{"id":109859,"date":"2015-09-02T19:40:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T01:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/school-news-new-teachers-check-in-after-first-week\/"},"modified":"2015-09-02T19:40:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T01:40:28","slug":"school-news-new-teachers-check-in-after-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/school-news-new-teachers-check-in-after-first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"School news: New teachers check in after first week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThank you to the community of Dolores, and Mancos, for making this feel like home- even though we are 1600 miles from our families. This truly is a great place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Hill: \u201cThe first week was exhausting but fantastic. The students were eager to be back in school. They were exhausted as well by the end of the week. Thank goodness for four days for the first few weeks of school. The students are among the best ever. They are well prepared and settling into routines nicely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Angela Lowe: \u201cFirst of all, let me just say how awesome it is that the local newspaper is such an advocate for the local school district!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first impressions of Dolores schools\u2026. I can not believe the incredible learning opportunities happening at this school! The staff is amazing \u2013 truly dedicated and innovative!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe garden program is phenomenal \u2013 aquaponics, classroom compost buckets, worm bins. Dolores is creating future botanists, biologists, ecologists, environmentalists, and scientists!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe art program at every level should be totally celebrated \u2013  it just doesn\u2019t happen in many districts. The community support is felt throughout the campus and integral to the success of this school district, no doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Josie Snow: \u201cMy fifth-grade class went well. The students seem eager and ready to learn. They especially like combining learning and laughter. The new campus is very welcoming, with smiles found everywhere. I am happy to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dawn Asbjorn: \u201cMy fifth-grade class loves to learn new things. When we started discussing ecosystems everyone wanted to talk about various animals, where they live and why they live there. We also discussed, and visited, three man-made ecosystems at our school! We had the worm bin visit the classroom. Students observed the worms\u2019 surroundings and measured worms. they noticed some were smaller and we determined that was good, because that meant there were baby worms. We also visited our aqua-ponics installation inside and the sixth grade garden outside. Outside in the garden, flowers, bees, a praying mantis, and a snake were some of that ecosystem\u2019s individuals that we observed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThank you to the community of Dolores, and Mancos, for making this feel like home- even though we are 1600 miles from our families. This truly is a great place.\u201d Amanda Hill: \u201cThe first week was exhausting but fantastic. The students were eager to be back in school. They were exhausted as well by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6355],"tags":[44,277,38,276,103,188],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-109859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds-education","tag-dolores","tag-dolores-elementary-school","tag-dolores-high-school","tag-dolores-middle-school","tag-dolores-schools-re-4a","tag-dolores-star"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109859"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=109859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}