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DeGolyer Plants the Seeds to Learning

On Saturday March 31, DeGolyer Elementary hosted students, faculty, staff, parents, family and neighbors at the Discovery Garden ribbon cutting ceremony. Hundreds attended the ceremony and accompanying carnival at the school to learn about the themes and design elements of the innovative … Continue reading

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DeGolyer Discovery Carnival

Join us for the 2012 DeGolyer Discovery Carnival on March 31st from 2pm-5pm! This is an event you don’t want to miss! We will be dedicating our new discovery garden to the retired teachers!! There will be lots of rides, … Continue reading

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DeGolyer Elementary Unveils Innovative Discovery Garden

(DALLAS, TX) March 16, 2012 – E.L. DeGolyer Elementary (DeGolyer) announced today its plans to unveil the Discovery Garden, an innovative gardenscape for its students and community to enjoy.  The Discovery Garden will formally launch at the school’s annual carnival … Continue reading

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Final Stretch

This Friday at DeGolyer we celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday with the rest of DISD by reading his books out loud in all of the classrooms in the school and after the fun I walked out in the garden to see … Continue reading

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Welcome to the New Year!

This is the ongoing story of our Discovery Garden- a group of volunteers putting in a living “classroom” where once only sad grass wilted. We hope this blog will help inform our school community as well as the rest of … Continue reading

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Final push of 2011

Today we planted hundreds of bulbs in the discovery garden as well as cleaned up the garden area in front of the school. Although at the end of the day the garden looked no different than when we began the … Continue reading

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Family Build Day- The Sequal

Working on the raised beds in the Veg. Garden There are no better group of parents than DeGolyer Parents! Another day of moving dirt, granite and taking back the vegetable garden. In the vegetable garden we were able to  dig in … Continue reading

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Saturday’s Family Build Day

This is the ongoing story of our Discovery Garden- a group of volunteers putting in a living “classroom” where once only sad grass wilted. We hope this blog will help inform our school community as well as the rest of … Continue reading

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Teacher’s are workers too!

This is the ongoing story of our Discovery Garden- a group of volunteers putting in a living “classroom” where once only sad grass wilted. We hope this blog will help inform our school community as well as the rest of … Continue reading

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CONCRETE!!!!

What a beautiful cool day to pour concrete. Starting about 9:30 the truck arrived and around 13 yards of concrete was poured into the forms. We are expecting beautiful dry weather for the next few days as we make our … Continue reading

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