tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643795760800260962024-03-13T03:03:09.464-07:00In the Children's RoomLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.comBlogger216125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-60625970351940824982013-09-17T08:00:00.000-07:002013-09-17T08:22:29.977-07:00The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi AppeltYou guys. I just read the most whack-a-do book in the entire world and I loved everything about it.<br />
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So you've got two raccoon brothers, out on their own for the first time as sworn protectors and early warning detectors for the Sugar Man Swamp. They live in the rusted out shell of an old car with a radio that only works when lightening strikes and spend their nights (raccoons are nocturnal, duh) trying to figure out exactly what being a scout means. A few miles out of the swamp is Chap, a 12 year old boy who learned to love the swamp from his grandfather and now needs a literal boat full of cash to save his mother's bakery from a greedy land developer.<br />
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Then there's Sonny, said greedy land developer who, with a world renown alligator wrestler, wants to pave over the entire swamp and turn it into an alligator wrestling theme park. Out in Louisiana, and making their way towards the Sugar Man Swamp as fast as they can (rumble, rumble, rumble) is a pack of the biggest, meanest, most wild, wild hogs the world has ever seen. They've heard rumors of the sweet cane break sugar that gives the swamp it's name and they'll stop at nothing (except the occasional mud hold) to gobble it all up.<br />
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And of course there's the Sugar Man himself, the living breathing embodiment of the swamp. A great mythical creature, a distant relative of the Yeti. Sugar Man is old and tired though, and he's been asleep for 40 years, curled up deep in the swamp with his rattlesnake best friend, secure in the knowledge that his scouts will warn him of any potential danger.<br />
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As all of these forces converge on the swamp, Appelt deftly weaves their separate plot lines into a charming and deceptively simple folk tale. It was announced yesterday that <b>The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp</b> is on the long list for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and I can't think of anything I've read this year that deserves to be on the list more. I've never read any of Kathi Appelt's previous books, but before I even finished True Blue I put them all on hold.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-22535160151874597852013-09-12T12:27:00.000-07:002013-09-12T12:27:00.251-07:00Theme Thursday: REDThemes are hard yo. Sometimes when nothing else is coming together you just have to say screw it and go with a color.<br />
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<b>Song:</b> Good Morning Dear Earth<br />
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<b>Flannel:</b> Little Mouse (he was hiding in the red house today)<br />
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<b>Flannel:</b> Alphabet Soup- RED<br />
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<b>Flannel: </b>Things that are Red<br />
In which I described flannel pieces from all sorts of different sets and had the kids guess what they were. Normally I'd try to come up with a cute couplet for each one, but for today please see the above note on saying "screw it"<br />
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<b>Book: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596434929/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1596434929&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">The Red Hen</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1596434929" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Rebecca Emberley<br />
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<b> Song: </b>Wheels on the Fire Truck<br />
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<b>Song:</b> Mi Cuerpo from Hot Peas n' Butter's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002DJE85O/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002DJE85O&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Best of the Bowl: Ingles y Espanol</a><br />
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<b>Flannel:</b> 5 Little Apples<br />
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<b>Song: </b>Itsy Bitsy Spider<br />
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<b>Book: </b>Clifford the Big Red Dog from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0545450136/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0545450136&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Clifford Collection</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0545450136" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Norman Bridwell<br />
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Funny story, I thought we didn't have any Clifford books for a while this morning because I always want to spell his name bIrdwell instead of bRidwell. Dyslexia strikes again!<br />
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<b>Song: </b>Turn Around from Hap Palmer's<br />
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<b>Make and Take Craft: </b>Red Collages<br />
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<b>Supplies:</b><br />
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<b>Process:</b> Cut the red paper and tissue paper into shapes. Give everything to the kids and let them go crazy. Some of the kids tried to make representative things like ladybugs or this itsy bitsy spider, others just had fun with glue sticks and tissue paper.<br />
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<b>Time: </b>Prep took 3 minutes, the craft took 25.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-79824682103708624812013-09-10T00:35:00.000-07:002013-09-10T05:28:27.864-07:00Where in the World (Non-Fiction section) is Carmen San Diego (Melvil Dewey)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've been wanting to do a scavenger hunt in the non-fiction section for a long time. I just wasn't sure how it was going to work. Then I saw <a href="http://magpielibrarian.wordpress.com/">Miss Ingrid</a>'s post on how her library does a <a href="http://magpielibrarian.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/oh-dewey-youre-so-dreamy/">Melvil Dewey scavenger hunt </a>and I loved it so much that I stole it wholesale, right down to the smokin' hot picture of Dewey (seriously, what a fox) and the glitter accents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ingrid (I read her blog enough that I feel like we're friends and totally on a first name basis) doesn't have prizes for her kids who play the Dewey game. Just the satisfaction of a job well done. Which I think is fantastic. BUT. We have so much <strike>crap </strike> leftover summer reading prizes in our back room, including some Chipotle coupons that will expire at the end of the month, that I basically look for excuses to give kids stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've also really been wanting to have a non-fiction party. Now that the Common Core is really a thing, I think there are so many cool applications for Ripley's Believe It or Not, hands on science experiments and crafts drawn from our non-fiction section.