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Hi, All, I did not ask the following intending to post a HIT, but had several requests to see my results. The original request--I'd like to use book characters' or authors' names (rather than simply number) for the five tables in the lesson area of my library. In the past, they have been numbered 1-5, and the students are assigned to sit at a certain table all year. I'd like to avoid both the monotony of numbering the tables and assigning seats, but it gets old to say, "Go sit at the table by the windows, go sit at the table by the chalkboards, etc." So, my question is: If you had only five names to pick, which would you choose? Many thanks for your suggestions. The results tabulated from the collective wisdom of our LM_NET: Alcott Aldo Applesauce Amber Brown (2) Amelia Bedelia (3) Arthur (9) Babar Bartholomew Baum Beezus and Ramona Berenstain Bears Judy Blume Marc Brown Burnett Cam Jansen (2) Captain Underpants Caspian Cat in the Hat Charlotte the Spider (5) Chrysanthemum Beverly Cleary (2) Clifford (10) Corduroy (3) Curious George (5) Dewey Dickens Encyclopedia Brown (2) Frances Franklin (4) Frodo Frog and Toad Fudge Hatcher (3) Galadriel George and Martha, Harry Potter (5) Hazel (Watership down) Henry and Mudge Henry Huggins Horrible Harry Laura Ingalls Jack (of the Appalachian Jack Tales) James (of Giant Peach fame) Junie B. Jones (3) Stephen Kellogg King Bidgood Kipling Little Bear Lyle Madeline (5) Mercer Mayer Martin the Warrior MAX Max and Ruby Merlin Mother Goose Nate the Great (2) Ogden Nash Oliver Pig Paulsen Peter Piglet (or Wol, if you want to encourage a scholarly tone); Pokemon Patricia Polacco Pooh Ramona (7) Sheila Tubman Dr. Seuss (4) Shiloh (2) Spot Stellaluna (2) Stuart Sunstripe (the Badger) Swimmy - Sylvester (and the Magic Pebble) Twain E.B. White Wilbur the Pig (3) Other members offered pre-grouped sets of five (You guys are the BEST!): Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera, Akela, Shere Khan Bilbo, Frodo, Gandalf, Merry, Pippin (or perhaps Gollum - And seat all the little Gollums there ;) ?) Ahlberg, Byars, Cleary, Dahl, Escott Winnie, Tigger, Piglet, Kanga, Eeyore(my faves) Arthur - D. W. - Buster - The Brain - Francine - Muffy Harry Potter (who else?, for a theme, you could also use: Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall Hogwarts Houses Some other general comments regarding the idea/process: Might be fun to have all animal characters! I would be careful about giving the tables all "boy" names or all "girl names....I would laminate a cover from one of the books to stick in the center of each table - maybe you could even make it so it stands up. Here's another idea - perhaps this breaks copyright laws- but you could make a color copy of each book cover and use it! 4-6 I'd use "Hogwarts" and the 4 house names. I'd change them every year because I think the students would look forward to seeing what the new names would be. The "Story Stars" I teach youngsters about are: Clifford, Little Critter, Strega Nona, Curious George, Harold (and the Purple Crayon), Hairy Maclary (from Donaldson's Dairy). I had a contest and let the kids vote/pick. Just a thought. We have a gardening and recycling program at my elementary site. Part of the program involves composting lunch leftovers into worm bins (big wooden boxes). We named them Cat in the Hat, Pippi, Harry Potter, and Amelia Bedelia. On the front of each box is painted an appropriate logo (stripped hat, red braids, lightening bolt, and apron). Might work for you too... I, too, have five tables and I use the five major sections of books--Fiction, Non-Fiction, Biography, E-Everybody (picture books), and Reference. I felt a little funny doing it at first, about 5 years ago, but it has really worked out well. The students hear the words all the time and see the words in print. I try to give the name to the table nearest that section [and when I have a question that concerns that section, try to call on the students sitting at that table- pointedly mentioning that I picked a student from that section to answer the question--hint, hint--so that they'd know the answer was the same as the name of their table]. For a few years, I tried to get more sophisticated with the two older grades (4th & 5th) and invented names for their tables that corresponded to what we would be learning more about [Index, Table of Contents, Bibliography...tables, or Almanac, Bartlett's Quotations, Guinness Book of World Records...tables, but it was just too much and not as effective as the original 5 and I'm back to that for all three grades this year. Will you post a hit? I'd love to see how the votes come out! :) Please let me know what people have suggested. I like your idea and I might use it. Thanks. Please send me the top 5 replies. What I ended up doing--I held a school-wide vote. This kids nominated characters (had to be BOOK characters first, i.e., no Pokemon or Barbie, etc. that do have books but were commercial characters first). I typed up a list and the kids voted. Here are their picks. I used a bit of executive decision and decided to name the winners in categories: author, book title, boy character, girl character, non-person character. I plan to keep these names for this year since we just got the labels on, but next year will hold the voting twice. I got pictures of all the characters off the web, printed them, mounted them on construction paper, and laminated them before taping them to the tables. As expected the tape is being peeled up at the corners, but I just use a razor blade to slice off the tape and/or replace the tape as needed and since they are laminated underneath, I can reuse the signs. OUR TOP FIVE ARE: Author--Shel Silverstein (17) Book Title--Cat in the Hat (30) Boy Character--Harry Potter (101) Girl Character--Junie B. Jones (59) Non-person Character--Arthur (64) 3--Aldo Applesauce 14--Amber Brown 4--Anastasia Krupnik 64--Arthur 9--Avi 9--Babar 3--Judy Blume 13--Marc Brown 8--Cam Jansen 71--Captain Underpants 30--Cat in the Hat 9--Beverly Cleary 36--Clifford 13--Corduroy 35--Curious George 7--Roald Dahl 31--Franklin 23--Frog & Toad 18--Fudge 4--Hagrid 101--Harry Potter 15--Henry & Mudge 6--Herbie Jones 3--Hogwarts 5--Julian 59--Junie B. Jones 32--Little Bear 20--The Littles 19--Madeline 34--Matilda 5--Nancy Drew 3--Narnia 6--Oliver Pig 2--Paulsen 19--Poppy 9--Ramona 17--Shel Silverstein 23--Shiloh 14--Stellaluna 2--The Watsons =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. 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