tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16179602103162090412024-03-13T02:46:26.323-07:00LibrarylandLibrary programming ideas, children's story times, and other fun stuff for children's librarians.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.comBlogger320125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-5871236407275827712019-06-26T17:00:00.000-07:002019-06-26T17:00:04.143-07:00Summer Reading Voting-Week 1<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a part of Summer Reading, we designed weekly voting boards for the kids to offer their opinions. For the first week, we asked kids what they wanted to do this summer. Not only is this fun for kids to do, it does use their literacy skills, and gives the library a fun picture to post on social media. The cost of the project was $5 ($1 for the board and $4 for the sticky notes).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-60391760519271986072018-01-30T10:42:00.000-08:002018-02-03T16:47:52.083-08:00Flannel Friday Round-Up<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Welcome to this week's Flannel Friday Round-Up! We have some great submissions for you this week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wendy from Flannel Board Fun is showing off her <a href="https://flannelboardfun.blogspot.com/2018/02/chubby-snowmen-re-post.html">5 Chubby Snowmen</a>. These are perfect for winter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jessica from Storytime in the Stacks has brought us her <a href="https://storytimeinthestacks.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/flannel-friday-shape-monster/">Shape Monster</a>. I can see lots of other possibilities for this puppet/flannelboard combo, from colors to cookies!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Based on the book <a href="https://storytimeinthestacks.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/flannel-friday-walters-wonderful-web/"><i>Walter's Wonderful Web</i></a>, Jessica has shared a 2nd flannelboard this week. The different web shapes really bring this story alive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jen from Adventures in Storytime was home with the flu this week and has brought us the seasonally appropriate <a href="http://www.adventuresinstorytime.com/2018/02/flannel-friday-germs.html">Wash Those Germs Away</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">.</a> I feel like we all will need this one!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Search for images
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Discuss story time
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-92069645110322915752018-01-14T14:08:00.003-08:002018-01-14T14:08:50.509-08:00Magic Tree House Renumbering<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have heard from a bunch of librarians lately about how they are perplexed by the new Magic Tree House <a href="https://www.magictreehouse.com/series/MTM/magic-tree-house-r-merlin-mission">Merlin Missions</a> renumberings. Here is how my library is handling this issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, know your community. My community likes to read things in number order. That makes the MTH renumbering a big deal. Otherwise you could have two books on the shelf with the same title and different numbers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Second, loop in your cataloging department. Is there a staff member on board who can change the bibliographic records to reflect the new series information? This would be located in the 490 field or could be located in the 245 field under a subfield n. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Third, how are you going to separate your Magic Tree House books from your Merlin Missions books? They both look similar and are by the same author. Only the newly printed titles will have the new series and numbering information on them. For our library, we chose to keep the Magic Tree House books shelved under JFIC OSBORNE and added to the cutter for the Merlin Missions (JFIC OSBORNE/MERLIN). This will help your shelvers to be able to separate out the two series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-34965476605147926682017-09-21T12:52:00.002-07:002017-09-22T14:22:19.355-07:00Flannel Friday Round-Up<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Welcome to this week's Flannel Friday Round-Up! We have some great submissions for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wendy at Flannel Board Fun shows off <a href="http://flannelboardfun.blogspot.com/2017/09/pete-cats-shoes.html">Pete the Cat's shoes</a>. These would be a great addition to any colorful story time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Just in time for Talk Like a Pirate Day this past week, Heather at <a href="http://lady-librarian-life.blogspot.com/2017/09/flannelboard-pirates.html">Lady Librarian's Literacy, Lifestyle, and Lookbook Log </a>brings us some pirates and pirate rhymes. Ahoy matey!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Check out the
official <a href="http://flannelfridaystorytime.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #cc6611;">Flannel Friday blog</span></a> that includes schedules
and other important information.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Search for images
and links on our <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/flannelfriday/"><span style="color: #cc6611;">Pinterest</span></a> page.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Discuss story time
stuff (and other ys stuff) on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/flannelfridayfun/"><span style="color: #cc6611;">Flannel Friday Facebook</span></a> page.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Follow
#flannelstorytime on Twitter.</span></li>