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is Melvil Dewey. He invented the Dewey Decimal system. Melvil hangs out on the easel on the back of the flannel board, near the children's desks on Saturdays. Each Saturday he hides in a different part of the non-fiction section, as indicated in his speech bubble. Anyone can come, check him out, grab one of the entry forms and a golf pencil, and head off to find good ol' Melvil. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When they find the smaller Melvil, he's asking more specific, yet still open ended question about the section that he's hiding in, encouraging the kids to look through some of the books. And since I "laminated" this picture with packing tape, we can use it like a dry erase board to write and re-write the weekly question. The piece of paper that they answer the question on serves as a raffle entry- so they can answer the question as many times and in as many different ways as they like- and at the end of the day we draw for a bunch of prizes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the end of the semester we'll have a non-fiction party instead of a big to-do for the holidays. There will be trivia drawn from the cool facts that the kids supply us with through their answers, hands-on stations from featured Dewey sections (like an animal print identifying table! I just got really excited about that possibility, please excuse excessive use of exclamation marks) and the usual snacks and goodies that accompany a party. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In October our library system is going to extended hours, and in conjunction with that, we're being asked to plan programming for both Saturday and Sunday (as well as story time every day, but that's a different story for a different time). As most librarians know, programming on Saturday is a tricky beast in that no one comes. Ever. And I imagine Sundays are even worse, with all the pressure to do neglected homework before Monday. A low-key, drop-in program like this seems to be just the ticket to complying with administrative edicts while still maintaining our sanity. </span>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-43999632581095356032013-09-05T12:07:00.001-07:002013-09-09T17:11:46.927-07:00Theme Thursday: Chugga Chugga Cho Chooooooooooooo<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And rounding out our impromptu transportation unit, stories about trains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Song: </b>Good Morning Dear Earth</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Song:</b> Open, Shut Them</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Flannel: </b>Alphabet Soup- RED</span><br />
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by Will Hilldebrand</span><br />
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Song: </b>Wheels on the Bus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Song: </b>Shake Your Sillies Out from Raffi's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000003IO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0000003IO&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">The Singable Songs Collection (20th Anniversary Special Edition)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0000003IO" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Song: </b>Grand Old Duke of York</span><br />
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by William Bee</span><br />
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Song:</b> Turn Around from Hap Palmer's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004TVSF/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00004TVSF&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Getting to know Myself</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00004TVSF" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-construction paper</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Process:</b> Cut out a template for a train engineer hat. I just googled "train engineer hat" and copied what I saw on a full sheet of construction paper. Color the hat as desired. Fold the hat at the brim line (where the sides of the hat start in pinch in) staple a long strip on construction paper to each side on the back and wear like a visor!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Time: </b>Prep took about 10 minutes and the craft took about 15.</span><br />
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<br />Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-79829045975207397512013-09-03T12:46:00.000-07:002013-09-05T13:19:06.689-07:00Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City by Kristen Miller<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I want you to close your eyes for a minute and picture this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Imagine that it's early on a Saturday morning, so early that no one else is awake and you're not sure why you're awake either. As you go to the kitchen for a glass of water you happen to glance out the window and you see it. A great, big, giant hole. I'm talking swallowed the side walk and a couple of park benches, glad there wasn't a house there because it would be GONE sized hole. There's no one outside, no caution tape around the hole, no workers trying to fill it in. You may be the very first person who has ever seen this gigantic hole. Until. Out of the corner of your eye you see a small girl, a child really, sneak up to the edge of the hole, look around like she's trying to figure out if she's being watched, and then jump in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What do you do? Do you go get your water and come back to bed? Maybe try to find a Saturday morning cartoon? Do you wake up your parents or call the police? Or do you sneak back to your room, pull on some clothes and follow that girl down the hole to see what you can find?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That's the choice that Ananka Fishbein is faced with in the first few chapters of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599909200/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1599909200&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1599909200" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599909200/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1599909200&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1599909200" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
to discover what Ananka finds inside the hole- including but not limited to millions of rats, secret tunnels, rooms full of treasure and plague and a band of delinquent girl scouts.</span>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-83949396517962324542013-08-27T14:26:00.000-07:002013-09-05T12:13:27.637-07:00The End of the Season<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">YOU GUYS! SUMMER READING IS OVER!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We've handed out prizes, held raffles, stopped serving lunches and generally wrapped up shop. Most of the kids went back to school on Monday and for the first time in three months, we've been able to breathe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So how did summer reading go? Well, at our little branch summer reading completion was up over 300% from last year. 300%! Sign-ups were also much higher. I talked to a few parents and they attributed this to Ms. E and me pushing summer reading harder than ever before, and the prizes being better too. It's hard to argue with that, when for the first time ever there was a Chipotle coupon for half-way finishers and everyone got an actual prize- a book- when they completed the program, in addition to being entered into the raffle for a Kindle Fire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the first time this year, we also had a separate program for the Read With Me crowd, ages birth to five.