We also do 2 bookfairs/year with Scholastic. We use the materials provided for the teacher wish list. We very rarely have any books left over from the wish list.

We have our teacher wish list right there at the event. I'm not sure what the figure of who bought for the teachers are, but we have always purchased for each of our kids teachers. The Scholastic books are very reasonable and its the least I can do for all the teachers does for my kids.
Scholastic provides the board that has pouches on it with the teachers name and slips of paper with each book they would like.

Good Luck

Cindy

We do bookfairs twice a year. And YES, we hand out teacher's wish lists... Our teachers love this and our parents are happy to help out. Good luck!

We do the classroom wishlist program and we find that most teachers do get at least one book, the favorite teachers will get more. I have seen some teachers get 15! Scholastic usually sends us the stuff to do it, we dont do it in the spring but on open house night in the fall it works out well.
You also get "bonus" points from scholastic for doing it that you can redeem for books from their reference book.

Our schools use scholastic but the librarians are in charge. At one elementary the librarian tries to have it during "Fall into to Reading" Last year they made over $1,000.00 just that night! Another librarian said that having it open during a night such as that was a bad idea. I guess she doesn't like counting money. You could just make up your own flyers for your event and add that the bookfair will be open.

The librarian at one elementary has set up a bulletin board before. She used old pockets and book cards (she had plenty left over since going computerized). Each pocket had a teachers name on it and they put their list on the card. It was a hit. But the families that purchased them saved them for the holidays or just let their child give it the teacher. Labels are a good idea.

Originally posted by debbiee12:
I had a thought to send home some type of flyer announcing this to the parents and have some signs put up around the school to remind them of this. I also had a thought about having the teachers come in and write a "wish list" and have some type of lables ready so the families could write the students/family name in the book - kinda like "generously donated by: etc."

Scholastic supplies us with pouches to make the wish list board with, tickets that teachers fill out and put in the pouches, and stickers that the purchaser fills out to stick inside the front cover of the donated book. No charge.

They also gave us a lot of signs to put up -- generic ones and ones themed with the 'feature' books for that fair.

If you have a good rep, Scholastic has a ton of stuff to provide you with. (Even if you don't, I think most is available in the online toolkit.

It hurts to give them so much of the $$ at the end, but we could never set up a fair like they are able to provide.