RTR LIBRARY!

HELLO MY BLOGGERS!

To be honest, I did not have any idea about what to talk this time about. After thinking for a big while, I decided to talk about the library project that my group and I designed. I think that it is a very good one and even if we already showed it to you, as I endear it, I am going to give you further information just in case some things weren’t very clear.

First of all, our library is called RTR. This is because it is Ready to Read since it consists on a mobile library, being easily moved from class to class or even to the playground or any space at the school. This way the same library could be used by every class participating in the project.

As you might remember, our library had three shelves with for boxes in each one. These boxes would be made with shoes carton boxes and covered with different color papers. Each color represents a genre which has a poster of that color on the notes board. This way children could paste post-its with their comments there, and also the next learner who is willing to read a book can see the comments made on it.

Then, I would like to mention how we planned to get our books from. Firstly, at the beginning of the course, we would ask to the children to buy one different book each one and bring it to school taking into account that the teacher made a list before including appropriate books) Moreover, teachers would also assign one to each child, in order to not have the same book twice. Secondly, pupils would have as homework, to write what they have done during the summer, Christmas, Easter… Then, the teacher would collect all of them and build for example, The Summer book of the class and so on. The teacher will build the book making holes on the pages and joining them with wool. Then they will be on a box on the worktop. Thirdly, we would also ask older children from the school to donate their books from when they were younger, and finally, the teacher would also ask for some books to some English Texbooks Publishers.

Lastly, I would like to talk about some of the activities we thought of. One of them consist on pasting a sticker on the books when students finish reading it. They would paste a star sticker if they have read it and a heart sticker if they have read it and also liked it. This way at the end of the course, it would be noticeable to know which book has been more read and the favorite one. This way, at the end of the course, children will represent the story of their favorite book to their parents as a play. Another one, which I really endear is based on the idea where students from 2nd course write on a template which book they will like to read to a younger child and students from 1st course will write on another template which book they will like to hear from an older student. This way, once a month the teacher will open the mailbox and choose (from a raffle) from those children that picked the same book, a couple to go together the break and read the book.

To end, I would like to mention that I think you all made a great job with this project. Congratulations! You all had brilliant ideas and you know what? I think that if we all were working at the same school, children will enjoy going to school very much, don’t you think so?