Whew, am I tired tonight. Sponsoring a RIF distribution and a Scholastic Book Fair on the same day makes for one exhausted librarian. But the day was a success! Almost 700 students received free books in our final RIF (Reading is FUNdamental) distribution for the school year and we sold almost $700 on our first day of the book fair...not bad for a Title I school!
Coming up next week, I will be offering an activity, book and movie to each grade level in order to work with the students one last time. Fifth grade will be reading A Picture Book of Anne Frank, watching "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas", and creating butterflies to be shared with the Houston Holocaust Museum. The museum is trying to collect enough paper butterflies to represent each child killed during the Holocaust. Fourth grade will be reading Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, watching the movie "Hiroshima Maidens" and making origami cranes. Third grade will be reading Aunt Harriet and the Underground Railroad and will watch "The Quest for Freedom: the Harriet Tubman Story" and second grade will read A Picture Book of Helen Keller and watch the movie "Helen Keller: Tragedy to Triumph". I have always enjoyed being able to share the stories of these heroic women and look forward to working with our students one last time this spring.
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