tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53397074633064646822024-03-13T14:35:12.839-07:00From the Short Stacks All about literacy, but not all about literacy.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-60892029427809003892016-01-23T07:49:00.000-08:002016-02-09T08:08:46.941-08:00Exercise BINGOOur library uses the Collaborative Summer Reading Program every year, last year's theme was Be a Hero Read. We partnered with the Mayo Clinic Health Systems and our Friends of the Library to offer an exercise BINGO sheet for kids to finish and earn raffle tickets for an end of the summer prize drawing, a hacky sack when they picked up the form and a free water bottle upon completion.<br />
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We had two new Story Walks set up in our town, one at a local park and one at our local school's nature walk. We included the Story Walk on the BINGO sheet as a way to promote it's existence.<br />
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This side program (with hardly any staff work) was a great success for our small library (Res Pop 3500). We had 126 kids pick up the BINGO sheets (tracked by the number of balls we gave away) and 44 kids returned them completed. AND this summer's theme is On Your Mark, Get Set, Read! which makes this BINGO sheet extra awesome because we will be partnering with the Mayo Clinic Health Systems and holding it again.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-72316097431239816662015-09-24T07:32:00.002-07:002015-09-24T07:32:46.057-07:00Homeschool Club, 3rd EditionFirst day back with the Homeschool Club today, and I had 27 kiddos (huge for our library). <br />
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Two years ago, I worked with a local co-op to establish goals and the purpose of the group.<br />
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1. Get kids used to public speaking.<br />
2. Give kids opportunities to work in groups (who aren't siblings).<br />
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We have been meeting during the school year once a month for an hour.<br />
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We started with a getting to know you game: on the way into the meeting room, kids were given toilet paper and told, "Take as much as you think you will need." That was it, no further instructions. After all the kids had their toilet paper, I took 4 squares myself and started off by touching each square one at a time as I made statements:<br />
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2. I work at the library.<br />
3. I like to watch mysteries on TV.<br />
4. I like to play volleyball.<br />
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One of the older kids had already played the game before, he had taken 6 squares and wanted to go next. After he went, I had the kids guess what the toilet paper was for before we had everyone else go. When some stragglers came in, the kids went wild suggesting the late comers take a lot or a little (got a little loud for a moment).<br />
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The kids all cooperated beautifully, even the kid who took 37 squares!<br />
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For each kid the first square was to say their name, and I would have the group repeat the name back to me. If they stopped listening, I would just ask them the last thing the kid said, "Did anyone hear what restaurant John likes to visit?" Occasionally I had to prompt kids, what do you like to do outside, what's your favorite color, etc,. This game took A LOT longer than I had anticipated, we were left with about 20 minutes.<br />
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I had the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Team-Building-Icebreaker-Activities-273491" target="_blank">Alike, Different</a> sheet ready as a back up activity to the main activity (that we never even got to), so I used it for the back up activity to the ice breaker!<br />
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We finished with the same and different game. The kids had to find 5 other kiddos and write something they had in common in the circle, and something that was different outside the bubble. The younger kids had a harder time with this activity (4 & 5 year olds) because they couldn't write/spell or were reluctant to do so, but between myself and some of the older kids, we got their sheets completed for them. This was great for working on initiating a conversation with people, you wouldn't believe how hard this is for kids. I had the opportunity to model for them A LOT! Incentive to finish the sheet: they could go when it was full.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nature seemed like a natural category to have, with seasons and weather. I ended up with a few other subcategories. I ended up splitting food and plants up. Pizza isn't really a plant, but it is from nature, so. . . food! Creepy carrots could go in either, but since it wasn't really about growing carrots, and more about eating carrots it ended up in NATURE FOOD REYNOLDS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Camping- we live in a touristy camping area.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Conservation- small, small section, but when Earth Day comes around they are easier to find.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Food- food we eat, including plants that are being eaten or put in soups or on pizza.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nature- water cycle, random nature love books, anything that doesn't fit into the other sub-categories. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Plants- Growing and harvesting go here, trees, flowers, and books about gardening.