I know there must be some people thinking I am nuts -- Similarities between cookies and books.  Well here is my schematic.  I have to come up with more similarities but I think I can do it.  My library volunteers will each create a gingerbread man to put on the board and the similarities will be will be typed up and inserted between them.  Hopefully the students who look at the board will come up with some of their own.

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Lately I have become frustrated with the apathy our students have for taking part in contests.  We have been doing a big fall push on reading where each student records the books they read in Sept. & Oct. In past years we have done butterflies, bats, stars, and passports and this year we repeated the butterflies.  Past years have resulted in about 1500 entries (600 students in the school) and this year we had 600.  We are in the process of figuring out which grades/classes took part in this contest and which did not.  The prizes were not extravagent but practical-- first prize was movie passes,  2nd was a McNally Robinson gift card, 3rd was Subway gift card and 4th was Tim Hortons gift card.  I also drew 10 names of students and gave each a $5.00 gift card to our Scholastic Book Fair. (believe it or not, I still have some of them which were not used.)  My Teacher Librarian and I work hard to get students to read.  We have an awesome collection.  Our circulation stats show that the students ARE reading but they aren't filling in the contest entries.  How does one deal with the apathy the students are showing by not entering the contests. This makes me wonder whether we should do any contests in the future.... Any ideas!!!!!!1

I'm doing a bulletin board for the 7 series.  It's going to be a big 7 in the centre of the bulletin board with  lots of 7's around it, such as 7 wonders of the  ancient world,, 7 wonders of the modern world, 7 seas, 7 dwarfs.  these will all be in black and white while I'll put 7 authors, 7 grandsons, 7 cousins, 7 adventures and a few more on color paper to POP off the board.   If you have any suggestions for my January bulletin board I'll be happy to listen.  I'm stumped right now but I hope something will eventually come to me.

December board is the similarities between cookies and books.