Four of our Language Arts classes participated in our first HCMS Library BOOK TASTING!
Here's how it went:
- we sent THIS video for the students to watch beforehand
- we pre-selected 6 genres and 6 books for each genre
- students were provided a Menu (listing all the books) and a Book Tasting log
- students spent 4-5 minutes "tasting" a book from each genre table and logged their tasting experience for each book.
- students were allotted time to check out any of the books they tasted
Most students said that they found at least one book that they want to check out, so success!
Changes for next Tasting:
- Don't have a set menu beforehand. Some of the books were unavailable because they were checked out.
- Make sure to have trashcans around for cupcake trash
- We are a 1:1 iPad school, so providing the tasting log as a pdf so students can annotate on it and can easily have a digital copy to reference later is a good option
- I'd like to try the musical chairs version
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| Menu |
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| Book Tasting Log (double sided) |
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I used Canva to create the menu and tasting log
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| The set up |
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| Cupcakes always make things fun! |
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| The set up |
