Diamond Creek School Blog

Updates from our week at Diamond Creek  It was another busy week of learning at Diamond Creek. Our 5th Grade students had the opportunity to dissect sheep hearts on Thursday. This is always an amazing learning experience for our 5th grade students and even encourages some of them with future professions! We are thankful for amazing doctors and parent volunteers who help make this learning experience so meaningful for our students. On Friday, our 2nd grade students worked very hard to welcome our Grandparents to Diamond Creek and help them feel extra special!  I have to bring kleenex with me as I'm walking through the 2nd grade classrooms listening to all of our Grandparents share special memories and thoughts of their grandchildren.  Thank you to our 2nd grade teachers for all of their hard work helping this day be extra special for everyone! We also had two of our 1st grade classrooms perform their Spring Sing performance for families on Thursday and our other two c...

Updates from our week at Diamond Creek  WOW! Our students have worked hard this year! I truly enjoyed walking through all of the classrooms at Open House last night viewing some of their work.  Thank you to our teachers for all of their hard work with our students and thank you to all of our families for walking through last night. Our students were very excited to show you their masterpieces! We still have 13 days to go and we will continue to work hard, but also celebrate all of the learning our students have accomplished this school year.  Our 2nd grade students are gearing up for Grandparents Day coming up this Friday and our 1st grade students have been working hard on their Spring Sing songs.  We look forward to these events as well. On Friday, our choir students performed for all of the 1st through 5th grade students. This choir is truly amazing! We wanted our students to have the chance to listen to this award winning choir.  Another huge thank you ...

Updates from our week at Diamond Creek  A HUGE THANK YOU to all of our teachers and staff that make Diamond Creek such an amazing learning environment for our students.  Our teachers truly put their heart and soul into what they do each day to make sure learning is meaningful and engaging for our students.  Thank you to our PTC for a lovely luncheon on Monday honoring our teachers and THANK YOU to all of our families for your kind gifts and treats this week. I know our staff felt very LOVED and APPRECIATED. Thank you for all of your support. Our 4th grade students headed out on their Coloma field trip on Friday! They were eagerly awaiting to get on the bus and we will look forward to hearing more about their trip on Monday.  Make sure to SAVE THE DATE for our Open House coming up this Thursday, May 17th from 6:00-7:30 PM.  Our students have been hard at work all year and are eagerly awaiting to show you some of their masterpieces.  We will have an earl...

Updates from our week at Diamond Creek  A HUGE Congratulations to our Diamond Creek choir who took home TWO 1st Place trophies last Saturday at their Choir Festival.  Thank you to Mrs. Dahl for all the extra work she put into preparing our students for this special day.  Congratulations to all of our students for their commitment to early morning rehearsals and hard work. A special shout out to all of our 3rd through 5th grade students who have been working so hard on their CAASPP testing. Our students are working very hard and truly putting in their best effort.  Thank you for making sure they are well fed in the morning and have had a good rest the night before. Finally, our 2nd grade students were hard at work this week presenting their Biography reports.  It was fun to see them dressed as their important person and delivering some great speeches to their families and classmates. Congratulations to our Choir for two 1st Place Trophies! Lost ...

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...