by Leah Langby | Dec 17, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Cole Z. from St. Croix Falls for the nudge, here. She says:I watched a teacher at the local school do an “Hour of Code” with her after-school students! Code.org is SOOOO awesome! Short, really fun coding GAMES for kids and LIBRARIANS...
by Leah Langby | Dec 16, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Katherine Elchert, the youth services manager at the Rice Lake Public Library for this guest post! The Rice Lake Public Library hosts our annual holiday extravaganza on the first Saturday of December. Instead of our regular family storytime + crafts, the...
by Leah Langby | Dec 13, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
I no longer do programs at a library, but I do schedule workshops and other gatherings that I really hope people will be able to attend, so I have some understanding of the challenge it is to find the day and time of day and year that will work for the most people.I...
by Leah Langby | Dec 9, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Looking for a ready-made booklist of books to recommend to 8-12 year olds? Look no further! The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has created an attractive booklist, complete with annotations, to help kids find the right book. All...
by Leah Langby | Dec 6, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
I read a great blog post from my friend and admired colleague, Linda Jerome, the teen librarian at the LaCrosse Public Library yesterday, and it spurred me to immediate action! Linda has been running a book discussion group for adults reading teen books, and has...
by Leah Langby | Nov 26, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Tiffany Meyer from Dresser Village Library received one of the Growing Wisconsin Readers grants this year 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program that is a collaboration between Dresser and the St. Croix Falls library. The program started on November 1, and they...
by Leah Langby | Nov 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Playing SLUG (like SPUD, but with hoops and frisbees Jenna at Fall Creek held an after school Insect Camp this fall, with art and science, games and exploring for school age kids. There’s a complete blog post about it on her blog, but I’m including a...
by Leah Langby | Nov 21, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Does the well ever run dry? Sometimes, even though we often have more ideas than time to do them, it is really great to have a few new places to look for ideas. Here are a few I came across this week:Library as Incubator had a great post about a new...
by Leah Langby | Nov 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
We’ve talked a lot in the past few years about how to make library programs and services more inclusive and accessible for kids on the autism spectrum. And now there is a terrific new resource with very practical ideas about how to make storytimes more...
by Leah Langby | Nov 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Julie Belz from Ellsworth for sending in a few great photos of Halloween celebrations in Ellsworth!Thursday storytime friends trick-or-treating around the library at the end of storytime. The Pumpkin Party in the Park in Ellsworth drew 350 kids...
by Leah Langby | Nov 7, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Wow! I was all set to post some great Halloween photos sent in by a library, but you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see them. Marge Loch-Wouters has a great 2-part post about collection development, with a list of 12 ways you can be a bad...
by Leah Langby | Nov 5, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
A friend of mine from college has published a board book! Imagine my delight when the book was excellent, and I felt like I could recommend it to librarians…My Amazing Day: A Celebration of Wonder and Gratitude by Karin Fisher-Golton, Lori A. Cheung...
