Greetings,
International School Library Day and National School Library Day for Canada
are not that far away.
Mark Monday, October 24th, on your calendar and check out the message below
for lots of ideas on how to mark this special day.
I hope everyone does something to celebrate this event. Check out the Tony
Ross poster and bookmarks.
Regards
Randi
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From: IASL-LINK@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IASL-LINK@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Rick Mulholland
Sent: September 4, 2005 3:35 PM
To: IASL-LINK@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IASL-LINK] International School Library Day - Part 2
It was suggested by the International School Library Day committee that I
share the ideas that The Bookmark (British Columbia Teacher-Librarians'
Association's journal -
<http://www.bctf.ca/BCTLA/bookmark.html)>http://www.bctf.ca/BCTLA/bookmark.html)
published
last Fall to encourage the celebration of National School Library Day (held
the same day as International School Library Day each year).
I hope you find something that you can use to inspire you to highlight the
day in some way. Please share your ideas with others in the IASL through
the International School Library Day website
<http://www.iasl-slo.org/isld.html>http://www.iasl-slo.org/isld.html
Cheers,
Rick
Rick Mulholland
Teacher-librarian
Councillor Canadian Association for School Libraries (CASL)
National School Library Day committee Coordinator (CASL)
International School Library Day Coordinator (IASL)
604-576-1378
Quick Ideas to Celebrate National School Library Day
Compiled by Rick Mulholland
The following is a list of ideas that have been gathered from various
sources which include the IASL International School Library website
<http://www.iasl-slo.org/isld.html,>http://www.iasl-slo.org/isld.html,
ideas from the IASL/SLA Dublin conference
sessions, and a number of BC teacher-librarians who sent in ideas (June
Bouchard, Colin Chafer, Sharon Sawatsky and Rick Mulholland).
Have your students compile a list of five books from Canada or from your
province (no more than five -- this will force them to discuss their
choices) that they think school students in other provinces or countries
should read.
Arrange a book fair with a national theme. This might include highlighting
books about other provinces, books by authors from other provinces, books in
other languages...
If your school (or your school library) has a newsletter, write a short
article about National School Library Day and the importance of the school
library in education. Ask students to write about their school library and
publish the best articles.
Ask your students to design a mouse pad that will remind the user of school
libraries every time she/he uses a mouse!
Link up with the local public library for a cooperative activity. Ask the
local public library to host a display about the school library; support the
local public library by hosting a display for them in Library Week or at
another time.
Organize an open house in your school library and invite parents and other
members of the local community. Have students demonstrate the online
catalogue, computer-based services or show new books or other resources.
Ask students to design bookmarks promoting their school library and/or
National School Library Day, for the principal, teachers, other students or
their parents.
Invite a local politician, or journalist, to spend half a day in the school
library. Talk to them about school libraries; let them see a school library
"at work"; have your students show them what they have achieved through the
school library; show them the resources; talk about needs. Be positive --
emphasise the importance of school libraries for learning.
Run a School Library Trivia Afternoon (or evening, depending on the
audience), with questions being related to a well-known book such as Harry
Potter.
Set up a display with a National School Library Day theme, not just in the
school library but in the school entrance area, or at an outside location.
Involve the students!
Parents, grand-parents, aunts, uncles, etc coming to school to read with
their kids on Family Literacy Day.
Read Across Canada - done over a couple of weeks period when every minute
of reading represented 10 km across Canada.
Principal's challenge: The principal challenged the whole school to read
more than so many minutes; entries put in a bag, winning entry got to be
principal for the day.
Read to the moon: similar concept to reading across Canada.
Book Worm: where students filled in on a circle a recommended book title;
all circles got stuck to the wall to form a big book worm that meandered
from the library door along the hallways. We did a similar project another
year where circles became the wings of a butterfly.
"My favorite book" posters posted around the school.
Turkey Draw: Evening reading event with families; all names of
participating families entered in a draw for a turkey. (In an inner city
school - great participation!)
No TV days: sheets sent home to record literacy related activities done at
homes that chose to turn the tv off for one day. Posted list of activities
in school newsletter.
Library trivia: on the PA system in the morning, a question relating to book
characters or plots or literature in general, etc - one for primary and one
for intermediate, answers brought to the office. One name drawn with the
correct answer. Books given to winners.
Another fun idea is to have a rocking chair in the Library and to have it
occupied for the whole week - we included parent volunteers, school board
members and officials, persons that promoted reading and literacy within the
district, the principal, local authors and illustrators, etc.
We also had a costume in the shape of a book and a student delivered special
balloons and bookmarks to each classroom.
Dress as your favourite book character (it's really fun if you can get your
staff to do this)
Invite the mayor, MLA, or MP of your community into your school to read
their favourite picture book or chapter from a novel. Encourage them to
invite someone from the local newspaper to cover the event (or you can send
out the request)
Have a read-a-thon with the whole school population in their pajamas reading
on pillows, mats etc in the gym.
Have your students create "celebrate our school library" posters and display
them around your community (in the public library, grocery stores etc)
Have local authors visit the library. They each had 20 minutes to briefly
discuss their work and then they talked about a book or books that had a
significant influence on their lives. Students later write a paragraph
about a book that had an impact in some way on their lives and post the
responses on the library web site.
Have students match teachers with their favourite book. Have the teachers
write a summary of the book (without giving out two many details), post them
on a bulletin board near the library and students match the teachers with
the book titles.
Go into the community and take photographs of people reading in interesting
places. Make a bulletin board with the title "Got caught reading."
Have students create plays of their favourite books. Perform these for
invited guests on National School Library Day.
Offer workshops to parents on a variety of library related topics such as
"Dads 'N Lads" book selections, books for babies, beginning reading ideas,
etc.
Have students create new book jackets for their favourite books. Have them
laminated and put on the books for the rest of the year.
Create a book list based on "If you read only one book this year, make it
.."
Don't forget ideas and materials found on the CASL National School Library
Day website - www.nsld.ca <<http://www.nsld.ca/>http://www.nsld.ca/>
Visit the IASL website, School Libraries Online, at:
<http://www.iasl-slo.org>http://www.iasl-slo.org
Randi Louise Hermans
BCTLA Vice President
Teacher-librarian
Evans Elementary K-6
Chilliwack, B.C., Canada
rhermans@shaw.ca
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