Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School
Fourth CPHG Dolphin Splash
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Important Dates
We conclude 2015 with appreciation:
 A special thank you to the professionals who led Career Day discussions earlier this month. What a fantastic gift you
gave to the Drew community by sharing your careers with us! Your presentations awed and inspired students.
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Thanks also to the many active Drew parents who accompanied us on the field trip to Howard University
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Thank you also for supporting your child’s endeavors in writing this month – Environmental Problems (we are very
much enjoying students’ Google Slide presentations) and - Playwriting - it was thrilling for the students to have the
fabulous audience for their presentations of their original plays last Thursday night.
Winter Break
12/241/3/16
Welcome Back
1/4/16
December Book It Due
No School—
Dr. MLK, Jr. Day
1/18
Data Notebooks Come
1/21
Additionally, thank you to all the parents who participate in PTA, on the School Improvement Team, as school
Home
volunteers, and in so many other ways. Your efforts are deeply appreciated.
End of Second
As we begin the New Year, it is important for students to remember the keys to success - effective effort, persistence, effective
1/22
Marking Period
use of feedback, resourcefulness, focus, time management, organization, and critical thinking. Goal setting and monitoring
can help students reflect on their progress. We have a great deal left to accomplish this year, and we will be very excited to get
No School—
Professional
Day for
1/25
back into the swing of things once we return from winter break.
Teachers
December has been a very busy month. Thank you for your support of our playwrights who wrote and performed
American Indian legends so enthusiastically under the expert guidance of professional actor and playwright John Morogiello. Third Marking Period
1/26
Begins
Thank you for your support of the home research portion of student environmental research projects. Students did a great job
presenting their projects this week to admiring peers and teachers. In the final weeks of the marking period, students will
4-5 Community
1/29
begin researching explorers in social studies and set up and monitor a “well-designed” pollution experiment to cap off their
Meeting 9:35
study of environmental science. In 4/5 math, students will be completing Number and Operations – Fractions and shifting
to the Geometry and Measurement and Data measurement topics. In grade 4 math, students have been engaged in solving Reading Night 7-8 pm 1/29
division problems, using a variety of strategies. In January they will apply those division strategies to solve measurement
Report Cards Come
2/3
problems involving distance, time, money, and weight.
Home
Please send children dressed warmly on cold days and be sure that they wear layers. The temperature in the school
varies from room to room. Please also help your child keep track of his/her coats, gloves, hats and scarves by making sure that everything is labeled with his/her
first and last name.
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We wish all of our families a very happy and healthy new year!
Mrs. Leichtling and Mrs. Doane
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January, 2016
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