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This program also went a long way to pushing up our numbers. It made absolutely zero sense for an 18 month old to be held to the same standard of "reading" as a 10 year old and, I'm convinced, turned off a lot of parents from participating in past years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This year we had a game board with all sorts of activities promoting early literacy- we sang a song together, we talked about what we saw on a walk, we went to a library program, we practiced counting to 10 etc... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Putting these sorts of things in an early literacy summer reading program not only legitimized/validated what a lot of parents are already doing with their child, it gave us a great way to talk more about the six components of early literacy and what programs at the library are focused on early literacy development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All that being said, I'm super looking forward to fall and what back to school season has to offer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sayonora Summer Reading, see you next year!</span></div>
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Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-85637404084252161272013-08-22T11:33:00.000-07:002013-09-09T07:09:36.923-07:00Theme Thursday: Miss Susie Had a Steamboat<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That steamboat had a bell/ Miss Susie went to heaven/ that steamboat went to AND I think we all know where this is going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Song:</b> Good Morning</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Flannel:</b> Little Mouse</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Finger Play:</b> I had a Little Turtle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Book:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688175171/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0688175171&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Sail Away</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0688175171" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Donald Crews</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> Song:</b> Row, Row, Row Your Boat</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Book:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596436484/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1596436484&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Little Tug</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1596436484" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Stephan Savage</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> Song: </b>5 Little Sailboats</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to the tune of 5 Little Ducks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5 little sailboats went out one day,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">over the waves and far away</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">when the winds began to rock</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4 little sailboats came back to dock</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Song: </b>Jumping and Counting from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007CYBNS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0007CYBNS&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Jim Gill's Irrational Anthem and More Salutes to Nonsense</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0007CYBNS" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Song:</b> Shake Your Sillies Out from Raffi's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000003IO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0000003IO&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">The Singable Songs Collection (20th Anniversary Special Edition)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0000003IO" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Flannel:</b> Let's Go Out on a Starry Night</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Book:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1907152733/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1907152733&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Splish-Splash</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1907152733" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Nicola Smee</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> Song:</b> Turn Around from Hap Palmer's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004TVSF/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00004TVSF&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Getting to know Myself</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00004TVSF" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Make and Take Craft: </b>Shape Boats</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Supplies:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-construction paper shapes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-glue sticks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-blue construction paper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-chalk (optional)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Process: </b>Use the shapes to make a representative boat and use the chalk to color in waves or sea creatures. Crayons would also work, but chalk shows up beautifully on darker construction paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Time:</b> Prep took about 5 minutes, the craft took 20.</span>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-8826276787692591702013-08-20T14:00:00.000-07:002013-08-31T14:13:47.888-07:00Favorite Picture Books for Older Kids<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who says picture books are just for the pre-school set? Uh-uh, no way siree bob. I love using picture books with older kids, usually during school outreach visits, to stimulate discussion and keep the interest of everyone in the class, from the overachievers to the ones still struggling with reading. Everyone loves to be read to and watching older kids make connections between text and illustrations .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since school visits are usually pretty short, no more than half an hour or so, I usually start with a spiel about the library and all the cool things that we have. Then I demonstrate with one of my favorite picture books and finish up by book talking a few of our other awesome options, either more picture books, great non-fiction titles, or chapter books depending on the age of the class and what I've been brought in to talk about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are my absolute favorite picture books, titles that I've found work really well with large groups of kids with varying attention spans, all the way from 1st to 5th grade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So the key that I've found is silly and random. Keep the kids guessing as to what is coming next, because the worst thing a read aloud in a room full of know-it-alls can be is predictable. When Billy Twitters doesn't clean his room, his punishment is a blue whale to take care of. But how do you take care of something so big it doesn't even fit in your house?