Diamond Creek School Blog

Updates from our week at Diamond Creek  A congratulations this week to all of our 4th grade students and their performance in their Gold Rush Play.  They were able to perform for our students and our parents this week.  Lots of hard work rehearsin lines and songs. Way to go 4th grade students! Our 1st grade students have been learning about life cycles and have been observing this up close and personal with some real live insects and chicks.  This week one of our first grade classrooms released their butterflies that they had observed move through the life cycle.  We also had several chicks hatch out of their eggs this week in a few classrooms! Our new furry friends have been an exciting addition to the classroom! BINGO NIGHT - THANK YOU! Thank you to all of our parents and families who came out for our Spring Fundraiser BINGO Night. We appreciate all of your support! At our PTC Meeting on Tuesday, May 1st we will discuss our fundraiser and also be reviewi...

Updates from our week at Diamond Creek  This week we kicked off another Breakfast & Books Club for our 4th and 5th grade students. We are reading Crenshaw together and enjoying some breakfast and good conversation.  Many students are celebrating their reading goals and 40 book challenges around the building as they are surpassing their beginning of year reading goals!  Hats off to all of our AMAZING READERS!! Our 5th grade students are learning how to Bucket Drum during their music time and hopefully will have some time to perform for some of our students. I was able to listen on Friday and it was so fun to watch! They've got some great moves and music started! BINGO NIGHT - TOMORROW!! Thank you to all of our families who have purchased BINGO tickets for our Spring Fundraiser tomorrow night at Elks Lodge.  A huge thank you to all of our families who have also bought some items on our Silent Auction or donated items to be sold.  We appreciate all of yo...

Updates from our week at Diamond Creek  This week we had an exciting author visit at Diamond Creek.  Kate David, author of McKay and the Magical Hat and Murphy and the Magical Hat visited all of our students.  Kate is a local author who lives in the Sacramento area. She did an assembly with our K-2 students and also our 3-5 students. Both assemblies inspired the young writers we have at Diamond Creek! Students were able to see the work that Kate put into her writing through many revisions to finally have a finished, published book.  Many of our students brought home some of Kate's published books! We hope you enjoy reading these at home. Our 3rd through 5th grade students have been completing practice CAASPP tests over the last few weeks as we gear up for our testing weeks ahead.  Our students will begin testing this week.  Each teacher has a testing schedule which they will share with you so that you know which days your child will specifically be tes...

Updates from our week at Diamond Creek  Welcome back Diamond Creek families! We hope you had a wonderful Spring Break! Our students were back and hard at work this week! As I mentioned last week, it has been fun to observe our students setting individual goals for themselves as we are learning in Habit #2 to plan ahead and set goals.  Our upper grade students had goals they had set for themselves on their most recent iReady diagnostic and are working to set some upcoming goals for their CAASPP testing.  Students in Grades 3-5 will begin CAASPP testing the week of April 16th and testing goes through May 25th.  More detailed information is listed below. Sunday. April 8th is the last day of our Online Auction hosted by our PTC.  Click on the link below to see all of the amazing items up for bid! There are so many great activities with our teachers and even a few opportunities with me! Online Auction LINK Tickets for our Spring Fundraiser BINGO Night on Sat...