After finishing my lunch the other day I had a couple minutes of silence and came up with I Love to REad Canadian for I Love to Read Month.  By the end of the week the idea had ballooned and will now run from mid-January to Feb 28.  Every time I talked with someone about the idea another one jumped in, you could actually see on my face that a new idea had arrived.  It blows my mind how fast and furious the ideas come when they do come.

I Love To Read Canadian

1.      Each picture frame in Library will contain pictures and blurbs on books from specific provinces,  using the excel document of where each book takes place.  Also in each frame will be the statement “I love to read Canadian” and a shape of the province dedicated to that frame.

2.      On the wall across from the circulation desk and front doorway will be the letters which comprise the theme statement “I Love to read Canadian”.  These letters will be 12 “ and in red for Canada

3.      Each student who reads a book by a Canadian author will complete a red strip with the book title and author.  These strips will be used to create the Canadian Flag on the Bulletin Board.  White strips, for those NOT Canadian authors, will be used to fill the background of the flag.  Hopefully we will complete the flag.  This will start January 20, 2014 and end Feb 28, 2014.

4.      I hope to have created bookmarks for each book that takes place in Canada.  Each bookmark will include a picture of the book and blurb or synopsis.  (Lots of work)

5.      I hope to have small Canada flags attached to each Library fiction shelf to draw students attention to the Canada spine label on the spines of the books.  I hope to get multiples of these from  my MP or MLA.

6.      Am considering some kind of draw for students taking part with prizes being Canada key chains , Canada pins, flags, (with the possibility of having a bigger draw for a pair of Canada mittens) etc.

7.      The third Bulletin Board in the Library will be pictures of Canadian authors.  These will be done  in power  point, size ½ page each.  This way they won’t have to be cut, other than trimming the edges, before putting them up on the board.  Contemplating putting the author’s name on the base of the picture.

8.      Haven’t decided the second bulletin board yet.  It is placed outside the Library doors and needs to draw students in.

9.      Survival  Canada   --  Enlarge to full page (power point) a  picture of  a book cover of a Canadian book, On the reverse side print a puzzle . You can either put the clue directly on the puzzle piece or put a number which correlates to a survival question.   Cut out the pieces by frame and fasten each frame to cover stock and each book cover should be laminated.  The pieces should then be cut  out , put a piece of 2 sided scotch tape on the reverse.  Each homeroom  (25 in all) is to receive a different book cover but each classroom receives the same set of questions.   Each day, the homeroom teacher selects one puzzle piece.  When the class solves the question with the correct answer the puzzle piece can be placed into the puzzle frame, being fastened with the 2-sided tape.  The first class to come to the Library with the correct  solution of the book their cover represents will receive popcorn for the class.

The survival questions should be about survival in Canada.

This can be done with Olympics questions (for the Olympics) , Canada trivia or any other trivia questions.

10.    Olympics trivia – each week a trivia question pertaining to the Olympics will be in the Monday announcements.  Students will place their answers in the ballot box in the Library.  Each Friday a draw will be made and the winner will receive a chocolate bar.  This will begin January 6 and continue thru the end of February 2014.