Thursday, September 11, 2008

Book Orders

I'm going to set the date of book orders due on September 18th.
If you send them in earlier, I'll order them same day so that you and your family can have them earlier.
If you need/want to send it in later, that's okay too.
But to have a date, I'll say 9/19.

Remember, the thing about book orders, the more that you order, the more that the classroom earns in newer books that your boys help pick out!
How that works: Each book order through scholastic offers bonus points for the classroom. Sometimes, it's six times the amount, sometimes it's a standard 60 points, etc. It changes each order and each catalog. In addition, especially in September, if an order gets placed for over 20 dollars (combined so you don't feel the pressure) then we get free books right off the bat! In addition to the free books, the teacher can choose 10 dollars of free books for every order over 20 from that same catalog.
Wait, there's more! With the bonus points, we can either place an order to buy things from the catalog or we can use the special bonus point catalog and buy things that way. We can buy whole collections of books or other great things that are offered for the classroom.


So, that's book orders in a nutshell. I usually buy the books on tape/cd for each order myself as I'm trying to build a substantial collection of them (we're well on our way!)

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

1 comment:

Melanie said...

Gotcha. I'll take a second look at the book orders! And the field trips sound great!!