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-2139702567342845472017-08-29T11:02:00.001-07:002017-08-29T11:02:27.037-07:00Flannel Friday-Five Elephants<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know when you see a really cute flannelboard and add it to your TBD pile? Mine never seemed to go down until we got a new assistant named Laura. I gave her my Pinterest board, a pile of felt, and she went to town. This is the first of my "inspired by" posts with creations by Laura.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our original inspiration came from Five Elephants Went Out to Play by <a href="http://flannelboardfun.blogspot.com/2017/04/five-elephants-went-out-to-play.html">Flannel Board Fun</a>. This is what Laura came up with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's round-up is hosted by Laura at <a href="http://lauraperenic.blogspot.com/2017/08/september-1-2017-flannel-friday.html">One for the Books</a>. </span>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-8833334122040077492017-04-24T06:23:00.003-07:002017-04-29T07:22:15.243-07:00Flannel Friday Round-Up<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome to this week's Flannel Friday round-up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't know about you, but I use an<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">imal stories all the time. Check out</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wendy's<a href="http://flannelboardfun.blogspot.com/2017/04/old-macdonald-in-progress.html"> Old MacDo</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://flannelboardfun.blogspot.com/2017/04/old-macdonald-in-progress.html">na</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://flannelboardfun.blogspot.com/2017/04/old-macdonald-in-progress.html">ld</a> flannelboard set, which would work great for a story time about animals, songs, or just plain fun!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just in time for summer, Kate shares her <a href="http://www.feltboardmagic.com/five-scoops-of-ice-cream/">Five Scoops of Ice Cream</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span> She even added sprinkles! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-77695290168907685632017-03-15T14:54:00.002-07:002017-03-15T14:54:49.810-07:00Tales from a Manager-Find Your PassionA couple of nights ago, a bunch of us were talking about how we used to blog regularly before being promoted. It was suggested that people would like our advice on management. Here's my shot at starting that.<br />
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The number one piece of advice that I have for any new manager is to find your passion. For me, that is programming. You may find that you like ordering, budgeting, or strategic planing the best. My schedule, no matter how busy I get, will still have a story time added. This is what keeps me excited and gives me energy, even on the bad days. It also keeps me connected with our customers, which helps me to plan for new services.<br />
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The further that you go up the management ladder, the further away from "doing" you become. You are more of a leader and are there to encourage and mentor your staff. You find them the resources so that they can "do". You spend a lot of time working with your staff. If you can still feed your passion, it helps you get through the less fantastic parts of your job (for me, that is the schedule!).Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-20054246617383307952017-01-13T09:21:00.002-08:002017-01-13T09:21:23.704-08:00Flannel Friday-Do You Want to Build a Snowman?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week's flannelboard is one that I created for our<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> flannelboard that is always out in our Activity Room. You may have seen a <a href="http://lisaslibraryland.blogspot.com/2014/12/flannel-friday-build-snowman.html">version</a> of it before on my blog. We tr<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">y to come up with different ideas so kids can free play with it<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, but still tie it into early literacy.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-75471337012257086032016-09-16T14:00:00.001-07:002016-09-16T14:00:45.966-07:00Flannel Friday-The Nuts: Sing and Dance in Your Polka-Dot Pants <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the big events that we do at least 1 time each summer is a story time in the park. When we do these events, it is not uncommon to have 150 people at our story time. When we choose books, props, and flannelboards, we look for ones that we can make bigger so everyone can see them. This summer, we did a movement story time that included <i>The Nuts: Sing and Dance in Your Polka-Dot Pants</i> by Eric Litwin. Not only is it a great story, but the figures are pretty easy to make larger. We used fun foam and puffy paint to create our figures. As one person read the story, another danced with their nut to go along with the words.</span><br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-83736272787381133642016-08-30T05:36:00.003-07:002016-09-03T09:32:01.644-07:00Flannel Friday Round-Up<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's Flannel Friday Round-Up time! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">L<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">isa at Thrive After Three has two great apple posts this week. She shows off her <i>Ten Red Apples</i> prop, along with her in<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dividual <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lapb<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">oards in <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">her first <a href="https://thriveafterthree.com/2016/09/01/ten-red-apples/">post</a>. In her secon<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d post, she shows off her fanc<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>y <a href="https://thriveafterthree.com/2016/09/01/10-apples-up-on-top/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10 Apples Up on <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Top</span></span></a></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> hat.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kathr<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">yn at Fun with Friends at Storytime shows <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">off her <a href="http://kdr4xmom.blogspot.com/2016/08/five-friends-play-dress-up.html">Five Friends </a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://kdr4xmom.blogspot.com/2016/08/five-friends-play-dress-up.html">Play Dress Up</a>. She <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">has an <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">astronaut, a p<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">irate, a co<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wboy, a ninja, and Frankenstein.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wendy at Flannel <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Board Fun has created <a href="http://flannelboardfun.blogspot.com/2016/09/flip-flap-fly.html"><i>Flip, Flap, Fly!</i></a> so she can show off a larger version for her gro<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ups.