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Seasons- spring, summer, fall and winter are all here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Weather- rain, wind, storms, tornadoes and other weather related books go in this section.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So where do those pesky apple books go? Seasons, food, plants? That is what I love about this organization system so much, it is flexible. If the book is not going out in seasons, I move it to food, or plants. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-42656550291987917402015-06-24T07:55:00.000-07:002015-06-24T07:56:21.201-07:00Super Hero Training Academy (Library Version)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Patterns from <a href="http://sunflowerstorytime.com/2013/09/23/superhero-family-night/" target="_blank">here </a>and<a href="http://bugsandbeans.com/2013/09/whats-your-superhero-name.html" target="_blank"> here</a>. The names were goofy and involved food. Some kids did not think having a cute name like the Invincible Marshmallow was very cool, so they made up their own. <br />
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This could have been so much bigger. Kids love stacking cups and knocking them down and stacking them again. This idea was on several different websites.<br />
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Krytonite Keeper came from a few different ideas I saw online. One was a<a href="http://lego.gizmodo.com/nobody-can-survive-the-diabolical-lego-firewalk-1593785818" target="_blank"> lava trail </a>made out of LEGOs and the other was a radioactive orange game our teen librarian did with the teens the day before. The teens had an orange on a spoon and they had to knock off other kid's oranges to win while staying in a circle on the floor. I did not want to do this with the younger kiddos. I also loved the idea of walking across hot lava which was actually LEGO. Krytonite Keeper is "walking across crushed buildings to save Superman from the Kryptonite". This was totally awesome. Barefoot, spray your LEGOs later with some disinfectant spray. I used three tubs of LEGOs from our LEGO Club. <br />
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Another <a href="http://www.firefliesandmudpies.com/2014/06/29/squirt-gun-painting/" target="_blank">Pinterest </a>find that I tweaked for super hero training. This would have worked better if the water guns didn't leak all over the place. I filled the guns with a paint/water mixture.One gun had purple paint, one had green.</div>
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I found the idea for the building jumping with another link on <a href="http://catchmyparty.com/photos/883401" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>. I wrapped different sizes of boxes and used label stickers for the windows. The kids came back to this activity over and over.<br />
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This program cost $4.22 for the red plates and the Frisbee at the Dollar Store. I used a lot of stuff I had left from other programs (I am a hoarder at work). I had almost 40 people show up (over 20 is excellent for our small library)!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-43213047299304119582015-06-22T06:38:00.000-07:002015-06-22T06:39:45.162-07:00Penguins and Process Art<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Penguin storytime! I love penguins, who doesn't?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">End "cute" project.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We played March of the Penguins between books; as I waddled with the kids, we sang this penguin call and response chant (I found it helpful that parents stay at storytime and were familiar with a call and response chant). We sang it through twice.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-60220718736425355772015-06-11T07:35:00.002-07:002015-06-24T07:56:29.317-07:00Kryptonite Krispies in a CupI got the idea for the Kryptonite Krispies <a href="http://thepartyteacher.com/2012/10/08/guest-party-girls-3rd-superhero-birthday-party/#!prettyPhoto" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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I saw the picture and knew it would be an easy snack to add to our school age crafting program (I always try to add an edible crafty snack). <br />
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What you need:<br />
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<li>One large styrofoam cup per kid (a bowl might work better, our cups tipped over sometimes)</li>
<li>4 big marshmallows</li>
<li>1/4 tbsp butter</li>
<li>2/3 C of Rice Krispies (or the generic kind is definitely cheaper, one box was enough for about 20 kids)</li>
<li>Green & Yellow Food coloring, 1-2 drops per cup </li>
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I had the kids put the marshmallows in the cup, a volunteer portioned out the butter for them and they added that to the cup as well. Microwave for about 12-18 seconds depending on how fast your microwave melts stuff. The volunteer handing out the butter also supervised the food coloring drops when the kids added them. Stir with a fork, and eat with same fork. Super easy, super quick. I'm sure you could modify with Fruity Pebbles or other such cereal. I can't wait to modify this and use it again. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-86896217907211975072015-05-22T07:53:00.000-07:002015-05-22T07:53:09.723-07:00SRP SweetnessI used the fabulous library hero signs created on the <a href="http://hafuboti.com/2014/01/20/readers-assemble/" target="_blank">Hafuboti </a>blog to make<br />
