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Level Up: Pairing Video Games with Books (Mario Bros.)
Mario Bros. (Everyone – Everyone 10+) Mario is a video game franchise with a variety of games, most focused on Mario’s adventures saving Princess Peach with his younger brother Luigi from the evil grasps of Bowser. The books chosen for this game style include high fantasy, adventure stories for all…
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Maker Monday: Coding
Our first Maker Monday was a lot of fun! Our program is geared toward children entering 3rd – 6th grade in the fall. We only register 20 kids for the program because we only have 10 iPads and with technology and science programs, less is more. I’m always a little…
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School Visits… Or Why I No Longer Have a Voice
School visits invariably exhaust me and crack me up! We don’t get into the schools as often as I’d like, but we are able to see the kids for about 30 minutes in May to promote the summer’s upcoming reading program. How do you entertain, educate and encourage 80+ kids…
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"That's a Baby Book!"
One of the saddest things I hear far too often is, “That’s a baby book, go find something more appropriate.” This is said to kids in my library at all ages and stages, but it often happens with those kids who are reading easy readers and beginning chapter books, but…
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Passive Programming: Clear Out the Craft Room
The kids in our school district had the whole week off for spring break so with that in mind, I knew we would need to offer a few programs to keep them busy. We had a screening of the ever-so-popular Minions with quite a large audience on Tuesday evening and on…
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Crazy 8s Math Workshop – Math Fun for Everyone!
We just finished an 8-week session of math classes with Bedtime Math’s Crazy 8s Club for students in 3rd – 5th grades. I was a little worried that the kids would attend all eight weeks, but we registered 22 kids and had between 16-22 kids every week. The Bedtime Math…
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Women’s History Month
These are just a few of the many amazing biographies available about women in history! Take a look at the A Might Girl website for a much more comprehensive list of biographies about strong women in history. Learn about some of the women who made a difference in this world during Women’s…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 2/1/16
I have the best intentions to get a lot of reading done each week and then my week gets filled up with programs and meetings and dinners out and parties… and I haven’t read as much as I would have liked!Oh well, what I did get to read this week…
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Fun Friday: 3-D Art Sculptures
I took a lesson plan that I created for my summer camp visit and used it again for my Fun Friday groups last week. I had all the supplies left over from camp, so I just grabbed some fun picture books to read aloud and let the kids spend the…
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Ninja Picture Books for National Ninja Day!
So December 3rd is National Ninja Day… I’ve never heard of if before today, but here it is! And if I had heard about it, we would definitely put together an AMAZING storytime program all about ninjas, but since I didn’t get that chance, here’s a great list of ninja…
