
4th Grade Learns About Veterans Day
The 4th-grade students spent several days learning about Veterans Day. The 4th graders loved Zoom chatting with a Veteran in California, as they were excited to have all of their questions answered. To wrap up the . . .

Lunch with the Principal
Two Diller-Odell students had the privilege of eating lunch with Mr. Mezger. These students earned this reward by working hard and meeting school and classroom expectations for the 1st quarter. Students enjoyed catered lunch . . .

Portraits, Flowers and Fish...OH MY!
Portraits, Flowers, and Fish...OH MY! The Fifth grade learned about contemporary Canadian visual artist, poet, and creator of the Silbersenze method, Sandra Silberzweig. They created self portraits using the . . .

Thank you for the pumpkins, Stohs Family!
The first grade would like to thank Adam and Stacey Stohs for donating pumpkins to their classroom. They had a lot of fun decorating and painting them. Some of the students taped their letters on their pumpkins and painted around them. . . .

Fire Safety Week
The Diller Volunteer Fire and Rescue came to visit the Diller-Odell Elementary school, during fire safety week. The two firefighters from the department visited with the students all about fire safety. They . . .

Preschool to Beatrice Fire Station
The Diller-Odell Preschool has been learning all about Fire Safety the last couple weeks. The preschool even got the opportunity to tour the Beatrice Fire Station. It was full of learning opportunities. A few Preschool . . .

Learning Math Facts
The 2nd-grade class uses many different strategies to learn our addition and subtraction math facts. We use technology, math learning wraps, and flashcards. We also use games, such as partners with playing cards, knock out, and around the . . .
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5th Grade Native American Homes
This 5th grade American history class built Native Americans homes for a project. Their assignment is to choose one of the Native American homes and portray the knowledge of how they built their homes and build one as similar as possible . . .
Hello From Mr. Denner's Title I Class
The school year is off to a wonderful start. It’s great to be here at school with the students that we have at Diller-Odell. I’m pleased to see the improvement continue for the students in Title I Reading and/or . . .

Fourth Grade Learns about Waves
The 4th graders have been busy learning about waves in science class. The students experimented with skewers, push pins, and records. Can you hear sound without ears? That was the question the class was challenged to . . .
Blending with Pumpkins
Students have been working on beginning L blends with short I and short a words with pumpkins in Mrs. Hennerberg's room. They worked on reading them with their tracking lights while enjoying some fall fun!

1st Grade Goals
First-grade students worked on setting goals last week. They were arranged into a large circle where they had to work as a class to complete a goal. The focus of the lesson was the goal-setting process and the benefits of using . . .

3rd Graders Work as a Team
As third graders, we have found that the work is more fun to accomplish as a “team.” We spend as much time doing partner work and sharing our ideas as we do individually working in the classroom. We love to move our bodies and . . .

Welcome Back!!
Hello to all our Griffin Families! It is wonderful to finally be back together with the students and staff! It is always exciting to see the new faces, the familiar faces, and the exciting changes that took . . .