[LM_NET] Hit: Simple read across america ideas

[librarychickie <yasumani@VERIZON.NET>]

Here are the couple responses I received.  I will post more if I receive more.
   
  What about a book plate to recognize the students' achievements?  It's
    
  a cheap and easy way to honor someone.
   
  We have a librarian's award that is selected each nine weeks.  The  
  student who has improved the most in reading is chosen by the teacher  
  in each classroom .  That child gets to choose a book (we usually try  
  to get them to pick one of our new ones, but, hey, if the kid is a  
  lover of the Berenstain Bears Picnic book, that's ok, too.)  We then  
  fill in a book plate naming the student, the award, and the date and  
  put it inside the front.  The student gets to check-out the book to  
  show his parents, but understands that it stays in circulation in the  
  library.
   
  We have been doing this for about 5 years and it's interesting to see  
  middle schoolers rediscover a book with their name in it from their  
  elementary days.
   
   

Here's what I do...

I celebrate for a whole week with each day of the week celebrating a

 different dr. seuss book. I share the book and do some fun activity. On

 my tables in the library I set up different contests for kids to

 participate in to win free paperback books, pencils and bookmarks..

 

ex.

Monday...is Cat in the Hat day. Read/share story. Activity=design a

 machine that would help them clean up their room. ( I supply paper,

 pencils, colors)

Tuesday....Foot Day...Read/Share story. Activity= Shoe pile race (kids

 take off shoes, pile in middle of floor, race to see who gets shoes on

 first, tied and sitting criss/cross and quiet0.

Wed....Horton Hatches a who day. Read/Share story. Activity=kids take

 two animals and cross them..draw on paper.

Thurs.....One fish, two fish....Read/Share story. Activity= CLass book

 of opposites (kids create).

Friday.....Sneetches day. Read/Share story. Activity= What makes a good

 friend....Kids create an acronym poem of their best friends name.
   
   
   

http://tiny.cc/Q57mu <http://tiny.cc/Q57mu> 

 

 

 

Here is an updated version of my Famous Read Across America Dr. Seuss

Powerpoint. 

 

 

 

You may use it for your celebration. You may add slides or remove

 slides

to suit your needs. 

 

 

 

I just ask that you do NOT remove my name from it. 

 


"Only the educated are free." - Epictetus - Greek-born, Roman slave/philosopher (55 
AD - 135 AD) 
   
  Kristina Politis Fallon, LMS
  Robert Morris School
  South Bound Brook NJ 
  yasumani@verizon.net

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