We recently held our spring book fair. Scholastic is not providing themes for their book fairs at this time. So I decided to use Reading Is Sweet as the theme. Our students, teachers, and parents loved the theme! The bright colors in the decorations looked so happy.
During this fair, I was finally able to have volunteers again! Our parents helped students add up the cost of their selected items and compare the total to the amount of money they had to spend. This helped our line move faster since students already knew they had enough money to buy their items when they got to the register.
Before the fair, a colleague helped me set up eWallet accounts for all of our teachers. I linked these to a special website designed to provide information about the fair. Many of our families donated to the teacher eWallets. The teachers who received donations were able to purchase new books for their classroom libraries. In addition to eWallet links, the website also contained links to the book fair homepage, book highlights, class shopping schedule, and volunteer sign up. Click here to see the website.
To generate excitement about the fair, my PTA had our school spirit rock painted with the book fair theme. Also, I asked a teacher at my school create t-shirts for a parapro who helps out in the media center and myself.
Scholastic is currently experiencing supply chain issues, so we did not have the same amount of books and school supplies to sell that we usually receive. Even so, this book fair was very successful! We made enough money to purchase quite a few new books for the media center.
