[LM_NET] HIT: BULLETIN BOARDS

[Wendy Carroll <wcarroll@RPPS.NET>]

Thank you everyone for your help.  Here are my hits:

Wendy

I don't, outside of the information and craft things in both Bookbag and
Library Sparks can be used for felt boards and bulletin boards alike!  
Hope this helps!  Please post a hit if you get any?
Thanks so much,
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I'm trying to change mine every month but, boy is that tough.  Last month
I 
had cut hearts out of Valentine gift paper and placed them on dollies. 
Then, I color copied the front of some classic novels and entitled the
board 
"Fall in Love With a Classic."  This month it's book covers on kites and 
twine for "Soaring With Books."  Back in January I had bought the "Reading 
Wonderland" poster from Upstart and had snowflakes covering the board.  I 
gotten positive feedback from my principal and many others.

Do you have some students to help or an assistant?  I don't have official 
student aides but, I've turned some of my study hall kids into helpers!

Let me know what others tell you since I need all the help I can get!!
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One of my favorites for this time of year is a row of tulips with the
favorite books of teachers on it.
Originally I have a tulip shaped form with lines for the name of the
teacher, title, and author. Now I use an Ellison die and don't have copies
of the form anymore.

Hi, Wendy!
        My assistant and I have done a number of fun bulletin boards.  Here's a
few
1. Before they were movies:  a mural of book covers like Because of Winn
Dixie, Matilda, Holes, The secret Garden, etc.
2. Fishing for a gook Book:  fishing pole, book covers on fish.
3.  Author displays
4. Seasonal displays...Black History month, Spring(Kites), Fall (Leaves w/
book covers), Beach umbrellas, Poetry
5.  Hit a Home Run!  Baseball themed books.
6. Travel the Globe @ your library...travel brochures from travel agency,
non-fiction about various countries.
Also, check out School Library Activities Monthly / features/ activities
almanac. 
 [ http://www.schoollibrarymedia.com/features/activities/index.html
]http://www.schoollibrarymedia.com/features/activities/index.html
Its a great listing for ideas.
Best of luck!

First lines of classic books is always fun.
Example: 
"Where is papa going with that ax?" 
Charlotte's web.
Library jokes are fun too [ http://www.librarybooks4u.com/jokes.html
]Library jokes
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Wendy
I have a volunteer mother who comes in each month to do a bulletin board 
for me.  She covers the board with colored paper and decorations 
(Hearts, Shamrocks, Trees, etc) and we feature 2 authors whose birthday 
falls in that month.  We feature book covers we copied and she makes 
catchy comments about the books.  I also have a small bulletin board in 
the library that has a permanent cake with Happy Birthday Authors and 
sentence strips on the bottom with name and date for about 8 to 10 
authors.  Perma-Bound has an Author & Illustrator calendar that I'm sure 
you can procure from a vendor.

http://www.librarybooks4u.com/jokes.html

http://www.laughinglibrarian.com

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>First lines of classic books is always fun.
Example: 
"Where is papa going with that ax?" 
Charlotte's web.
Library jokes are fun too 

[ http://www.librarybooks4u.com/jokes.html ]Library jokes:

[ http://www.ps87library.org/tp.gif ]http://www.ps87library.org/tp.gif

[ http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/ ]More library jokes

http://www.laughinglibrarian.com/

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great quotes about reading
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photos of teachers reading
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if you have the time - conduct a survey of all the teachers and what their
favorite book was as a child. post these.
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if you have the time - conduct a survey of all the teachers and what their
favorite book was as a child. post these.
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One of the bulletin boards I've created (which I luckily don't have to
update monthly!) has focussed on quotations about reading.  I created a
background of a sky with a rainbow shooting through it.  On each ray of
the rainbow, I wrote the words (one per ray):  What reading means to me.
 Then, on cloud shapes, I put a variety of quotations about reading.  I
asked my staff if they had any favorites and then used quotation
websites to find the others.

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~You could do a Dewey section each month- with book covers from that area.
It would be a teaching tool and easy for you to do each year.
The next year you could do an author a month....then back to Dewey
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I was just informed that I have to start doing a hallway bulletin board
each month.  I was wondering if anyone had some great ideas or websites
they can tell me about.  I would like to do ones related to reading. 
Thank you.

Wendy Lavenda-Carroll
Library Media Specialist
Ridgefield Park, NJ
Grant Elementary School (T&Th) K-6
Lincoln Elementary School (M-W-F) K-6
wcarroll@rpps.net

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