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by Oliver Jeffers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stuck is the story of an exceptionally strong boy and an exceptionally grabby tree. When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he throws item after item into the tree to try and free his kite. The escalation of items thrown and the misuse of seemingly obvious ideas (if you get a ladder, you climb it, duh) keeps kids guessing and groaning until Floyd is in bed, the entire adventure but a hazy memory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Grumpy old men and silly, silly squirrel antics. Everyone can scream "THOSE DARN SQUIRRELS" as they shake their fists. Good times abound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri. This is actually the first book of theirs that I found. It's the randomness of this book that makes it so winning, tangents break off the main story line, mimicking a children's train of thought consciousness perfectly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What constitutes a fair trade is a pretty solid discussion topic. Suspending disbelief for a second that anyone's father would abide by such a trade, are two goldfish worth as much as a dad that sits on the couch and reads his paper all day? What about an electric guitar? A gorilla mask? Bunny rabbits!?! The illustrations in this book add a lot to the story so it's worth passing the book around afterwards so everyone can see all the small details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of all the non-fiction books and bios I've tried as classroom read alouds, this one always plays the best. The text is sing-songy, call and response-y like a great jazz song and the story of Josephine Baker's life has different points of interest for kids at all different ages. The race riots section and the discussion of black face were useful with 5th graders talking about segregation while EVERYONE zooms in on the illustrations of her pet cheetah. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by Satoshi Kitamura</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Millie's Marvelous Hats has such detailed illustrations that it's a pass around, point out kind of book for sure. The amount of imagination lends well to group discussion and dramatic play afterwards. It skews a little younger, say kindergarten to 2nd grade. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've talked before about <a href="http://inthechildrensroom.blogspot.com/2012/05/book-that-eats-people-john-perry.html">my love of The Book that Eats People</a>, I only include it in Honorable Mentions because it also skews younger. Children older than 3rd grade are sometimes too cool to be scared by a book like this and it looses it's effectiveness exponentially in grades thereafter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And finally, a great read that skews older. I usually use this one with 4th and 5th graders, due to the sheer length. In terms of readability, Jonah Winter once again proves himself as the master of short form non-fiction. Finding the obscure story of a boat filled with garbage, the poor man who had to haul it around and all the towns/cities/ports that rejected it was a stoke of luck. Winter wields a deft hand in making this call for ecological sustainability way more exciting than it is preachy.</span></div>
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Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-63883456627620568692013-08-13T13:56:00.000-07:002013-08-31T12:47:27.138-07:00Proactive Princesses<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Princesses, princesses, princesses. Who doesn't love princesses? A lot of our parents, that's who. But at some point it's like a flip is switched and formerly mostly sane toddlers (sane for toddlers anyway) go completely gaga for things that are frilly, and twirly and princess-y. The main complaint I hear about princesses, at least in the Disney mold, is how complacent they are and how dependent they are on men to rescue them. They are static, flat characters and we want our girls (and boys) to be dynamic actors in their own stories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So here's a visual guide of proactive princess books, where the lady in question takes matters into her own hands, with nary a prince, fairy godmother or glass slipper in sight. I mean, yeah, those three elements are often in sight, but not in a way that conflicts with out princess' autonomy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have I missed any super obvious ones? What are your favorite proactive princess picture books?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We were lucky enough to welcome the family dance troupe <a href="http://ourpacificrhythm.blogspot.com/">Pacific Rhythm Dancers </a> to our library at the beginning of June to help kick off our summer reading program. Think the Von Trapp Family Singers if they were from new Zealand and not trying to outrun Nazis. The entire family, right down to their youngest, 3 year old son, entertains with traditional dances from several Polynesian islands while educating about Polynesian culture. There's a great audience participation factor and by the end everyone was swaying and bopping along. And at the end, after the coconut has been split if half with a grunt and a sharp rock, everyone goes outside where Mika, the patriarch, busts out some fire sticks and goes absolutely crazy with a Fire Knife dance from Samoa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our program drew mostly a pre-school set, although the older kids who had shown up for the computers quickly got on board, and everyone had an amazing time. I've heard kids talking about the dancers, especially the Fire Knife dance, in the month since they were here, and it was a really great introduction to a culture that doesn't really get a lot of coverage in school or pop culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So what did I do? I made a reading list for further exploration of Polynesian life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh favorite childhood book, it's nice to see you again. The last girl left on her island, Karana has to learn to fend for herself, survive and even thrive all by herself as she attempts to synthesize what she already knows and understands about her people's way of life into useful, practical information. It's a little like survival great <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416936475/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1416936475&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20%22%3EHatchet%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1416936475%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E">Hatchet</a> but with a girl protagonist and a sweet wolf-dog best friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's not okay to be the scaredy-cat of your seaside village, especially when your father is a chief renowned for his bravery. Unfortunately, Mafatu has been afraid of the ocean ever since his mother drowned when he was a small child. Determined to prove himself, Mafatu takes a big risk, makes some poor decisions and ends up in several impossible situations before he eventually finds out what courage actually means and is able to make his way home. Like Island of the Blue Dolphins, this book was written by a western man and supposedly based on actual myth. The "othering" of Polynesian culture is pretty rampant and troubling if you're reading with a critical eye. Still it's one of the classics of the genre; like Babar and the racist caricature islands he visits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Endangered species, sweet conservation technology, passionate individuals charged with a daunting mission, non-fiction can be totally edge-of-your-seat, thrill-a-minute and this book is a prime example. Plus, relly pretty pictures. