by Leah Langby | Jun 8, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Over the past year, a group of tween girls have been spending Wednesday afternoons at the library in Ogema. To engage these kids in some projects, the library put together a series for them this spring. Activities included:Making May Baskets to give to...
by Leah Langby | Jan 6, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
At our Summer Library Program workshop, one of the groups that librarians felt they had a hard time reaching is tweens (3rd-7th graders or so). I found a few good resources for people who are feeling like this is a gap for them:Five Lessons in Tween...
by Leah Langby | Dec 21, 2015 | Keeping Up With Kids
Kids are happy to be codingThanks to Kay Fitzgerald from Osceola for this guest post!At Osceola Public Library we ran a program called Coding and Cookies that introduced middle through high schoolers to computer coding. We had never run a program like this before...
by Leah Langby | Apr 8, 2013 | Keeping Up With Kids
Check the YSS Blog for a guest post by our own Colleen Crowley about a Caine’s Arcade-inspired partnership with the Boys and Girls Club. Super Cool!Two kids work on set-up for their cardboard arcade game in Chippewa Falls
by Leah Langby | Sep 7, 2012 | Keeping Up With Kids
It’s been a busy week ( I can’t put off writing the grant proposal that’s been dogging me for months any longer)! I’m happy to be back briefly to report on a super-cool program opportunity that Patti (Durand) passed on to me:Star Wars...