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School District No. 43 (Coquitlam)
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Division 4 & 14 Book Swap Success

February 08, 2018

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Three years after a group of parents had generously offered to donate some used children’s books to her classroom library, Mme. Zimmermann has continued the tradition of conducting a class Book Swap before Family Literacy Day.

What had begun as a simple idea evolved into a wonderful event!  Mrs. Hynes, Division 4 and 14 joined forces to bring in over 200 previously-loved books, and on January 25th, every child left with something new to treasure!  In addition, remaining books were donated to classroom libraries, the school library and charity to spread the love!

Many thanks to the parents, staff and volunteers who came out and helped make this event an enormous success! 

 

Some feedback from the students:

 

I loved the book swap!  I picked good books and now I am reading them at home! – Hayden

 

At the book swap, I was happy that I got a book I liked: “Adventure Time”!  It was my first book swap.  I experienced a lot from it!  - Kajwan

 

I liked that everybody got a book without paying a cent! – Ashley

 

At the book swap, I liked how I got all the books I wanted to get.  Also, I liked how we watched a movie while we waited for our turn. – Alistair

 

The book swap was fun because I liked watching the movie while waiting for Mrs. Zimmermann to call my name to get new books! – Isabel

 

It was fun!  You got to trade books, and I liked it because I like reading! – Tanner

 

At the book swap, I liked how we didn’t have to pay any money and how we could all give books that we didn’t want anymore and get new books that we DID want! – Joel

 

I liked the book swap because my Mommy was there and I got new books! – Chayne

 

That day, I felt positive that I would get the book I wanted.  I liked the book swap because it felt like a real book store!  I also liked how everyone got books that were interesting and fun to read. – Onyu




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