<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8PnIEi04sIiSEp1emVmNU9lbUk/edit" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8PnIEi04sIiSEp1emVmNU9lbUk/edit" target="_blank">Mini Candy Bar Wrappers</a>. <br />
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If you want to print them for yourself, you will have to download them as a<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8PnIEi04sIiSEp1emVmNU9lbUk/edit" target="_blank"> PDF</a> for it to print correctly, I'm not sure what's up with that. But these are going to make SWEET prizes at our SRP Kick Off Carnival!<br />
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Also, if you want some Super Awesome Capes to jazz up your suckers, check out this <a href="http://www.twoityourself.com/2014/05/diy-personalized-superhero-cape-party.html" target="_blank">Blog</a>. <br />
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Let the Summer Begin!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-25553469196774501202015-04-08T07:32:00.001-07:002015-04-08T07:56:13.337-07:00Yellow've These Books"Why do you like colors so much?" asks my daily favorite 10 year old library guest. To which I say, "Who doesn't???"<br />
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I loved the green Ispy last month so much that I turned it into a yellow display. I love yellow. Sunshine yellow.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-20795845960820572882015-03-19T07:32:00.001-07:002015-04-13T06:30:12.639-07:00It's Not Easy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's not easy being green, or a library director! I've been avoiding posting for several reasons. One I've been a slacker and haven't posted much at all lately, I have guilt over this. Why? I have no idea. Two I feel like a whiner for even complaining a little about my new job title. A year ago this month, I added Library Director to my job duties and kept the ones I already had. Needless to say, there was a long, long, long period of teaching an old dog new tricks and I'm still learning everyday. I also had to learn to balance my two duties. One of the things I have lost is time. Time to take pictures of all the fun stuff I do, time to stop and write up a reflection (which NEEDS to be done for the next time I run a similar program). So there it is, my explanation of why this blog sucks now.<br />
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I lost my partner in crime, my old boss/director. We used to have so much fun putting displays together. We were great at bouncing ideas off each other and a great creative team ( I MISS YOU KIM!!!!). I was thinking about her and missed doing fun displays, so I took some time to put this display together. I found the idea for this display on <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/280630620505867873/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>. I started out making an ispy poster, adding little pictures around the main poster. When I put the poster up and all of the books, I was at a loss for what to put on the top... I found the grinch, then I made him a green cage out of building straws, and set him on the top. He was lonely, so I started to round up anything green we had in the storytime closet and made up a small ISpy poster for the sides of the display.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-22250188454497801752014-09-08T06:28:00.000-07:002014-09-08T06:28:58.186-07:00Mad Scientists Take Two (Balloons & Electricity)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This book totally became my go to for science projects at the library. </div>
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All of the experiments I used in this program came from this book!</div>
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<b>1. Balloons and Air Pressure Challenge</b>. Found on page 134. Each table has a bowl of water, a few balloons and a bunch of cups. I used one balloon per kid and about 15 cups per table (the successful tables needed more cups). I first asked the kids how many cups they thought we could get to stick to a balloon, and I showed them how I could stick one cup to the balloon. Process: After one child blows up the balloon to about grapefruit size, another child dips the top of 2 plastic cups in water and then uses the surface tension to hold the cups to the balloon. The first child blows more air into the balloon, the air pressure inside the cups changes so the cups stick to the balloon. Pause for more cups, and keep blowing and sticking cups on as long as you can. The challenge was to get over 10 cups on a balloon and one group of kids did it!</div>
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<b>2. Balloon Banshee</b>. Found on page 182. Each child has a balloon and a hex nut. I challenged the kids to make noise with their balloons using both of the items. Eventually one of the kids figured it out: put the hex nut inside the balloon and use two hands to get it spinning along the inside of the balloon. As the sides of the nut hit the inside of the balloon, they make a vibration. The faster you can get the nut going around inside the balloon, the more constant the sound is until it sounds like a very annoying banshee. I went around and blew up balloons for kids who couldn't and stuck a nut in and tied it off. Each child got to take one of these fun noise makers home with them!</div>
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That was the transition for building a battery out of money (electricity)<br />
