I am stoked for this year's theme for School Library Month! I set up some of it last week and will set up the rest next week. This coming week I'm on Spring Break, and my school will be doing state standardized testing starting mid-late April, so I should have a solid two weeks to run activities with students/classes between break and testing, which I think will be a welcome break to everyone amidst test preparations. front windows - "libraries are for everyone." I've had a sign about Libraries are for Everyone by my door since the beginning of the year created by Rebecca McCorkindale. As I was thinking about what to do for this year's SLM theme of Everyone Belongs @Your School Library I recalled seeing those in other languages on Rebecca's Hafuboti site. Then the wheels turned further...what if I found out what all languages are represented by my students' families and tried to incorporate as many of those as I could? I immediately contacted our ENL teacher and guidance secretary to get an idea of what languages are used. Then I cross referenced that with Rebecca's list of languages for her Libraries are for Everyone posters and was able to match up almost all of them! My little orange sign says, "Over 25 languages are known across HIJH student households! That's amazing!" My purple sign says, "All of these & more! An awesome librarian elsewhere had most of the translations we needed for 'Libraries are for everyone.'" Thank you Rebecca for sharing the awesome! I'm so excited to have student and staff see this after we come back from break! Display case Coming off of a book fair and author visit, I was worried about time to pull together a display for SLM, but I have some outstanding 8th grade library aides this semester who have really been stepping up to the plate lately to pitch in! I talked to two of them about the theme and showed them the little banner I made from the AASL's SLM site on our poster maker. One of them threw out an idea about a book with hands around it. The other threw out an idea about "paper stick people." I provided colored paper, they figured out a way to make the hands and people, together we came up with a plan to put the hands around the book, and then they set up everything in the case. I had pre-selected some books on a cart, and they put up most of them (they ran out of room for all of them). I'm in love with the display and especially the hands around the book. (If anyone is curious, the book with the hands around it is Save Me a Seat. It's a page where Ravi is talking to Miss Frost about how English is his first language not his second and is frustrated others cannot understand him. She tells him she can only imagine how difficult it is for him to be in a new school and new country. I love that book so much. One of my favorite middle grade reads.) Side note - my hectic March caused me to ask a lot more of my aides with things like this, it was a valuable lesson and reminder for me that they can do it. I need to not be a perfectionist and give them more responsibility. activities With us being on spring break this coming week, I'm still mulling over specifics, but some ideas are:
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