by Leah Langby | Jun 11, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids, Uncategorized
My fabulous friend and colleague Sue Abrahamson from the Waupaca Public Library shared a tidbit with me the other day about an experiment she was doing with kids about how many drops of water fit on a penny. This is something that could work as an all-day, drop-in...
by Leah Langby | Jun 9, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
The United Way St. Croix Valley’s Success by Six Initiative (for Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix Counties) has created a terrific, fully-vetted Pinterest page with some great topics for parents of young children! Task force members are looking at each page and...
by Leah Langby | Jun 5, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
There are some great opportunities for participation in LSTA grants this coming year. Look for a few system-wide possibilities that are coming your way in the next month, but you can also consider applying for a grant of your own, too!This year’s LSTA...
by Leah Langby | Jun 3, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
The invitation is for YOU! (Sir John Tenniel) How often do you see invitations to apply for cool stuff go out on listservs and assume that the sender is talking about someone else? They aren’t! They are talking about you! Here’s one example: The...
by Leah Langby | Jun 2, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Both of these awards are useful for following up on the information many of us learned a few weeks ago at the Storytimes for Everyone workshop with Saroj Ghoting. For those of you looking to incorporate more nonfiction into storytimes and other programs for...
by Leah Langby | May 30, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you are anything like me, it is difficult to be inside working on a day like this (especially when there is so much work to be done OUTSIDE at home!). Here are a few tidbits I’ve run across this week that might make staring at your computer more fun.No...
by Leah Langby | May 27, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
“I can’t check it out!”Julie Belz and the other fabulous staff in Ellsworth came up with a terrific skit to promote their summer library program, but this could be used to promote the library any time of year! Here’s what she...
by Leah Langby | May 23, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
There is so much good stuff out there! I found a reference to this in the Growing Wisconsin Readers Blog, but wanted to make sure everyone saw it. For those of you who put so much work and effort into educating yourselves and adapting your storytime for...
by Leah Langby | May 22, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
In recent workshops in IFLS-land with brilliant presenters like Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, Jim Gill and Saroj Ghoting, we have been learning a lot of important stuff about early literacy, the importance of helping children and their caregivers get access to great resources...
by Leah Langby | May 20, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks so much to Christy Rundquist from Pepin for this terrific guest post! The Homeschool Group at Pepin made “Lava Lamps” that would be a great activity for summer reading. They also got to mix colors to make orange and purple, besides just the...
by Leah Langby | May 16, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids, Uncategorized
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has updated and released three Summer Reading lists. The lists are full of book titles to keep children engaged in reading throughout the summer. Lists are available for K-8 students. Each is available to...
by Leah Langby | May 14, 2014 | Keeping Up With Kids, Uncategorized
Caregivers and babies (The Commons Getty Collection) One of the sessions I attended at the Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries conference last week was by Ashley Theim-Menning about the importance of addressing the developmental milestones of the children...
