FernFolio

Our annual Book Fair was held last week. Once again, parent volunteers, library assistants and the hundreds of students and parents who visited the fair and bought books made this annual event a terrific success!
Library assistants stapled letters to book fair flyers, and delivered them to classrooms. They put up signs asking for parent volunteers, and posted book fair signs in stairwells and hallways around the school. Two students offered to take around a sign-up sheet for classes to visit the book fair, and paid return visits to teachers who had been away from their classrooms on their first pass. They also gave up recesses and lunch hours to set up for the fair, straighten books, direct children and their parents, and carry out any other task that was asked of them.
Five parents and one high school student volunteered their time to help out during school hours. They sold books, directed traffic, and advised prospective buyers about good books.
One parent, in particular, organized a Library Wish List, and encouraged parents and students to buy books for the library collection. Seven individuals and families purchased a total of thirteen wonderful books, ranging from M is for Mounties, a Canadian alphabet book of the RCMP, to , to wonderful new picture storybooks such as David Shannon’s Too Many Toys.
Our Music Teacher moved out of her classroom for the week, and allowed us to take over her space. A truly generous gesture!
Once again, this year, a retired Teacher-Librarian volunteered his services to run the book fair from Monday to Thursday. He came in and set it up, carting tables from the auditorium for displays, arranged for the cash float, and faxed orders to the book distributor. He was there early on the Friday morning to organize leftover books for pick up.
Last week’s book fair made it possible to purchase $416 of information texts, easy readers, picture storybooks and novels, in both French and English. It will also help to underwrite the cost of running the Boys’ Book Club, the Girls’ Book Club, the Intermediate Book Club, and the Get Caught Reading Program.
Thank you to each and every one of you who made this event such as great success!
FernFolio Editor