Book Fair Observations

One kid to another while in line.    

 I don't have any cents.   (say it out loud!)



One kid to me while walking in the door. 

 It smells like books in here.  (duh). 

It's beginning to look a lot like book fair!

Well it's that time of year again. I always have a book fair right before Christmas. It seems an appropriate time. People feel more generous and when it's over I get to take off for Christmas break and forget all about it. So today I have a few observations from the book fair.

Last week I was showing the book fair preview video that promotes some of the books from the fair. One of the books is a mystery set on the Titanic. The teaser for the book goes something like this.... "what if you were being chased by a serial killer, while trying to avoid a mob boss and what if it were all happening on the Titanic?" All of the sudden I hear a little boy pipe up and announce to the class, "my mom is a serial killer."

I sure hope he doesn't get in trouble for revealing his mom's secret identity when he
gets home. I also know I'm not gonna get caught with her alone anytime soon.

Last Friday I started previews and I would take my classes to the room where my book fair is set up and let the kids look around. I must have had some very excited 2nd graders judging from what I observed. Two little boys where standing in front of the shelf and one boy was trying to get the other boys attention to look at what he saw. He was repeatedly smacking the other boy on the behind trying to get his attention. I couldn't even get on to him because I was afraid I would burst out laughing.