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DINO-Mite Party!
Last night we held a very successful dinosaur party for Kindergarten through 2nd grade students who were very excited to share their dinosaur knowledge with myself and each other. We started our program with a dinosaur craft with penne pasta creating fossils. The kids did really well and although I…
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Fun Friday: Homemade Playdough
Program Idea: Our Fun Friday program has been running for the past two years, and I’m beginning to find it difficult to decide on themes or ideas to explore. The wide age-range of the kids (grades 1 – 4) sometimes makes it difficult to plan programs, plus its only 45…
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New Collection/Rebranding an Old Collection
I’ve been posting about our progress as we rebrand one of our collections in the children’s department. The collection is what we currently call the Bridging Collection, mostly picture books that are for an older audience as well as a catch-all location for materials that don’t fit easily into the…
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Schools are Off, I'm at Work…
which means – Lego programs! Lego programs are some of the easiest programs to provide to the public, they’re fairly hands off and don’t require too much set-up or clean up (especially if you can get the kids to help!) We offered a program this morning at 11:00 am and have…
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Book Review: Dory Fantasmagory
“Fantasmagory: a dream-like state where real life and imagination are blurred together” – a perfect start to a book that does exactly that – blur the line between reality and imagination and it’s exactly what kids need! Everyone calls Dory “Rascal” – she’s the youngest in her family and her…
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3rd & 4th Grade Book Club
We don’t have any programs this week which allows me to focus on my program planning for the next month or so. One of my programs, a third and fourth grade book discussion group will meet in the middle of February. I’ll admit, I find it difficult to find books…
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My Not-Best List
It’s been a particularly busy year for me – I bought a house in April, adopted a dog in August and in addition to working full-time, being an 2014 Emerging Leader for ALA and working with other committees as well. That being said, I didn’t get the chance to read…
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Boys Books vs. Girls Books
I just read this article, “‘Where Are All The Boy Books?’ You’re Buying Them” that was posted last Monday by Kelly Jensen on Book Riot. It takes a look at the 2014 Top-Selling Children’s and Young Adult books on Amazon and found that there are a number of “boy” books…
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Fun Friday: Dance Party
I was going to go with a mock Caldecott event for my Fun Friday program last week. But at the last minute, decided to change the plan to have a dance party… The kids are at that point in the school year where they need a break and don’t want…
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Paddington Bear Picnic
We held a Paddington Bear Picnic last night in honor of the new movie being released – Paddington coming to theatres this year. With 12 young kids, in grades Kindergarten – 2nd grade in attendance we had a great picnic! The kids also brought their own adorable teddies to share…
