Iroquois, SD

Iroquois Elementary kicked off the school year with a celebration for those students who participated in the summer reading challenge. We had all kinds of water activities for the kids including a dunk tank that was probably the hit of the celebration!

As the school year progressed, the teachers got the children interested in the new Prairie Bud and Prairie Pasque books by taking turns giving a little summary of their book and then drawing a student’s name out of a basket for a cool door prize that had something to do with the book that was just introduced.

We celebrated the 100^th day of school by exercising our bodies with 100 exercises and then we went on to read 100 books. The students had fun reporting each book they read until we tallied 100 books and then some.

Our latest elementary literacy activity was celebrating Dr. Seuss’s birthday. The teachers got to pick out their favorite book and dress up like a character from their book. The students were divided into groups and rotated among the teachers to hear a new story every 10 minutes. When we were finished, Mrs. Geyer-Fuhrman introduced our snack of “blue goo” and “pink ink” by reading an excerpt from a Dr. Seuss favorite called One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

As the elementary begins to wrap things up for the school year and begin planning for this summer’s reading challenge, we are planning a fundraiser for the Elementary Literacy Fund. Each classroom is going to come up with a theme and put together a literacy basket which may include anything from books to fun things you might enjoy this summer or while reading. These baskets will be displayed on awards night, Tuesday, April 29^th and at the spring concert on Monday, May 5^th. Raffle tickets will be sold at these times for a chance to win the basket of your choice. The drawing will be held on the last day of school. We invite everyone to come and browse our literacy baskets and purchase a chance to win!

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