A coin drive to raise money for books.
A Book Fair to buy the books.
Giving the kids a reason to read.
These past few weeks I've been a busy beaver trying to infect the school with my love of reading. We have a yearly book fair but I wanted to shake things up a bit by adding a coin drive & reading challenge.
The coin drive was a huge success. It was enough that we were able to give teachers extra support to purchase books for their classroom libraries. These purchases just added to the overall book fair totals which meant more cash back for our school's library!
The reading challenge was more complicated then I expected. I gathered the tracking sheets at the end of each day and posted the totals on a banner the next morning. It was slow going at first, but by the end we were oh so close to our goal of 100,000 minutes read. I am still very happy with the results and I know that when we do this again, we will bust through that total!
The funny part of all of this? I've been so busy I haven't been able to read. Thankfully Thanksgiving is right around the corner!
