What's New at Eisenhower Elementary

Eisenhower has a new Maker Space in the library!

Magnetic Marble Run is a very popular activity these days in the Eisenhower library! When students have finished their work, you might see them:

• learning how to code with our Coding Mouse
• expressing their creativity at a crafting table
• creating works of art on the Buddha Board
• experimenting with electric circuitry with our snap circuit sets
• learning about physics with a balancing game
• engineering a bridge with a K’Nex set
• testing their logic and spatial skills with Logic Dots or Cat Stax
• planning a path through the Gravity Maze

Kids love coming to the Maker Space, an area where STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathmatics) activities are set up and changed daily in the library. They spend a few minutes experimenting and igniting their creativity and curiosity before heading back to class.

We’d like to thank our very supportive Eisenhower PTO for providing start-up funding for this initiative that we intend to continue expanding and improving in the coming years!  We hope to build our crafting supplies next year, as well as add some additional digital creation opportunities.

Please watch our short video thanking the PTO for their support

2017 Eisenhower Battle of the Books

Fifth grade students have been reading and studying the Iowa Children’s Choice Award nominee books since January. Six teams of five students competed in the Eisenhower Battle of the Books on Friday, April 28 in Eisenhower’s small gym to show what they had learned. The kids worked together with their teammates to make sure that all of the books had been read by someone on their team. During the Battle, they could work together as a team to answer each question. The Battle was very close with the final three teams tied up until the very end!

Congratulations to our wonderful readers!  They ALL did a remarkable job!

A big THANK YOU to Mark Schmitt and Happy Joe’s on University for sponsoring trophies for our winning team and donating a luncheon pizza certificate to ALL participants! Our winning team, shown below, will be representing Eisenhower at the District Battle of the Books at Bryant Elementary School on Friday, May 12 at 1:30.  We wish them good luck!

UPDATE:
The Eisenhower team had a very strong showing at the District Battle of the Books on May 12. They tied with Kennedy School for second place in the District Battle. Great job team!

Watch a video about the Eisenhower Battle

EISENHOWER EXPRESS MAY 2017

4th and 5th grade students, along with the Eisenhower choir, performed their spring music program at Hempstead High School. They persevered through some technical difficulties and put on a great show! Congratulations to all!

Performance Video

Family groups at Eisenhower met to talk about what responsibility means and how they could help to take care of their school. Each group was responsible for cleaning up an area of the school, grounds or neighborhood. Students and staff all pitched in the make the Eisenhower community cleaner and brighter!

Watch a slideshow of the service projects at Eisenhower

Video: What are You Responsible For?
from Mrs. Dostal’s family group

Video: Eisenhower and Lincoln Celebrate Earth Day

First graders have been studying rocks in their classrooms this spring. Mrs. Dalton brought her rock collection from home to share with students in the library.

Watch the short YouTube video!

EISENHOWER EXPRESS APRIL 2017

EISENHOWER EXPRESS MARCH 2017

To better inform our families about schedule changes, the Dubuque Community School District will begin offering text messaging for weather-related and emergency alerts from the district. The service is offered through School Messenger, the system the district currently uses for mass email messages and automated phone calls.

HERE’S HOW TO BE SURE YOU RECEIVE TEXT MESSAGES:

• On TUESDAY, FEB. 21, between approximately 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. all phone numbers on file for families and staff will receive a text message asking them to opt in.
• If your phone has SMS or text messaging capability, you will receive the initial message.
• When you receive this text, REPLY “Yes” or “Y” to confirm that you’d like to continue receiving text messages.
• That’s it! You will then receive text messages for weather and emergency alerts.
• You can opt out of these text messages at any time by replying to one of our messages with “Stop”.

PLEASE NOTE: The district will only use text messages for weather-related or emergency purposes, not for general district information. Subscribers are responsible for any applicable text messaging charges from their carrier.