HOLY MOLY?!? {book lovers are amazing!}

In honor of National Book Lovers Day, I have to share this previous post about my Book Lovers Club.

It is simply magical. 

Seeing these sweet families with their membership cards and huge smiles makes my teacher heart so happy! 

In honor of National Book Lovers Day, you can grab my Book Lovers Club product for 20% off through Friday. :)

Oh my goodness...

Did you read my post last week on our

BOOK LOVERS CLUB??

If not, check here!! 

Well, the book lovers in my class continue to knock my socks off!

They are already SO great at read to self time. 

My heart is so happy when I look around and see so many {excited!} readers!

 This summer I tried to create even more inviting spaces for my growing readers to curl up with a book. 

Everyone thought I was NUTS when I told them my new laundry baskets were to be filled with readers. 
:):)

My book lovers have been recruiting anyone and everyone we pass in the hall. 

When people ask what it means - all of the students respond with:

You must...

 LOVE books.

Know how to take care of them.

Want to talk about them.

and know about authors and illustrators.

YES! YES! YES! YES! 

So much fun. 

Anyways... 

My book lovers have even been actively recruiting new members at home!

They BEGGED me to send home membership cards so their moms, dads, grandparents, siblings, and neighbors could join. 

WOOHOO!

Here are some of my AMAZING families who have all joined our Book Lovers Club:

Seriously, I can't take the cuteness!!

I am so weird, but I seriously get a little teary looking at these amazing families celebrating books with their children. 
What a gift!!

Book Lovers = YOU ROCK!

Thank you, parents, for making this time so special for your child. 

:)

Teacher friends,

I created my Book Lovers Goodies as a fun way to get excited about books and reading. It includes fun ideas, membership cards, bookmarks, links to fun reading sites, and more. 

Check out my previous posts

here

here

or 

here

and on TpT here. 

Official Book Experts

First we created a Book Lovers Club - and fell in love with books and reading. 

Next, we dug a little deeper and became 

OFFICIAL BOOK EXPERTS!!!!

The students have been hard at work in Reader's Workshop.

They've been learning about authors, illustrators, parts of a book, end pages, characters, setting, and much more! 

So incredibly proud of the work we are doing...

Check out these SMARTIES: 

Here is some of the work we have done while becoming book experts.

After all of this work I decided they needed to be deemed official book experts.

I don't know if it was the fact that they were finally official book experts, the special certificates that made it official, or the Smarties that I gave away... but the students were COMPLETELY OVER THE MOON   when we celebrated. 

There was applause, smiles, high-fives, and many cheers as friends received their official certificates.

Seriously, it was the best. 

Makes my teacher heart happy for many reasons - children loving books, being truly investing in learning, and caring about their friends' success and learning! 

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE hearing my 5 and 6 year old friends discussing characters, settings, end page, and the similarities between authors and illustrators.

Congratulations book experts!

Teachers, you can find the book expert pack with recording book and editable book expert certificates here.