Burchard A. Dunn School

It is hard to believe that we have come to the end of the year!    This will be our last Dunn Deal of the year, so we want to wish everyone a wonderful summer.  Best wishes to our fourth grade and Pre-K students and families as they move on to different schools.  We look forward to welcoming our 3rd grade students back as 4th graders next fall.  In the meantime, have a great summer!

4th Grade Celebration:  A Reminder that on June 9th we will be celebrating our 4th grade students’ time at Dunn School and recognizing their transition to the middle school.   The celebrations will be at the bridge on the Pineland campus.  Below is the assigned time for each team.  It is recommended that parents arrive at the bridge roughly 10 minutes before their teams assigned time.  We hope you can take a few minutes to celebrate our 4th grade students with us.  For those who are unable, we will be taking pictures and can provide you with photos of your child and their class upon request.

4th Grade Celebration – June 9th

9:30     Granholm/Marzilli

10:00   Keepes/Pace

10:30   Raymond/Audette

11:00   Gamage/Skilling/Robash

June 10th Budget Referendum:  Tuesday, June 10th is the district budget referendum.  We STRONGLY encourage all registered voters to participate in this process.

Ms. Lindsay’s School Counseling Corner: End-Of-School-Year Recap!

As we close-out the end of another school year, it has been such a pleasure to get to know all of our Dunn students!  All Pre-Kindergarten, 3rd & 4th graders participated in our comprehensive school counseling program’s in-class social-emotional learning (SEL) lessons. In Pre-K,  SEL classroom lessons covered the topics of: Feelings Identification, Self Regulation strategies such as taking “pizza breaths”, self hugs, counting, talking-it-out and rocking while humming. Pre-K students also learned about Kindness & How to Be A Kind Friend! School counselors Kat Wigmore and Michelle Gilbert, from Russell and Memorial Schools, visited with all of our Pre-K students last week to introduce themselves, read a fun story and help them get familiar with what they can expect from weekly SEL lessons in kindergarten!

In grades 3 & 4, SEL classroom lessons covered the topics of:  Meet Your School Counselor / What Do you Need This Year?, Coping Skills, Gratitude, Conflict Resolution, Personal Safety and listening to the clues that our bodies give us in situations where we feel unsafe or uncomfortable; The Great Kindness Challenge, Perspective Taking & Empathy, and Internet Safety. Many students participated in small groups where we practiced social skills and made friendship connections. I also facilitated restorative conversations between students throughout the year to solve problems, practice using I-messages and to figure out how to move forward after disagreements with friends and peers. 

This past Fall,  3rd and 4th graders participated in day-long outdoor team-building activities at Dunn, taught by staff from U-Maine at Bryant Pond, and this week, all 4th graders got to attend an all-day trip up to U-Maine at Bryant Pond’s Lakeside Classroom for outdoor education. They have been very special trips filled with group hikes, canoeing, low ropes course, and learning about Maine wildlife and survival skills! Throughout the school year, all 3rd and 4th graders also participated in “Kindness Lunches” in our cafeteria where we had music, dancing, students could sit wherever they wanted,, and we celebrated those who have been Caught Being Kind through prize bag raffles. These lunches were a fun way to promote a positive and kind environment for all students!

Dunn students have also been busy with transition activities! Last week, we hosted incoming 2nd graders from Russell and Memorial Schools to help them get acquainted with staff and students to ease their transition to Dunn School in the fall. We also hosted GNGMS school counselors and students from their leadership groups to give presentations to our 4th graders about life at the middle school. This week, our 4th graders attended step-up visits to GNGMS where they got to meet with their assigned advisory teacher and meet other students in their advisory groups, as well as tour the school. Although busy, we hope all of our Dunn students have found it helpful to understand what their school transitions will look and feel like in the Fall. 

I will greatly miss our outgoing 4th graders, and I hope that you all rock your upcoming middle school adventures! I’m sending “air hugs” to our outgoing Pre-K’ers and wish them all the best adventures in kindergarten next year!  I look forward to meeting incoming 3rd graders from Russell and Memorial Schools and catching-up with our rising 4th graders this Fall. I hope that you all have happy, healthy and fun summer vacations. 🙂 Best,  Lindsay Friberg, Dunn School Counselor, lfriberg@sad15.org

From the PE Dept

Next year recess will feature box hockey, or Schlockey as it is known in Ontario, Canada. The game is one on one hockey for all to play and enjoy.  Dunn Elementary school is looking for donations of retired hockey stick shafts (wood preferred).  If you have any in the corners of your garage gathering dust please consider donating it.  We are also looking for 2×6 lumber and 4×8 or 4×4 sheets of plywood.  The wood does not need to be perfect or square.  If you want to know what it looks like to play – Watch Montreal Canadians Play Box Hockey. All the best and have a great summer.  Mr. Kramer

From the Library

Notice from the library:  I hope all students have many great adventures this summer, some of which can be enjoyed by reading a book!!!  Reminder:  ALL library books are due!  Please help your child find and return them.  If a book is lost or destroyed, payment is expected to replace the book.  Books not taken care of this year will carry over to next year, and may affect your students ability to sign out books.

From the Health Office

If your student has medication in our Health Office, please stop by on Wednesday 6/11 or Thursday 6/12 to pick it up.  We cannot send medication home with students.  Please contact our nurse if you have any questions:  tgilley-pratt@sad15.org or 207-657-5050.

From the Office

Please remind your student to check our Lost & Found for any missing items – we have a huge number of jackets, sweatshirts, water bottles, etc.  Any items remaining after the end of the year will be donated.

Dates to Remember 

June 9 4th grade celebration – see Mr Robbins’ schedule above

June 11 Anticipated last day of school, grades 3 & 4 – early dismissal at 12:00 PM

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