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<b>4 (& 5). Penny & Nickel Battery</b>. Found on page 192 (I had to wait for the book to come back to the library to find out the correct number of coins for this post). Each table had a small cup of lemon juice, paper towel squares cut into 1" squares, a few sheets of paper towel to lessen saturation levels, and 6 of each clean pennies and nickels (cleaned the night before).<br />
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<i>Waaaay back at the beginning we had put the money into different bowls of water: one with soap, one with salt, one with lemon juice and one with vinegar and made predictions about which would be the cleanest (it didn't work how it was supposed to, but that was okay it's more about making predictions and testing them out). The kids all looked at the money to determine the results. As they came up to look, one rep from each table took back 6 of each: pennies and nickels. Then they worked on creating their batteries.</i><br />
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When the paper towel is dipped in the lemon juice and placed between the pattern penny, nickel, penny, a slight charge will be created when you hold each end of the "wet-cell battery". Some of the tables got it to work, and some didn't. We predicted it was because of the amount of moisture on the paper towel squares, but ran out of time to test our hypothesis!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-25930098154235858952014-07-09T06:50:00.003-07:002014-07-09T06:50:40.811-07:00Picture Book Reorganization One Year LaterIt has been a little over a year since we <a href="http://fromtheshortstacks.blogspot.com/2013/03/build-it-and-they-will-come.html" target="_blank">reorganized our chidren's picture books</a> into their own scheme.<br />
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<b>Added general sub-categories</b><br />
I had previously left a general book on a topic without a sub-category line. It was confusing for shelvers and library patrons. So now if a book has different types of animals, the spine label looks like this:<br />
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<b>Dropped Multi-Cultural Section</b><br />
I felt this was an important area to set aside as a resource to share stories outside of our "rural white-bread" Wisconsin experience, emphasis an "I". I thought it might get ignored, but was hopeful people would seek them out. It turned out that our patrons did not check books out from this section as much as they did from some of the other categories. So now, they are on the shelf with the categories that they naturally fit in and will be stumbled upon: friends, family, behavior, stories, etc. This seems really obvious to me now, I'm not sure what I was thinking.</div>
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<b>Longer call "numbers"</b><br />
I had previously used FAVES for my FAVORITES to save space, but it seemed to be counter-intuitive to the whole "do it yourself without codes system" I left the old spine labels as is so we didn't have to buy and print thousands of new labels, but all of our new book spine labels now say: COMMUNITY, FAVORITES, & TRADITIONS instead of COMM, FAVES, and TRADS. All of the call numbers in the catalogs say the entire word, and that is where the patrons look to find where the books are located, problem fixed.<br />
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I made picture labels for the subcategories, I am more than happy to forward these on. I did a Google image search of each topic and found the cutest pics I could to put on display! They are just small pictures attached to poster board and covered with Contact Paper, they've been on the shelves almost 9 months and are holding up well.<br />
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<b>Other library's adaptations</b><br />
A few other libraries in our consortium have moved to this scheme over the past year! One of them sent an email out about dropping the P before the main categories.They felt that the colored spines did the trick for them in singling out the books, and I agree they do stick out, I was just worried about finding books on the OPAC.<br />
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I had initially planned on genrefying the juvenile chapter books by using colors somehow, which is another reason why I used the P to designate picture books. This project has still not happened as I have been unable to pull together my final vision of how it should look, but it is going to happen some day!</div>
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I would definitely do this again in a heartbeat! It is so much easier for kids to find the types of books they want, and it saves the library staff a ton of reference time.<br />
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I <i>REALLY</i> need to add some more princess books and a princess section. This will just require a commitment. Do princess stories belong in with the Traditional Tales? the Favorites? or the Stories? Only time will tell....</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-83512818000863194472014-06-26T06:51:00.000-07:002014-07-09T06:51:00.037-07:00Mad Scientists Take OneI had the room organized in a U shape with four tables around a center table. This was an hour program and I had about 25 kids and 4 parents attend. We used the whole hour and I got all of my supplies at the Dollar Store, some I had on hand so I can't give an estimated cost. Maybe around $25-30 because of the milk purchase.<br />
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They had to dry out their caesin with the paper towels, the more dry they got it the better it worked in the molds. After they got "most" of the whey out of their caesin, they patted it flat then used a cookie cutter to make a shape. Picking up the stuff that fell outside the cookie cutter and putting it inside the cookie cutter and patting it down made their shapes more sturdy. I highly recommend using Meagan's idea of a candy mold for the shapes (brilliant!). They left them on the paper plates for later and we moved on to the next experiment. </div>
