Week 9

 Monday and Tuesday of this week were the last two selling days of the Book Fair.  We did really well and our total sales were approximately $6,200.00 with about 55% of our students attending school in-person.  On Wednesday, we packed everything up and setup tables for normal book checkouts to return.  I was so happy to have students come to check out books this week!

In between checkouts, I also started working on my last bin of Title 3 books that I have to add spine labels to and change the Destiny records.

Believe it or not, this cart is holds what 4 large plastic bins previously did!  It's more than you would think because these are all paperback books and not library bound.

On Thursday afternoon, I was able to attend the Georgia Children's Book Awards and Conference of Children's Literature which was held via Zoom.  This week's session was with author and illustrator Ryan Higgins.  He is the author of the Mother Bruce picture book series as well as We Don't Eat Our Classmates.  The session was really fun!  He gave us a little background knowledge of the book We Don't Eat Our Classmates. The book was inspired by he and his wife's fears about his oldest child going to Kindergarten and whether he would make friends easily.  He drew Penelope the T-Rex to look as friendly and cute as possible.  Some of the characters in the book are modeled after his son, daughter, and even his editor.  In the screenshot below, Higgins is pointed at the character inspired by his editor.

Higgins also shared that the artwork featured in the book is actually made by real children.  He struggled with drawing pictures that actually looked as if they were done by children.  So he enlisted the help of his two children and their friends.

I was so glad I was able to attend this session virtually and am looking forward to attending the other March sessions as well!

Friday was an inclement weather makeup day for Gwinnett that was not used so students and teachers had the day off.