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Barbara
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Username: Blh
Post Number: 218
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 7:43 am: |     |
From March 1 - 31, specially marked collection boxes will be in the elementary schools and in various businesses around Maplewood and South Orange to collect new and gently used books appropriate for K – 5 students. Books may be brought to any of the 6 elementary schools, the South Orange Library, Maplewood Memorial Library and Hilton Branch, Wachovia Bank South Orange, Mail Boxes, Etc., Cait & Abby’s, We Got Movies, Net Nomads, Town Video Maplewood, Goldfinch Books , Tara Deli, Pen & Jen’s in the Maplewood Train Station, St. George’s Church, Prospect Presbyterian Church, St. Andrews and Holy Communion Church, the 71 Valley St. Professional Building and in other locations with notices on their doors.
Over a dozen amazing volunteers are working on this project this year. Our goal is to add over 5000 quality books to classroom collections for in-classroom reading and book exchanges. In mid April, all of our district's K-5 teachers will be invited to a special book fair at which they can select books appropriate for their classrooms. No money will be collected -- these books will be our community's gifts to our children.
Additionally, this year, any preschool books will go to local home day care providers and to preschools in Irvington. We ask that only high quality preschool books be donated -- no "pre-chewed" books please!
Help us reach our goal. Bring your NEW or GENTLY USED books to any of the sites above, or private line me for additional drop off locations.
Many thanks,
Barbara |
Barbara
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Username: Blh
Post Number: 219
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 1, 2004 - 8:28 am: | |
Get your books out. The collection starts today, with a goal of 5000 books! Pen & Jen's, Mailboxes Etc, Town Video, NetNomads, Goldfinch Books, Wachovia Bank SO, 71 South Orange Ave Professional Building, Allegiance Community Bank, and all of the elementary schools are just some of the drop off sites! |
Barbara
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Username: Blh
Post Number: 222
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 7, 2004 - 7:53 am: | |
First week in and books are coming in to all loctions -- the 6 elementary schools, the South Orange Library, Maplewood Memorial Library and Hilton Branch, Wachovia Bank South Orange, Mail Boxes, Etc., Cait & Abby’s, We Got Movies, Net Nomads, Town Video Maplewood, Goldfinch Books , Tara Deli, Pen & Jen’s in the Maplewood Train Station, St. George’s Church, the Woman's Club and in the 71 Valley St. Professional Building.
5000 is a lot of books -- look at your shelves for gently used but well loved books -- buy a new book -- help us meet this goal to bring more books to all of our elementary school classrooms! |
Barbara
Citizen
Username: Blh
Post Number: 224
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 2:58 pm: | |
Boxes at the elementary schools are filling quickly -- not so with the boxes at businesses. Please, take some time this weekend to bring books to the places listed above. |
nan
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Username: Nan
Post Number: 1200
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 3:30 pm: | |
This is a great program and urgently needed. According to research, classrooms with more books make teaching easier and more productive. Teachers need a large supply with a wide range of difficulty. Studies of exemplary teachers (Pressley et al. 2000) found that the classrooms of those teachers had much larger supplies of books than usual.
Reading researcher, Richard Allington suggests that every classroom should have at least 500 books, with half being narratives and the other half informational. He states:
. . .In the exemplary first-grade classrooms we studied it was common for children to read 10 or more titles every day (counting rereading of books). Thus, 500 titles do not go as far in first grade as they do in a fifth-grade classroom where children might be expected to read a title a week. But by fifth grade, there is often both a wider range of achievement and a wider array of books than might be included in a first grade collection. (I should also note that many of the exemplary teachers we studied had classroom collections in the 1,500 book titles range.)
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ros
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Username: Ros
Post Number: 129
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 7:55 am: | |
A little pre-Spring cleaning will be sure to yield some books for our kids' classrooms. Drop them off while running errands in town this weekend-look in previous posts for locations!
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Barbara
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Username: Blh
Post Number: 226
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 2:16 pm: | |
5000 is a lot of books. We need your help to get there.
Books may be brought to any of the 6 elementary schools, the South Orange Library, Maplewood Memorial Library and Hilton Branch, Wachovia Bank South Orange, Mail Boxes, Etc., Cait & Abby’s, We Got Movies, Net Nomads, Town Video Maplewood, Goldfinch Books , Tara Deli, Pen & Jen’s in the Maplewood Train Station, St. George’s Church, Prospect Presbyterian Church, St. Andrews and Holy Communion Church, the 71 Valley St. Professional Building and in other locations with notices on their doors.
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ros
Citizen
Username: Ros
Post Number: 134
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 21, 2004 - 12:37 am: | |
The books are starting to pile up, keep them coming in-there are 10 days left in the drive! |
ros
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Username: Ros
Post Number: 136
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 4:34 pm: | |
One week to go, and the contributions have been wonderful! Don't to forget to drop off some books next time you're in town or at one of the schools (check out exact drop off spots in first poast) |
Barbara
Citizen
Username: Blh
Post Number: 236
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 5:55 pm: | |
2 MORE DAYS - please bring your new and gently used books to one of the sites listed below -- we're so close to making our 5000 book goal! Remember, all books will go to district classrooms and local preschools. No books will be sold.
Books may be brought to any of the 6 elementary schools, the South Orange Library, Maplewood Memorial Library and Hilton Branch, Wachovia Bank South Orange, The Creamery, Mail Boxes, Etc., Cait & Abby’s, We Got Movies, Net Nomads, Town Video Maplewood, Goldfinch Books , Tara Deli, Pen & Jen’s in the Maplewood Train Station, St. George’s Church, Prospect Presbyterian Church, St. Andrews and Holy Communion Church, the 71 Valley St. Professional Building and in other locations with notices on their doors.
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Barbara
Citizen
Username: Blh
Post Number: 238
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 1, 2004 - 9:37 pm: | |
While the collection period for this year's book drive is officially over, we can accept books for a few more days. Boxes have been removed from the sites listed above - but if you'd like to donate, simply PL me and I'll let you know where to drop books.
I'm hoping to be able to tell you, two weeks from now, that we've distributed 5000 books to district classrooms! (We'll know the exact number after the reverse book fair ends on 4/15.)
Many thanks to the kind merchants that hosted collection boxes in their shops and buildings. And thanks to the many wonderful neighbors who filled and filled those boxes! Now on to the fair! |
Barbara
Citizen
Username: Blh
Post Number: 244
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 7:58 am: | |
Sorry, can't tell you we distributed 5,000 books because
we distributed 10,579 books!
Of that total, 6,152 books were distributed to 90 SOMSD classrooms, libraries and programs; 3,593 will support K- 8 literacy programs run by RIF (Reading is Fundamental); and 834 will support an early literacy program in Irvington.
Incredible.
So many thank yous are needed -- to the two MOL angels who supplied new books from publishing houses, the many people who supplied books, the merchants who hosted book collection sites, the girl scouts and CHS youth leadership groups that collected books, and the AMAZING volunteers that monitored collection sites, transported books, set up the book fair and made it such a big success! Thank you to all who participated in any way! So now for next year....
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ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 2154
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 8:20 am: | |
thanks for spear-heading this effort, blh! I was happy to have such a great outlet for all our out-grown books. |
kathy
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Username: Kathy
Post Number: 854
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 3:18 pm: | |
Me too! (I think that I'm the reason they had 10,579 instead of 5000.) |
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