conorsmom2000
11-21-2007, 09:11 AM
Every year our school does a Read-A-Thon. We pick a theme, which has to be able to incorporate 7 stations - the Read-A-Thon lasts 9 weeks and as the kids read so many books (for K-2) or so many pages (3rd to 5th grade) they move to a station and get a small prize.
We have a huge wall that gets decorated with the theme, and the kids have cards that also fit the theme, with their names on it, that move around the board. Last years theme was Monopoly - the woman who did it was amazing! The wall was a huge monopoly board and all the "places" were teachers names, class names, the custodians, secretary, etc. Each grades cards were a playing piece (like Con's class was the dog, someone else was the hat....)
So, this year it looks like the theme is going to be Favorite Storybook Characters/Series. (Sad to say the Disney and Pirates of the Caribbean suggestions only got one vote each! :( ) If this Storybook one does win, we'll go to the Teachers and ask them to pick a favorite series for their grade level (so, for example, 1st grade might pick Junie B. Jones and that would be a station, 3rd grade might pick Magic Treehouse, so that would be a station....) That would give us 6 stations and then we'll ask the Principal to pick the final station with his favorite series of books.
So, what I need help with is giving this a title - something that incorporates the idea that these are favorite series and possibly the idea that you might start out with Clifford, but end up at Harry Potter - is that making sense? I thought of something like A "Series" of steps through Reading but I don't really like using the word "steps"...but, that's the kind of idea that I'm looking for. I'm not sure what I'll do for their cards yet - depending on the title I might use something from that (like if we did use the word steps, their cards could have footprints on them) or we could just use characters from their grades series....
I hope I haven't lost all of you by this point! But, can anyone think of a clever title? :blush:
We have a huge wall that gets decorated with the theme, and the kids have cards that also fit the theme, with their names on it, that move around the board. Last years theme was Monopoly - the woman who did it was amazing! The wall was a huge monopoly board and all the "places" were teachers names, class names, the custodians, secretary, etc. Each grades cards were a playing piece (like Con's class was the dog, someone else was the hat....)
So, this year it looks like the theme is going to be Favorite Storybook Characters/Series. (Sad to say the Disney and Pirates of the Caribbean suggestions only got one vote each! :( ) If this Storybook one does win, we'll go to the Teachers and ask them to pick a favorite series for their grade level (so, for example, 1st grade might pick Junie B. Jones and that would be a station, 3rd grade might pick Magic Treehouse, so that would be a station....) That would give us 6 stations and then we'll ask the Principal to pick the final station with his favorite series of books.
So, what I need help with is giving this a title - something that incorporates the idea that these are favorite series and possibly the idea that you might start out with Clifford, but end up at Harry Potter - is that making sense? I thought of something like A "Series" of steps through Reading but I don't really like using the word "steps"...but, that's the kind of idea that I'm looking for. I'm not sure what I'll do for their cards yet - depending on the title I might use something from that (like if we did use the word steps, their cards could have footprints on them) or we could just use characters from their grades series....
I hope I haven't lost all of you by this point! But, can anyone think of a clever title? :blush: