Fifth grade Dillsboro Elementary School students in Mrs. Peterson’s class enjoyed an exciting hands-on learning experience while reading "Bridge to Sharktooth Island!" This engaging book, centered around teamwork and problem-solving, inspired students to dive into the world of engineering and bridge-building.
Students learned how triangles add strength to structures and explored the design of truss bridges. After sketching their models, they constructed bridges using gumdrops and toothpicks to test their strength in a mass-holding contest.
The winning bridge held an impressive 305 grams of mass—built by Lucas, Laney, Thor, Braxton, and Zoey! Amazing work by everyone in the class for their creativity and engineering skills!

Dillsboro Elementary School students in Mr. Ridlen's fourth grade class reviewed the relationship and differences between fractions (rational numbers), whole numbers, and integers on a number line. This lesson became hands-on as students manipulated the pieces of their number line to solve problems and explore these relationships concretely.

Asher Donald and Lucy Witteride were crowned prince and princess at the Hometown Christmas! Congratulations, Asher and Lucy!

The Dillsboro Elementary Cheer Team took home the award for "Best Cheer" at the second annual Holiday Showdown held at South Dearborn High School. 📣 Harper Rothert and Laney Weatherford were our "Star Athletes." Way to represent Dillsboro, cheerleaders! Go Bulldogs!!! 🎉

It was all fun and feathers for the kindergarten classes with Mrs. Oles in the media center at Dillsboro Elementary School! Students played “Pin the Feather on the Turkey” as part of their Thanksgiving celebration last week, practicing coordination and teamwork as they each took turns pinning the next feather on the turkey while having a blast! 🪶