D.C. Reeves
SSpecial Events

D. C. Reeves Elementary School has a school-wide theme each year. The theme for the 1996-97 school year is "Quilting Our Heritage." All throughout the school you will see quilts that each class has made depicting the different regions of our country. Each hall represents a region of the United States. Cultures, customs, landmarks, and resources from that region are researched.

StiStudents are challenged to read at least 10,000 books during each school year. Records are kept in "Stitching Stories" booklets. If the children reach their goal, Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Guzzardo have to do something wild and crazy. They should be preparing, because as of January 20, 1997, the D.C. Reeves students had read 11,467 books. Check back to see their pictures posted on this page.

March is Youth Art Month at D.C. Reeves and students prepare special masterpieces and works of art to display throughout the school. Visual art, dance, music, and drama are all included in the month long celebration of the arts.

"Art Stuffed"

Families celebrate the Arts with Principal Pat Williams

Jump Rope for Heart is always held in the Spring of each year. The children of D.C. Reeves earn money for the American Heart Association by jumping rope continuously. A food drive for the local Food Pantry, Multiple Sclerosis Read-a-thon, Muscular Dystrophy Math-a-thon, and Sickle Cell Anemia are all a part of the charity projects the D.C. Reeves students participate in.

The D.C. Reeves Pony Express Post Office is the school postal system. Classes rotate operating the Post Office by serving as mail carriers, nixie clerks, cancellers, sorters, facers, postmaster and postal clerk. The principal, secretaries, custodians, special teachers and each individual class has a mailbox outside of their room or office and an official address. Students pick-up and deliver mail each morning. Letter writing skills and "snail mail" are emphasized using the Pony Express Post Office.

Fourth graders can make deposits monthly at the D.C. Reeves Bank. The students' savings accounts are eligible to earn a high rate of interest until age 18. First Guaranty Bank has established this in cooperation with the state of Louisiana's "Banking in the Schools" program.

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