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- 1. “Check us out!” Prairie Meadows Grant for Bondurant-Farrar Community School Library
- 2. “CHECK US OUT!”The Bondurant-Farrar Libraries were lucky enough to receive a grant from Prairie Meadows for $8,000 for our “Check Us Out!” project.
- 3. “CHECK US OUT!”Old books were weeded, new books were added, and a celebration of reading was planned for each of the libraries.
- 4. First we needed to promote the project…
- 5. Ridin’ the Bus…I rode the bus to share the good news.
- 6. 7:00amThe buses leave about
- 8. I rode each of the 11 buses……I promoted all the new books we were to receive in each library……and had a BLAST!
- 9. I gave away bookmarksto get them interested.
- 10. Students of all ages werevery interested in the new books coming to their libraries!
- 11. …to party!Then we were ready
- 12. Anderson ElementarySchoolcelebrates new books and reading!
- 13. Students matched pieces of the poster puzzle with numbers to create a picture!“Reading counts in the Library!”
- 14. Library staff READ!Mrs. Reifert
- 15. Kids READ!
- 16. Books were everywhere...We shared gobs of stickers and scratch-n- sniff bookmarks to aid in providing a party atmosphere!
- 17. Many titles to READ! (over 300 in the elementary)
- 18. Bondurant-FarrarMiddleSchoolcelebrates new books and reading!
- 19. Mrs. Hackett and Mr. Skinner kicked off the fun.“Clowning around in the Library!”
- 21. Students read…...sometimes together,sometimes the same title!
- 22. Classes came to the library to see the new books.
- 23. And then they read…
- 25. And promoted titles and series by writing all over our covered tables.
- 26. Bondurant-Farrar High Schoolcelebrates new books and reading!
- 27. “Be a sucker for a GOOD BOOK!”
- 29. Mrs. Turk prepared hundreds and hundreds of books.Boxes of books!
- 31. Books and suckers and readers were everywhere!
- 32. Many thanks to Prairie Meadows for fulfilling our grant request for $8,000.Through this grant we have been able to do some updating to collections in our libraries. The celebrations were an added plus!Gail Hackett - librarian