paigepea
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Post by paigepea on May 18, 2017 13:19:04 GMT
Just wondering. So far my dd (grade 3) has had PJ and stuffy day. The teachers dressed as their favourite character from a book day. And yesterday they had a postman speak to them. Today the older class is hosting a book sale from donated books (in the past it has been a book exchange - bring a book take a book).
As an English teacher I think there are so many school wide initiatives that could be done for literacy week. I have to say that I don't get the postman. I understand that he delivers the letters but he doesn't write them. Am I being a debbie downer because I wish they'd put more thought into literacy week or am I right about the postman?
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Post by refugeepea on May 18, 2017 13:27:05 GMT
What's stuffy?
The postman wouldn't bother me. It encourages letter writing. I know there's a day where during the afternoon older students help younger students read or they read to them. There's a literacy night. They do something with Dr. Seuss. I honestly don't pay too much attention to everything the school does because my son doesn't read books and he goes part time.
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Post by anonrefugee on May 18, 2017 13:36:25 GMT
Is your school celebrating it this week? That's far to close to end of school for us. Our elementary does something earlier (April?) for Library Week.
I mean this gently. But these are the kind of events where parent volunteers can or should get involved to help if you don't feel it's up to par.
We have:had an excellent linbrarian, who was enthusiastic about any chance to decorate and celebrate. When she had cancer it was crushing for her to think she'd let the kids down. Library Volunteers, PTA, and parents who normally did little stepped up to provide the same quality she did.
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Post by monklady123 on May 18, 2017 13:48:46 GMT
I'm not sure the school where I sub does a literacy "week". I know they have a day for Dr. Seuss's birthday, which includes a book swap. Parents send in books over a few weeks then every class gets a chance to come down and pick a book. The librarian gives the leftovers to our Reach for Reading program which is a monthly thing held in the evening for second-language families.
We do a Biography Day -- everyone reads a biography the week or so before the day, then on the actual day the 4th grade dresses up as their person and parades through the school holding signs to say who they are.
We have Letter Writing Week where everyone -- kids and teachers -- is encouraged to write a letter to someone and then share the reply they get if they do get one.
We have Author Day when we get a real live children's book author to come talk to the kids. I forget the name of the one who came this year but she was excellent. I was impressed by her ability to change her talk for the different grade levels while still talking about the same books.
I'm sure there are a couple more that I'm missing. But it's not all crammed into one week, and the activities are certainly not this close to the end of the school year. Even though we have an entire MONTH left of school our kids are in the middle of the #$*&&#@%#&$ standardized tests.
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Post by mrsscrapdiva on May 18, 2017 14:39:14 GMT
Our elementary school used to do a lot and this year...not much at all. I am not sure who was at the "meeting" that was not made public or why they made these decisions (briefly discussed at PTO) They decided to do a library café which was poorly communicated to parents. Something about kids reading books and coordinating snacks and their parents could come in but it was at like 10:30 - 11:15 am in the middle of the week. I couldn't attend because I had an appointment that day. Also they did an "open house" that you could come into the classroom and see the kids work (mostly creative writing things). But again, middle of the day and less than 1/2 of the parents could come. You could clearly see that the students that their parents could not attend, were very sad (1st graders)
In the past, they had dress as your favorite character day, they have had assemblies with authors reading books, they did a literacy night open house (which I always laughed because it was 3pm - 5pm), they also did a hot dog and bake sale that would run at the same time to raise money for the 5th grade class. Last year we did a book swap and the kids loved it. I volunteered to do it again this year, but I guess they decided not to. They would sometimes coordinate it with spirit week and do a pj day or twin day etc. In many years past, the kids would write their own books and then "publish" them (laminate and bind the book) but that was like a full time job for volunteers in the library so they stopped that.
I know getting parents to volunteer this year has been really difficult. Also maybe with scheduled standardized testing and other things going on at school, they just opted not to do it. I really don't know.
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paigepea
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Post by paigepea on May 18, 2017 15:16:49 GMT
Is your school celebrating it this week? That's far to close to end of school for us. Our elementary does something earlier (April?) for Library Week. I mean this gently. But these are the kind of events where parent volunteers can or should get involved to help if you don't feel it's up to par. We have:had an excellent linbrarian, who was enthusiastic about any chance to decorate and celebrate. When she had cancer it was crushing for her to think she'd let the kids down. Library Volunteers, PTA, and parents who normally did little stepped up to provide the same quality she did. Our school doesn't allow parent involvement in these types of weeks. We're allowed to help woth holiday celebrations, field trips or teacher prep. Our kids are only 3 weeks into term 3. They have 5 weeks left of school. Term 3 is sometimes quick because spring break can be late, and this year it was late. I wish they'd start term 3 before spring break if spring break is late but they don't do it that way. |
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Post by mrssmith on May 19, 2017 17:56:55 GMT
We have a Read-a-Thon where kids can get sponsors and the whole school reads for an hour. Parents are allowed to attend. I don't know how many kids get sponsors outside of parents donating $! The money goes to purchase books for the library. Our school also has "Book Nook" year round. Kids go on a certain day every week and buy a used book for $.25 or a ticket (that they get for good behavior). A lot of kids in our school don't have a lot of books at home.
We don't do a whole literacy week.
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