Man vs. Nature

By Jennifer
This is a great display from Jennifer (the middle school/ high school librarian for an American curriculum school in Dubai).
Here are her comments:
'I wanted to share a very simple display we put up right before the
Christmas holiday. Our middle school students all participate in a
genre project through their English class. The teachers and I had
noticed that kids were having a difficult time with a new addition to
the project - "Man vs. Nature". We were two weeks out from the holiday
and we wanted students to have their genre books to read over the break.
I put together a simple but bold display that reiterated some of the
search terms and evaluation hints given during my book talks in each
class. I then added books that qualified as "man vs. nature" to the
shelves below. It's easy for students just to grab a book, but I was
very happy to see them referencing some of the search terms I had added
to the board'.
Thanks Jennifer!

I survived!

By Elaine Pearson

I pulled together a wide range of survival stories for this display, heroic stories of surviving war, recoveries from shark attacks, surviving tsunamis, surviving accidents, surviving tragic childhoods .....

The joyful orange man was from clip art: Joyful Orange Man. I used the shape to cut out more men from photocopies of the covers of books on survival.

The Great Outdoors: Survival and Surviving

By Sandra Hart
Sandra, from John Calvin School, Albany, reminds us that here in the Southern Hemisphere Summer Holidays are not far away! Yay!
She says:
'First I would like to say thank you for your great blog. As a part-time solo librarian it can be hard to come up with ideas for displays, your blog has helped me out many times. As a way of saying thanks to you and others who contribute I would like to share some of my displays.
This display about camping and survival in the outdoors was to coincide with a year 6 camp. As you can see I set up a tent and borrowed some camping supplies from the outdoor ed dept. The kids love the displays and the fairy lights look like stars I just used some Christmas lights. Once again we raided the books shelves for non-fiction and novels about the topic'.

Thanks very much for sharing this great display Sandra.