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Slime Science Workshop
Our slime science workshop was definitely a lot of fun – so fun in fact, that I took it with me when I visited summer camp today and we had fun there as well! I started each program reading the story The Secret Science Project that Almost Ate the School by…
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And so the craziness begins…
or Summer Reading has officially begun! Our decorations are up, signs have been hung and book lists have been copied. Because everyone knows that parents will always ask about a school booklist (even when it’s not required)! We’ve gotten about 210 sign-ups through our pre-registration at school and I hope this…
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Summer Reading School Visits
Every year (like many other public libraries) we visit each of the schools in our service area to let kids know about our upcoming summer reading program. For the past few years we’ve used a trivia game that I’ve created using PowerPoint slides that corresponds to the summer’s theme and…
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Summer Reading Prep…
or ” How to Try and Organize My Life for the Next 3 Months” All of our major spring programming has wrapped up, which is awesome, but after a short reprieve, I am now facing the summer reading kick-off countdown. And I have WAY too much to do in the…
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Summer Reading Workshop
I’m spending the day at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia to learn how science and literacy can work together to create an amazing summer reading program. We’ve spent the morning doing some great experiments with balance and sound and all the ideas they have given us have included very basic…
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Summer Reading Lists
Yep, even though it’s only 20 degrees outside with a 13 inches of snow, we’re already thinking about the summer time, here in my library. And one of the first projects on my to-do list is to update our in-house summer reading suggestions for grade levels. Our school librarians do…
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Digger Day
I’ve seen a couple similar posts in the past few weeks and I think most of my fellow public librarians understand – I’ve hit my summer reading wall! I’m thoroughly exhausted and am tired of trying to keep everything in the same theme! Thankfully, last night was our last “big”…
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First (official) Day of Summer Reading
My summer reading planning begins in November/December, but for the general public today is the day that our Summer Reading Program officially begins. I got to work an hour early to make sure the adult and young adult links on the website were working, updated the Facebook page, and…
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Young Adult vs. Middle Grade Books
Summer is fast approaching and as a librarian, I have found that many parents and even some kids are confused and misunderstand the difference between young adult books and books for those students in middle grades. Once I read past the middle grade novels in my public library in my…
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How gross is too gross?!?!?
As I was shifting our picture book collection the other day, I came across a book entitled, Poopendous! written by Artie Bennett and illustrated by Mike Moran. As the book goes, “Poop is yuck, poop is foul. Step in poop and you will howl. To red ths book, you must…