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0152050167/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0152050167&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Whale Rider</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The movie based on the book made a big splash (PUN!) in the early 2000s and the book shares the same place building that the movie capitalized so well on. So many Polynesian books take on this view of the outsider looking in and Whale Rider is exceptional in how it makes Polynesian culture accessible to outsiders while still being written by and for insiders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Body acceptance protagonist, asexual best friend, Maori legends come to life? There's a whole lot to unpack in Karen Healy's modern day fantasy, that weaves in Maori legends. I had a lot of trouble following plot strands, but it's an engaging and suspenseful read with a pretty dead-on mastery of atmosphere. Don't look to hard at the man behind the curtain and you'll be fine. It's notable in that Guardian of the Dead is the only book I know of that tries to translate Maori legends into contemporary YA and the fact that i find it so confusing could very well be due to my lack of background knowledge. </span><br />
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<br />Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-39596888538952415252013-07-30T09:38:00.000-07:002013-07-30T09:38:00.313-07:00The Library at 22 MonthsThursday marks my two year anniversary as a public library librarian. With so many story time kids running around, I tend to think in a lot of toddler terms, which means I'm about to be 24 months into this career (22 months at this particular branch).<br />
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One of our partnerships that I don't think I've mentioned yet is with a group called <a href="http://www.earlystagesdc.org/">Early Stages</a>. Early Stages is part of the public school system here and they specialize in early intervention for kids who may need special services. Once a month an Early Stages Representative comes to story time and chats with parents about developmental milestones and when and how they can have their children assessed. The last time Early Stages was here I snagged a handout on developmental benchmarks for 2 year olds and started thinking about how they apply to me as well.<br />
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<b>• Walk alone</b><br />
I'm becoming more and more adept at handling the children's room by myself. I no longer quiver in fear when someone takes a sick day. I have discovered the grace and confidence to handle hoards of rowdy children who have just discovered the opposite sex.<br />
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<b>• Carry toys while walking</b><br />
I still can't use props efficiently during story time. I see my co-worker, Ms. E., bust out the big books and puppets or juggle multiple musical instruments and I think "hmm, that's ambitious." Maybe next year, until then I've got my trusty flannel board sets.<br />
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<b>• Climb on and off furniture </b><br />
After months of cajoling and a few loaves of home-made bread, our facilities guy finally gave me a ladder to keep. No more waiting for someone to show up if I want to hang things from the ceiling (or justifying <i>why</i> I absolutely <i>need</i> giant poofballs falling from the ceiling) and I almost always want to hang things from the ceiling. This small addition has given me more flexibility and allowed me to think more creatively in terms of presenting the room. It's very liberating. (I was tempted to make a Martina McBride Independence Day joke here, but I couldn't figure out how to word it so I'll just leave you with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VPpAZ9_qAw">this</a>.) In conjunction with the ladder, more and more large scale displays have begun to go up. We had the <a href="http://www.inthechildrensroom.blogspot.com/2013/03/imitation-is-sincerest-form-of-flattery.html">Baby Mouse Wall</a> and the<a href="http://www.inthechildrensroom.blogspot.com/2013/05/25-days-of-art-gallery-show.html"> 25 Days of Art Gallery</a>. Ms. E takes care of most of the book displays and face-outs on the shelves while I change out program bulletin boards and make elaborate collages out of tissue paper. This room is so much more lively and inviting than when I first walked in 22 months ago and I'm very proud of the transformation.<br />
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<b>• Scribble with crayon</b><br />
Programs are expanding. We've gone from 2 every month to at least one a week. And during the summer we've been experimenting with theme weeks. We had a week long no-heat cooking club where we made pickles and salads and smoothies with spinach and coming up next month there will be a week dedicated to fashion, inspired partially by the super successful <a href="http://www.inthechildrensroom.blogspot.com/2013/07/tutu-party.html">tutu making party</a> we had back in June. Thanks to a new Friends group who seem very excited to spend money, arts programs are taking off<br />
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<b>• Recognize names of familiar people, objects and body parts</b><br />
I pride myself on knowing the names, families and a lot of the personal dramas of the kids I see each day. I know their name by the third time they come in and by the fifth time I know who shouldn't be sitting next to them at the computers; working up here is like watching a soap opera all day long. For some reason I'm not as good with adult names, parents just don't register like their children do.<br />
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<b>• Follow simple instructions (1 or 2 steps)</b><br />
It's been a tough transition to a new manager. We're being asked to do more and more things, with very little credit or recognition of the program heavy schedule that we have and the sheer amount of face time that goes into knowing the kids and being able to diffuse situations before they escalate too far. I was recently sent to a clutter workshop, during work hours when I had a stack of things to do on my desk, because the new manager thinks our workroom is too messy. We're working on our communication and effective strategies for helping her understand exactly what we do during any given day. Hopefully by the time we open with extended hours in October we'll all be on the same page.<br />
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<b>• Begin to sort objects by shapes and colors</b><br />
Weeding knows no end. In the past 3 months all of the paperbacks have been sorted, integrated or discarded. A shocking amount of our books aren't in the catalog- which just goes to show how long it's been since someone tried to check them out. Ms. E worked for 3 months on the Juv J books and did an amazing job organizing holiday books and the overflow collection. I spent a few extra days working through our problem shelf and laughing at some of the ridiculous CDs that have managed to stand the test of time. I keep telling myself that once the kids go back to school I'll have the time and the motivation to tackle non-fiction. While weeding can be super tedious, it does give me the chance to learn the collection better and to make sure we're not circulating books that give population data for Burma from 1995.<br />
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<b>• Imitate behavior of others</b><br />
