Written by From Marie Østergård on Facebook:
54 kids, 9-12 year old and 4 adults on a 14 hour all night Readathon at Dokk1.
They rocked the place!
We didn’t get any sleep but got to see the library taken over by intense playing, reading, joking, running and much more. Who knew Dokk1 had so many places to camp out?! A great reminder of what libraries and kids can do together.
Update: it was our reading ambassadors who decided they wished to try it and asked if we could do it. Our reading ambassadors are a group of 9-14 year olds who come together and discuss reading and literature and who share their joy of reading with their school mates and their friends. They were heavily involved in the planning of the Readathon and took great responsibility!
(This is now in the lectures but I wanted to share Marie’s words!)
Meeting Space!
That sounds like a really fun experience ! The space looks comfortable and all the books look so inviting 😀
Wow, interesting. Kind of like a teen lock-in event but a sleepover.
I love the spirit of this, but my poor back aches thinking of sleeping on the floor!
Very fun! What a cool idea.
I haven’t done a sleepover, but one of the rewards in my library class at elementary school is after they’ve earned 10 Library Points (they earn these by following expectations, being respectful during my lesson, and cleaning up by the end of a countdown) we do a reading day instead of a lesson. We do checkout first and then they get like 10-15 minutes of silent reading and they are allowed to go anywhere in the library and sit with anyone they want (usually they are assigned to tables), and they can pick from my library stuffed animals to have a cuddle buddy, and they are even allowed to be under the tables (which many of them choose). As long as they are reading, they can spread out and lie down. My students seem to enjoy it!