Readbox Poster!

This year I'm all about getting more kids to come into the library. I created a board in Pinterest of all the great things other library media specialists and teachers have been doing in their libraries/classrooms. I came across this PInterest pin from Lessons With Laughter...

...and thought...what a great idea! 

I had to improvise with my background because we didn't have red bulletin board paper and the order that went in the previous week I was waiting for didn't include "red". I had some "red paper" so I decided to use that instead. With a little elbow work and tape...this is what I came up with. 

I couldn't find any "white" letters, nor would my printer "print" white letters so I decided to just go with black and it actually ended up turning out okay. 

After that I decided what books to use. They had to be available in my library media center, of course, but I also wanted books that had book trailers so I could include a QR code with each of the books. 

I'm hoping that added technology aspect will entice the students to come on in and check out the book. 

This is the end product! 

What do you think? What ideas have you used to entice students into your library media center? 

Note: I did laminate the "Readbox" background. I plan to leave it up and change the books out every couple of weeks. I also laminated the book covers so I can use those again as well. If we end up getting some red bulletin board paper some time this year, I might do this project over but for right now, I like what I came up with. 

The Book Junkie

Growing To Do List

This is the first official post of Confessions of a Book Junkie! Yay! At the end of last year I decided that I wanted to do a lot of new things this year but I knew if I really wanted to accomplish them, I'd have to create a running To Do List to keep myself focused. Even though I've been able to cross a few things off that TDL (including creating this blog), it's been growing since that time. Which is a good thing I think. The overall goal of my TDL is to get my 9th graders excited about reading. These are a few of the things I've gotten done.

• Update my beginning of school year student survey
• Update my beginning of the school year teacher survey
• Create my Wildcat Review Blog
• Create my Confessions of a Book Junkie Blog
• Create my Wildcat Virtual Book Club Blog

 I have several ongoing/uncompleted projects:

• Library Orientation QR Code Scavenger Hunt
• Bookmarks with QR Code link to Review Blog
• QR Codes Codes for Book Trailers

Can you tell I'm obsessed with QR Codes? And Pinterest! I've gotten soooo many good ideas from Pinterest this summer that I'm trying to incorporate into my library.

What am I working on today? A reading log! I've done a reading log before, but all I did was "list" the books I read and post them on my door. What I'm going to do this year is actually post "pictures" of the covers of the book. Of course I got this idea from Pinterest. I think the visual will be more effective and hopefully inspire my students to read!

Unfortunately I'm waiting for more laminating film so I can laminate my book covers before I put them up. But, I've already printed and cut them out so I'm ready as soon as the film gets in! 

I'll be sure to post a pic when I get it all up!

UPDATE!!! I finally got my "picture book log" up. What do you think? I'll add more books as I read. 

On to my next project....a "Read Box!"
Have a great year!
The Book Junkie