Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

Welcome to the 2024-25 school year! Thanks to all our Chatham CSD families who shared their first-day-of-school photos with us. Check out all those smiles! View more photos here....

The MED PTA will be decorating our vestibule with a monthly theme!

View your child’s school supply list by grade/class: Pre-K School Supplies Kindergarten School Supplies 1st Grade School Supplies 2nd Grade School Supplies 3rd Grade Scho...

Our MED and CMS summer school programs treated students to a Touch a Truck event on July 15. The students got to check out a dump truck, ladder truck, two race cars, and got to m...

June 26 was our last day of school! As is the Chatham tradition, the staff at MED lined the drive to wave goodbye to the students as our buses brought them home for the last time ...

Students in Mrs.Van Wie and Mrs.Winter's 2nd Grade class worked super hard to fill their Star Jar (a whole-class incentive). They earned a water balloon fight just in time for the...

The 2nd graders took a field trip to Trowbridge Farm. While there, the students got to learn about and pet the animals, play games, and enjoy a nice summer snack. They also got to...

As part of their forces and interactions unit, the third grade at Mary E. Dardess Elementary School conducted an experiment to see how many rubber bands a watermelon could withs...

Umbrellas are, of course, good for keeping the damp and drizzle off of you, but they work well to keep the hot sun off you too! Our kindergarteners have been doing an ABC countdow...

Mrs. Kral’s and Mrs. Kolb’s classes had a buddy meet up! Kindergarteners and 2nd graders read stories to their buddy and 2nd graders worked with their buddy to help them read thro...

Our pre-k celebrated a school year full of firsts with an end-of-the-year celebration for pre-k students and their families. Our smallest students took a really big step in their ...

Ms. Hogencamp’s fifth grade class and Mrs. Kolb’s class second grade class went "camping!" The 5th and 2nd graders worked together to create a camping mad lib, write postcards, w...

Students in Mrs. Reichardt's 5th grade science classes recently completed a week-long chemistry project where each lab group designed a volcano, made it out of eco-friendly papier...

MED students celebrated both Arbor Day and Flag Day on June 14. Highlights were lots of flag waving, the traditional Maypole dance performed by the fourth grade, the singing of ...

Over the last few weeks, Mrs. Van Wie and Mrs. Winter's second-grade class incubated and hatched a chicken! Trowbridge Farms in Ghent lent the classroom two incubators and provi...

Here are some photos from MED's Pre-K fun in the sun event.

The fifth grade celebrated their moving on to Chatham Middle School with a Moving Up Ceremony for family and friends on June 13. MED principal Kristen Reno congratulated the stude...

Chatham High School's Class of 2024 returning to their roots at Mary E. Dardess Elementary School for our traditional Senior Walkthrough today. The students and staff at MED lined...

For their end-of-the-year celebration, MED's kindergarten held a carnival for students and their families. The weather was great and fun and games took place on the school's lawn ...

During library time, 2nd graders made fortune tellers to review and talk about fiction and nonfiction.