Gotta Make It Personal

One of the things that I have noticed, is that kids love to see people they know on posters, walls and well just stuff.  My school has a pretty awesome poster maker.  Trust me, I am the last person that I want to see blown up, but since it is my library, I had to take it on.  I took my picture and photoshopped a book onto it. I emailed the picture to the computer that we use to upload pictures for the poster maker.  I ran off about a 20 by 18 image of the image and laminated it for protection.  I cut it out and I use it on a stand with recommended books for the kids to read.  If your ok with putting yourself out there, then do it.  The kids love it.

Incentives?

I wanted to do an incentive this year for the kids who were bringing their library books back each week.  I found these cool looking library cards, and copied them onto different colors. A different color for each grade level.  I made one for each class. Each teacher has agreed to put their students names on each one for me.  I'll keep the cards in the library for them.  Sooooooo, what do I do with them?  Ill hand the kids their cards before they find their books. When they find the books they want, they will write the names of the books on the lines.  I'll collect them at check out ( the cards).  The next class time, as they check their books into me, I'll have the teacher hole punch beside the books that are brought back to me.  If they get seven out of the nine punches, I will reward them. Wow it's sounds pretty complicated after writing this, but, I am going to give this a try.