by Leah Langby | Feb 13, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks to Valerie Spooner from Ladysmith for this guest post:For my preschool storytime tomorrow I’ll be reading Mouse’s First Valentine by Lauren Thompson and If You’ll Be My Valentine by Cynthia Rylant. We’ll do a flannel board activity...
by Leah Langby | Feb 10, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Last week I, like many of you, watched the announcements of the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards via twitter or live streaming. I always get excited about these announcements, thrilled when favorites win, and fascinated to see what rose to...
by Leah Langby | Feb 6, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Ashley Bieber of the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library for this guest post.This fall I was contacted by an employee of Q2, a group for LGBTQ youth in the Chippewa Valley about ways the library could support LGBTQ teens. I was more than...
by Leah Langby | Feb 5, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Homemade block playMany thanks to Becky Arenivar for this guest post!So many webinars, but so little time! It’s hard sometimes to make space in our busy schedules for another webinar, but they can really pay off big time and I have the cute kid pics to prove...
by Leah Langby | Feb 4, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks for bearing with me as I try to figure out the best way to manage the Reading Goals project. I was pleased with the results, but found my form to be a little unwieldy and time-consuming to manage. Hopefully I’ll figure out a way to make this...
by Leah Langby | Jan 30, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Using Bins in BarronThanks to Patti from Barron for this guest post:Barron is using a hybrid approach to shelving their children’s collection, with several subject bins within our picture book area. We decided about the first of the year to do this. We...
