Classroom Book Swap

This month I would like to coordinate a classroom book swap as another way to recognize March is Reading Month.

A book swap goes like this:

1. Students bring into the classroom books they would like to turn in for trade.  The donated books can be any kind, but the more chapter books we donate, the better the swap will go.  (If we have all picture books it won't be as much fun...although we could let our K buddies  browse the picture books that are turned in for the swap.)  I will also be bringing in books from home as well as cleaning out the classroom shelves!
2. A parent volunteer (any takers?) and I will sort the books into genre categories the day of donation.
3. The next day,students will get to pick up to six books to take home as theirs!  (If students bring in LESS than 6, they will get to pick the number they donated.)
4. The rest of the leftover books will be donated to the West Ottawa Book Mobile.

**Students wondered about magazines.  These would be fine, although I think magazines should only be traded for magazines.  That means students will not be able to bring in ONLY magazines and then take home books.  Magazines such as Sports Illustrated for Kids, Muse, etc. would be wonderful!  (Students should not bring back to school the classroom National Geographic magazines.)

**Books for the swap should be restricted to books such as fantasy, historical fiction, realistic fiction, classics, adventure, mystery, etc.  Please DO NOT bring in video game "codebreaker" books and the like, I do want to keep the focus on literature.  Nonfiction books are wonderful, too.

I was hoping to do the book swap the last week of school before Spring Break.  Let's have books submitted by March 27 and we'll do the trade on the 28th--the last day before Spring Break.  On this day we'll trade and celebrate by spending time READING our new books!

--Mrs. Perrien