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://felt-tasticflannelboardfuntime.blogspot.com/2016/09/one-elephant-went-out-to-play.html">One Elephant Went Out to P</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://felt-tasticflannelboardfuntime.blogspot.com/2016/09/one-elephant-went-out-to-play.html">lay</a> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span></span>t Felt-tastic F<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">l<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">annelboard Funtime with Keith.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kate has Five Little S<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">peckled Frogs at <a href="http://www.feltboardmagic.com/five-little-speckled-frogs/">Felt Board Magic</a>. </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kate will be host<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing next week's Flannel Friday <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Round-Up at <a href="http://www.feltboardmagic.com/">Felt Board Magic</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://storytimeinthestacks.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/flannel-friday-see-the-olympians/">See the Olympians</a> makes an appearance <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by Jessica at S<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">torytime in the S<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tacks.</span></span></span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jane at Piper Loves the Library shows off her dots for <a href="http://piperlovesthelibrary.blogspot.com/2013/09/international-dot-day-s-omeday.html">International D</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://piperlovesthelibrary.blogspot.com/2013/09/international-dot-day-s-omeday.html">ot Day</a>.</span> It's pretty cool to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see all <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that you can make out of dots!</span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-82731534743840906882016-06-25T08:30:00.003-07:002016-06-25T08:30:39.388-07:00Wild About Trains<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Trains are BIG at my library so when I saw this program on Pinterest, I knew that I could tweak it to make it work for my kiddos. We registered 40 kids as I needed to collect and store 40 boxes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the program, we started with a short story time. I read <i>A Train Goes Clickety-Clack</i> by London and <i>I Love Trains! </i>by Sturges. We also did a flannelboard of <a href="http://lisaslibraryland.blogspot.com/2012/11/flannel-friday-toot-toot.html">Toot Toot</a>! Then we started the crafts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u>Craft 1: Make Conductor Hats</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We precut <a href="http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/TrainEngineerHat.htm">conductor hats</a> that were printed on white cardstock. The kids colored their hats and attached them to 3-inch headbands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The hardest part about this craft was collecting and storing 40 boxes. Each kid got a box. We precut other parts so the kids could grab what they needed to make wheels, the cattle catcher and the light on the front of the train. We provided 2 signs-one that listed what <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzluC0gehTQQM3dfMGIzbTJNdkU/view?usp=sharing">parts</a> to pick up and one that <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzluC0gehTQQLUZIT2FMMHNHcm8/view?usp=sharing">showed</a> how I put my train together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not only did our PR person love this program as she got to take cute pics for our web site, but the kiddos had a lot of fun. Many of them ended up pushing their train engines along the floor. It was super fun! I already have a list of people asking when we are going to do it again. </span></div>
Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-64636083984199576192016-04-19T05:36:00.004-07:002016-04-23T08:46:03.535-07:00Flannel Friday Round-Up-Summer Reading<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This turned out to be<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> more of a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">regular Flannel Friday round-up than dedicated to Summer Reading. Oh well, the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">posts are all still great!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Check out <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">J<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">essica's<a href="https://storytimeinthestacks.wordpress.com/tag/flannel-friday/"> Five G</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://storytimeinthestacks.wordpress.com/tag/flannel-friday/">reen and S</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://storytimeinthestacks.wordpress.com/tag/flannel-friday/">peckled Frogs</a> that are a part of her <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Get Up <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">N'</span> Groove <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">story time. This whole story time would be a great one to pull out this summer.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leslie is new to us and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">has brought a companion to<a href="https://preschoolerslovestorytimeblog.wordpress.com/flannel-boards/"><i> Muncha Mu</i></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://preschoolerslovestorytimeblog.wordpress.com/flannel-boards/"><i>ncha Muncha</i></a>. The kiddos get to sort their seed<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s into color rows, just like planting a gar<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">den.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Katie shows off <a href="https://storytimekatie.com/2016/04/22/flannel-friday-the-great-hot-air-balloon-race/">The Great Hot </a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://storytimekatie.com/2016/04/22/flannel-friday-the-great-hot-air-balloon-race/">Air Balloon Race</a>, which is a game that you can play in story time</span> with a color dice. A template is included.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a vari<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ation of L<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ittle Mouse<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Kate brings <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">us <a href="http://www.feltboardmagic.com/little-fox-little-fox-hide-and-seek-colours-and-sizes-game/">L</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.feltboardmagic.com/little-fox-little-fox-hide-and-seek-colours-and-sizes-game/">ittle Fox</a>. We all could use more variations <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of L<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ittle Mouse!