My Birthday

Its my birthday.I am Booksamillion with my husband.

Battle of the books- Bulletin Board

Well , my board is up and almost complete. The reason it is not complete is because I still need to take several team photos. I have a lot of teams so I did a really simple slogan: Battle of The Books Teams Then I have photos all around and I will probably have to spill over onto the wall . The students and staff are really excited to see the photos up. I will leave it up until mid January .
I even got a few more teams to sign up when they saw the bulletin board. The students are so funny when they say "Is is to late to sign up?'

E Books

I had a very enlightening and interesting presentation done yesterday by My Follett Rep. Rick about their ebooks. This company has two kinds : one that can be checked out by a single patron, and the multiple use books that can be viewed by the whole school- all at the same time - for one price. Some of these books are also 'read' to the students while they are following along. I think these will be a bonus to the teachers and students at my school since balanced literacy is being pushed.
He showed me the Follett Shelf which is where the books are located. Also , since we use TLC, the books can also be found and clicked on from our OPAC. This looks so cool!
Check it out: Follett Shelf

Battle of the books- Bulletin Board

I am getting ready for my December bulletin board. This year I am not going to have a holiday theme, I am going to promote my book reading challenge( Battle of the books) . I have begun taking team pictures and asking for team names. This has garnered some more teams signing up so that is a good thing!
What I will have is a blue or black background , with colorful book cutouts scattered around and them have team photos. I am still thinking of a good slogan.of. I will post it when I think of it.
I will also do a press release with a couple of groups together and send to our school newsletter and maybe the local papers.
We are still hoping to get a teacher and parent team but so far none have come forward. Hopefully we will have at least one.

Winner announced!!

Congratulations! The winner of the October Giveaway of Library Lifesavers is Tiff! Please send me your name and address, Tiff at shadylanewriter@yahoo.com so I can send it out to you.



Giveaway was processed by an independent agency.

still here!

No I did not forget to write. I have been fighting a cold and the flu. Thats what happens when you work in a school with sick kids.
will be back soon I hope!

Picture Book Month- November

November is Picture Book Month. I found this wonderful site that has interviews of authors and others on why they love picture books. I love picture books too because they offer everyone a quick read and so much can be done with them. Besides reading them to the younger students, they can be used in so many ways with older students. I will try to give you some of my ideas during the month.
Check out this link: PictureBookMonth

What do you do with picture books??