CHRISTMAS 2012 (13th 6 day week)

     

Five of the six days in "week 13" came before the holiday break from December 24, 2012, through January 2, 2013.  One library event that the librarian, Annette Nicolay, had done was to play "BINGO" using Smarties as the board tokens.  I had many, many requests for this, so we spent the days surrounding the holiday break doing exactly that - listening to Clement C. Moore's Night Before Christmas and playing Christmas BINGO with Smarties.





    It was a very popular week.



There was a day 6 the day we returned, January 3rd, and the classes (grades 3-5) didn't mind doing Christmas BINGO at all.


Grades K-2 listened to a toy version of Santa read The Night Before Christmas and we discussed how some of the library's copies of this book only had illustrators names on the covers because the actual poem was written by Clement C. Moore.  We talked about how we could use that poem and do our own illustrations and publish a book, just like the many illustrators of the library's copies had.


Grades K-2 also had coloring pages of Santa "laying his finger aside of his nose" to color while the tables took turns choosing books to check out.  In addition to that coloring page, the library had lots of Christmas coloring pages available and Christmas word searches.