First Day of School!

 The first day of school for Dry Creek was fantastic!  Look at all of these excited students---ready to meet their teacher and class.

 Waiting until it's time to go inside

 The first class of Dry Creek Elementary students!

 Track 2 kids coming to school!

 Learning how to line up!

 Our first assembly at Dry Creek!  

Mr. Rencher talked about being OWLS--Outstanding Wise Learners for Life.   

 Students got to see a real owl from Hogle Zoo!  They learned a little bit about owl behavior, habitat, and how we can protect and take care of owls.

 Mr. Rencher talking to a reporter from the Daily Herald who came to cover our First Day of School Assembly.

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 Mrs. LaHargoue, our secretary, and the owl.

 Mrs. Nicholes, our librarian, and the owl.

 First day of lunch at Dry Creek.

 Time to go home!

After school celebration for the faculty!

Race to the Finish!

 Monday was the race to the finish!  Classrooms were getting their finishing touches, landscaping was worked on, boxes were being hauled away, construction tools were being piled up and taken out the building, cleaning was happening around the clock, and lots of other things!  

 Wood chips in the playground

 Kindergarten playground getting woodchips

 Faculty room with furniture

 Sound speakers being installed in the gym

 And lots of classrooms looking like classrooms!

Library with couches and tables

Back to School Night

Please join us for 

Back to School Night

at Dry Creek Elementary

Monday, August 18th  5-7 p.m.

School starts Tuesday, August 19th for 1st-6th

8:00 a.m. Track 1

9:15 a.m. Track 2

Kindergarten starts Tuesday, August 26th

9:15-12:00 AM Kindergarten

12:35-3:30 PM Kindergarten

Picture Update

This week has been so exciting!  The school is really taking shape and we are excited for the kids and parents to come on Monday for Back to School Night and see this beautiful building.  There has been A LOT going on!  Deliveries, finishing construction touches, cleaning, teachers setting up, furniture building, landscaping, and much much more!

 Deliveries started arriving on Monday morning this week.

 The first of MANY, MANY, MANY boxes!

 Books!

 So many trucks.

 Kindergarten Classroom

 Library

 Our gym has been so full this week!

 Crews have been working to finish the sidewalk on 1100 West so that kids can walk to school.

 Did I mention that we've seen a lot of boxes this week?

 Teachers started unloading and bringing in their stuff on Wednesday.

 A few teachers got together and rented a U-haul to get everything to school.

 The first of 3 semi-trucks of furniture.

 The grass was finished during the middle of the week.

 Trucks, trucks, and more trucks!

 Furniture being hauled into the building.

 Prep work for the kindergarten grass.

 Library table tops

 Our amazing district administrators came to help haul boxes, stamp books, put together furniture, and put away supplies.  A big thanks to them for helping us get on our feet!

 Tables in the library

 So much cardboard!

 More help from our district administration!

Superintendent Henshaw hauling paper to the copy room.

 Work on the landscaping in the front of the building

More district administration help.

 Lots of work going on in teacher's classrooms to get things ready for the kids!

 PE equipment being unboxed and put away.

 We also had several schools who came and volunteered their time to help us get things ready to go.  Thanks to Mountain Trails Elementary, Fox Hollow Elementary and Freedom Elementary!  Thank you also to the many Dry Creek parent volunteers who came this week!  An army of people worked on stamping all of the new books in the school.

Did I mention that we've seen a lot of cardboard this week?!