher Appreciation Week! We are so thankful for all the donations of goodies from our community showing our school staff love! Here is a link to all the teachers favorites! https://5il.co/2k6p0. Looking ahead: Next Tuesday, May 14 is Election Day and schools will be closed.
RSVP for an evening of fun family activities, information on preparing your child for school, PK registration, community information, great giveaways and a dinner provided by Mission BBQ at the school readiness fair. This will take place on Friday, May 10th at Somerset Intermediate School from 4:30-7:00.
One last reminder that our Prek3 thru 1st grade field trip is tomorrow! Students may dress nice and casual. Students should be dropped off at DIS starting at 8:20. We are leaving DIS at 8:45. This only applies to those students attending the trip, 2nd-5th will not have a teacher to watch them. THANK YOU!
Teacher Appreciation Week is celebrated May 6th-10th! We love our staff and we know you do too! If you feel inclined to spoil our staff, here is a list of all their favorite things. We also appreciate kind words as well! https://5il.co/2k6p0
Tutoring has ended for the school year. We have our Field Trip to the Ballet for PK3-1st grade on Friday. Those students may dress casual and nice for the event and will need to be dropped off at 8:20 am. Deal Island's Art is on display at the County Art Festival all week long at BOE. Opening night is 4:30-6:30 on Mon
Reminder that our PK3, PK4, K and 1st grade field trip is next Friday, May 3rd. Students will need to be dropped off at DIS at 8:20 am. Students can dress casual for free. Any questions please contact Ms. Jones at jjones@somerset.k12.md.us. Thank you!
Here are our new DIS vocabulary words of the week! In an effort to improve our vocabulary usage across all grade levels, we have created these vocabulary cards for our school and families to use at home and in the classroom. We encourage you each week to try to incorporate our DIS word(s) of the week into your conversations at home. This week's words are inspired by the Disney movie, "Wall-E" Thank you for your continued effort in supporting our students' education!
We have a slower paced week! Friday is going to be our end of the month April incentive so it will be a free casual day! April 29th is our County Art Show opening reception from 4:30-6:30pm. Have a wonderful week!
Did you know that Deal Island Elementary School's Pre-K Program is currently working on State Accreditation? We'd like to give a great big shout out to Ms. Justice and Ms. Stevens for all their hard work with this process. We have gone through all of the Accreditation Standards, completed our self assessment and have made changes and improvements as necessary. If you would like more details about this process and a copy of this self assessment, please reach out to the school.
Registration for PreK and K is now open on the PowerSchool portal! Click the link below to go to the pre-enrollment page.
https://www.somerset.k12.md.us/o/scps/page/student-enrollment
Due to unforseen circumstances, tutoring will be cancelled after school today. Thank you.
The Time Travelers History Camp at the Teackle Mansion is accepting applications for a fun-filled week-long camp for kids entering 5th & 6th grades. Apply by May 10 using the forms, here: https://5il.co/1sz2c
Somerset County Public Schools Fine Art Department cordially invites students, families, staff and the greater community to visit the 2024 SCPS Fine Art Festival. Student artwork will be on display at the Board of Education Office from April 29 - May 3, 2024, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Opening night, April 29, 2024 from 4:30 - 6:30pm, will feature performances by the SIS band and choir in front of the Board of Education building. This event is open to the public. Please stop in and view this year's county-wide exhibition of student artwork!