I'm picking up a lot of slang and a lot of vernacular that would make an English teacher cry. "You do too much" is not a compliment, although I always thank the kids for recognizing my hard work when they spit it at me. I can't even explain what "You got me guh" means, it's more a feeling then anything.They laugh when I tell them to "walk it out" when they're running, because adults aren't supposed to know about rap music. They're even more perplexed when I can finish the first verse of "Baby Got Back" whenever someones says "Oh my god, Becky" in that particularly snotty way. Seriously though, that song is old enough to be most of these kid's mothers- if songs could have kids- it should not be as popular as it still is.<br />
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<b>• Want to do things for themselves</b><br />
I've never had a problem with wanting to do things by myself. In fact, I'm actively learning how to let go and be okay with other people doing things. Whether that means not always doing a story time, letting the kids help with displays even when I don't necessarily like the end result or delegating tasks to teen workers, this year has been in exercise in not needing everything to be my way all of the time.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-66613126747472208442013-07-26T08:49:00.000-07:002013-07-27T14:03:31.926-07:00Theme Thursday: Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<b>Song: </b>Good Morning Dear Earth</div>
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<b>Song:</b> Open, Shut Them</div>
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by Malachy Doyle</div>
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<b>Finger Play</b>: Where are Baby's Fingers?</div>
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<b>Song: </b>Wheels on the Bus</div>
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<b>Song:</b> Jumping and Counting from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007CYBNS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0007CYBNS&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Jim Gill's Irrational Anthem and More Salutes to Nonsense</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0007CYBNS" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b>Song: </b>Shake My Sillies Out from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000003IO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0000003IO&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">The Singable Songs Collection (20th Anniversary Special Edition)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0000003IO" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b>Flannel:</b> I Had a Rooster</div>
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<b>Book: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399226338/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0399226338&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Tiger, Tiger</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0399226338" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Dee Lillegard</div>
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<b>Song: </b>Itsy Bitsy Spider</div>
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<b>Song:</b> Turn Around from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004TVSF/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00004TVSF&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Getting to know Myself</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00004TVSF" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b>Make and Take Craft: </b>Tiger Faces</div>
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<b>Process:</b> Before story time cut cat head shapes from orange construction paper. Cut triangle wedges from black and circles for eyes from any color and long rectangles with points for the nose from a contrasting color. Then sit back and let the kiddos create!</div>
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<br />Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-48925177063234899912013-07-23T14:12:00.000-07:002013-07-27T14:05:18.424-07:00Strange BooksA companion to "Things I've Found Cleaning Out the Office" this is a list of the truly spectacular gems I've found while weeding fiction and non-fiction paperbacks- because Summer Reading season is the PERFECT time to start a gigantic weeding project.<br />
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<b>Snapshots from the Wedding by Gary Soto</b><br />
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A look at traditional Mexican wedding traditions this book has the creepiest illustrations ever. In addition to not really sharing any wedding traditions that are uniquely Mexican, the illustrator choose to have the groom in an arm sling, and feature dirty feet and keg beer. In a children's book.<br />
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<b>The Shaggy Dog: The Movie Storybook</b><br />
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<b>Ice Mummy: Discovery of a 5,00 Year Old Man by Mark Dubowsi</b><br />
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<b>If You Were There in 1492 by Barbara Brenner</b><br />
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Is the big secret that you shouldn't litter?<br />
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<b>Jane's Class Makes Big News and The Children Who Wanted to Know by Lillian Caesar-Sutherland</b><br />
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<b>Meet My Neighbor: The Hip-Hop Dancer by Marc Crabtree</b><br />
The Meet My Neighbor series is awesome for last page "huh?" plot twists. Meet My Neighbor: The Librarian spends the final half of the book talking about the librarian's upcoming wedding and the inclusion of her Indian culture into the ceremony but the Hip-Hop one takes the cake. After getting to know our neighbor, Marcello, his dance crew and a series of dance moves he just up and takes off for "The Artic" to teach a bunch of kids there the love of dance.<br />
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<b>Nappy Hair becomes Happy Hair</b><br />
The true story of a girl whose hair stood on end when she was happy and fell down when she was sad.<br />
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<b> The Bicycle Man becomes She Bicycle Man</b><br />
A delicate examination of transgender identity so rarely seen in picture books.<br />
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<br />Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-85107343232894264502013-07-18T08:48:00.000-07:002013-07-27T14:03:21.722-07:00Theme Thursday: BRRRRRRR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes I can get really sick of summer. Like really really sick of it. I don't like it when it's too hot to ride my bike or sit outside and enjoy a good book. So in the midst of a heat wave, I like to do a story time on all things cold.</div>
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<b>Song:</b> Good Morning Dear Earth</div>
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<b>Finger Play:</b> I Had a Little Turtle</div>
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<b>Song:</b> Open, Shut Them</div>
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<b>Flannel:</b> Alphabet Soup- COLD</div>
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<b>Book: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BND8FWI/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00BND8FWI&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">The First Day of Winter</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00BND8FWI" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Denise Fleming</div>
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<b>Flannel:</b> 5 Little Snowmen</div>