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<li>Plastic Shot Glasses from the Dollar Store</li>
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I gave each kid a tray, then I had parent volunteers (pulled from the hallway) pour their liquid into the designated tray spots. After the milk was poured, I had the kids put drops of food coloring 2-3 per section. They had a hard time not mixing the colors and were sadly disappointed later if they had. After they all have their liquids and coloring, I did one demonstration in the middle on a thick paper plate to show the kids how to "use" their Qtips. After that it was a free for all! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-50741241458279311712014-05-12T07:21:00.000-07:002014-07-09T06:50:52.208-07:00An a-MOO-zing StorytimeWhat a fun time was had by all. The books and music worked wonderfully together at two different storytimes!<br />
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<i>The Cow who Clucked</i> by Denise Fleming followed by the Laurie Berkner Band's<i> I Know a Chicken</i> with egg shakers.<br />
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<i>Moo</i>! by David LaRochelle followed by "the Cows on the Farm" to the tune of <i>Wheels on the Bus</i> with flannel animals.<br />
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<i>Dooby Dooby Moo</i> By Doreen Cronin followed by Stuart Stott's song <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Theres-Dog-School/dp/B0019U3M0K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399672594&sr=8-1&keywords=stuart+stott%27s+theres+a+dog+in+school" target="_blank">There's a Dog in School</a>. The dog sings the alphabet too: ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff. Followed by a cow and horse. Since the animals were singing in Cronin's book, this is the perfect song to do with the kids afterwards.<br />
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<i>Duck on a Bike</i> by David Shannon has a cow in it! and it is on a bike!<br />
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I did this storytime twice, and it went over well twice. My favorite moment was the two little boys at different storytimes who got the humor of Moo! and were literally laughing out loud!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-28244837864946019202014-05-01T11:48:00.001-07:002014-05-01T11:48:13.979-07:00Edible Homeschool Fun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Our final Homeschool club was today and I've been seeing all of the fun Edible Books for National Library Week and decided to try it out with just my Homeschool groups. I told them to create something edible based on one of their favorite books. I was so impressed with the creativity!!</div>
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I set up two tables for the creations to go on. When they were all set up, I presented mine first and read Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes to the kids. I had the kids warm up to help me sing Pete's song using Jim Gill's <i>Toe, Leg, Knee</i> song. After I read my book, the next kids read their book, too. And the next and the next. I wasn't planning on having them all read their books, but it worked out great. I had just asked them to tell me about their display and talk about the book a little bit. Some of the chapter book kids had to do that, but it worked out for them as well. By the end of the presentation the kids had drifted from the tables to the floor in front of the readers!<br />
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This has been one of the most exciting series of programs I've done. Watching some of the kids go from crying at the beginning of the year when s/he presented their all about me posters to reading a book in front of a group of 20 kids was so rewarding. I can't wait to see what next year will bring.<br />
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Side note on the Pete the Cat Shoes "cupcakes" for anyone looking for preschool ideas for a 1000 Books Program or other Early Literacy Event idea: 1 1/2 twinkies, and white frosting and about 5 minutes of my time. This would make a great parent/ child activity for preschool aged chidlren. Fine motor for spreading the frosting and talking about what to decorate the shoe with to rehash the story. . . I'm re-using this idea in the future.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-92178754803244371822014-04-29T09:24:00.001-07:002014-04-29T09:26:40.249-07:00LEGO Sink or Float<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Add a little dish soap to some water, challenge the kids to build something out of LEGO that will float, and wallah! It was one of THE BEST LEGO programs I've ever had. Kids were engaged, they were talking between themselves and working together to build better floating structures. I was able to throw in words like density, and surface tension. The kids loved it and it was amazing to watch. </div>
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LEGOs were cleaned in the process of creating floating structures.</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-4266387788478550232014-04-10T14:27:00.001-07:002014-04-29T09:26:54.882-07:00Frozen Display Minus the SnowI wanted to do a display that centered around Frozen, because even though we are sick to death of snow in northern Wisconsin, the kids are in looooove with this film. This month I did a half romantical/ half sisterly love display and stuck a Frozen quote on it with a slight variation!<br />
