sleepovers at the library

[Rachel Hilligoss]

Hello! I am currently doing my internship at a K-12 media center and one of my projects is planning a sleepover for grades 3-5. My plan is to call it "Night at the Library." I haven't worked out a lot of details as of yet and would love to hear from anyone who has planned an activity like this. This has never been done at our library so I get to plan every aspect of it!

I am looking forward to hearing any comments from you!
Thanks so much!

[Linda]

I've never done this, either, but you have inspired me to look into it! Our school is having our annual silent auction fundraiser and I am hoping to auction this off to help. My principal is checking on the legal and district requirement side of things for me, to make sure it can be done. I'm planning to put 5 sleepover items up for auction - each good for one student and a grade school age friend of thier choice for the sleepover. Of course, I'll have a fellow teacher (with a clean background check!) help me with it.

Thanks for the inspiration! I'm anxious to hear from anyone who has actually done this type of thing before, too!

[Rachel Hilligoss]

I am pretty excited about it. We are waiting on school board approval and their next meeting is Feb. 8th. We are using it as a reward for the first 25 students who read 15 of the 20 Young Hoosier books. Our cutoff is going to be April 10. We already have about 8 students who have done it and they will really be psyched when we announce this award!

We are planning on taking them swimming for an hour in the high school pool; buy them pizza; do a flashlight scavenger game; read for awhile, of course; and a whole bunch of other fun things. We are going from 7pm-7am with lights out at 11 pm. We'll do a light breakfast of muffins and donuts at 6:00 am.

I have also heard of an overnighter that is not reward based that is called the readover, sleepover. This was done in the second grade for any student who wanted to attend and they would read for 15 minutes and then play for a while, then read some, more, etc. My sister-in-law chaperoned for two years and said the kids loved it.

I'll let you know more details as we get more involved with details. Good luck with it!