by Leah Langby | Jul 18, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
In small libraries, it can be hard to find the time (and the bodies) to provide a storytime exclusively for babies or toddlers. With the advent of 4-year-old kindergarten in many communities, storytime is edging younger, but there are often some older preschoolers in...
by Leah Langby | Jul 15, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
From The Wakanheza Project Agency, Business and Community Organizing Guide: The Moment. The Wakanheza Project is all about suspending judgment, understanding the impacts of powerlessness and environment, appreicating culture, and practicing empathy and respect. We all...
by Leah Langby | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Stoop Singers, an up-and-coming traditional 2-piece string band from Eau Claire, performed at the Fall Creek Public Library as part of their Summer Library Program. Jenna Gilles, youth services librarian, said: “We had a great time a few weeks ago with The...
by Leah Langby | Jul 11, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Johnson, J.J. This Girl Is Different. Peachtree, 2011 (978-1-45145-578-2)(gr. 7-12) Evie has been homeschooled all her life, but decides that she is interested in attending school for her senior year, just to experience it before she heads off to Cornell to study...
by Leah Langby | Jul 8, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Environment. According to The Wakanheza Project Agency, Business and Community Organizing Guide, one of the principles of The Wakanheza Project is Environment:”Environments can be impacted by both physical space and social interactions. People tend to respond...
by Leah Langby | Jul 7, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Mary from Hudson called to tell me about a few new performers they have had this summer. I haven’t heard of these folks before, and from what Mary says, I’ll probably be hearing about them at other libraries in the area soon.Ragamala is a dance company in...
by Leah Langby | Jul 6, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Joseph Bruchac, a photo by Michael GreenlarJoseph Bruchac, a prominent and prolific author and storyteller for children and youth, will be in Eau Claire in October as part of the Second Annual Chippewa Valley Reads project. Bruchac will visit schools on October 21 and...
by Leah Langby | Jul 5, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Holly Lunde from Plum City shared some photos and know-how for a project that went over very well in Plum City, and used up some of the backlog of CDs that have been withdrawn for one reason or another.Decorated side of CDs”This was a very simple craft to have...
by Leah Langby | Jul 1, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
According to The Wakanheza Project Agency and Business Community Organizing Guide, Empathy and Respect is:Empathy is defined as the capacity for participating in the feelings or ideas of others and can be easily shared. When we place ourselves in the shoes of another,...
by Leah Langby | Jun 30, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Folks at the Pepin Library had fun with the Bassmeister this summer, with puppets, ventriloquism, illusions, visual props, and plenty of humorous but important safety tips. About 50 people attended an indoor picnic and the show–pretty terrific turnout for...
by Leah Langby | Jun 15, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
It is time for this week’s installment about The Wakanheza Project™, and the principle we will explore today is powerlessness. According to The Wakanheza Project Agency, Business and Community Organizing Guide:”The Initiative’s violence prevention...
by Leah Langby | Jun 13, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many of you have probably already heard about the article in the Wall Street Journal last week by Meghan Cox Gurdon, Darkness Too Visible. It seems that every few years, there is an influential op-ed piece that decries the horrors of current YA literature, and this...