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Last month's juvenile display was a tribute to non-fiction. I was going to put orange fingerprints all over everything, but I ran out of time. . . </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-43557939189497774682014-03-20T09:03:00.000-07:002014-04-29T09:27:08.754-07:001000 Books is Blooming!I just added the 150th Library to the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@37.78019,-96.383325,5z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!6m1!4s201833468223905791500.0004d306c684e62e1980f?hl=en" target="_blank">1000 Books Before Kindergarten Map</a>. It is so exciting to see all the passion about early literacy across the country. Congratulations to all on their programs!<br />
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I am not sure why some of the pegs are pink and some are blue, if anyone would care to enlighten me :)</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-89293297876244911382014-03-17T07:18:00.002-07:002014-04-29T09:26:54.887-07:00Honey, What are The Neighbors Reading?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Short staffed, want to skip some shelving? We did. . .Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-64789443809352221302014-03-12T16:23:00.000-07:002014-05-08T07:52:02.825-07:00If you Give the Children a Mad LibHomeschool Club last month rocked!<br />
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I ordered twenty copies of <i>If You Give a Mouse a Cookie</i> by Laura Joffe Numeroff so each pair of kids could share a book. I went over the different parts of the books with the kids and it was great. There were several different editions of the book, so book jackets, end papers and covers were different on some allowing the children to use the new words for different parts of the book to explain the differences. After we talked about the different parts, we choral read the story together. It was so much fun to hear twenty little voices reading the book together (a nerdy librarian heaven). We talked about the illustrations and how they gave picture clues to what was happening with the words of the story.<br />
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I found a mad lib on the blog <a href="http://blog.playdrhutch.com/2014/01/16/give-mad-lib/" target="_blank">Play Dr Mom</a> that took out the nouns and verbs and some adjectives to make it a fun Mad Lib. Each home school student got a sticker with "noun", "verb", or whatever words were missing. This was a great opportunity to go over the definitions of those types of words. After a student contributed, they handed me their sticker. This allowed for everyone to have their own unique word. The older kids were pretty patient waiting for the younger kids to come up with their words. After I had all of the words, I read aloud the result as I wrote it out on slips of paper.<br />
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Each child then got a slip of paper with a sentence from the story, a piece of scratch art paper and a little wooden stick to scratch their illustrations with. I reminded them about what we had talked about with illustrations. There were more children than strips of paper, so I had one of the older children make the title page and some of the others made up their own funny parts of the story and we added them in. It is super easy because you just put, "and then . . . " it doesn't have to make sense because the mad lib in general was silly.<br />
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The results were put in a binder. I had numbered the slips ahead of time and was able to put them back in order as I got each finished page from the children.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-91815709921683136092014-01-23T08:26:00.000-08:002014-01-23T08:26:12.109-08:00Valentine's Minute to Win It<div class="MsoNormal">
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started for my party, I found a Valentine’s Minute to Win It post by <b><a href="http://sassysites.blogspot.com/2012/02/valentine-party-minute-to-win-it.html" target="_blank">Sassy Sites</a></b> and loved the idea. I used several of the games they had used: the Heart a
Stack, a game they called Heart Pick Up but I renamed it Heart Transplant
(because I love a good play on words for kids), Cookie Face (which I have done in the past)
and Candy Corn stick up. I found another cookie game called Unicorn Horn at the
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We started out with Heart a Stack. I gave each kid 15
conversation hearts and a plate. The kids had one minute to stack their hearts
and at the end I counted how many were left standing. Many of them were
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The kids did Heart Transplant 1 in which the kids had to transfer the
hearts from the table to their plate using chopsticks (we used Valentine’s
pencils that they got to keep). Then I passed out straws for Heart Transplant 2
and the kids had to use the straw to suck up the heart and move it to the
plate. Both heart transplants were scored by the number of hearts they had
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We re-used the straw for their FAVORITE game called Cupid’s
Arrow that I had found somewhere on line (I have no idea where) and tweaked a bit so they could shoot their “arrows”
through hanging heart shapes. There was one kid to hold the heart so it didn't
turn, one who was the cupid and the next two in line were the judges counting
the arrows that went through the heart. It worked out great because I had four
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Next the kids played Unicorn Horn with cookies. I had three
