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Book Review: "The Swift Boys & Me"
I picked this book up thinking it would be a middle grade novel where everything gets wrapped up very neatly by the end of the story, but I was pleasantly surprised with the ending of this book although there was closure, it was not how I expected it to end. …
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3rd & 4th Grade Book Discussion
We started our 3rd & 4th grade book discussion last summer and had some great experiences and the kids who attended all read the books! This is particularly amazing because I can’t always get our middle school students to read the book (which can make a book discussion difficult), but…
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Fall Programming Ideas
Although in our area children do not go back to school until after Labor Day, I’m already hard at work finalizing fall programming dates and times as well as beginning to promote events that are upcoming in September. Our summer reading program doesn’t even end until the 29th, so we…
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Summer Camp Outreach – Shrinky Dinks
This week at summer camp we made Shrinky Dinks! If you’re unfamiliar with Shrinky Dinks you can get Shrinky Dink paper from Amazon. It’s basically a sheet of plastic that can be decorated using colored pencils and shrinks when you put it in the oven (or in our case –…
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Reading Drought
I have been so busy recently, that I haven’t had time to read. I’ve been at the shore for two weekends, last week my grandmother and mom came to visit (which was awesome!), and this weekend I was in a wedding out of town. Needless to say, there hasn’t been…
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Movement & Play
My mom just sent me an article written in The Washington Post about ADHD and children in school. The article states that diagnosis for ADHD is up to 11% in 2011 from just 7.8% in 2003. There are a number of theories about the reason for this rise in fidgeting…
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Story Time Theme: Langauge
This is the last week of our summer story time schedule! YAY!!! We’re crossing things off the summer schedule and I have to say that I’m pretty excited take a little break until the fall session starts. Overall, even though I had a huge crowd signed up for story time…
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Catapult Science Workshop
Today we’re going to be creating own very own catapults to test out! I came across this idea from the Libraryland blog and from the Show Me Librarian blog. Both had great ideas and I combined them as well as some ideas of my own to create, what I think,…
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Story Time Faces
I just saw this post, “What’s Your ‘Storytime Face?’ ” on Miss Mary Liberry’s blog from last fall and had to laugh out loud, because I have seen pictures of myself doing story time and my facial expressions are ridiculous! I always tend to have a hand up in the air,…
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Story Time Theme: Playing
The answer is bubbles. I think that anyone who offers a storytime program should definitely be aware of the power of bubbles. Our focus this week was on the last of the five early literacy skills: play. I read three books all about play, but hands down our favorite was…