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kathryn was inspired by a previous post and brings us her version of <a href="http://kdr4xmom.blogspot.com/2016/04/green-grass-grew-all-around.html">The Green Grass Grew All Around</a>. The <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">final product is spectacula<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r!</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kate will be hosting next week's round-up at Felt Board Magic<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Start early, especially if they want one in March as a part of "March is Reading Month". Our calendar does fill up quickly so we are definitely booking our literacy nights by late fall. Plus, that way we can work our schedule and our programming around the literacy night. We start by asking the principals. If you don't have a relationship with your targeted principal and get no response, try either a teacher or their PTO. For one of our schools, we host a kindergarten only literacy night. They also have 4 kindergartens at that school so we easily pull in 100+ people on those nights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once a school is on board, they will promote the program for you. Some schools will give extra credit for attending since it is a part of "March is Reading Month". They will put it on their take-home calendars, their Facebook pages, and some will even create special flyers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your job is to book your space. We prefer to host them in our children's room, but at our branches, we need to hold the program mostly in the meeting rooms due to space (such as <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the case below)</span>. We set our program up as stations so parents can come and go during the 2-hour block, depending on when they get home from work, eat dinner, etc. There is some prep work in getting the stations ready. While our stations are mostly focused on literacy, we do throw in some STEAM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As people enter the room, we set up any drawings that we have going on. Sometimes it is a "Guess How Many Legos" container, while other times they need to just write their name on a slip. This year we gave away extra summer reading books in bookbags that we had leftover.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is</span> is what we did this time around for <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">our literacy night.</span> It was an Amy and Julie production (my 2 School Outreach Librarians) and I just went along as an extra set of hands. If you haven't done <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">one before, it is totally worth it!</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></div>
Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-72847213685021492402016-01-28T15:13:00.000-08:002016-01-28T15:13:06.011-08:00Library Spaces<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been doing a bunch of traveling to other libraries for ideas as we are working on our <a href="http://www.familyplacelibraries.org/">Family Place</a> certification. Here are some of my favorite pictures:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Farmington Community Library</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.farmlib.org/">Farmington</a> is a local library who centered their children's room around your senses. My favorite alcove is their "Hear It!" where you can try out various musical instruments. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.howelllibrary.org/">Howell</a> is another local-ish library. We visited them as they created a great Family Place space in a smaller space and we wanted to see how they did it. Plus, it is always great to get tips from someone who has gone through the process! My favorite part about their children's area is the tree in the story time room for the presenter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Middle Country Public Library</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I visited MCPL as a part of our Family Place training and they have an awesome outside area called a Nature Explorium. They center different areas of the garden around different themes-play, create, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-71438657306354434872016-01-27T15:13:00.002-08:002016-01-27T15:13:14.292-08:00Nonfiction Redo<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a manager, circulation is a big number that I have to take into account. We use it when purchasing, weeding, and making major decisions. Every year I was running our juvenile nonfiction circulation stats and they kept dropping (anywhere from 8-20% per year). Our overall circulation during the same time was not having the same drastic decreases. One year was a 3% drop, while another was a 19% increase. Things were good overall, but this section needed some attention. The hard part was that I couldn't weed it down too much as many of the books are used for school and reports. After a year of watching data, we knew that we needed to change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No big project should ever be started without some research. We looked at other big nonfiction changes around the country and talked to libraries. They were getting amazing results-some circulation was even up 20-30%!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some links that may help you in your research include:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://uncommonblog.edublogs.org/2012/09/23/reshelving-project-almost-there-and-already-awesome/">Reshelving Project: Almost There and Already Awesome</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slj.com/2012/09/collection-development/are-deweys-days-numbered-libraries-across-the-country-are-giving-the-old-classification-system-the-heave-ho-heres-one-schools-story/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are Dewey's Days Numbered?</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2010/05/public-services/the-dewey-dilemma/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Dewey Dilemma</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.booklistonline.com/%28X%281%29A%28pre7kGBZ0QEkAAAANThlYzc1MDAtZTNjYS00NTNiLTkyZTEtZDU3MjBlYjAyMGY5vDrgKMbukJ0ZWANcj5HD8iruwzI1%29%29/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=6240625&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notes from the Field: Going "Dewey Free" at Kent District Library</span></a></li>
