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I love this idea! I think it could be modified and used for many school applications. I am forwarding it to our Smaller Learning Communities Coordinator to possibly use in our Freshman Academy classes. I am also sending it to the head librarian just in case he missed this on LM_NET. Gail Brewster Media Specialist Moline High School Moline, IL 61265 gbrewste@molineschools.org Phone (309) 743-8901 Fax (309) 757-3484 http://mhsav.wikispaces.com/ _____ From: Bonnie Fulmer [mailto:Bonnie.Fulmer@SPACKENKILLSCHOOLS.ORG] To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Sent: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:45:00 -0600 Subject: HUMOR: Snowflakes and Library Orientation As part of my 9th grade orientation, I used to try to get a feel for what incoming students read for enjoyment and initiate a discussion about who's reading what. After the usual library tour, I seated freshman classes at tables and handed out scissors, brown/orange/red/yellow construction paper and maple/birch/oak leaf templates I had made with manila stock. The theme was FALL INTO A GOOD BOOK, and students would trace and cut out a leaf and write their name on one side, and the title of their all-time favorite book on the other. I dangled the leaves by threads hanging from straight pins stuck in my ceiling tiles over the fiction section, where they would flutter colorfully and hopefully attract students to investigate and check out favorite titles. In searching for "their" leaf, they would read a lot of classmate-recommended titles, and sometimes actually check them out! I also got ideas for ordering to beef up my fiction section. Orientation got a little later as I got older <grin>, so one October I changed my tracing templates to bats and handed out black construction paper and white chalk. Theme: GET BATTY ABOUT BOOKS. Same name + favorite book idea. I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I got older, and orientation got later, and my bats turned into turkeys: GOBBLE UP A GOOD BOOK. I'm even older now, and in more recent years, students cut out a snowflake, leaving the center relatively intact. On one side of the middle they'd write their names, and on the other, the name of their all-time favorite book. I put up posters that said DON'T BE A FLAKE! READ!!! The flakes swayed merrily with the air currents, creating a dizzying display of titles popular with freshmen, and one that could be left up for months! You will be happy to hear that I've reached my ethical limit and refuse to start thinking of a theme for spring library orientation! (Besides, I'm retiring this year.) But the snowflake thread made me remember the weeks spent picking little paper slivers out of the carpet, a small price to pay for getting to know new students and stimulating discussions about reading for FUN. Bonnie ___________________ ___________________ || \/ || || Bonnie | Fulmer, Librarian || || Spackenkill | High School || || 112 Spackenkill | Road || || Poughkeepsie, | NY 12603 || || voice: | (845) 463-7810 || || fax: | (845) 463-7817 || || Bonnie.Fulmer@spackenkillschools.org || ||____________________/\___________________ || -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ --------------------------------------------------------------------