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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Remember When We…Had Authors Visit DC Elementary and South Prairie?

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In November 2012 Dallas Center Elementary hosted author David Sargent and his writing inspirations--his dogs! You can read all about h...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Remember When We…Made Our Own Interrupting Chickens?

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Many of our lessons focus on the Iowa Goldfinch Book Award nominees, and a year ago, Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein was one of t...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Remember When We. . . Emailed Tucked the Cat

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In the 2012 - 2013 school year, Cat Secrets by Jef Czekaj was one of the Iowa Goldfinch Books nominees. During our read aloud and les...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Summertime Wednesday Posts--"Remember When We…" Series

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With summer break just beginning, it's time to think about what our summer posts will include. Why not a look back at some of our favori...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

PowToon Book Trailers, Part II

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Another group of 5th grade WIN students have been working on book trailers using PowToon, a Google app. Their work is similar to a recent po...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

Animal Research & Storytelling on the iPads

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First graders have been combining several skills recently to complete an animal research project. They began by reading grade-level appropr...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Promoting Summer Reading

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With just a little more than 3 weeks left in the school year (yay!), it's time to think about and promote summer reading! Check out the ...