Dwight Common School #232

Time is ticking to earn our students more books! You can contribute through the invitation from your favorite student or make a school-wide contribution through Sunday night. Community link below: https://tinyurl.com/DwightGSCommLink Parent Link https://app.booksarefun.com/DwightGradeSchool60420/parents/sign_up Don't forget! When you register and send 10+ invitations, it helps classroom teachers earn shopping sprees for classroom supplies or books. Thanks for supporting our teachers! ​

Attention Book Blaster families! We have only a few days left! Now is the time to contribute through the invitation from your favorite student or to make a school-wide contribution: You have until Sunday night to contribute. ​ BOOK BLAST UPDATE: Thank you to everyone in our community and beyond that have contributed to our Book Blast event! Your support will help students take home as many books as possible, up to 10 each. In our quest to promote literacy and reading, every new book is like gold to be treasured! Here is our community link again for anyone that wishes to participate. https://tinyurl.com/DwightGSCommLink ​

REDBIRD DRAMA COMPANY INVITES YOU...

NEON DANCE night is in the books! Thank you to Mrs. Mary Schultz and her Redbird Student Council for organizing our spirit week and the Spring dance. Everyone had a great time! We appreciate all of the years that Mrs Schultz has led our Student Council and the students honored her on this last dance!

🎉CONGRATULATIONS to Mrs. Brooke Sulzberger for being selected as our Redbird Teacher of the Month for April! She goes above and beyond each day to make learning fun for her students and has created a classroom family. We are so very lucky to have her in our Redbird Family!

Mr. Gettinger's 3rd Graders have been studying Life Cycles. Check out this amazing Saturn Moth that hatched in his classroom!

🏆CONGRATULATIONS to our REDBIRDS! They competed today in the IVC Conference Scholastic Bowl Tournament and earned 1st Place! 🥇 IVC TOURNEY CHAMPIONS!!! We are so proud of their hard work and academic success! Great job, students and coaches!💪

Redbird Mathletes take home 4th place at the Livingston County Math Contest. Great work! 🧠🏆

🎉Congratulations to Mr. John Scott for being selected as our March Redbird Staff Member of the Month! He begins his day early, before all staff and students arrive at school, to make sure the building is ready to go. He directs morning arrival and is on-call all day to help where needed. We are lucky to have him in our Redbird Family!

'Birds Don't Bully! We kicked off our 'Birds Don't Bully campaign today with two assemblies led by BMX Champion Matt Wilhelm. Mr. Wilhelm spoke to our students about never giving up, hard work pays off, and he gave his personal story as an anti-bullying message. If you are interested in showing your anti-bullying support, you can purchase the t-shirt pictured from the link below: https://thirtyfourapparel.com/search?q=dwight+birds+dont&options%5Bprefix%5D=last More pictures soon!

Redbird Spelling Bee will this Wednesday at 9:15AM. Parents and family of participants are welcome to attend!

🎉🏆💪STATE BOUND! Dalton DeLong takes 4th place at sectionals to qualify for the state tournament next weekend at NIU in DeKalb. After receiving a first round bye, Dalton went 2-2 on the day. The day was highlighted by him pinning his opponent in what is known as the blood round to qualify for state. Addie Avilez, Hudson Clay and Kimari Nelson-Smith fell short after great seasons!

On Saturday, February 24, the Redbird Wrestling Team traveled to Pontiac for regionals. The Redbirds came home with four sectional qualifiers. Addie Avilez took 3rd place to qualify for sectionals. Kimari Nelson-Smith and Hudson Clay both made the finals and took 2nd place to secure their sectional berth. Dalton DeLong was the regional champion at 85 pounds. Asa Laser took 4th place making him a sectional alternate. These 4 wrestlers head to the East Peoria Sectional next weekend. Sectionals will be 16 man brackets, with the top 4 advancing to the IESA state tournament at NIU on March 8-9.

Congrats to our 7th Grade Volleyball Team. They placed third in the Livingston County Tournament last night.

🙌PTO Family Bingo Night was a huge success! Thank you to our PTO for organizing this event each year. Huge thanks to Mr. G for being our bingo caller. We loved spending time with our Redbird Families!

Tera Graves, the director of the Livingston Area Education for Employment Region 380 would like all of our 8th grade students and parents to consider Career Exploration. This information is to encourage students to think about careers and their educational pathway as they begin their journey into high school. Please click on the link below for more information: https://5il.co/2df92

PreSchool Screening Information for Spring 2024

Good morning, Dwight Public Schools. Due to road conditions, mostly on our rural routes, school will be CANCELLED TODAY, JANUARY 23. A decision regarding evening activities will be made later this morning. Stay safe. 

Good morning, Dwight Public Schools.   Due to freezing rain and more forecasted throughout the day, there will be NO SCHOOL today, Monday, January 22. This again will be treated as a traditional snow day. A decision regarding evening activities will be made later in the day.Stay safe and we will see you tomorrow.

Just a reminder that scholastic bowl practice starts tomorrow morning. They will meet at 7am in the library!