This week during our Lego STEAM we worked on building again but in a different way than last week. Here is what our description was for the day: Students will work individually and get a set of instructions of what they should be building. Every student will have a build plate in front of them …
Continue reading Full STEAM Ahead-Lego STEAM for K-1st Graders: 2nd Week
Legos are an amazing toy that can bring so much more than play to your library or school programs. I have planned out five weeks of programs for grades k-1st through our Full STEAM Ahead Enrichment program here at our library. Every week is a different activity and the session ends at 5 weeks. Due …
Continue reading Full STEAM Ahead-Lego STEAM for K-1st Graders: 1st week
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Full STEAM Ahead – Enrichment Programs @ the Library!
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
