CLASSROOM LIBRARY PROJECT

These last weeks we have prepared a Project related to a library in the school, the idea was to create a library and present it to the school to be passed.

Our project was created thinking in a bilingual public school for first cycle of Primary Education students. The library project is related to English subject but the materials are going to be prepared in Arts & Crafts.

The project is called the Magic trip. We call it this way because it is related to a bus. The project is decorated with a bus stop and a bus.

We are going to create a big bus with continuous paper, each window will have a photograph of a child and a bus ticket (reading report), children will place a sticker on their window when they finish their book. Depending on their opinions the sticker will be green or red; green if they liked the book, red if they didn’t like it. The teacher will give a personalized diploma to the child when s/he gets 10 stickers.

The driver is going to be one child per week, s/he is going to give and to collect their classmates’ books, they have to supervise the notebook of control, where the name of the book that the children have is written.

The bus ticket contains reading reports where the kids have to complete:

Driver (author):

Destination (book’s name):

Line (collection):

What I liked less is…

What I liked the most is…

Drawing:

The shelves are going to be decorated like a bus stop.

To link the bus and the shelves we are going to create a road where the children are going to write the words that they did not understand. There is going to be a card with the name of all the books where the students have to write one word related to the book, it cannot be repeated. At the end of the year the teacher is going to select two different books and in groups the students will create a story.

SPACE:

The library is situated at the back corner of the class and the posters at the back next to it.

MATERIALS:

-Shelves.

-Colours cards.

-Cardboard.

-Continuous paper.

- Water colours.

-60 books.

-Notebook of control.

      

          BOOKS:

       Each child has to bring at least one English book to the library; these books have to be approved by the teacher. In addition, the school is going to provide with some extra books from the Usborne collection, first reading levels one and two. For example:

1. The Wish Fish.
2. The Lion and The Mouse.
3. On The Moon.

BUDGET:

The shelves are part of the class equipment. Some of the materials needed to decorate and create the resources are proportionate by the school and the others are bought with the cooperative money of the class.

The books bought by the school are cheap, they cost around 2.50€ per book. The total cost of the books is about 50 €.

What are the steps to pass a project in a school?

1.       Meeting with your cycle colleagues where the project must be passed.

2.       The management team has to pass the project too.

3.       The project is included in the school “Planificación general anual”, this document is passed and the project can start to be prepared.

If the project comes up at mid-year, it is going to be passed by the “Comisión de Coordinación Pedagógica”.

I think that this project is very motivating to children, where they have to participate in all the tasks. The main aim is that the children read along in English or Spanish.