I’m always trying to figure out how to get students reading more and trying different genres.
I took a leap and created an author birthday calendar so the students could see what the authors look like and when their birthdays are. My thoughts were if a student saw that they share a birthday with a certain author, they would go and have a look at their books. However, the calendar was more of a discussion point as some students couldn’t believe that a certain author looked like that.
Book Week! A fun time during the year. I often struggle with some of the Book Week themes as they can be quite broad, which means I have too many ideas and I just don’t know which one to settle on. This particular year we went with the multicultural aspect as we have many cultures in our library team which made it fun when everyone brought in their bits and pieces.
We have a long corridor in our library which is where I hung the outfits that people brought in, along with some figurines representing different countries. Then in the two cabinets that we have floating around the library, none have a particular purpose, one was just a display cabinet and the other was turned into a guessing competition. I don’t know about the students in your library but ours love guessing competitions or any competition really.
This was my first attempt of doing a Remembrance day display. There’s so much information that one can use and so many perspectives that one can focus on. So over the years I’ve tried to focus on different areas. As this was the first of many Remembrance day displays I decided to start with an overview.
I discovered that our library had a huge stash of posters so I was determined to use some. A fellow worker saw what I was doing and suggested to do a bug/insect theme, because she knew where we could borrow some phasmatids (leaf insects) for the students to play with (I cannot for the life of me remember where we borrow the phasmatids from). The students got a chance to hold the phasmatids at morning teatime and lunchtime, they had a ball! One of the phasmatids even laid an egg during their stay with us.
I enjoyed making the 3D spider and fly. I even scared some students (and teachers) with the 3D spider. Thankfully no one tried to squash it.
It all started with Dr Seuss’ new book – The bippolo seed.
I love it when I get the chance to promote picture books. Hearing high schoolers remember those good ol’ days (it wasn’t that long ago) when their parents/guardians would read them Dr Seuss’ books. You’re never too old for a picture book!
And for those of you’s wondering how I got Cat in the Hat so big. I found a picture of him online and with the help of a projector I traced the enlarged version and then painted the rest. I stuck the original onto cardboard, but I also have a spare Cat in Hat which I laminated (you should have seen me putting Cat in Hat in the photocopier).
It has been in the back of my mind for awhile now to start a blog, to share my displays with other people in the library community. Well I’ve finally bitten the bullet and here I go…
I’m going to start with some displays that I did a couple of years ago and work my way towards the present.
Join me on my journey 🙂
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