Scholastic Book Fair

Today, I helped Mrs. Deep start setting up for the Scholastic Book Fair. Mrs. Deep gets 7 tall rolling carts full of Scholastic Books. Additionally, they send her more books in cardboard boxes. Mrs. Deep has figured out a system that really works for her patrons. First, Mrs. Deep takes a picture of the contents of the shelves to ensure that she puts the remaining books back where Scholastic put them. Then, Mrs. Deep takes the books off the shelves, one at a time. She rearranges the books by price. The reason for this is so that the students, especially the younger students, come in, they are able to easily purchase and find a book that they are able to buy. Mrs. Deep said that it took her a while to figure this out. This is what I helped her do today. We took two shelves, took the books off of them, arranged them by price, and re-shelved them. Then, I took tape and marked how much the books were on the shelf under the book. This really helps the Bookfair move more fluently.

After we organized the shelves and put the prices under the books, we looked at the Scholastic Bookfair brochure that went home with the students last week. Mrs. Deep said that a LOT of students come in searching for a specific book that was in the magazine. Mrs. Deep learned that the easiest way to keep track of the book's location on the shelves is to keep a copy of the brochure and label where the books are located on the shelves. She labels them using the SAME stickers that she uses for the lexiles out in the library. How smart is that!? For example, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" is sky blue in our library. She would put a sky blue sticker on the brochure and a sky blue sticker under the book on the book shelf. This enables her to find the book quickly when a student asks for it. It also allows the students to know that that book is, or is not, on their current lexile level.