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Desert Meadows will be adding a preschool for the 2018-19 school year. Registration for this program begins February 6, 2018.

The tuition-based program will be run by certified teachers and will have the same operating hours as our school, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Preschool will be open to children that are four and five years old. Three-year-olds may be accepted depending on available space. Children must be potty-trained prior to enrolling.

Please visit the district Preschool page for more details.

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Desert Meadows celebrated Computer Science Education Week by participating in Hour of Code. Students from kindergarten through eighth grade learned about careers in computer science and had the opportunity to code their own app, game or website. We encourage parents to join the Hour of Code movement by going to Code.org.

Desert Meadows invited several veterans to the campus in honor of Veterans Day. After being treated to breakfast in the library, the current and former service members visited classrooms to discuss their military experiences. One of the special guests was a Korean War vet and great-grandfather to a Meadows student.

Desert Meadows first graders are studying the works of American artist Georgia O’Keefe who is known for her paintings of flowers and landscapes of the Southwest. Students made large pictures of flowers with petals that went off the page.The flowers were then traced with oil pastels and painted with watercolor paint.

Over 50 female students from Desert Meadows School attended Intel’s TEC (Technology Engineering Computer Science) is for Girls event held at Phoenix College. TEC is for Girls is part of Intel’s She Will Connect initiative that brings middle school girls to a community college campus to explore technology, engineering, and computer science.

This event gave the girls an opportunity to engage in hands-on science activities, under the guidance of Phoenix College staff, to explore their interest in pursuing a TEC studies in high school and a career in the STEM field.

View photos from this event on our flickr page.

The T.R.A.C.K. acronym is something we are using to communicate with our students in and out of the classroom to support our behavioral/social expectations. We want to encourage parents to utilize the same wording at home to reinforce the skills of: Trustworthy, Respectful, Accountable, Collaborative & Kind.

To celebrate our T.R.A.C.K. stars, we are passing out “Bobcat Bucks” that students can redeem at the Bobcat Buck store every other Friday. This approach is already paying some dividends because of our teachers efforts to recognize students. So far this year, we have recognized over 300 students with positive postcards or positive referrals!