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<b>Song: </b>Mi Cuerpo from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002DJE85O/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002DJE85O&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Best of the Bowl: Ingles y Espanol</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B002DJE85O" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b>Song: </b>Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes</div>
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<b>Book:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1906250650/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1906250650&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Jingle-Jingle</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1906250650" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Nicola Smee</div>
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<b>Song: </b>Wheels on the Bus</div>
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<b>Song: </b>Turn Around from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004TVSF/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00004TVSF&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Getting to know Myself</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00004TVSF" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<b>Make and Take Craft: </b>Snowpeople at the Beach</div>
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To go with the snowmen coloring sheets I cut out quick paper doll like outfits for them including sunglasses and both men and women's bathing suits. To size the suit correctly, place a piece of construction paper underneath one of the coloring sheets and using a pen or sharp pencil heavily draw a swimsuit directly onto your snowman. When you lift the paper you will see the outline of your drawing on the construction paper. Let the kids color and glue to their hearts delight!</div>
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The last time I went to the fabric store I noticed that tulle was on sale for 1.49 a yard. And you know what that means? TUTU PARTY!</div>
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A lot of our story time girls love princesses and fancy dresses and when one mom in particular asked me if I knew where to get a cheap tutu for her little girl, I knew that a program of this type could go over really well. We try not to do distinctly gendered programs, so I was a little bit worried about this one. It's true, no boys showed up, but I was prepared to show any boy who seemed interested how to use the same techniques to make a lion's mane or warrior head dress if tutu's seemed just a bit too girly.</div>
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-thick ribbon for the waistband (we used a spool of Christmas decorating ribbon that was languishing in our craft closet and it worked perfectly)</div>
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I learned how to make tutu's using an internet tutorial ages ago- for the past 3 years my Halloween costumes have included a tutu element because, why not? I no longer remember where the original one is (bad librarian) but it's the same basic knot technique as this <a href="http://www.beingbrook.com/2010/01/tutu-tutorial.html#more">one</a>. So refer to that in case my description gets confusing.</div>
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<b>1) Cut the tulle</b></div>
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Cute the tulle into long strips, approximately twice as long as you want the tutu to be. Tulle can be tricky to work, especially cut, since it's so thin, but folding it makes it more manageable and fewer cuts are required.</div>
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We took the ribbon and wrapped it around each girl's midsection (or where ever she wanted the tutu to sit) then we added about 10 inches to each side. Tie knots where the ribbon meets. The ribbon on the outside will be the ties, while the ribbon on the inside is what we'll be working with.</div>
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Pick up a piece of tulle and fold it in half. Pull the ends of the tulle through the opening at the end, catching the ribbon in between so it creates a knot. At this point, please refer<a href="http://www.beingbrook.com/2010/01/tutu-tutorial.html#more"> here where there are great pictures to help.</a></div>
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Note: This is where I really wish it was okay for me to put pictures of children on the internet without their knowledge/permission. Because while you can see exactly how cute their tutus turned out, you cannot see the looks of absolute JOY on their faces. And let me tell you, they were ecstatic. As one girl said "Girl, we look creative, you better know it!"</div>
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I greatly underestimated the interest in this program and therefore we ran out of tulle pretty quickly, leaving a few girls with unfinished tutus. I went back to the fabric store, restocked, and the next week we had materials available for kids to finish their tutus. A few little girls who had missed the first program were even able to make one with some help from the older girls!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While we didn't have time to do this, incorporating a tutu making session into a Fancy Nancy or Pinkalicious themed tea party/program would be a smash hit.</span>Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-27707376401073174802013-07-12T08:50:00.000-07:002013-07-27T09:59:20.771-07:00Theme Thursday: I Scream, You Scream<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
Story time this week was all about my favorite thing- ICE CREAM!</div>
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<b>Book:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805052968/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0805052968&linkCode=as2&tag=inthechisroo-20">Isaac the Ice-Cream Truck</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=inthechisroo-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0805052968" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
by Scott Santoro</div>
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<b>Song:</b> Open, Shut Them</div>
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<b>Make and Take Craft: Paletas</b></div>
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Before story time cut out popsicle shapes of construction paper. Let the kids color their popsicle/paleta and then glue it onto a popsicle stick. My kids liked gluing them in a sandwich around the stick so they had a double sided popsicle. Yummmm. </div>
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Back by popular demand, here is another list of things we've found while cleaning out desks and store rooms. Again, partially illustrated.</div>
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<br />Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-28651830785766908792013-07-02T13:36:00.000-07:002013-07-27T09:15:11.944-07:002013 Reading Challenge Check-In Welcome Back! Happy July!<br />
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It's hard to believe the year is half over, I literally have no idea where the time went. None.<br />
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At the beginning of the year, Ms. E and I issued a challenge to ourselves, the kids and their caregivers. We wanted to see how many books and how much time we spent reading during 2013. I personally pledged to read 100 books during the year, and we got several of the kids to set their own goals as well. In order to keep track of our reading goals and challenges, we set up the dot wall. You can read more about it here, but the rules are pretty simple. Read a book, or read for 20 minutes, get a dot.<br />