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Decisions, Decisions</span></b></u><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After your research, you have to decide what you are going to do and how to do it. Our challenge was that we have 3 locations-a Main Library and 2 branches. Both branches interfiled their adult and juvenile nonfiction. Whatever we chose to test out had to work for both children and adults.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We decided that a modified version of <a href="https://www.bisg.org/bisac/complete-bisac-subject-headings-2015-edition">BISAC</a> was our best bet. We went mostly with the adult subject headings, but there were a couple of children's ones that we needed to add in (ex. Fairy Tales and Folklore). There were a couple of places where we combined subjects or made up headings to suit our needs (ex. Literature). We also wanted to pare down our list to just the headings that we needed. My boss originally wanted 15, but we negotiated up to 35. If we were just reclassifying children's, we could have gone with a smaller number. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the decisions are all made, you are set to get to work. My boss let us hire a college student who was home for the summer to do all of our relabeling. Our ILS allows us to make bulk changes so we were able to change whatever was relabeled on a given day. This took 2 months of 1 person working 10 hours a week to change a 20,000 item collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the entire section was relabeled, it was time to move the books. If I were doing it again, I would pull a bunch of people to move them over a couple of days. It took 2 of us 3 weeks to move them all. This was also the beginning of our heavy outreach season so it wasn't the best time for a shifting project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>The Final Result</u></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Want to see what this looks like? Each section has a sign at the beginning that identifies the section. All spine labels in this section (Science) would start with SCIENCE to help with shelving. Once in a section, the call numbers are filed by Dewey number.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We always start new sections at the top of a bay of shelves to make it easier on the customers. We also added a lot of face-outs-all of the top shelves in the nonfiction section are now face-outs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>What Do Our Customers Think?</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've now had this new organization system in place for 4 months. We are pulling our circulation stats every 3 months to monitor how it is doing over this year. After our first quarter, juvenile nonfiction is up 18% in circulation! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is not uncommon for us to now see kids sitting in the middle of aisles with a stack of books that they are perusing. We are seeing less nonfiction location questions from kids because they are better able to find their materials between the signage and the face-outs. I will admit that the parents are less than thrilled their first time that they have to find a juvenile nonfiction book. I get a lot of "What have you done?" After I explain that we are a trial for 1 year because the kids just were not finding the materials and that now they are, they come around. It does take some librarian time showing people how to find their items in the OPAC and what they should write down to find their items on the shelf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The above is part of a letter from one of our local teachers telling us how much she loved the new organization. It made my day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are going to keep collecting circulation statistics through mid-September before any future decisions are made. We were a test site for this project so other departments/locations are watching to see what happens. </span><br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-73597444671659061262015-12-11T11:12:00.003-08:002015-12-11T11:12:26.145-08:00Baa Baa Black Sheep<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love bringing nursery rhymes into story time and one of my favorite is Baa Baa Black Sheep. There is so much you can do with it, from rhyming to talking about colors. This morning for story time, I made envelope puppets out of different colored sheep. If you have never made an envelope puppet before, seal the envelope and cut off the end 3 inches or so. You can make two puppets out of each envelope. For these, I used different colored <a href="http://www.accucuteducation.com/Sheep-2-P872.aspx">die cut sheep</a> and used double-sided tape to stick them to the envelope. While I could collect them back and reuse them, I like to send them home with the kids to retell the rhymes. They are cheap and easy to make so I don't mind losing them.</span><br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-43824892216837629122015-12-09T12:43:00.001-08:002015-12-12T07:05:50.279-08:00Flannel Friday Round-Up<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a wrap! Check out the great ideas from the week below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kate from <a href="https://feltboardmagic.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/apple-colour-sorting/">Felt Board Magic</a> (and one of our Southern Hemisphere participants!) shows off Apple Colo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ur Sorting. While it woul<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d be a great addition to a fall story time, I am totally stealing this one <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for our felt board that we have out all the time.</span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kate also shows off <a href="https://feltboardmagic.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/five-grey-elephants-balancing-step-by-step-on-a-piece-of-string/">Five Grey Ele</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://feltboardmagic.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/five-grey-elephants-balancing-step-by-step-on-a-piece-of-string/">phants Balancing Step By Step on a Piece of String</a>. I had never heard this <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">song before, but it is big in Austr<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">alian play schools.