October 2015

October also has National Card Making Day which we decided to celebrate all month long.  We set up a collection of stickers, fancy scissors, paper, etc for kids to make cards and we delivered them to other students or teachers at other schools.  The poster I created is saved to Google Drive as Card.

We also celebrated Teen Read Week.  We created a calendar of events with daily giveaways and the following big events:

Teen Read Week (Oct. 18-24) -- Get Away @ Your Library…

It’s almost Teen Read Week! Get Away @ Your Library with...

--Book Swap -- During Teen Read Week, discover something new to read at the Book Swap.  Bring in a novel Monday, October 19 through Thursday, October 22 and receive an invitation to visit the Book Swap the morning of Friday, October 24!  Bring a book...take a book!

--Book-to-Movie Event -- Be ready for the upcoming release of Mockingjay: Part 2 by screening the first Mockingjay on Thursday, October 22! With your parent’s permission, stay after school, report to the library, and take in Mockingjay: Part 1. Movie, popcorn, and a drink are on the house! Additional drinks can be purchased at the event -- $1.  Stop by the library for a permission slip!

All Teen Read Week files can be found in Google Drive in the Teen Read Week 2015 folder.

We began working on our MakerSpace ideas -- turn the library office, area by "kitchen" and reading room into a MakerSpace (hoping to have that interior wall between the library and reading room removed).  Ordered several sets from littleBits (www.littlebits.cc).  Started off the idea with building structures with Solo cups.

We continued Grab & Go Mystery Books until new books arrived and then we used that area to display new books.

Held October's Bring Breakfast, Browse Books.

Began advertising for November's Film Festival -- all book trailer submissions must be turned in by midnight on November 30.  I created a handout with specifics and it's saved in Google Drive as PGM Film Festival.

Tried out Book Speed Dating with Dyess's class first and then with Clements' class.  Kids enjoyed it and it was an easy way to have the kids look at titles they might not ordinarily check out.  I made tents for each table, stacked up the books, and gave each student a Rate Your Date sheet.  I times 5-7 minute rotations where students would go from table to table, look at the books, and then rate the books.  Clements class checked out their "date" at the end of the class period; Dyess had her students come back to her room the next day to choose their dates.  Pictures are in the IFTTT folder in Google Drive.

October's Media Newsletter is here.

Some other ideas I screenshot throughout the month...