I know that alot of groups are participating in DEAR (Drop Everything And Read), which is on April 12th (Beverly Cleary's Birthday). But I haven't heard anything about Read Across America.
Hi library mom! We do a few different things.
1-We have guest readers for each classroom, they do it in their library time so they dont disturb the class time.The readers are really good about taking questions form the kids and the reality fo it the kids just enjoy someone different reading to them. Even the 6th graders get into it.
2-Used book exchange-kids can bring in three books and exchang them for "new" books.Make sure they have a permission slip.
3-Guessing Contest-like How many books in the library? We do two winners on each grade level usually winning something related to reading or Dr. Seuss.
4-Theme week-we do a whole week of days based on Dr. Seuss books, like Wacky Wednesday based on the book by the same name. Dress as wacky as you can, this gets funny because even the staff does it. You can do Sock day based on the foot book, hat day based on 500 hats for bartholmew cubbins,etc.
5-We decorate the halls with Seuss trivia and huge drawings of different book characters, you could do birthday cake.we don't do that but we give a pencil on a bookmark to each student.You could do poster contests, door decorating contest.
I know at our school alot of the teachers will tie it into their classroom, kindergarten teachers have actually made green eggs and ham! This year the parents have to feed the staff lunch this week because they won the volleyball game so we are trying to tie it in with the Seuss theme. It is alot of fun, breaks up winter and sends a huge message to kids!
"When you stop learning you stop growing."
What type of events do you have for your "Read Across Ameerica"? Our school doesn't participate in this. I would like to do something or RIF anything to have some fun reading.
I havent seen anything, we've kept our theme from last year "Read across America" while our library is under construction and the Fall bookfair had no where to be run.
We're having a weeklong celebration to reopen the Library 20-24 Mar, plus bookfair, readings, events. Dont know if it has a theme or not
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I believe that they had announce that there wasn't going to be an actually theme this year. Check the NEA's site under special events, maybe I am wrong but i think they decided just to push reading. We have a week long celebration and came up with the theme "Reading with the Community." as all of our guest readers are local business owners. Let me know if you need ideas...we have done it for four years and it is a ball!
"When you stop learning you stop growing."
Does anyone know the theme this year? Do you have any plans yet? My son wants to do a "Dress silly for Seuss Day." But I would also like to go into a little more detail about this event. I went to www.ala.org
and I found nothing. I've done searches on it too with no avail.
