Bundles of New Bundles

I have been working hard on creating some new bundles in my TpT store.  I have bundled several themes into super bundles to help you save on these awesome products.

Winter Themed Super Bundle

This bundle includes winter themed display signs, bookmarks and both the call number and shelf order centers.  Click HERE to view this bundle.

Valentine's Day Themed Super Bundle

This bundle includes Valentine's Day themed display signs, bookmarks, the Love to Read Month pack with display signs and centers, and both red and white call number and shelf order centers.  Click HERE to view this bundle.

St. Patrick's Day Themed Super Bundle

This bundle includes St. Patrick's Day themed display signs, bookmarks, both the call number and shelf order centers.  Click HERE to view this bundle.

Spring Themed Super Bundle

This bundle includes spring themed display signs and 4 different themed sets of bookmarks.  Click HERE to view this bundle.

Genre Super Bundle

And finally, the genre bundle (which is the most bang for your buck) is truly a SUPER bundle.  This bundle includes the Genre Mega Pack that includes posters, bookmarks, and secret symbols for 28 different genres.  It also includes the genre sort activity, both genre detective activities, and both the 2nd-3rd and 4th -6th Mystery genre intro and activity.   In addition, there are 2 FREE genre activities in a BONUS file!  This bundle is really SUPER!  Click HERE to view this bundle.

I hope you enjoy these new SUPER bundles!

St. Patrick's Day Resources

St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner.  Here are some St. Patrick's Day resources I have created that you might like to use in your Library/Media Center.

If you need center ideas for St. Patrick's Day, this St. Patrick's Day call number sorting center may fit your needs.  Students practice sorting call numbers into their correct section: Easy (or Everyboday, Everyone), Fiction, or Nonfiction.  Click HERE to view this resource in my TpT store.

Or try this St. Patrick's Day themed shelf order center where students practice putting call number cards in correct shelf order.  This center pack includes cards for Easy (or Everybody/Everyone), Fiction, and Nonfiction.  You can view this resource HERE in my TpT store.

If you're looking for bookmarks, check out these free St. Patrick's Day bookmarks.  This product includes 2 different bookmarks- four to a page; one page is full color and one page is black and white for your students to color.  Click HERE to download this freebie from my TpT store.

If you want more bookmarks to choose from,  this product includes 32 bookmarks,  16 colored bookmarks and 16 black and white bookmarks for your students to color.  Click HERE to view this resource in my TpT store.

And if you're looking for a fun way to promote books during March, check out these fun St. Patrick's Day signs for your Library or Media Center.  You can view them HERE in my TpT store.

Are you planning anything special for St. Patrick's Day?

February is Love to Read Month

We are celebrating reading this month as February is Love to Read Month.

Here are some fun way we've been celebrating reading.

We kicked off February with our Spring Book Fair.  

The Book Fair is always so much fun and our students love getting new books to read.

And for the next two weeks, our students participated and continue to participate in our Love to Read Month centers.

Here is what our centers look like:

Amazing ABC Order

Students use Styrofoam cups that have authors' names written on them to stack the cups in ABC order. They can then check their answers to see if they were correct.

I Spy

Students look for library words hidden in rice.  I use a small orange juice bottle to put the rice in.  I copy the words on to cardstock, laminate it and cut them out.  Then I place the words into the bottle with the rice.  Students have to shake the bottle in order to find the words.   When they find a word, they write it down. They try to find as many words as they can.

Book Words

Using magnetic letter tiles, students spell as many words as they can think of that have to do with books and reading.  They write their words down on a recording sheet.

Book Love

Students write about their favorite book.  These slips are then put onto our special bulletin board in the hallway for everyone to read.  Hopefully someone will find a new book to read based on what other students love.

Create-a-Bookmark

Student create and color their own bookmarks to keep or give away.

Puzzles

Students work on completing puzzles with a book theme.

Name That Book

Students try to guess the book that has been shredded.  (Don't worry.  This was a book that had sever water damage and could no longer circulate.)

