Storytime Theme: BEARS

"Bears" made for such a Beary fun Storytime last week!!  

We did an action song: The Dancing Bear

Books that were shared: 

Baby Bear, Baby Bear/ Bill Martin

The Three Bears/ Byron Barton

Bear Feels Scared / Karma Wilson 

and you can't have a Bear Unit without doing:

We're Going on a Bear Hunt/ / by Michael Rosen

Craft: Bear Headband

This week's storytime theme: Thanksgiving/Turkeys

10:30 A.M    &   1:30 P.M.

Fall Startup

Hello everyone,

Whoa, can you believe summer break is over?  Kids are in school and so the routine goes. So it is with Library Storytime. 

Preschool "StoryTime Thursdays" will be starting back up tomorrow, Sept. 17th.  There will be a 10:30 A.M. and a 1:30 P.M. storytime.

We will be "Blasting Off" with a space theme.  

End of 2009 Summer Reading Program

What a wonderful summer of reading and activities it has been at the Wasilla Public Library.

The Summer Reading Program is an important feature of the library. It helps the children keep their reading skills up, promotes family reading time and is a fun way to fill in those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.

I want to give this special THANK YOU to all of you who found and took time to come and participate in the Literacy/Craft sessions of the Summer Reading Program.

Next year’s theme is: “Water”. We should have some fun with that one. J

Creating With Food!!

We completed the Literacy/Craft session of this 2009 Summer Reading Program by “creating with marshmallows.” Books, Fast Food and Food Play by Saxton Freymann & Joost Elffers, captivated the on-lookers as the books were read aloud.

It was fun Playing With Our Food!

Collage Art

This week's Literacy/Craft project centered around the book, Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle. His official website is:
http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html
Seahorses are truly unique. After reading the book the children formed their collage by gluing pieces of colored torn paper to their seahorse outline.
Fun day of creating!

Break Week (June 29th - July 5th)

This is the week we take a break from the Summer Reading Program.
No prizes or activities this week.

Fun with Puppets!

We had fun with our puppets at the Literacy/Craft library session this week. We listened to a CD of the book, Gobble Quack Moon by Matthew Gollub. We particpated along with the CD in the sounds of the different animals.

At craft time, we made puppets of four of the animals in the story. About 41 kids in attendance along with 22 parents.

Awesome time!!!

3rd Week of Summer Reading Program

We are making "puppets" this week at the Literacy/Craft session. Featured story will be:
Gobble, Quack, Moon by Matthew Gollub.

June 23rd
10:30 A.M. & 2:00 P.M

Summer Reading Program/ Literacy Craft Schedule

"Summer Reading Program – 2009"
“Be Creative @ Your Library”
@ Wasilla Public Library
Literacy Craft Schedule: June 8 – July 25th

Tues. June 9 -- Who’s behind that mask?
Literacy/Craft: 10:30 A.M & 2:00 P.M – Mask decorating

Tues. June 16th – We all have rhythm!!
Literacy/Craft: 10:30 A.M & 2:00 P.M. – Homemade Instrument

Tues. June 23rd – What can you do with a brown paper bag?
Literacy/Craft: 10:30 A.M. & 2:00 P.M. – Making Puppets

Tues. July7th – Creating with nature.
Literacy/Craft: 10:30 A.M. & 2:00 P.M. - Terrariums

Tues. July 14th –The magic of art.
Literacy/Craft: 10:30 A.M. & 2:00 P.M. – Collage Art

Tues. July 21st – Make it with food!
Literacy/Craft: 10:30 A.M. & 2:00 P.M. – Marshmallow creatures

Saturday July 25th – “Creation Stations”

Library Summer Reading Program

“StoryTime” Info @ the
Wasilla Public Library
907-376-5913

Spring Storytime has finished and we are now gearing up for the Summer Reading Program.

Library Summer Reading Program 2009
Be Creative @ Your Library
June 1st – July 25th
(with a break week June 29th)


Drop-in Literacy and Craft:
Tuesdays at 10:30 A.M & 2:00 P.M.

Creative Workshops (sign up):
Thursdays at 10:30 A.M. & 2:00 P.M.

New Template

I changed my template from the generic ones that blogger offers. I went to: http://www.finalsense.com/services/blog_templates .  This site has free templates for blogger. I just copied and paste the html. 

Lost some of my widgets but am slowly putting them back in.

It' s just fun playing around with "blogging" !!!

Thing #19: The Final Thing

I found a couple of kid’s songs on the folowing site: http://blog.jumpitz.com/index.php/2009/02/27/listen-and-download-free-kids-songs
I could listen to the song just fine, but I had to really search to find the place where to “save as” to my music files. I copied the song: the Mexican Hat Dance.
Hey, there are “tons” of free kid’s songs out there. I might even look for something for myself to download, that’s when my name is chosen TO WIN that mp3 player.

Thing #18: Web 2.0 Award Winners

I did a search in the section of
Classifieds and Directories: http://craigslist.org/

What is the purpose of the site?
Craigslist is an online community of buying and selling your "stuff".
How does it work?
When you log into the site, you go to the location (s) you want and then type into the Search area what you’d like to search for. I looked at house plants and found some good ones in Anchorage. Didn’t buy, just looked.
Why is it an award winner?
It's an award winner cuz it is used 24 hours a day. It’s like a large “garage sale” going on ALL the time.!!
You can buy or sell some cool stuff right next door or across the states or the world.
Would you use the site again?
Yes, I do. My husband found a snowplower attachment.
If so, how would you use it?
I can use it for myself or help others use it. Instead of selling things in my cold garage, I can just put them on CraigsList.
Does it have an application for the library? I don't think that this particular site has any value for library use, but because patrons use the site when they're on the internet, they sometimes need computer help. I've helped a patron find and log onto CraigsList. They didn’t know how to locate that site on their own.

My Rollyo, Thing #14

Rollyo
http://rollyo.com/nanamanier
You will see it as : Library Storytime
This is also a pretty cool site. It allows you to sort all your websites. I used storytime sites.

Reading Bulletin Boards

Facebook!!

I chose to do a "Facebook." I like MySpace better cuz you can make your layout more “pretty”. But Facebook is it. I can correspond with my teen granddaughters. Social networking is great but you always don't have the time to keep it up. I don't think the library needs a Facebook or MySpace page yet.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1145654429&ref=name

Thing # 12 – Internet Safety

There are many stories of how social networking has played dangerous roles in our children’s lives. Parents need to keep an eye out and checkup of what is being watched, and searched for on the internet by their child. BUT social networking also plays a positive role in their lives. Social networking requires them to “READ & WRITE”. When posting a comment on a blog or adds/edits content, reading and writing are required. We don’t hear much of these positive roles. Teachers are teaching social networking using Math Blogs, Author Blogs and creating newspapers. Librarians could teach and educate patrons by writing up brochures, and other handouts with information websites available. Libraries could also print out several copies of information articles to have available at checkout for patrons to see and take. We live in such a fast information age that internet is NOT going away. So we need to find out ways to help and encourage use of the social networking.

Storybook: Mrs Wishy Washy