DUSD Back-to-School Information

Back to School

Submitted by Denair Unified School District

Tuesday, August 12, marks the start of the 2014-15 Denair Unified School District school year. Daily schedules and other information of each of the DUSD schools is outlined below.

 

 

Denair Elementary School – (209) 632-8887

1st -5th Grades, 8:00 am – 2:30 pm

Kindergarten, 8:00 am – 2:20 pm

 

Denair Academic Avenues – (209) 632-6906

1st -5th Grades, M -Th, 8:00 am – 3:00 pm. Fri, 8:00 am to 12:30 pm.

Kindergarten, M -Th, 8:00 am – 2:20 pm. Fri, 8:00 am to 12:00 pm.

Free breakfast is served to all Denair Elementary School and Denair Academic Avenues students from 7:30-7:55, in the Denair Elementary School Cafeteria.

 

Denair Middle School  – (209) 632-2510  and  Denair High School – (209) 632-9911

Denair Middle School and Denair High School will share a daily schedule.

8:00 am – 2:45 pm.

Free breakfast is served to all Denair Middle School students from 7:30-7:55, in the Denair Middle School Coyote Center. Denair High School students are served from 7:30-7:55, in the Denair High School Cafeteria.

 

Denair Charter Academy – (209) 634-0917

Office Hours: 7:30 am – 4:00 pm

 

Parents can prepay for student lunches, for all school sites, using the myschoolbucks.com service.

 

Denair Week of the Young Child Festivities

Week of the Young Child LogoDenair Unified School District will be celebrating Week of the Young Child, Friday, April 11, 2014, with a festival for their youngest students. Denair Elementary Preschool and Kindergarten students will enjoy a concert by Oklin Bloodworth, a children’s performer, beginning at 9:15, in the Elementary Cafeteria. Immediately following the music performance, festival activities will continue on the kinder/Preschool Playground with fun activities for students, including face-painting, bubble blowing cups, mural painting, an obstacle course, and musical instruments.

The Week of the Young Child is an annual celebration sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the world’s largest early childhood education association, with nearly 80,000 members and a network of over 300 local, state, and regional Affiliates.

The purpose of the Week of the Young Child is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs.

NAEYC first established the Week of the Young Child in 1971, recognizing that the early childhood years (birth through age 8) lay the foundation for children’s success in school and later life. The Week of the Young Child is a time to plan how we – as citizens of a community, of a state, and of a nation – will better meet the needs of all young children and their families.

In 2011, NAEYC celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Week of the Young Child™. For more information about the history of the event and the 40th anniversary read Week of the Young Child Turns 40!

Below are photos from the event.

DES Celebrates Read Across America

RAApictographOn Friday, March 7, 2014, after a week of enjoying Dr. Seuss stories and being introduced to a variety of his character creations, Denair Elementary School students ended the week with an exciting Read Across America culminating event.

Denair Elementary School has a Cross Age Buddy Program.  This is where two classrooms at different grade levels pair up to provide learning experiences that promote Common Core Standards and literacy for both grade levels.

On that day, the entire school gathered in the gym to read with their buddies.  The students read several stories, and a good time was had by all!  Students kept track of the number of books they read during the allotted time and made a pictograph of the results.  Since each group knew only their own number, they used the pictograph and their math skills to determine the number of books read by the entire student body.  Denair Elementary students read 498 books that day!