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Here are some of the responses and my first time posting a hit...thanks to=20
everyone!
I just thought I'd send you a couple of ideas that I've used.=A0 They
could be expanded to all different grade levels.
1.) Guess how many books in the LMC ~ This is really popular.=A0 I usually
try and do this during Children's Book Week.=A0 The kids love to guess and
I love to look at their answers! :-)=A0 When they find out how many actual
books we have, they are just shocked.
2.) Match the teacher with their favorite book ~ This is one of my
favorite projects.=A0 What I do is get pictures of staff members when they
were quite young.=A0 Say K-3 grade.=A0 I also have them tell me what their
favorite book was when they were young.=A0 I have a book template that I
use and run that off on different colored paper and attach a scanned
copy of the staff members picture and a picture of the cover of their
favorite children's book.=A0 The students who want to participate in this
contest come to me and get a sheet to match the pictures/books with the
staff member.=A0 I provide a list of all the teachers who participated in
the contest at the bottom of the sheet to aide the students in their
guessing.=A0 I make this into a bulletin board and everyone loves coming
to look at it.
3.) Author Word Searches ~ I've used Puzzle Maker to create author word
searches that the kids can complete on their own time and turn in to me
by the deadline.=A0 I then do a drawing out of the names of the correctly
completed puzzles and that student wins a prize.
As far as prizes go, I have used many different things.=A0 Sometimes I go
out and by a bag of candy and sometimes I go and get gift certificates
to our local bookstore.=A0 One of the things I've done that the kids have
really liked and it doesn't cost a dime is letting them have lunch in
the LMC.=A0 If they are a contest winner, they may invite one friend to
dine with them and then they sit in the LMC and have lunch together.
This is really special because they know they can't have food or drink
in the LMC unless it's a very special occassion.=A0 We've also had
Scholastic Book Fairs and out of their catalog I ordered their treasure
box with our accumulated points and that contained posters, all sorts of
pencils, erasers, mini-books, buttons, pencil cases, bookmarks, and the
like.=A0 The students knew when that treasure box was sitting out that
they were going to have a special project to complete.
I hope these are of some help to you! :-)
If you strictly want the guessing game type...try counting -=20
jelly beans,=20
M & M s of different colors for different holidays,=20
the weight of a pumpkin,=20
the weight of a bunch of apples (for fall),=20
pastel candy hearts (the ones with the words on them),=20
foil wrapped chocolates - shaped like hearts, eggs, etc,=20
fruit loops,=20
There are lots of trivia type reference questions you could ask. Perhaps
once a week you could do a new question. The kids must come to the library
to find the answer, and every time they visit they can answer it again. Make
the answer something short, put all the right answers in a bucket and pull
one out - that person wins something.
I would like to suggest that you engage the kids in involvement bulletin
boards.=A0 These are fun plus learning experiences.=A0 There can be prizes f=
or
winners drawn from right answers but the kids would get more than just
"guessing."=A0 The boards have been tied in to classroom activities but they
don't have to be.=A0=A0 The questions are on the board and the answer sheets
are available.=A0 =A0 =A0 Sometimes these questions can be a classroom answe=
r
and a contest among classes.=A0 To get the answers kids have to use the
library sources.=A0 For example the child or class would be compiling a list
of words that are sounds animals make:=A0 growl, hiss, snarl, chirp, etc.
What a vocabulary builder! Or for math a list of words that are used in
measuring or weighing.=A0 You might want to get hold of Ellen Jay's book
Motivation and the School Library Media Teacher. cl988.=A0 Try interlibrary
loan.=A0 There are sections on involvement bulletin boards, contests like
above, thinking skills of the month and lots more.=A0 Hooray for wanting to
turn the kids on to the library.=A0 These things also encourage
collaboration with classroom teachers.=A0 The teachers want their class to
win, you know.
I bought a tube of jelly bellies on sale after christmas and displayed them
in the hall outside the library, the winner getting the tube if they came
the CLOSEST without going over.=A0 You can't imagine the guesses!=A0 Million=
s,
20, the actual count was closer to 223.=A0 I did this weekly in first grade,
an extimating activity, and by the end of the year, they got their skills
down REAL well.=A0 I plan on doing similar things weekly, using the same jar
at first, with larger items and then smaller and then switching to different
containers to enhance their estimating ability.=A0 Math is the big push this
year at our school=A0 I have also had guess the weight of a pumpkin, guess h=
ow
many books in the library, if you want to be REALLY mean, guess the age of
the principal....
Simone Loeffel
Library Media Specialist
Brookside School
Ossining, New York
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