And to tie it all together, I created a special bulletin board of our most favorite reads based on circulation for the past year.  I just love how it turned out.

I have put all of these center signs, forms, and bulletin board display signs in a packet.  You can purchase this packet in my TpT store HERE or in my Teacher's Dojo store by clicking HERE.

Are you celebrating Love to Read Month?  I'd love to hear about it.  Drop me a line in the comments and let me know.

Super Bowl Fun in the Media Center

It's almost Super Bowl Sunday!  Are your students getting excited about the big game? Why not bring in some pregame excitement to the Media Center?

These fun library centers will help your students practice shelf order and call numbers in a fun way.

This center has students sort call numbers into the main sections they would fit into- Easy (or Everybody, Everyone), Fiction, and Nonfiction.  You can check out this center HERE in my TpT store OR  HERE in my Teacher's Dojo store.

This center allows students to practice putting call numbers in shelf order.  It includes an easy, average, and a challenge level so even your upper elementary students will be challenged.  You can check out this center HERE in my TpT store OR  HERE in my Teacher's Dojo store.

Or you can get the bundle of these two centers and save. Click HERE to view them in my TpT store.

To make these centers even more fun, you can play them Minute to Win It style.  Make several sets and have groups or tables compete to put the cards in the correct order in just one minute.  The kids love it and they are learning at the same time!

Are you doing anything special for Super Bowl Sunday?

Football Fun

It's almost Super Bowl time so it's the perfect time for some football themed centers.

This week, second graders practiced shelf order with my football themed shelf order center.  I first reviewed how and why books are organized in the Media Center and then we moved to tables to practice shelf order.

To make it more like a game, we played the center in Minute to Win It style.  I set a timer I found on YouTube and students raced to be the first to finish putting cards in the correct order.  We played it several times and they begged to play it again.  It was a big hit!

You can purchase a copy of my football themed shelf order centers in my TpT store. There are three different levels of difficulty in this center: easy, average and challenge. Click HERE to see it now.

I also have a football themed call number sorting center.  This center asks students to separate their cards by call number type.  Click HERE to see it now.

Are you doing anything special to celebrate the Super Bowl in your Media Center?  Let me know in the comments below.  =)

Super Bowl Fun

                        Call Number Sorting Center                                 Shelf Order Center

With the Super Bowl coming up next weekend, I brought out these fun shelf order centers last week.

These Call Number Puzzles from Jennifer Siderius also make for a fun center.  At least one puzzle has a sports theme.

We played a game of Minute to Win It to see if they could sort the cards in one minute.  It made it really fun.  Not too many finished, but they all enjoyed it.  I used the fact that not many finished to point out the importance of using a shelf marker to keep books in order otherwise they could end up like a big unorganized mess...like their sorting cards were before they put them in order.

You can find these DEMCO book-stops HERE.

I retaught students about the sports and leisure genre and reminded them where the non-fiction sports books and biographies are.  I also book talked some of the fiction sports books we have in our collection.

Although it is usually a pretty popular non-fiction section, the 700s were even more heavily checked out last week.  Hopefully that trend will continue.  Sometimes it just takes a little reminder.

We also just received a shipment of 170 new non-fiction books.  I will be working frantically to get them shelf ready and into my patrons' hands as soon as possible.

Always a fun time in the media center! What's going on in your media center this week?

St. Patrick's Day Fun

You may or may not know that I sort of have an obsession with purchasing clipart.  So of course I had to make something with my lastest purchases.  I've spent my last few days of mid-winter break making some fun signs and activities for St. Patrick's Day.  

I made some new shelf signs for book displays.  I used some cute clipart from A Sketchy Guy.  I love his fun leprechauns.  You can get these signs HERE in my TpT store.

And because my call number sorting center and shelf order center were such big hits, I decided to make them with a St. Patrick's Day theme.

You can get the call number sort center HERE in my TpT store.

You can get the shelf order center HERE in my TpT store.

All 3 products will be 50% for the rest of today.  =)

Happy Sunday!