</span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I show off my easy envelope puppets here at <a href="http://lisaslibraryland.blogspot.com/2015/12/baa-baa-black-sheep.html">Library</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://lisaslibraryland.blogspot.com/2015/12/baa-baa-black-sheep.html">land</a> and how I use them in story time. This week's version was <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Baa Baa Black Sheep.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jane <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at <a href="http://piperlovesthelibrary.blogspot.com/2015/12/holiday-drama-not-from-llama-once-again.html">Piper Loves the Library</a> gets into <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the holiday spirit with her post about the Nutcracker program th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at they hel<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d with the Connecticu<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t Con<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cert Ballet. It is precious an<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d looks like a lot of fun!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jen at <a href="http://jensadventuresinstorytime.blogspot.com/2015/12/flannel-friday-snowflakes.html">Adventures in Storytime</a> shares her snowfla<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">kes and the songs<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">/rhymes that she uses them with.</span></span> Since winter starts in a week, this is a great one to add to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">your lineup!</span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amy at <a href="http://onelittlelibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/12/flannel-friday-do-you-want-to-feed.html">One Little Librarian</a> shares <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">her Do You Want to Feed the Reindeer? prop. Not only is she injecting some play into her program, but the food items have letters and numbers on them.</span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shawn at <a href="http://readrhymesing.blogspot.com/2015/12/flannel-friday-where-are-jingle-bells.html">Read</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://readrhymesing.blogspot.com/2015/12/flannel-friday-where-are-jingle-bells.html">, Rhyme and Sing</a> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">has a Christmas ver<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sion of L<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ittle Mouse<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> using j<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ingle bells and sleighs.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wendy at <a href="http://flannelboardfun.blogspot.com/2015/12/flannel-friday-little-mouse-variations.html">Flannel Board Fun</a> shares a bunch of variations of L<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ittle Mouse<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> using various rhyming words. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My wheels are already <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">spinning on this one!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary will be hosting next week's round-up at <a href="https://missmaryliberry.wordpress.com/">Miss Mary Lib</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://missmaryliberry.wordpress.com/">erry</a>. </span></span><br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-27118118853246698982015-12-08T06:43:00.003-08:002015-12-08T06:43:50.800-08:00It's been awhile!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's been awhile since I have posted and some of you have expressed interest in what I have been doing. Here's some of the neat stuff that I have been doing this fall (posts to follow someday):</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our school outreach program got pushed into high gear by participating in the <a href="https://www.imls.gov/issues/national-initiatives/connected-library-challenge">ConnectED</a> Library Challenge. Our goal is to give every student in our service area a library card. Our library district hosts 47 schools in five districts, plus residents in a sixth. We brought our first (and largest) school district on in September to great success and are slowly rolling this out to the other districts. Our challenge right now is keeping up with demand and figuring out what is sustainable. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Along with that, I have done 4 presentations on our school outreach program since the beginning of October. While one was for our library board and another for our coop, our school outreach librarian (plus some others for 1) have also presented at our state library association annual conference and our state media specialist preconference. I now have a presenting break until PLA-if you're there on Thursday afternoon and are interested in school outreach, stop by our presentation.</span> </li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Last week I attended Family Place training in New York. It was a great experience and I highly recommend it to everyone. My brain is currently spinning with future changes to go along with that certification. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So that's where I am at. This is on top of my manager duties, reference desk, programming, and other miscellaneous tasks that make up my day. I will be honest-I still haven't put away our Trick or Treat supplies as many days lately I drop a pile on my desk and grab another to go off again. I will be back and will have some great stuff for you all! </span>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-26983657410519591192015-10-16T06:05:00.000-07:002015-10-16T06:05:23.209-07:00Hickory Dickory Dock Guest Post<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a guest post version of Hickory Dickory Dock for Nancy. She shared some pictures with me of something fun that she created in her children's department. Presenting...Hickory Dickory Dock!</span><br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-1018437170560714822015-10-07T10:06:00.002-07:002015-10-10T09:05:28.464-07:00Flannel Friday Round-Up<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome to the Halloween edition of Flannel Friday! We have some great Halloween/fall posts and some great general posts for your story time pleasure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kathryn at Fun with <a href="http://kdr4xmom.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-crown-for-day.html">Friends at Storytime</a> is using her Crown for a Day rhyme at her Halloween program. She shares both a flannel version and a file folder version of the rhyme!