Hi! Here are the ideas I have received so far:
If you are elementary you could do “Count on a good
book” – then use Dust jackets or print cutely on
computer the book titles that include the Numbers 0-10
25-50-75-100-1,000,000 – choose the books that your
library has in its possession. You could also expand
on the read across America theme from ALA and have a
map of the United States. Choose some of your
children’s favorite authors and use yarn to connect
the author’s picture to where they are from. Great
way to encourage map skills. I have one more that
ties in to this year’s election. Vote yes to reading.
have some of the different genres labeled on the
board. Children can suggest books to go underneath
each genre. At the end of the year, the students can
vote on the best book per genre.
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I’d like to work on a “Library Word Wall” with library
vocabulary. There’s a big push for learning the
vocabulary of each discipline, so that might be a good
one for the year.
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Our yearlong reading theme two years ago was Books in
Bloom: A Garden of Genres. Each month we focus on a
specific genre. Students turn in contracts for books
they’ve read for that month’s genre and they receive a
sticker to place on the bulletin board in the area for
that genre. You could use the concept and have
students add titles to the board. I’ve attached a
picture of the bulletin board to start with and how it
looked after Oct.
I made the stone wall borders using scrapbook paper
and cutting it and laminating it. We also have an
diecut machine with shapes that I used (including the
seed packets for each genre with cut out of catalog
book covers for each genre, and popsicle sticks taped
to them). If you have other questions, just let me
know.
Web sites for each of the genre are available on
this page
http://www.websterschools.org/classrooms/state_library/genres.html
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Perhaps with the upcoming election looming, an “Elect
to Read” or “Vote for Books” theme and have the same
kind of idea with the books from each genre added by
tally sheet or something. I intend to have that
bulletin board up until at least January anyway.
Another idea I saw was the Lay’s potato chip theme,
had an owl eating a bag of chips (books entitled
“Books, can’t read just one” with all different
genres…..I may use that the other half of the year.
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One year I did a basic tree design: added leaves or
took them off, made ornaments, hearts, etc.
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A really simple one that I use as a display not a
bulletin board is “Check these Out!” and then I keep
displayed there new books. You could put up book
jackets of new books or book reviews that students
write, book posters, etc.
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I did a simple one that I left up the entire year.
The bulletin board read, “All of Emerson (our school
name) Reads.” I had pictures of every staff member
reading something….book, magazine, to their class,
etc. It was a big hit with everyone…staff, parents,
and students.
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I’m starting out with a election theme. After
November I’m doing Step Into a Good Book. I’m
gathering odd and funny shoes to hang with fishing
line and tacks. I’ll use cut outs of shoes for
genres.
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Last year I did a very striking board. I posed
students and staff so all we could see was the title
of the book and and their eyes. I did black and white
photos enlarged to about 4×5 put it up on a black
background. Guess Who’s Been Caught Reading? for the
title. Dye cut cameras added in grey. I didn’t plan
it– but the children with glasses looked so cute.
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I found the cutest puppy – sheepdog really with no
eyes showing. I used our opaque machine and chalked
him and used the caption “We’re gonna have a dog-gone
great year!” I made huge dog bones and placed them
around him with mini-posters of what we’re going to be
doing this year. I usually try to change the board
monthly, but this will hold me until October, anyway -
and you could use it all year if you like
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1.- letter the words “Hooked on Books” on the bulletin
board. The background can look like the ocean and be
however fancy you want to make it. You can solicit
kids to make fish to decorate it. I read “Rainbow
Fish” to our K-3 kids and had them draw on coffee
filters with magic makers, fold them and put the point
in water – the color spreads across the filters and
make beautiful designs. Then we painted on glitter to
make the scales. They make a beautiful background.
Then make fishing poles out of dowel sticks (tie on
string and instead of a hook, tie on a bulldog clip).
Attach several of these (depending on the length of
your BB) across the top of the BB and clip book
jackets to them. Then you can just change them
periodically -to match an author study, to match a
theme, to match a season, etc.
2- put a generic BB border (such as the names of the
months of the year or seasons or holidays) then add
book jackets, or pictures of authors with birthdays
during a given month, or book jacket displays of new
book arrivals, book or library trivia, etc.
3 – I used fabric and make the BB look like a window
with curtains hanging. I pulled back and fastened the
curtains to the sides of the BB and then lettered
“Presenting…”. Each month or 6 weeks, I would put
up the name and picture of an author along with book
jackets and some relevant facts about the author, list
of books written, famous characters, etc.
4- I put up some generic BB borders related to
reading. On the BB I put up categories such as Book
of the Month with author’s name and book jacket (for
our Book Club), library trivia (who was our library
named for? What was the name of our first librarian?
etc.), Announcements, New Arrivals, inspirational
quotes, Websites to check out (list author’s websites,
book review sites for kids, other book or literacy
related sites for kids), Review that Book – list a
book title and author (picture or book jacket if
possible) and have slips of paper in an envelope for
students to take and rate the book after they have
read it. They can rate it with a star system, a
thumbs up or down system, etc. Then you can collect
these book reviews and put the info on the library
webpage.
5- make a library word wall. Each week or so, follow
the alphabet and put up a new word related to the
library and/or to books- one for each letter of the
alphabet. You can also solicit suggestions from the
kids and staff and add to the BB. That way the BB
format stays up all year, you just add new word.
(a=author, b=biography, c=catalog, d=donation,…)
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I’m doing a similar idea with Dive Into A Good Book
with Treasure Chest Genres.
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How about Transport yourself with a Good book? You
can transport to another place, to another time, with
facts and with emotions for example. you can have
students read books looking for modes of
transportation used in the book and add a clip art of
a car, truck,bike, plane etc with the book title on
it.
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How about “Get caught
