HIT: theme-moving "home"

[Robie Martin <robiem@vikingnet.net>]

Thanks for the great suggestions on a theme for moving back "home" to
our newly renovated middle school.  Since I live in Kansas, I'll be
using the "There's No Place Like Home" idea.  It is especially fitting,
since last year our little town survived a tornado!



How about........"There's No Place Like Home"?


Home Is Where The Heart Is....Welcome Back!


Connections:  Honoring our past, anticipating our future.  We live and
learn at Parsons


How about a display of suitcases and framed pictures of the "old family"

plus  new pictures of the "new family"  and a "Welcome Home" sign.


How about "Homeward Bound"


You might try metamorphosis as a theme.   You surely have lots new
coming
out of old....

I had a similar experience two years ago when we moved the school
library to
a "new home." I used the theme of "Grand Openings" and displayed several

famous first lines from titles that should be familiar to at least some
of
students and/or visitors. Hence, both books and libraries have "grand
openings"! I used everything from picture books to Dickens.

Here's some from a lady who's moved 18 times and lived in 7 states...
I've unpacked lots of fun ideas for all of those boxes!
  Read - "Alexander, Who (And I mean it) never going to Move " Middle
schooler's will love it too.
    Go to the local paint store and ask them to donate some "mistake
paints" - tint them primary colors... when you are done unpacking - go
outside with a few trusted parents and paint all of those moving boxes
bright colors.. let them dry.. cover each box with book covers or book
ads that students can make for you... Then place them on top of
shelves - make a fun cube area for displays - etc... They will be a
fun reminder of how many boxes you went through!
    If you are moving from one building to another and do not want to
"pack" if the space is close enough - make a Moving chain... every
student hands books over in order to the other library... It goes
faster than you think...
  More box ideas... collapse them flat and open them at the seams...
have students cut out letters - upper case and lower case... Numbers -
and lots of them... they are fun to decorate with. Cover with colored
paper or have the student paint them with designs that match the Dewey
no.'s -
   Many times in a move you have "weeded" and the shelves look a
little lonely - Have a contest for the best "shelve art from a moving
box" - display them in the library... you'll be amazed at the themes
for book-box-art you will get !
  Not to mention - if you have a grassy hill around flattened boxes
are so much fun to ride down a grass covered hill ... Have fun!




--
Robie Martin
Media Specialist  •  Parsons Middle School
U.S.D. 503, Parsons District Schools
2719 Main  •  Parsons, KS 67357
316-421-4190  •  fax 316-423-8822
robiem@vikingnet.net

"No one should be deprived of the pleasure and quality of life that
beautifully prepared food and a little wine can bring."  --Julia Child

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