Thanks to some wonderful blogs by other teacher librarians and elementary teachers, we were inspired to create our own discovery bottles to ...

Coach Ryan Sloth will be at South Prairie Elementary in Grimes on Friday May 11 th . He is helping to kick off our reading celebrat...

Our 4th graders were given the challenge to compose poems using only the titles of books. To me, using literature as the inspiration is su...

Students in kindergartner recently practiced visualization as part of a poetry unit. As they listened to the Jack Prelutsky poe...

Fifth graders at DCE recently wrote book reviews and recorded their work onto Voicethread. Click on the links below to listen to their revie...

DC Elementary students in Grades K - 2 recently shared their favorite books in a "grape" display for classmates, staff, and parent...

Students in Grades K - 2 recently voted to select an Iowa Goldfinch Award winner. By a large margin, Dewey: There's a Cat in the Library...