Dino-Mite Book Fair

We recently finished our spring book fair. Scholastic's spring theme is Dino-Mite Book Fair: Stomp, Chomp, and Read! The outside of the media center became a Jurassic jungle!

The inside of the media center was also decorated to correspond with the theme. This Dino-Mite Book Fair vignette greeted students, staff, and parents when they entered the media center.

After we set up, I held a teacher preview. I served a meat tray for the carnivores, a vegetable tray for the herbivores, chips (dinosaur scales), yogurt covered pretzels (dinosaur bones), and Little Debbie caramel chocolate brownies (dinosaur droppings). Our Scholastic rep came to booktalk some of the titles and she did a drawing for some books.

During this fair, my younger readers loved Sparkly New Friends and The Very Impatient Caterpillar. My older readers loved everything Dog Man, Because of the Rabbit, and Stolen Girl.

Although this was not our most successful book fair ever, we made enough money to purchase a new encoder for our morning news broadcast. I'm already looking forward to the Arctic Adventure book fair in September!