people holding a plate of ten cookies. Then three kids had a minute to stack as many
as they could on their forehead. This time I let them count their highest tower
to add to their score. The highest unicorn horn was 9 cookies high! (we reused
the cookies for each kid and I let them pick out 2 fresh cookies to eat, but
they had to save one for the next game). The next game was Cookie Face this was
a do or die game. They put a cookie on their forehead and had to get it into
their mouth without using their hands. They got a new cookie to eat if theirs
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They also played Candy Corn Stick Up, which was sort of lame.
They all had to line up 20 Valentine colored candy corns around their paper
plates in a circle. We did one last challenge, the Love Chain. This one was who
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A lot of the kids were getting picked up at this point (I
had more activities planned) so I gave them all a couple of the left over
cookies and tabulated up scores. The top three kids got a one dollar little box
of Valentine's chocolates and they all had pencils to take home (not to mention the cookies
and candy). There was a tie for third so I used one of the challenges we hadn’t
gotten to as a tie breaker. The Broken Heart – it was just a puzzle I made (cutting
out four pieces of paper on top of each other so they were all the same).<br />
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I tried to reuse stuff in different challenges as much as
possible to keep the flow moving and the cost down. I ended up spending $30
dollars on supplies at Walmart for this party (I probably didn't have to buy
the pencils, the Q-tips or the straws, but I found pink Q-tips and red and purple
straws and just HAD to get them!) Overall I had
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-38670086402830642082014-01-20T08:08:00.002-08:002014-04-29T09:27:58.438-07:00Parachute Play on a Winter's Day<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We started by laying the parachute out on the floor. I had everyone stand around the parachute by a handle. We started with an opening idea I got from the blog <a href="http://www.sotomorrowblog.com/2013/08/program-idea-parachute-playtime.html" target="_blank">So Tomorrow </a>. I added some verses to extend the song and we ended up singing it twice.<br /><br /><i>Tune of We Wish You a Merry Christmas:</i><br /><br />Let's all do a little clapping, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's all do a little clapping, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's all do a little clapping, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's parachute time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's all do a little stomping....it's parachute time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's all pick the parachute up.....it's parachute time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's all do a little shaking.....it's parachute time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's all go around the circle.....it's parachute time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's all reach up to the ceiling.....it's parachute time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's all reach down to the floor now.....it's parachute time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's all do a little shaking.....it's parachute time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I turned on Jim Gill's <i>My Ups and Downs</i> from <i>Jim Gill Sings Do, Re Mi. </i>We followed along with the song putting the parachute up and down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had a Cotton Ball Snowstorm, which was FABULOUS. One mom asked me if she was supposed to be having so much fun! Yes! Mom's can have fun, too. I dumped a bag of large cotton balls out on the parachute. We ended up playing the snowstorm for quite awhile, as the kids were asking for more, more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our next activity was a game I found on the <a href="http://rhythmexpress.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/parachute-games/" target="_blank">Rhythm Express</a> blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #373737; padding: 0in;">The Big Red Dragon Will Gobble
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(to the tune of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #373737; padding: 0in;">The parachute will
gobble me up, gobble me up, gobble me up</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #373737;"> </span></span><span style="color: #373737;"><shake><br />
<em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The parachute will gobble me up,</span></em><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br />
<em>All the way up to my knees….</em></span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><hold at knees><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #373737; padding: 0in;">The big red dragon….</span></em><span style="color: #373737;"><br />
<em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">All the way up to my tummy….</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><hold at tummy><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #373737; padding: 0in;">The big red dragon…</span></em><span style="color: #373737;"><br />
<em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">All the way up to my shoulders</span></em>…<hold
at shoulders><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #373737; padding: 0in;">The big red dragon…</span></em><span style="color: #373737;"><br />
