Bulletin Boards

We were displaced for the 2017-2018 school year for some major seismic repairs.  We operated outside of a few oversized classrooms, and for the first time ever we had a bulletin board to maintain.  Ms. Jen, one of our awesome assistants, kept it looking good all year long! For back to school she posted words from the mural that we missed from our old library: … Continue reading Bulletin Boards

Banned Books Banners

This year I was inspired by an idea I found on a blog called Flourescent Beige.  The author created giant, amazing banners for Banned Books Week, and we did our best to replicate her amazing design. We taped together pages from old books that were weeded from our collection.  I took them home and laid them out on the garage floor to spray paint the letters … Continue reading Banned Books Banners

Banned Book Week

This Banned Book Week display is definitely one of our most looked at displays. “What?? Why can’t we look at these books? …Why would anyone ban this book?…That’s not fair!!” Lots of questions and opinions and LOTS of interests in those books. We don’t allow them to check out these books during the display week, they really are banned. But there’s always some brisk checkouts … Continue reading Banned Book Week