Season's Readings!

 

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!)

A 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!