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Fun Friday: Financial Literacy
Our Fun Friday program was (of course!) a lot of FUN! Last week we focused on financial literacy – important information that even young kids should start discussing with their adults. In Pennsylvania, the state library has created 5 literacies they have labeled as PA Forward. These initiatives are to…
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Sensory-Friendly Story Time Theme: Snakes
I love having the opportunity to outreach to the Early Intervention classrooms in our community. I got the chance to visit four classrooms yesterday – reaching out to 50 children and 31 adults. The classroom children have a range of disabilities from visual impairments, to developmental disabilities, to the autism…
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Story Time Theme: Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child
Pennsylvania is trying to encourage early literacy by providing copies of the same book to libraries, child care centers, and families across the state every April with a program called Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child. This year’s book was Stripes of All Types by Susan Stockdale. At our library,…
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Environmental Jeopardy
During April we try to provide a few events focused around Earth Day – this year we’re offering a story time, a recycled jewelry program, a story stroll at the park during the Park & Rec Department Earth Day celebration, and Environmental Jeopardy for the middle schoolers. We give the…
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Miss Laura, Children’s Librarian (aka teacher, singer, theatre “expert”, princess)
I must be in a reflective mood this week, but here goes another post about how much I love what I do! Graduate school does not prepare you for the crazy things that you might be doing (especially as a children’s librarian). Thankfully, I started volunteering/working in libraries when I…
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Proposed Elimination of IMLS
Time to jump up on my soapbox again… Representative Paul Ryan, “the House Budget Committee Chairman denounces the critical role that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) plays in supporting civic engagement, literacy and lifelong learning in more than 123,000 libraries nationwide.” His recommendation? The federal government should…
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Yoga Story Time, Daisy Troop Visit, & Play Practice
… or just another day as a children’s librarian! This is the type of day that makes me absolutely LOVE what I do for a living. I began my afternoon (late shift) with a 45-minute yoga story time. We used the same “sock” theme as yesterday, but incorporated some yoga…
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Story Time Theme: Socks
Our next story time session has begun and with it, a new schedule which means I’m doing back-to-back toddler story times on Tuesday morning. Because it’s the first day of the month I also had to run statistics reports this morning, so needless to say, I’ve been very busy! The…
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April is… National Poetry Month
After combining a number of ideas we found online a co-worker and I created this AWESOME display for National Poetry Month. We combined a homemade calendar of mammoth proportion (4 posterboards and crepe paper) and created our very own pockets for poems and added a whole bunch of eye-catching (new)…
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“Ten Best Sentences”
The American Scholar posted their list of the 10 Best Sentences ranging from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Charles Dickens and while all are very interesting and debatably the best, I would love to see a similar list for children’s literature. What would be on it? Most likely something from Dr.…
