One of my most successful and fun programs that I run is my 'Meet the Author Book Club'. This book club is for adults and started out as a club for adults who loved reading YA fiction. We branch out a bit and read some adult books as well. We read books all across …
Full STEAM Ahead – Enrichment Programs @ the Library!
At my library I have been doing lots of after school enrichment programs that are in sessions for every grade from K-12th grade! My future blog posts will be focused on those programs that I am hosting! Every week will be a different session and I will be giving you all the details, resources, and …
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Makerspaces are Key
I think that Makerspaces can mean a vast amount of different things but I think that Makerspaces are a key to introduce students to new technology that they wouldn't normally get to play with in a classroom or at home. At our library we strive to provide new emerging technologies that help a range of …
Learning Commons
I think that all libraries in our world are changing, and changing for the better. One of the libraries in our industry that has changed the most over time is school libraries. At one point we felt like they were getting thrown off the map but now they are more important than ever. Reading an …
Osmo for iPhone, YAY!
Today Osmo released that they are about to release Osmo base for iPhone! HECK YES! This makes it so much more accessible to many because so many people and kids have iPhones and if not the library staff does sometimes too! Just overall iPads sometimes are too expensive for a library to add to their …
Summer Storytime-Eric Carle
Today was all about the author Eric Carle, who is one of my favorites as I'm sure he is for a lot of you too 🙂 Here was the plan for the morning together: 1.) Hello Song with Instruments and Scarves 2.) Book: Friends 3.) Song-The Itsy Bitsy Spider 4.) Book: The Very Busy Spider 5.) Book/Flannel: Baby …
Summer Storytime-Mo Willems
Today's storytime was all about the great author Mo Willems. We had lots of fun with stories, flannels, songs, and stuffies! Check it out! Our plan for the morning was: 1.) Hello Song with Instruments and Scarves 2.) Book One: Big Frog Can't Fit In 3.) Flannel and Book: Cat the Cat, Who Is That? 4.) …
Summer Storytime- Jobs in our Community
Today was an awesome storytime together! We focused on jobs in our community and had lots of fun reading, singing, and doing fun activities together! Here is what the plan was for the morning together: 1.) Hello Song with Instruments and Scarves 2.) Book One: Whose Hands Are These? 3.) Flannel-Little Fox, Little Fox 4.) Song-Community …
Getting Creative with PlayOsmo
It is super easy to make the Osmo programs personalized to what you want them to be. I wanted to add a literacy component to Minecraft and have been trying to brainstorm what the best way would be to do that. Then Play Osmo came into my life and BAM....bringing literacy to Minecraft programming is …
Teen Murder Mystery Night
THERE HAS BEEN A MURDER IN THE LIBRARY!!!! Say what?! The teens were tasked with figuring out literary clues to get to the real clues of who dun it! I used a kit from Janet Dickey, called 'The Cracks in the Wall'. These kits are awesome because they put the whole mystery …
Summer Storytime-Shapes
Today was all about shapes! We had a lot of fun reading stories, playing with flannels, and singing shape songs! Here is what the plan was for the morning together: 1.) Hello Song with Instruments and Scarves 2.) Book One: Color Zoo 3.) Flannel-Flip Flap Jack 4.) Book Two with Bells- Shape …
Playing Osmo !!
I hosted two different programs today for using Osmo products. I LOVE the osmo products because there is so many different kinds of programming that you can do with them, especially in the public library. Osmo is geared towards elementary children but I have even had luck with teenagers being entranced by Osmo 🙂 Today …