I Love to Read 2020

Our theme this year for “I Love to Read” was “Wild About Books”

This is my favorite time of year

The bookfair coincides with "I Love to Read Month" so during this time we combined our efforts to have just one theme.  I usually have a trivia contest and I also shred a fairly well known book and see if the students can guess which one it is.  I usually have some small giftbags with prizes for students whose name is chosen from the correct trivia answers.  I like to include things like bookmarks, pencils, pens some type of candy or treat and a book.  This year I also included a little "put together" glider and an animal visor or headband.

Winter gets long and this seems to help shorten it up.

Winter bookfair

It’s a jungle out there. This winter bookfair was great because we were able to collaborate together with our theme for “I Love to Read Month” which was “Wild About Books”
Once again our #1 volunteer Judy Simpson pulled off another awesome bookfair. Here is a look at some of the great decorations at the bookfair!

There were tons of great books there too!

All in all we sold quite a few books and  it was a very successful bookfair.
Thank you for your support!

New Books!!! Oh my!

I love getting new books and each time a new box of books comes to the school for the library I'm like a kid at Christmas!  I can't wait to open the box and see all of the new and wonderful titles.  Here is a preview of a few of the new books we just received.  I did not put in every title because some of them were replacements or second copies of some of the popular titles we already have.  This time I purchased quite a few books that are of the poetry and verse genre.  I think these books are a great segway into more books.  There just isn't as many words on the page therefore students can finish the book faster.  These seem to be a big hit.  So watch the video and see what you think.

Bulletin Boards that Engage

Sometimes people do think that bulletin boards are that big of a deal or don't really think that they are that important.  Well I have totally changed my thinking on that and here is why.  I am always trying to find ways to get kids to connect with books.  I created a bulletin board for our front hallway in hopes that I could get  a couple of kids interested  in some books that are available in our library. 

Well what do you know it worked!!!  I had a student come up and when I said oooh that one is a good one she said she saw it on the bulletin board and thought she would try it!  I told her awesome and to tell her friends because nothing gets more kids reading than when other kids can recommend books to them.
Here is a picture of another one I created.  I still love it!

This is another one that I just liked and at least it is perfect for the season