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| These students are helping their classmates qualify for the Ashaway School "Rooster Games"! |
Some of our fourth graders helped me spread some good cheer by participating in my "Share a Book" program. Thanks to their help, I had ELEVEN more copies of the Rhode Island Children’s Book Award (RICBA) nominees available for students to read over winter break. This is how the program works:
- The student can order one or more copies of the books and get a 20-30% discount from the standard cover price. (By placing a larger order, I can get a better price.)
- The book is barcoded and be given a library book jacket to help protect it.
- If the student would like, I place a bookplate inside which reads: “This book is on loan to the library by [student’s name] until the 2016 Rooster Games!”
- The student who bought the book can check it out first.
- Then, the book is checked out to other fourth graders.
- When the Rooster Games are over, the book is given back to the student who ordered it...to keep!
It was a blast handing out the extra copies of the books today. It brought me a lot of joy to hear the students' enthusiastic responses when I asked who wanted to borrow one! The "hold" list for these titles are really long, so they truly acted as though they had been given a gift! The books are in such high demand because I challenged the students to read at least 5 of these books in order to participate in our year-end Rooster Games. (Click here to learn more about them!)
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great big THANK YOU goes out to the students who were willing to share
their books with their classmates. The other students and I really
appreciate it!
See you at the Rooster Games!
