by Leah Langby | Jun 27, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
In Durand:Kids register on groundhogs, ants or worms and they are added to the tunnel (created out of paper towels!)In Pepin, kids who read decorate a piece of the bookworm growing daily:In Bloomer, capitalizing on Badger-fever (and drawing talent!), here’s a...
by Leah Langby | Jun 24, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
After several years of declining Summer Library Program in Spring Valley, new director Elizabeth Steans and her fabulous staff are making up for lost time! School visits, lots of talk, fun programs, and inviting decorations all added to the increased...
by Leah Langby | Jun 21, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
1. Some of you have already contacted me about the Early Literacy Minigrants being administered by the state this year, to help you create a 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program or develop an early literacy space in your library. In case you...
by Leah Langby | Jun 19, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Gamers converge in Luck Colleen Allen from Luck had her first successful board game night earlier this summer. Here’s what she had to say: “I must say, I love having a job where I can do things I love and invite other people to join...
by Leah Langby | Jun 13, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
New paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, due out August 27 In celebration of the 15th Anniversary of the U.S. publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Scholastic is inviting public libraries all across the country to enter to...
by Leah Langby | Jun 11, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Christy Rundquist from Pepin for this article about the power of adaptation!A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away…….Not really. It was 2006 and Pepin was participating in an IFLS mini-grant for early literacy. We partnered with the...
