Sunday 2 March 2014

Friday my Teacher Librarian was showing a grade 7 class how to use Museum in a box and an idea came to me.  see below.  I can no longer hang bats or butterflies from our ceiling due to restrictions by our division so I had to come up with a new idea for our push on reading in Sept. and Oct.

I have my Teacher Librarians OK and the Vice Principal's OK (I had to go to her for the ok from workplace health and safety).  She was excited to see that I am not only promoting literacy but numeracy as well and suggested using even more shapes.  the items in italics are additional thoughts that I haven't decided upon yet.

for this project I got the cube shape off the internet and everything just fell in to place.



Each student who reads a book is to fill in 1 square of the cube with their name and the book they have read.  Should they rate the book on a scale of 1 to 5?

One student should NOT complete the entire cube.

 When the cube is complete it will be folded and shaped by the library volunteers.

Cubes could be stored in  laundry baskets or basket of some sort for students to sort 
through for recommendations to read.

Cubes could be used to build a shape, such as a cube, in the library. Boys will love building things with the cubes.

At the end of October all of the cubes will be put into a large container and 1 cube will be drawn with all 6 students winning a prize.  We could do a draw at the end of September as well.

Prize could be all the same (i.e. $10.00 Chapters or movie gift card card) or there could be 6 different prizes and the first student to show up gets to choose first, etc. We could do a second cube draw and each winner could get their choice of a chocolate bar.

We could print75 pages of the cube to start giving us 450 books read and print more as needed.  OR   We could print 100 pages of the cube to start giving us 600 books read and print more as needed.  Should we print on cardstock or bond paper?

Students would see the pile of cubes (or shape) growing which would encourage students to read so they can get an entry in the contest.


Students may want to read a book that someone has already recorded and recommended.

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