[LM_NET] Drawing children to the Library

[Cindi Knauer <knauerc@E-LCDS.ORG>]

I am trying to come up with a special, once-a month FUN activity for 3rd and 4th 
graders to get them to the Library outside of their scheduled times.  I am thinking 
of Third Thursdays for 3rd graders, the Fourth Friday for 4th grade.

Fifth graders come once a week for Friday Book Club. They bring their lunches--I 
provide a treat.  We discuss whatever they have read during the week.  It might be 
a book, a magazine article, an article from the newspaper, whatever.  Last year I 
had about 15 students attend every week. One Friday I had 27 students. With only 42 
total fifth graders, I was happy with the results.

This year I would like to include 3rd and 4th graders in something special.  I 
don't want to do a book club since this is something looked forward to by fifth 
graders. I want to stay away from games and "work sheets" like word searches, 
puzzles, mazes, etc. since those things periodically occur during their class times.

Any ideas???????

Cindi Knauer
Lower School Librarian
Lancaster Country Day School
Lancaster, PA
knauerc@e-lcds.org

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