<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hello, friends....</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Well, after many years of counting books for SRP, I am ready to try something new.....who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>I read on PUBYAC a few weeks back the idea of having teams (2-3) and having them "race" by counting the minutes read during the summer. In the past, we have offered food coupons from local fast food places for 5-book increments, and this is something that I want to still include, but how to incorporate them? Still use 5 increments, such as 5 hours, 10 hours, 15 hours? And if that's the case, how do we (participant and librarian) keep track of it? Our program lasts 7 weeks, including the week before we begin programming that participants can
sign up...that's 50 days. Conceivably, a participant could read 1 hour a day every day and end up with 50 hours. And I know that some participants will read more...and some will read less. At the end of the program, a party is held with cake for all teams.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Also, we've done reading contracts in the past....parent and child figure out a number of books that the child wants/can read during the run of the program. At the end, those who complete their contracts get their names put in a drawing for one of 4 bicycles we give away. I think that is still doable to incorporate with their reading goal being minutes instead of books.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>If you have reporting tools (i.e. slips, paper ballots, etc.) that you use and you can attach to a reply, please do so....</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Am stepping into
this venture with some degree of trepidation....so, those of you with wisdom (and years of counting minutes), please soothe my nerves....</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>TIA!</span></div><div> </div><div><b><font face="comic sans ms">Barbara Scott, Children's Librarian</font></b></div>
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