By Carrie Lee Educators This December, Carrie Lee third and fourth grade teachers were able to collaborate and give the fourth-grade students a few surprises! It’s undecided who enjoyed the day more: teachers or students. In any case, it was the neatest way to end 2020 for all. The third-grade teacher team wrote their annual grant through Farm Bureau for the third-grade students to take a trip to the NICC Dairy Farm; a favorite field trip for Decorah students who come through the third grade. Each May, students learn about how important dairy farming is. Due to the school closure, there was no field trip for this fantastic group of students who were looking forward to making ice cream, seeing real farming artifacts (change over time), seeing baby calves (if lucky enough, one being born and taking its first steps) and learning about dairy production. The third-grade teachers needed to write a grant wrap up report. In doing so, they needed to spend the money from the grant. What better way, than to buy each student a book that is used with the unit? They worked with Kate Rattenborg with Dragonfly Books. Her very generous gift to educators at 20% off, allowed for 125 books to be purchased! All students who were a part of the third-grade class have been, or will be gifted a book, as well as any new fourth grade student at Carrie Lee Elementary. The book is titled, “Milk Makers,” by Gail Gibbons. The fourth-grade teachers worked with the third-grade teachers, so each class could be reunited again! There were many smiles and happy tears! All five teachers felt beyond blessed to have their classes with them again. The five teachers are lucky enough to be some of the only classes in our country who were able to somehow reunite with the class they didn’t get to give well wishes to in a normal school situation. In good old fashion fun, there was also a dairy cow (Elise Bennett) who traveled from class to class with Kathy Oftedahl as she took pictures. Time was short, so they both “mooved” on relatively quick to snap some photos with the dairy cow. Carrie Lee is fortunate to have educators who helped make so many people feel even more grateful in 2020. Our community is blessed to have Dragon Fly Books as well. Thank you to everyone for caring about Decorah students!
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