Today is the last day of my holidays and the moment has come when I face up to all things left undone! I don't remember at what point I started to think that certain things could be done on Monday and Tuesday because I had a very light time table those days. However, the number of things I have relegated to Monday and Tuesday are rising! I do realise now that I probably won't be able to do everything next week so today I will have to get down it and do some work. Once I do, I will feel so much better and it always goes so much more quickly than I expect. It's sad but despite the fact that this has happened before, I still keep doing it!
So the work for today is:
1. Red Nose Bake off entry forms
2. Red Nose Joke competition entry forms
3. Grade 11 workshop outline
Well, not as much as I thought and that give credence to my belief that what I have left to do is never as much as I think it is!
To other matters! Tomorrow, I will start my campaign to get students in grades 6 and 7 (11-13 year olds) involved in Battle of the Books. I have chosen 20 titles, both fiction and non-fiction, and including graphic novels and novels written in languages other than English.
Students will try to read as many as they can between now and mid June when we will have a team competition with questions on the books (rather like a pub quiz). The winning team members will each get a book prize and the whole team will be treated to a pizza lunch. I don't know if this is enough of an incentive but we have very competitive students so that alone should do it!
The titles of the books I have chosen are:
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (Samurai Mysteries (Paperback) Dorothy Hoobler
The Screaming Staircase: Book 1 (Lockwood & Co 1) Jonathan Stroud
The Savage Fortress Sarwat Chadda
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster Deborah Hopkinson,
Spy School Stuart Gibbs,
Moon Over Manifest Clare Vanderpool
Ungifted Gordon Korman
Ranger's Apprentice 1: The Ruins of Gorlan John Flanagan
The Thief (Thief of Eddis) Megan Whalen Turner
Rooftoppers Katherine Rundell,
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library Chris Grabenstein
Three Times Lucky Sheila Turnage
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp Kathi Appelt,
There is also a graphic novel based on the First World War and two or three translations of above books for our students who have a language other than English as their native language. I may also have missed a title or two but the above books are basically it.
I bought 5 copies of each so that I would have close to a hundred. That way there should be one book for every students in grades 6 and 7. To advertise, I will have every class in to the library for a short book talk and check out session and I will do a poster campaign around the school. I will also come up with various event to unfold over the next few months to keep the momentum going.
Wish me luck!
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