Denning Elementary School

🌟Let's give it up for our April Academic Superstars and Habit Hero's. 🌟They all have worked so hard to earn this award. Straight A's all year, working hard all year, exceeding their goals on math facts. 🌟Habit 7 is Sharpening the saw. They took time and focused on their daily tasks and learning.

Curbside Coffee
Come join us 7:30-8:15

Let's celebrate Bentley! 🌟Bentley has worked so hard all year on his addition facts. He has now mastered double digit math facts. 🌟What a big accomplishment for him. We are so proud of you. Way to work hard. Here at Denning we Love, Learn, Lead

2nd Grade Leads DES Announcements 📢 📢📢 Our 2nd graders are taking over school-wide morning announcements on Fridays! I'm beyond proud of these students for finding and using their voice.

A celebration post from the Denning Elementary 2nd grade Reading Room!

The reading room students have worked incredibly hard this year! I wanted to share a few sets of numbers on their success. I am so proud of all 27 of these current 2nd grade students!

Pre- Intervention: Passage Reading Fluency Fall WCPM Avg: 20
Current with Intervention: Passage Reading Fluency Spring WCPM Avg: 59
39 Word increase on Average

Pre- Intervention: Word Reading Fluency Fall WCPM Avg: 15
Current with Intervention: Word Reading Fluency Spring WCPM Avg: 46
31 Word increase on Average

Top 5 WCPM Increases For ORF:

Ryleigh +60 words (highest fluency overall at 96.5 wcpm), Charlie R +59 words, Ryker +57 words, Allahnasia +54 words, Samantha +53 words

Top 5 WCPM Increases For WRF:

Charlie R +48 Words, Evalyn +44 Words, Samantha +42 Words, Zayden +58 Words (Highest Overall at 72 wcpm), Ryker +38 Words

Ms. Ellington was our March "Big Check" winner. She was able to use her check at Redbirmart. She received the check for having perfect attendance all month. Way to go Ellie.

Reminder: April 22nd & 23rd is Denning Dental Safari

All Kindergartens and 2nd Graders are required to have a dental exam.
If you have not registered there is still time.

Here is the website to register online.
dentalsafaricompany.com

Our new DES "Glow Getter"!
Mrs. Woolard

Join us for McTeacher night

Join us for Fun Fridays in May

The 2026-2027 School Calendar for Frankfort CUSD #168 has been released and is posted to all school websites. It is linked with a button on each homepage. You may also click this link (https://aptg.co/DN3njd) or look at the picture attached here (https://aptg.co/KqfL-q).

Thank you Michelle from the West Frankfort Library for sharing with us all about our incredible library. She informed us about the many resources the library has to offer and all of the fun in store this summer for students and families. We also created a book mark to take home. Thank you again! 📚❤️📚

Denning Literacy Event April 22nd 1:00-2:00

DES

April 13th-April 24th
1st Grade Fundraiser

Denning School is on the hunt for a few items. We are needing some items to add to our closet. Boys shorts and pants size 5t-10 Girls shorts size 5t-10 Let us know what you have. Thank you all!

The Scholastic Book Fair is coming!
SAVE THE DATE for 4/20-4/24 and get your reader psyched to pick out their own books!
Start exploring together: https://www.scholastic.com/bf/denningelementaryschool #ScholasticBookFairs

Parent Shopping Date- 4/22 12:30-2:00 Denning Elementary School

📸 April 8th is the deadline to order your yearbook online. Get your yearbooks while you can.

📣Come out and see your Denning staff as we serve up some cheeseburgers. What a way to show your support. Seeing your teacher and having supper.

We had a special guest show up at Denning this morning. We started our day with lots of smiles, fun and over 1,000 eggs. Special thanks to our Denning parent group Mrs. Brenda Joplin.