Delwood CSD

Our building will be closed through Wednesday, August 10th due to work on our flooring project. If you need anything during this time, please email Mr. Marshall at mmarshall@delwood.k12.ia.us or Melinda Hackman at mhackman@delwood.k12.ia.us. Thank you!

Mrs. Flanigan caught these students showing good behavior during the month of May!

Fifth grade students were presented with a roller coaster challenge this week. Working as a team, the goal was to design the longest roller coaster. The time for the winning team's track was 51 seconds!

There will be some new books on the shelves of our library for students to check out next year. The books were generously donated in memory of Ilah Portz. Ilah's mom, Val, is our school nurse. Val selected the books and this week, some of our students who knew Ilah helped Mrs. Proesch put some special stickers on the inside covers of the books. Thank you Portz family for the donation!

Our second grade class has been enjoying some themed days as we wrap up the school year. Monday was Camping Day! Students had their own tents, a special snack and spent some time reading by flashlight.

Our kindergarten, first grade and second grade students took a field trip to the Maquoketa Library yesterday to learn about their summer reading program. They also had a picnic lunch and enjoyed playing at Little Bear Park.

Mrs. Kieffer's third grade students have practiced finding evidence to answer questions all year long. Now students are writing their own questions that can be answered with evidence from the text and teaching the class how to answer the questions.

Mrs. Flanigan caught these students showing good character in the month of April!

Here are the musicians that played at Fine Arts Night last week. They did a great job!

Last Thursday was Fine Arts Night! Students displayed artwork and played music in small groups throughout the school. Here is some of the artwork that was on display.

Some of our preschool students even helped with the cleanup for Keep Iowa Beautiful month. They did a great job cleaning up the park!

April is Keep Iowa Beautiful month. Our students spent some time earlier this week cleaning up around Delmar. Each class was assigned an area of town and spent about an hour picking up sticks, trash, etc.

Fourth grade students spent some time last week learning about electricity by building circuits. They had fun learning through this hands-on project!

We want to thank Melinda Hackman for everything she does to help Delwood staff and students everyday! She keeps things running smoothly everyday and willing to help out with anything. Happy Administrative Professionals Day!

Our fourth grade students will be working on a research project about a rainforest animal of their choosing. Part of the project will be creating a paper mache model of the animal. If you have any small cardboard boxes, toilet paper rolls and/or paper towel rolls that you would be willing to donate for students to use, please feel free to send them to school with your student or drop them off in the office (feel free to send donations even if you do not have a student in fourth grade). Thanks in advance for your help!

Some additional pictures of first grade's egg drop experiment last week. A special thanks to Ann Burns, who was subbing in first grade, for helping our students with this fun project and taking pictures.

Last week our first grade students were tasked with building an enclosure to keep an egg from breaking when dropped. The students did a great job designing and building their enclosures using a variety of materials, and we are happy to report that the majority of the eggs survived the drop!

Preschool students also enjoyed hunting for eggs last week!

Our preschool students enjoyed coloring eggs last week!

Some of our third and fourth grade students competed in Battle of the Books last week. These students read multiple chapter books and then traveled to the AEA to compete against other local schools. Delwood sent one third grade team and three fourth grade teams. Our third grade team placed second, and our fourth grade teams placed second, third and seventh. Great job!