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The wall looked like this when we started back in January.<br />
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We've filled up the entire wall behind our desk! Where to go from here? Don't worry, we'll figure it out. And soon, we've got even more dots just waiting to be added.<br />
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There are over 280 dots on the wall, representing 5 adults and over 50 kids and teens. A pair of brothers have dominated the wall, contributing over 50 dots between the two of them. I have read 46 books, just a little behind schedule!Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-80790423934891361692013-06-04T05:56:00.000-07:002013-06-20T05:58:18.614-07:00Hiatus<div style="text-align: left;">
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Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-57217961800024924002013-05-31T08:01:00.005-07:002013-05-31T08:01:42.887-07:00Flannel Friday: The Cicadas are ComingThe cicadas are coming. I haven't seen any yet, but everyone tells me it's just a matter of time. I was pretty young the last time there was a big cicada season and I remember that they scared the bejesus out of me. The constant loud noises and the crunchy exoskeletons they left everywhere? I still get the shivers just thinking about it.<br />
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So I did what any rational person would do and I made a cicada flannel board for a story time about bugs. I think the end result is terrifying- cicadas should not be neon colors, but it also de-mystified the whole thing for the kids, and that's what it's really about. Also, I learned that cicadas had 5 eyes. How weird/cool is that?<br />
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<br />Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-74824250729528096592013-05-28T14:17:00.000-07:002013-07-27T07:45:50.913-07:00Get Caught Reading<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The local elementary school is really lucky to have a school librarian (I mean seriously, last year they cut over half of the school librarian positions in our area and it's a minor miracle and a testament to the great work she does that Mrs. Z was spared). And we're lucky enough to have a good relationship with her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mrs. Z, in conjunction with us, just started a program she's calling "GET CAUGHT READING." The name is reminiscent of summer reading a few years ago, but there are no fishhooks or underwater graphics for this program. Instead, when Mrs. Z sees a child reading during her day at the school, she gives them a coupon redeemable for a prize at our library.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>25 Days of Art</b> was such a special project. And by special, I mean overwhelming and completely creatively draining. Right now it's hard for me to think about what's next since I'm still recovering from a full art lesson a day for an entire month. Regardless of my exhaustion, I think the results speak for themselves. The kids produced some absolutely amazing art, and did so in ways that were new and special to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It seemed like a shame to let all of that fade away when April ended, so I spent a few days "curating" a show of the art that had been left behind. It went up yesterday, replacing the Baby Mouse wall, and will remain up for a month or so, just to remind the kids what they're capable of when they open themselves up to new experiences. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Update: </b>Over the past few weeks I've seen kids excitedly showing off their work to parents and friends, explaining in great detail how they created each piece. Story time parents love seeing examples of things they'll be able to do with their kiddos in a few years and we've been able to adapt a few of the projects into developmentally appropriate activities for after story time crafts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't personally wear a lot of jewelry, but one of my very favorite pieces that I do own and occasionally wear is a necklace made of magazine paper beads by my great grandmother a million years ago. The beads are tightly made, in only one style, but they are gorgeous and when I'm in need of a dangly accessory, it's my go to piece. When I decided to teach the kids how to make similar beads out of paper I was surprised to find that there are so many different ways to cut the initial strip of paper that then leads to differently shaped beads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-magazines</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cut magazine pages into strips, the wider the strip, the wider the end bead will be. Cut the strips into different shapes for different shaped beads- rectangles will result in a long, uniform bead, triangles will result in a bead that tapers off on both ends. For further examples, see this<a href="http://m.pinterest.com/pin/189995678002288638/"> picture.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apply a generous amount of the glue stick to a magazine strip and begin to roll it around the pipe cleaner so that the glue is on the inside. Once you've got the entire strip rolled up and secured (you can add a little extra glue to the end just to be sure) slip the bead off the pipe cleaner and allow it to dry. Then you can string the beads onto yarn for<br /><b><br /></b></span><br />
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Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02886972878281734101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164379576080026096.post-14698479731344674882013-04-30T13:24:00.000-07:002013-06-12T13:31:56.643-07:0025 Days of Art: PrintingWhen I did that big clean up of our back office earlier this year I found A LOT of printing supplies including carving tools, inks and brayers. I wasn't crazy about giving the kids sharp carving tools (I cut myself pretty frequently when I do linoleum carvings for myself so...) which is why I was excited to bring back the Styrofoam printing technique I used last year in the Dream Journals, this time with actual printing ink. And let me tell you, that ink made all the difference<br />
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<b>Supplies:</b><br />
-Styrofoam plates<br />
-pencils<br />
-ink (or paint will work if you don't have any)<br />
-brayers (or foam brushes)<br />
-paper<br />
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<b>Prep:</b><br />
Cut the lip off the plates so that they lay completely flat on the table.<br />
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<b>Process:</b><br />
Using the pencil, press a design into the Styrofoam. Keep in mind that you'll be getting a mirror image, so if you use words write them out backwards. When the design is done, use the brayer or foam brush to roll ink or paint onto the surface. It should just go over the top, not seeping into the depressed parts where you used the pencil. Flip the plate over and press onto a piece of paper. Use a seperate brayer (or your hands) to press the plate down hard, transferring the ink/paint from the plate onto the paper. Pull back carefully. Repeat with as many colors as you like!<br />
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<b>Miss Lucy's Example:</b><br />
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