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am always amazed at people who can play instruments in story time. Check out Storytime Ukulele's post of <a href="https://storytimeukulele.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/halloween-ukulele-songs/">Halloween songs</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jess at <a href="http://fromtheliberryof.blogspot.com/2015/10/flannel-friday-this-is-not-pumpkin.html">From the Liberry of</a> has created a neat version of This is NOT a Pumpkin by Bob Staake. It has already gone on my TBM (to be made) pile and I am sure that you will feel the same!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://storytimewhoopdeedo.blogspot.com/2015/10/flannel-friday-fall-is-not-easy-by.html">Storytime Whoopdeedo</a> shares their version of Fall is Not Easy by Marty Kelley. If you haven't read this book before, definitely check it out for your fall story times. The flannelboard version makes it even more awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lauren at <a href="http://thedilleydally.blogspot.com/2015/10/flannel-friday-monsters.html">The Dilley Dally</a> shows off a great flannelboard that kids can play with. Check out her mix and match monster station! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meg at <a href="http://missmegsstorytime.com/flannel-friday-vegetables/">Miss Meg's Storytime</a> shares a flannel/prop version of her vegetable rhyme. What's really neat about it (other than the faces on the vegetables) is that there is a vegetable for every child in attendance. It is a great way to encourage participation!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amy at <a href="http://onelittlelibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/10/flannel-friday-5-little-rocking-horses.html">one little librarian</a> shares her version of 5 Little Rocking Horses. This is a great addition to a horse, nursery rhyme, or toy story time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melissa at <a href="http://melissa.depperfamily.net/blog/?p=6057">Mel's Desk</a> builds on her last post and adds Meow's friends. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />That's a wrap for the week! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melissa at <a href="http://melissa.depperfamily.net/blog/">Mel's Desk</a> is hosting next week. It is a great flannelboard, especially if you work with the toddler age group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are you working with colors? Check out <a href="http://storytimekatie.com/2015/10/09/flannel-friday-paintbrushes/">Storytime Katie</a>'s inspired version of paintbrushes. </span><br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-33457818877984810912015-09-02T13:41:00.001-07:002015-09-02T13:41:22.524-07:00Harry Potter Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We started off our day with Dumbledore's Magic Show. One of our local magicians was willing to dress up in robes and pretend to be Dumbledore as he performed. At the same time, our community relations person held a potions class for adults in a different room. They made different natural cleaning products and soaps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course you need a costume contest since you will have a lot of people dressed up. I was actually surprised by how much they dressed up. We split our age groups into kids and teens for prizes to make judging fair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After the costume contest, <a href="http://lisaslibraryland.blogspot.com/2015/09/diagon-alley.html">Diagon Alley</a> opened. We have 3 conference rooms and an auditorium and put them all to use for different "stores".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After we opened Diagon Alley, we started <i>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone</i> on the big screen, followed by <i>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets</i>. While these weren't as heavily attended as the other events, they were still good to have on. Many families took breaks and would pop in for some of the movie. Plus, it is really hot here in July and gave people a break from the heat in our air conditioning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During the afternoon, my teen librarian set up Quidditch on the field outside of the library. She used hula hoops attached to PVC pipe that rested in a bucket of rocks to form the goals. Arm bands identified the different teams. The kids and teens were really good about taking turns and playing together in the different positions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Throughout the day, we had some things that anyone could do at any time. These included:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u>Plans for Next Year</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now that we have one year under our belts, we would love to expand next year. Some of our adult librarians wanted events in their departments. We also have ideas for future activities. Our tentative plan is to pull in more staff and expand.</span>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-56545824185620646532015-09-02T13:27:00.001-07:002015-09-02T13:41:37.617-07:00Diagon Alley<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a part of our Harry Potter Day, we opened Diagon Alley for 2 hours. This was a non-registration event so anyone of any age could attend. The original plan was for volunteers to help staff the rooms and keep supplies filled, but all of our volunteers that day pulled a no-show. Luckily, all of our attendees were good sports and the adults helped to keep the stations filled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have Harry Potter Day, then you definitely need to serve butter beer. Our concoction was a mixture of vanilla ice cream, butterscotch syrup, and cream soda. Our local Meijer graciously donated all of our food supplies, plus cups and napkins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every wizard needs a wand. I used Brytani's <a href="https://librarianneighbor.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/harry-potter-birthday-party/">idea</a> (who was inspired by <a href="https://blogs.princeton.edu/popgoesthepage/pvc/">Pop Goes the Page</a>) and precut 500 PVC pipes for magic wands. Each wand was stuffed with unicorn hair (sparkly white yarn), dragon hearts (red pony beads), and Phoenix feathers (orange feathers). We used Duct tape to wrap our wands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trying to find owl crafts for 500 people is a little tricky, but our pom pom owls turned out cute. We used 1 1/2 inch white pom poms and glued googly eyes, an orange fun foam beak, orange fun foam feet, and white felt wings onto each owl. Tacky glue worked best for this project.