Re: Library Displays

[Mary Alice Osborne <mosborne@WAITSRIVER.K12.VT.US>]

Dear Folks,

I plan to have a year-long display about Celebrating Diversity in my
library.  I'm working with the 3/4 combination teacher on a special project
called "Beyond Difference" through the Vermont Center for the Book.  The
Center gave us a selection of books dealing with diversity issues, some in
multiple copy sets.  We are going to create Standards-Based Units
surrounding the theme, during the school year.

I decided to make Diversity my theme for the year, rather than just doing
Black History or Women's History in "their months", as I have been doing
for two years. (I have used quotes a lot from famous people, displaying
images of the person with a cartoonish-word bubble coming from their mouth,
such as: astronaut Sally Ride, with her famous quote: "The thing that I'll
remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was
the most fun I'll ever have in my life.")

For my new theme, I think I will hang a huge rainbow across the library
with signs saying Celebrate Diversity Here, or It's great to be different,
etc., and have lots of great books about and by diverse people.  I also
want kids to interact and have book discussions about diversity issues.  If
anyone has ideas about good ways to highlight diversity, I would love to
hear them, too.  By the way, Vermont is the "whitest" state in the nation:
99% white, so we really need to understand about different people and
cultures here.

Peace, Mary Alice
Mary Alice Osborne, Library Media Specialist / Spark! Program Director
Waits River Valley School, East Corinth, Vermont 05040
mosborne@waitsriver.k12.vt.us

"I'm always doing that which I cannot do, so that I may learn how to do it"
Pablo Picasso

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