In a fun new break with tradition I thought that I'd try to update you a little bit more consistently than every four months. Just to try something different out ;-). So to that end I'd like to submit for your consideration a little reflection on probably my favorite time of year here at ICSV...Book Month!
Barbara, the ICSV librarian/part time wizard, works every year to completely transform the library to reflect the theme of the year's book month. We all participate in lots of crazy activities and he classroom routines for all of March become somewhat ridiculously messed up, but we love every minute of it because of the love (sometimes even frenzy) for reading that develops out of it.
This year's theme was "Calvin and Hobbes". The Primary (Kindergarten for you American folks) - 3rd grade students participated in an epic reading race. Every minute that they spent reading throughout the month propelled Spaceman Spiff father along in his journey through space to locate and save his good friend Hobbes located across the library...er...galaxy.
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My Book costume! (I'm the Cupboard from "The
Indian in the Cupboard") |
Meanwhile the 4th and 5th grade students had been preparing since December for the annual "Battle of the Books". Split into teams of 4 and 5 students they read through a list of 20 books then compete in a series of epic contests against one another through a championship bracket to be determined the ultimate readers!
Sprinkled throughout the rest of the month are fun activities like "Book Character Costume Contest", "Book Title Charades", and an "All Day Read-In" (which involved me building a blanket tent that took up literally half of my classroom).
All in all it's a great and very fun month that gets all of the kids very excited about reading. At the end of the month when awards are presented for achievements in the month, it was also really exciting to see kids that are just learning English receiving special prizes for reading hundreds, or even thousands, of minutes throughout the month!
So please enjoy a few pictures from the month and I promise to write again soon with more!
I'm very excited to be meeting King Kong!
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| Excited chaos on Book Character Day |
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| Minions! |
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| Where is Waldo? |
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| Tikki Tikki Tembo the Primary-3rd grade musical! |
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| Tikki Tikki Tembo performance! |
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| Preparing for the musical :-) |
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| The Library Transformed! |
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| Book Month Cake! |
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| 5th Grade celebrating book month with an epic game of Capture the Flag |
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| Ralphie from "The Magic School Bus" |
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| The Paper Bag Princess teaches 4th grade part time! |
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Me and The Cat in the Hat
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What a fun month!
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Our Reading Tent!
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| The winning Battle of the Books team for 2014! |
