Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

Ms. Lutz's 1st and 2nd grade English as a New Language class completed a unit on family. Throughout the unit, students learned about what makes a family, connected to the idea tha...

Holy sockamole! During our Socktober House Challenge at MED, the school collected a whopping 2,098 pairs of socks for people in local shelters! Socks are the most needed but leas...

Last Friday was MED's first HOUSE surprise fun day. Students got in HOUSE and enjoyed games in cafeteria, a dance party in the the gym, recess on the playground, and outdoor game...

November is here and the PTA has redecorated the MED vestibule to honor our veterans!

October 30 was MED's first Effective School Assembly of the school year, during which celebrated our students and their collective achievement in class. October's theme was "Resp...

A family favorite! Here are a few photos from MED's Halloween Parade!

Last week, Mr. Botsford’s Language Concepts K-2 class kicked off Halloween with pumpkin carving. The children scooped out the seeds and pulp and designed faces for their pumpkins....

In art class, third graders studied the compositions of historic artist Piet Mondrian and his series of tree paintings. They used found objects and leaves throughout the room to t...

In 5th grade science classes with Mrs. Reichardt, students are learning how animals get what they need to learn and grow. Each class set up an experiment using mealworms, so that ...

In art class at MED, 2nd grade studied multicultural masks from all over the world! Mr. Roth and the students looked at what masks are made of, what they're inspired by, and then...

In Miss Mason’s kindergarten class, they had a foodie Friday and made monsters! The students got to make their own monstrous rice crispy treats and enjoy them!

On the morning of October 23, four members of our transportation department volunteered to teach bus safety to our youngest students at MED. Bus mechanic/substitute driver Wall...

The Rotary Club of Northern Columbia County visited MED October 23 to give every student in third grade their very own dictionary. This is part of a long-standing Rotary program t...

COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT SPONSORED BY THE CHATHAM AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY REMEMBER OUR SOLDIERS! M.E.D. will participate in collecting items needed below. The items will he...

After learning all about the human body in their core knowledge language arts unit, students participated in Doctor Day to show off what they learned. Nutrition facts, math skills...

Our second grade classrooms ended their core knowledge language arts unit "Early Asian Civilizations" with different celebrations! Students in Mrs. Van Wie's class made paper, whi...

Fifth graders in Mrs. Reichardt's science classes recently investigated whether plants take in carbon dioxide to live and grow. In this experiment, they used bromothymol blue sol...

October 16 was Unity Day. Students and staff wore orange to show their support for an inclusive school environment and an end to bullying.

In physical education, MED students worked with the parachute! Here are some of our kindergarteners making a tent with the parachute together!

MED student Davianna Clarke is the winner of a $15 gift certificate to The Chatham Bookstore. She had the closest guest as to how many teddy bears were in a jar at MED's open hou...