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5th Grade Blog

Candidates John McCain and Barack Obama
made a visit to Dabbs.
View the video!

Dragon Morning News
2007_2008

Dragon Morning News Team
and Characters 2006-2007

Channel 13 visits Dragon Morning News
See more on the
Dragon Morning News
2005-2006

Popcorn on Sale
Students are able to purchase a bag of popcorn for $1.00 each in the computer lab. Flavors are white cheddar and salsa and cheddar. The money raised is used to purchase equipment for the school such as cartridges, headphones, printers, cameras or items needed for the Dragon Morning News and computer lab.

Students are constantly trying to improve their keyboarding skills . At Dabbs, we use a program called Ultra Key that measures words per minute and percent accuracy. Using this method, we keep a "Top 10" list of the best keyboarders in school called the "Keyboard Kids".

Camp Dabbs News Crew 2008-09

"The Blondes"

PODCASTS

Students have been making PODCASTS. So far we have Spanish podcasts and lots of Science Dailies. Students will listen to the podcasts on ipods, courtesy of Best Buy. You can listen to the podcasts below.

Spanish Podcast 1
Spanish Podcast 2

Science Daily 1-4
Science Daily 5-7
Science Daily 8-9
Science Daily 10-15
Science Daily 16-20
Science Daily 21-24
Science Daily 25-27

Technology Contests

Students have the opportunity to enter the TCEA state technology contest in February each year.

In 2008, we had two students win at the
state technology contest. Colton L. in 5th
grade won 3rd place in MultiMedia. Dominic
M. in 4th grade won 3rd place in Digital
Graphics.

Shay G. won 1st Place in State Technology
Contest for Digital Graphics
in 2007!
.
Daniel S. won 2nd in state for Digital graphics
in 2006! Way to go Daniel.