As we prepare to wrap up another school year we are faced with one of our biggest challenges: getting all those library books returned! I have tried many strategies over the years with varying results. In this post, I am going to share with you some different tricks and ideas that will (hopefully) help get those books turned in before the lastday of school. Award prizes to get library books returned Award some kind of class prize or award for the first class in each grade level that returns all their books. Bribery works! Suggestions: Eat lunch in the library Eat lunch outside in a special spot Make ice cream sundaes for the classes. If you do all the classes at the same time you can set up an assembly line and it goes pretty quickly. Instead of sundaes, you can give out freeze pops, ice cream sandwiches etc. Popcorn
