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...
