[ISLMA-Share] Monarch & Bluestem award feedback

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We set a goal for all of our K-3 classes to read all of the Monarch books.
I read several in the library, and the teachers read somewhere from 5 - 12,
depending on the teachers. Our kindergarten classes do not always take part
in this challenge, although a few  of them do. We begin pretty early in the
fall, so I always play Monarch bingo and do a review game before voting. We
have a teacher or administrator from the district give a book talk on one
of the Bluestems each week from September - December. Then I usually read
the ones that can be read in one or two library sessions, usually 4 or 5.

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On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I do a book talk with the kids in mid October about the Monarchs and then
> give the students and teachers the list of books.  We make weekly
> announcements highlighting certain books to get them interested, and if a
> entire class reads all 20 I go to their class at the end of the year with
> freezie Pops and some fun things to raffle off.  I had so many participate
> last year.
> For Bluestem I share the powerpoint, I give every student the bookmarks
> and as they read they get hole puches in their bookmarks- during voting
> week, they turn in their book marks for raffle tickets for every punch they
> get.  AND we play Bluestem Baseball.  I will be presenting Bluestem
> Baseball at the ISLMA conference this fall.  It is so much fun and the kids
> LOVE IT!!!!
>
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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm making the move to elementary school and I need to pick everyone's
>> brain with how you facilitate both programs at your school.
>>
>> With the Monarch, do you read them aloud? Do you wait to read them until
>> like after winter break so they can remember the titles?
>>
>> With bluestem, do you book talk them to each class? Since that is more
>> independent, do you do a game board with them? Something else? Do something
>> with Google Forms?
>>
>> If you wouldn't mind sharing anything, I would appreciate it!
>>
>> Allison
>> reader4evr at gmail.com
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