February 10, 2009
2 hours
For the past few months, Lisa, other teachers & tons of students have been planning for The Wizard of Oz book fair. This is the second book fair for this school year; the decision to hold a second was influenced by Scholastic’s Middle School National Contest. The first place prize: $2,000 shopping spree at a Scholastic Book Fairs warehouse and a visit from Michael Phelps.
Everyone has been working incredibly hard to organize this book fair. Everything emulates the movie: the yellow brick road, the field of poppies and then arriving at the Emerald City gym (which hosted the book fair.) This book fair was held in conjunction with Parent / Teacher conferences on Tuesday as well as the book fairs “family night” on Wednesday. Family night includes showing the movie, $5.00 dinner (that is donated food from local eateries) and book reading.
Everyone’s focus is on Wednesday leaving Lisa with NO volunteers for Tuesday night – NONE. I volunteered to come in as it would be a great time to ask LOTS of questions about planning a book fair. Lisa & I talked about working with Scholastic, ordering books, returning books, using profits and so much more. It was a crash course in book fairs.
31.5 of 100 hours completed
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