“CHECK US OUT!”

PRAIRIE MEADOWS GRANT FOR BONDURANT-FARRAR COMMUNITY

SCHOOL LIBRARY

“CHECK US OUT!”

The Bondurant-Farrar Libraries were lucky enough to receive a grant from Prairie

Meadows for $8,000 for our

“Check Us Out!” project.

“CHECK US OUT!”

Old books were weeded, new books were added, and a

celebration of reading was planned

for each of the libraries.

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First we needed to

promote the project…

RIDIN’ THE BUS…I rode the bus to share the good news.

7:00am

The buses leave about

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I rode each of the 11 buses……I promoted all the new books we were to receive in each library…

…and had a BLAST!

I gave away

bookmarks

to get them

interested.

Students of all ages were

very interested in

the new books coming

to their libraries!

…to party!

Then we were ready

ANDERSON ELEMENTARYSCHOOL

celebrates new books and reading!

“Reading counts in the Library!”

Students matched pieces of the poster puzzle with numbers to

create a picture!

Library staff READ!

Mrs. Reifert

Kids READ!

Books were everywhere...

We shared gobs of stickers and scratch-n- sniff bookmarks to aid in providing a party atmosphere!

Many titles to READ! (over 300 in the elementary)

BONDURANT-FARRARMIDDLESCHOOL

celebrates new books and reading!

“Clowning around in the Library!”

Mrs. Hackett and Mr. Skinner kicked off the fun.

sometimes the same title!

...sometimes together,

Students read…

Classes came to the library to see the new books.

And then they read…

…and read!

And promoted titles and series by writing all over our covered tables.

BONDURANT-FARRAR HIGH SCHOOL

celebrates new books and reading!

“Be a sucker for a GOOD BOOK!”

Paper suckers everywh

ere

Mrs. Turk prepared hundreds and hundreds of books.

Boxes of books!

Books and suckers and

readers were everywhere!

MANY THANKS TO PRAIRIE MEADOWS FOR FULFILLING OUR GRANT REQUEST

FOR $8,000.

THROUGH THIS GRANT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO SOME UPDATING TO COLLECTIONS IN OUR LIBRARIES.

THE CELEBRATIONS WERE AN ADDED PLUS!

Gail Hackett - librarian