We launched! On February 11th, our Mock Newbery Award Initiative was officially launched.  That week, we presented to 4th, 5th, and 6th grade about our project and how we hoped to change reading in the school.  We put up our shelf with all our copies of the selected books, and by the end of the first day, they were all gone. There has been a long hold list for each since, and it seems like we’re doing pretty good.  My group and I are right now working on promoting the Newbery Award throughout the school. It’s finally coming together, after all that writing! On the week of April first, we’ll start our voting section, and total up our winner.  So far, it’s running smoothly, and I hope by these new promotions will get us some more participants. Other than that, there’s not much else going on. I’m currently both helping and participating in other fellow 6th grade Culture of Readers initiatives, which you can check out in my other COR post – It takes a team.