DeKalb School System to Offer Summer Meals to Children

May 21, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

DeKalb County Schools are participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children without charge and are the same for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, and reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service (not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.).

Meals will be provided, at a first come, first serve basis, at the sites and times as follows:

 Smithville Elementary School

• Week days beginning May 28th – June 20th.
• Breakfast served from 8-8:30 am
• Lunch served from 11-11:30 am

 Northside Elementary

• Week days beginning May 28th – June 14th.
• Breakfast served from 8-8:30 am
• Lunch served from 11-11:30 am

 DeKalb High School

• Week days beginning May 28th – June 14th.
• Breakfast served from 8-8:30 am
• Lunch served from 11am -12 pm

 DeKalb West School

• Week days beginning May 28th – June 14th.
• Breakfast served from 8-8:30 am
• Lunch served from 11am – 11: 30 am

 Justin Potter Library

• On Thursdays May 30th- June 27th
• As a part of the Library’s Summer Reading program
• Program starts at 2 pm
• Contact the Library for more details regarding the Summer Reading Program

 Meal times may be adjusted as needed. Any changes will be posted on the School Nutrition portion of Dekalbschools.net

May 21, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

Twenty six fifth graders at DeKalb West School graduated from the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program in a ceremony Tuesday afternoon.

D.A.R.E. is a DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department-led series of classroom lessons that teaches fifth graders in DeKalb County how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives.

Lewis Carrick, the Sheriff’s Department’s School Resource Officer at DeKalb West School, doubles as the D.A.R.E Officer instructor for the fifth grade classes.

The 10 week course identifies fundamental, basic skills and developmental processes needed for healthy development including: Self-awareness and management, Responsible decision making, Understanding others, Relationship and communication skills, and Handling responsibilities and challenges.

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D.A.R.E. believes that if you can teach youth to make safe and responsible decisions, it will guide them to healthy choices, not only about drugs, but across all parts of their lives. As they grow to be responsible citizens, they will lead healthier and more productive drug-free lives.

As part of the course, students prepared essays on what they have learned from D.A.R.E. and a winner was selected from each fifth grade class. The winners at DeKalb West School were Carter Vickers from Ms. Nadina Martel’s class and Autumn Dies from Ms. Jeanna Caplinger’s class. Vickers was the overall winner and he received a $50 check from General Sessions and Juvenile Court Judge Bratten Cook, II presented in his absence by Tish Summers and Megan Cook.

D.A.R.E. students in Ms. Caplinger’s Class were Cole Bain, Mireya Barrett, Will Bouldin, Abby Crook, Autumn Dies, Xavier Floyd, Peyton Key, Nicholas Maddox, Cameron Mitchell, Hudson Moss, Ethan Reynolds, Landon Roehner, Madeleine Schwenke, Isabella Tarpley, and Caleb Tipton.

D.A.R.E students in Ms. Martel’s Class were Darci Blair, Isabelle Hendrixson, Jonathan Keith, Chaylea Lunsford, Nicholes Murphy, Caitlin Shoemake, Kolby Slager, Cameron Stanley, Conner Talley, Carter Vickers, and Brennan Winfree.

May 21, 2019
By: Dwayne Page

An honors physics class at DCHS was the first to take advantage of the new Outdoor Learning Space and Garden at DCHS.

Teacher and Coach Dylan Kleparek took his class outdoors last Thursday to test solar ovens made by the students.

“Each student made a solar oven and we’re seeing where we get to making use of the sun’s energy. Today we got to 220 degrees F. That’s hot enough to boil water,” said Kleparek.

Work began Thursday on development of the new Outdoor Learning Space and Garden.

When finished the venue will serve as an outdoor collaborative work area (200′ x 250′ in size) for students in a variety of classes complete with picnic tables, raised beds for growing herbs and vegetable plants, a flower bed, bench, bird bath, storage sheds, and more. The project was made possible thanks to a $5,000 grant from the Lowe’s Toolbox for Education Foundation and the creativity of students in the agriculture program’s landscape design class who came up with the layout.

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