<em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">All the way up to my nose…</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><hold at nose><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #373737; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The parachute will gobble me
up, gobble me up, gobble me up</span></span></em><span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />
<em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The parachute has</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><pause><br />
<em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> Gobbled</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">me up!</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><lift up chute and everyone
underneath to hide></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I turned on Greg and Steve's <i>The Freeze</i> and they loved having the free will to interact with the parachute at their own pace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The next song was from <a href="http://www.preschooleducation.com/gparachute.shtml" target="_blank">Preschool Education Games </a>to the tune of If You're Happy and You Know It. I added some silly activities of my own.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When the parachute goes up, stomp your feet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When the parachute goes up, stomp your feet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When the parachute goes up and it floats up in the sky, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When the parachute goes up, stomp your feet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...bend your knees</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...wiggle your bottom</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...lift one leg</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...shake the chute</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">...shout hooray</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We took a few minutes and the adults held the parachute up while the children danced around underneath to some random music.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had one last snowstorm, then it was time to say goodbye.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I close my storytimes with this is the way we say goodbye, so I tweaked it to include some parachute actions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />This is the way we pass the chute, pass the chute, pass the chute. This is the way we pass the chute when it's time to go.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">....shake the chute.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">....reach up high. Add what you want!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the way we pass the chute, pass the chute, pass the chute. This is the way we pass the chute, then we lay it down.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then we sang the storytime goodbye song:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the way we wave goodbye, wave goodbye, wave goodbye. This is the way we wave goodbye. Goodbye until next time!</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16169190903283077545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5339707463306464682.post-71472335745348109902013-12-12T12:38:00.001-08:002013-12-12T12:38:53.650-08:00Holiday CrafternoonEvery Wednesday is Schools Out Boredom Busters (SOBB)! The first Wednesday is an early release day for the district, so I show a movie with snacks to tide the kids over until their parents come to get them.<br />
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The second Wednesday of each month is Crafternoon! I set up 4-5 stations of activities for the kids to do at their own pace. Usually there is one uber-popular station and three other whip through them stations (kids choice not mine). This month was dedicated to the holidays and our stations were:<br />
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1. Gingerbread sugar cone trees. We did this last year, they LOVED it, so I brought it back and they LOVED it again this year.<br />
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2. Dangly spiral silver ornaments. <a href="http://happyhooligans.ca/icicle-ornaments/">Silver pipe-cleaners</a> and beads wrapped around a toddler paint brush. The girls liked this one (not so much the boys).</div>
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3. Tree shape outlines out of construction paper + contact paper + small pieces of tissue paper = stained glass holiday trees! This did not go as planned, kids just took handfuls of tissue paper and dropped it onto their contact paper. My plan was to have them placed nicely one at a time. . . we had an entire hour to kill!</div>
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4. Paper chains with old book pages. A few adults were upset by the destruction of the books, but we used donations that we found to be worth less tha $5 on Amazon- no rare books were destroyed in the creation of these chains. Paper chains are always hit or miss with the kids. I've offered them at several other programs and NOT ONE CHILD has participated. Today, who knows. . .they wanted to break the world record (54 miles in 24 hours!) In one hour they managed to chain more than halfway around the library! </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">They asked if they could chain again next week. The third Wednesday of the month is four player Wii gaming day. I always have extra games & coloring sheets set out for them to work on while they are not participating in the Wii play so I think I might just have to cut some more paper.</span></div>
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