ICCA Pizza Party Celebration

At the beginning of the year I offered an incentive to the 5th & 6th grade to read the books on the ICCA award list. We had a lot of students that read the books and enjoyed most of them. It has been fun talking with students about these books throughout the year. A couple of weeks ago, we voted for our favorite which we submitted to the committee that counts the votes for the whole state. Each student who read more than one book from the list voted. Almost all of our students were able to vote. Runaway Twin by Peg Kehret won by a few votes over Million Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica. It was announced at the school library conference this week that Runaway Twin won the overall vote for the state, making it Iowa's Children Choice award for the 2012-2013 school year. The students were excited to find out that it won!

Any student who read more than 7 books, or 1/3 of the list was invited to a pizza party. We used the bookmarks from the ICCA website to keep track and we had 12 kids complete the incentive. Here are a few photos from our party! Pizza, juice boxes, cookies & music makes for a fun lunch for me too!