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Monthly Report: October 2008 |
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1. We celebrated October birthdays and added our Halloween books to the fall ones in the Seasonal section. 2. Popcorn Friday proceeds for October were used to buy popcorn supplies, so no quizzes were purchased. We sold $180.75 and the kindergarteners ran away with the sales! Mrs. Beardslee’s kindergarteners came in 1st with 48 bags and Mrs. Henrie’s kindergarteners came in 2nd with 45 bags, so those students all received new Halloween bookmarks. 3. Our Book Fair went very well, and we sold more books than ever – over $6700 worth! So we made about $2000 for our library with around $450 in free books. We ran everything pretty much the same as last year with a Guessing Jar (of safari animals due to our Safari theme) and Scavenger Hunt. Sam Shonka won the Scavenger Hunt drawing for a $25 prize and we had a lot of close guesses for the safari animals, but after a rock, paper, scissors tiebreaker, Santana Lopez won the animals as well as her $5 gift certificate. We also had the Build-A-Book workshop in the Treehouse so students could buy a kit to make a book and then work on it during conferences. The only new component was our collection of change for One for Books, which Scholastic matches and donates to children who can’t afford their own books. We had a competition between the collection bucket with Mr. Koepsel’s picture and one with Mr. McKinley’s picture to predict which one the students thought could lift more books. Mr. Koepsel’s bucket collected $72 and Mr. McKinley’s collected $61 and our lift-off is scheduled for National Library Week in April when we’ll find out who really CAN lift the most books! 4. Lessons taught this month include: Our 6th Grade William Allen White Video, Community Helpers, Parts of a Book, Apples, Story Elements, Ghosts, the Book Fair, and Scary Stories around the Campfire. 5. Our Scary Stories Around the Campfire even made the evening news and will be featured in the district newsletter. The kids listen to a scary story and then try to write their own as a class by having each student compose one sentence to keep the story going. It’s a lot of fun and we put the best story in our school newsletter and on the library web page. 6. This year I’m the treasurer for the Kansas Reading Association and I’m in charge of their book club so I ordered the book we’re reading and organized our meeting schedule at the Classic Bean. The district librarians are working on our new library standards during inservices and PLC early release times, which is keeping us busy. 7. Finally, on Halloween, I was a Hawaiian princess, but next year we hope to have everyone choose a book character to avoid some of the more gruesome costumes.
In November we have the Thanksgiving Program and Children’s Book Week to keep us jumping! Helen
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Auburn Elementary
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Helen Kline, Library Media Specialist |