You've Been Book'd With Books For AANHPI Heritage Month, Friends!

 

We celebrate AANHPI (Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander) Heritage Month in May.  

In honor of this special month, I brought together 35 books in this choice board, You've Been Book'd With Books For AANHPI Heritage Month. 

You will find the entire Titlewave list in the choice board.  When you click on a bookcover it will take you to that book in Titlewave too. 

I love using these choice boards as I work on my own collection development in Titlewave. 

I hope you find amazing new books for your library and readers too. 

And if you want to use this choice board as a template, you can push a copy to yourself here, friends.

Check Out This News....Literati Book Fairs Are Expanding Into 14 New States!

We love hosting Literati Book Fairs at our school.  

If you've been waiting for Literati Book Fairs to come to your area, here's some exciting news...Literati is expanding into 14 new states!

A lot of you have reached out asking me to share more about which states are included in this expansion, so I wanted to give you the details I know. 

The new Literati Book Fair states include Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. 

You also asked what I love about Literati Book Fairs. 

To start, there are books from over 150 publishers, simple and quick setup, flexible rewards (book profit, Literati Partner credits, cash, or a mix of all three) awesome digital teacher wishlists, and best of all...no trinkets, just great books that inspire a love of reading. 

And they always have the cutest book fair themes! I can't wait for our book fair this fall as the theme is Campfire Magic.  Our kids get so excited to see what the book fair themes are each season.  

I hope that helped, friends. 

You can reach out to Literati here to learn even more and bring a new book fair to your school and community too.  I know you will love Literati Book Fairs too. 

Have Your Students Create The Library Bookmarks For Next Year With This Fun End-of-the-Year Activity!

 

I have been brainstorming all kinds of fun activities for the fall when we open up our new library in our school.  

I shared the first one today...Create a Bookmark For Our New Library! 

I made a little activity sheet in Canva for this one.  The bookmarks that I like to create and print for our readers are 2 x 6, so I made the template in this sheet exactly 2 x 6 too. 

I included an explanation of the bookmark activity and contest, giving teachers and students due dates and details. 

With 7 days of schools left, our teachers love these type of activities as they work in a lot of fun at the end of the school year.  

I also created an activity template called Create a Bookmark For Our New Year that anyone can do for the upcoming school year.  

You will find both of these templates here at this link in Canva.

On the other side of the bookmarks I will add our library information as I always do to kick off the new year.  I include a QR code and bit.ly to our library website, Destiny Discover, technology we use, and a few library tips.  

I can't wait to see what our students create this week. Hope you are having a fun end of the school year too, friends.