Book Fair

Our recent Book Fair was very successful with total sales of over $4800! When we roll over the majority of our profit into Scholastic dollars, Scholastic doubles our available purchasing monies. We are using those dollars to buy several series of books. Thank you so much for participating in both the in-school AND online fair!

Research Center

Research Center. That is the new name of the area formerly known as the Media Center. The center has been redesigned to include several "schools". The School of Liberal Arts includes the classroom area, multi-user SmartBoard, and set of 25 laptop computers. The school of History, Civics, and Geography includes materials about these topics as well as our school's voting booths. The School of Literature is our Reading Well and surrounding book shelves and magazine area. The School of Biological Sciences includes reading materials, microscopes, specimen cases, and DNA models. The North Carolina University area is very hands-on with state symbols, old timey games, and NC geography maps and rock specimens. The School of Meteorology includes our Weather Bug station that shares Dana weather information with our global community! All of these areas combine to provide Dana students with the means of digging deep into their research topics!

Graphic Novels

New Collection!  We have a new reading collection at Dana! We have started building a graphic novel collection.  Graphic novels are set up in comic book style.  The books may be fiction, like the Bad Kitty series, or may be nonfiction.  Some of our nonfiction titles are Bigfoot, World War II, and a series of mysteries that are answered by using geometry.  These books are always checked out, but we will be receiving our order of 30+ very soon.

Media 9/2012

Our Media Center is used for more than checking out informational and "just right" books.

A fun part of learning about technology is exploring the history and using some older technologies.  Here the 2nd grade is creating their own filmstrips with lamination strips.  The selection of books are the NC Picture Book Award Nominees.

Fourth grade is working on March Madness. After selecting a team to follow through the tournament, the students send congratulations emails, research their college and team, and create powerpoints to share their information. After converting the heights of the players to inches, they create spreadsheets with inset charts. Finally, they plot the players' hometowns and explore with Google Earth.

Third grade is working on their Iditarod unit.  They track a musher, explore Alaskan topics, compare Alaska to North Carolina, and using Publisher, they send a postcard from the trail to their teacher.

Checking the steps again.

5th Grade - Our 5th graders are finishing up their last Big6 research projects by choosing a topic they always wondered about.  Here they are in the Media Center gathering information and taking notes, both from books and Internet databases.

Technology Exploration

Just relaxing in the Media Center.