![]() ![]() In the Spring they do a buy 1 get 1 free. School Book Fair – Our school sets aside a whole box of books in Spanish from the book fair for me.Book Promotions – Each year I get as many books in Spanish for free from Kelloggs as I can.I have personally gotten three, two from a local education trust, and one from my state language organization, IWLA. Grants – I have written many posts about how to write a grant to get books for your classroom.Also, when ever I travel I get the bilingual airplane magazines, plus buy many others when I see them in Spanish. Magazines – I use some frequent flyer miles each year to get free subscriptions to Spanish magazines, usually just People en Español.After that week, a few of each old issues are added to the free reading library. Each week I print a class set on colored paper and keep up front. Mundo en tus manos newspapers – These are the colored papers on the blue shelf and are an amazing resource created by Martina Bex.(You would think that would make it idiot proof for high school students, but some never cease to amaze me with their laziness to put things back where they came from). A later addition was having my high school student assistant use the colored garage sale stickers to write the same bin label on the sticker, and put in all books in that bin. Green labels are children’s books, blue are more advance, yellow are non-fiction, and orange are magazines. I just printed them on colored card stock, laminated, and then hot glued in the bins. You can download the labels for free here. Book Labels – My labels are just to match the books I happen to have.You can get them at the dollar store or in big packs during back to college. Book Bins – Most are the cheep plastic storage containers without lids.33 Razones Para Leer Poster – It was a print I found online & had printed in color and laminated at the local copy shop.They may not be super accurate, since some are almost 50 years old, but they work as decor. I got them laminated and they were one of the only decorations in my first year classroom. They were free with old National Geographic magazines. Maps – The maps were being given away for free from the school library where I student taught. ![]() Little Pink Individual Book Displays (on top of black shelf) – Target dollar spot clearance this summer.
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