WELCOME TO DCIS Sherri Verble, Principal Jenny Richards, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

WELCOME 
 TO 
 DCIS

Sherri Verble, Principal Jenny Richards, Assistant Principal
 Christina Holland, Assistant Principal

Transition to DCIS

• Administrators and Counselors went to visit 4th graders at each elementary site
• 4th graders came to visit DCIS for tours, entertainment and lunch (week of April 30th)
• New Parent Orientation Night- May 1, 2018
• “Meet the Teacher/Schedule Pick-up Day” August 13th (tentative)



 6th grade- 8:30-11:00am
 5th grade- 12:30-3:00pm

• Back-to-School Night-1st or 2nd full week of school (tentative August 23rd)
• Counselors:


Crystal Wiseman-5th Grade
 Mandy Hayward-6th Grade
 Heather Flinton


• Administrators:


Sherri Verble
 Jenny Richards
 Christina Holland

GENERAL INFORMATION/SAFETY

• 2018-2019 will be our 7th school year for DCIS
• Approx. 1000 students
• Approx. 75 staff members
• 4 core teams per grade level
• Buzzer System for doors
• School SafeID system
• Photo ID required for student check-out or eating lunch
• Visitor sticker REQUIRED throughout the building
• FEMA building for tornado evacuation
• Required Safety Drills
• School Resource Officer
• School Nurse
• Watch-Dog Dad Program

DCIS 5th and 6th Grade Teams/Electives

• Each grade level has 4 teams of teachers(A, B, C and D Halls)

• Each student will rotate through 5 core teachers 


MATH
 LITERATURE
 SOCIAL STUDIES
 SCIENCE
 COMPOSITION


• Each class period is 55 minutes long

• 5th grade students rotate through specials with their 


Homeroom class: PE, Health, Music, Art, Technology, Spanish, STEM


• 6th grade students choose 4 electives for the year, one being

Presentational Technology. 6th Grade Band is all year.

Antler Time


(30 minutes daily)

• Enrichment



 Intervention
 
 Re-teaching
 
 AR Reading
 
 Interest groups

Domino Toppling

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Tabata

DCIS Start/End times

7:30am-2:30pm 
 Late Start Wednesday 8:30am-2:30pm

Lunch

• 6th Grade Boys

10:55-11:15

• 6th Grade Girls

11:20-11:40

• 5th Grade Boys

11:45-12:05

• 5th Grade Girls

12:10-12:30 ********************************************* *Parents/Grandparents are welcome to eat with their child. Please check in the

• ffice before having lunch to make sure

you are on the demographics of the

• student. You may not bring outside food

for any other child except your own.

*NOTE: Late Start Day- lunch times are different.

Bus Riders
 Arrival and Dismissal

• Students who ride the bus are

dropped off and picked up on the north side of the building.


 *When students arrive they go to the cafeteria or gym depending their team. All students are dismissed to 1st period at 7:25am. 


Doors open at 7:00am

Car Riders

• Car-riders get dropped off in the

front of the building. Our car line splits into 2 lines.

• Students need to be ready to get
• ut of the car as soon as you pull

into the parking lot….backpacks and hugs!

• We unload 10-12 cars at a time.

Students need to get out of the car when we wave them out.

• When leaving the parking lot, you

must turn RIGHT

• Our motto is “Pull Forward!”


Car Riders
 *Arrival*

Car Riders
 *Dismissal*

Car Riders

• Car-riders get picked up in the

front of the building. Our car line splits into 2 lines.

• Students are responsible for

looking for their car as we do not call car #s or have car tags.

• Duty teachers help students

watch for the cars and stop the car line to fill 10-12 cars at a time.

• When leaving the parking lot, you

must turn RIGHT

• Our motto is “Pull Forward!”


*If you choose to not go through our car line, you can park in the PAAC parking lot, but you MUST get out of your car and walk to the bridge to meet your child who will be with our teacher on duty.

Lockers-Backpacks-Totes

• All students need to either bring a backpack or a
• tote. Totes are preferred due to easy access to

supplies.


• 5th Grade students share a locker as it is used

more for a “cubby” to keep their coat and bag. 
 5th graders do NOT need a lock!


• 6th Grade students are assigned individual lockers

and DO need to bring a lock!

Before/After School Clubs


Fellowship of Christian athletes

Intramurals
 *after school*

Honor
 Chorus

Creek Council Leadership Team

*DCIS Events*

• Book Fair (Fall and Spring)
• DCIS Party in the Parking Lot w/Food Trucks @ Schedule Pick-up Day
• Charity Celebrations (Christmas and Valentine’s)
• Book Character Day-5th Grade
• Idiom Day-6th Grade
• Welcome Week—August (first full week of school)
• Red Ribbon Week-October
• Diversity Week-January
• Veteran’s Day Assembly-November
• Author visits
• Spirit Assembly

• Spirit Assembly-

• We have a Spirit Assembly 


each 9-weeks

• Students can be recognized for

character, hard work, 
 leadership, improvement and/or academics

• Each team picks a top boy and top

girl to be recognized

• Students who receive an award are

given an Elevation Gift Card

• Entertainment: high school band,

choir, show choir, DCIS band and choir, games, special guests

DCIS Field Trips

• 5th Grade-State Fair and Camp Classen
• 6th Grade-OKC Thunder Education Day
• 6th Grade Art Zoo Trip
• FCA Field Trips
• Honor Chorus
• Washington, DC trip with Mrs. Stephenson
• NYC Trip with Mrs. Gull
• 6th Grade Band Field Trip

Ways to be Involved…

• PTO Meetings


1st Wednesday of the month
 DCIS Media Center-2:45

• Library and Workroom volunteer
• Lunch/Recess Monitor
• Testing Monitor
• Apparel Sales
• Adopt-a-Teacher
• Hospitality
• Creek Classic

Fundraisers

• School-wide Gift Card Fundraiser


1st week of November

• SchoolStore.com
• Apparel Sales-PTO
• School Supplies-PTO
• Possible Monthly Restaurant Nights

• Tucker’s

• BJ’s

• Freddy’s Frozen Custard

• Chick-fil-a

• Yogurtland
• 5th Grade Camp Classen fundraiser

School Supplies

www.epipacks.com
 Enter school ID: DEE078
 *Paper copy order form and $ due May 22nd *Order online thru June 25th

*Communication*


How to stay “In the Loop”

• Facebook-Deer Creek Intermediate
• Website-www.deercreekintermediate.org
• Remind101 - text @dcisp to 81010
• “Peek of the Week” email every Friday

sherriverble@dcsok.org jennyrichards@dcsok.org

Questions????