</span><br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-1395630138865371142015-07-23T05:45:00.005-07:002015-07-25T06:31:49.120-07:00Flannel Friday Round-Up<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's Flannel Friday time! There are some great additions this week, so without further ado... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Liz from <a href="http://storytimewhoopdeedo.blogspot.com/2015/07/flannel-friday-7242015-book-book-book.html">Storytime Whoopdeedo</a> shows off her version of <i>Book! Book! Book!</i> by Deborah Bruss. This story is always a hit in story time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who doesn't love garbage trucks?!? Check out Kathryn's three garbage truck flannelboards at <a href="http://kdr4xmom.blogspot.com/2015/07/dont-throw-your-trash-in-my-backyard.html">Fun with Friends at Storytime</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Danielle at <a href="http://librarydanielle.blogspot.com/2015/07/toddler-time-fruits-and-berrries.html">Storytime with Library Danielle</a> shows off her version of Five Strawberries. I love how she added in animals eating the berries. While not flannel, check out her scarf rhyme and early literacy messages here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mel has been hard at work on an outer space set over at <a href="http://melissa.depperfamily.net/blog/?p=5948">Mel's Desk</a>. She shows off many different ways to use it with multiple age groups. Plus, it is a great addition if you are adding STEAM to your story time lineup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jaime at <a href="https://liltexaslibrary.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/flannel-friday-hardworking-puppies/">Ms. Jaime's Library Journeys</a> shows off her version of Lynn Reiser's <i>Hardworking Puppies</i>. I love all of the career felt pieces that she created to go with the puppies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kathryn at <a href="http://kdr4xmom.blogspot.com/">Fun with Friends at Storytime</a> is hosting next week's Flannel Friday round-up.</span><br />
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-21811680522977330612015-07-09T11:02:00.003-07:002015-07-09T11:02:58.125-07:00Flannel Friday-Pete's Back<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have a great relationship going this summer with our local Parks & Rec department (yay Julie for organizing!) and are doing a lot of neat outreach events out in the community this summer. Next week we will be doing story time in the park. There is a good possibility of there being 150+ people there, which means that we began to rethink how we will be sharing picture books with a large crowd. We are pulling out puppets, props, and our newly painted Pete the Cat prop boards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is Pete the Cat painted on a large foam board with acrylic paints. The buttons all have velcro so we can tell the story of <i>Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons</i> by Eric Litwin and have the buttons pop off. Of course, you need a way to see his belly button so we made a 2nd board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While we will still be using the book to tell the story, these boards will help illustrate the actions to the crowd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11701384427343511247noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1617960210316209041.post-75392720663777532082015-07-02T08:49:00.001-07:002015-07-02T08:49:07.337-07:00Summer Reading Prizes<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last summer Abby at <a href="http://www.abbythelibrarian.com/2014/06/those-summer-reading-club-prizes.html">Abby the Librarian</a> had a great post about how she revamped her summer reading program prizes. While I wanted to revamp our prizes for this summer, most of our staff didn't when we started to plan for 2015. We all know that you need staff buy-in to make a radical change. To test the waters, we offered her science activity packs as a prize option in our Winter Reading Club. After seeing how popular those were, we were ready to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our science activity packs form 1/4 of our first prize for summer reading (5 hours or 20 books). This is the level where kids get to pick their own prize out of a treasure chest. The other three prizes are <a href="http://www.raymondgeddes.com/19798-mr-mustache-sticky-notes">mustache sticky notes</a>, <a href="http://www.partycity.com/product/batman+erasers.do?refType=&from=Search&navSet=batman%20erasers&bypass_redirect=1">superhero erasers</a>, and <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/web/browse/processProductsCatalog?mode=Searching&sku=13583662">superhero kick balls</a>. The science activity packs are, by far, the most popular item in the treasure chest. So if you were on the fence about this sort of prize, you will definitely want to try it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>Activity Pack #1-Balloon Rockets</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We totally "borrowed" this one from Abby. We used this as a winter reading prize and the kiddos still aren't sick of it. In fact, they are picking it again. Abby's directions and supply list are located <a href="http://www.abbythelibrarian.com/2014/06/science-activity-packs-balloon-rocket.html">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u>Activity Pack #2-Catapults</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We used the <a href="http://lisaslibraryland.blogspot.com/2014/02/mad-scientists-catapults.html">directions</a> from our catapult program and created packs with all of the supplies needed. We also included 1 pom pom so they had something to launch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><u>Activity Pack #3-Floating Ball</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When looking for new ideas, we looked for things that we could easily and cheaply assemble in a plastic bag. This is a little harder than it sounds. We lucked out when we found the <a href="http://allfortheboys.com/home/2014/06/26/floating-ball-activity.html">Floating Ball</a>. Our baggie includes:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 straw</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With 2 pieces of scotch tape, a pair of scissors, and the instructions that we wrote up, kids can do this activity.</span><br />
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