Snow & Symmetry Family Program

"Snow and Symmetry" program now available in "Programs for Families All Ages."

Science Programming

Check out the new link under "Youth Services Programs and Resources" for "Science Programming."

Access the 2009 Science Early Learning Content Standards as paired with books and activities.

Access information on sharing science through stories from a presentation I gave in 2010.

Butterfly Science and Food Stories/Songs Biblio

Resources used for my Butterfly Science program:
https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/MissHayleyMac/lists/3214363

Food Stories and Songs:
https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/MissHayleyMac/lists/2968729


Here are some other food related lists:
Cookie Candy Cake Storytime:
https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/MissHayleyMac/lists/2269500

Pie (and Pizza) Stories and Songs
https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/MissHayleyMac/lists/2910439

Fruits and Vegetables
https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/MissHayleyMac/lists/1892957

Thanksgiving and Food/Feasting
https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/MissHayleyMac/lists/1884017

Touch Program for Toddlers and Smell Program for Preschoolers

Program on the sense of touch for toddlers: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByZSJgcQD22tTkNMUlBqOEhWQTg/edit?usp=sharing

I forgot to try the idea of taping contact paper, sticky side up onto one table to make a sensory station.

Here is the letter Tt worksheet found by searching Google Images: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByZSJgcQD22tWmcxTVFZVXRlQmc/edit?usp=sharing

Here are textured "stickers" that toddlers can peel and stick to the Tt touch worksheet:
 (Will insert Widget here, once Amazon has it's html code generator fixed.)

Program on the sense of smell for preschoolers:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByZSJgcQD22tSTdfVW1VTGNKYVk/edit?usp=sharing

The Human Body app allowed a child to drag something smelly to the nose.  If it was a food item, the child could see the mouth salivate.  I ended up doing this at the end of the program, since I was having technical difficulties during the program (with the new iOS).

The "smell" jars were small plastic, cylindrical containers from Big Lots.  I had wanted to mash banana in one, have a cinnamon stick in another, a green pepper in the third, and a slice of orange in the fourth.  I ended up putting small, solid perfume samples in them and covered with foil so one couldn't see what was inside.  I poked holes in the top of the foil.

Dinosaur Early Literacy Programs for Ages 2-5

For 2s and 3s:



For 4s and 5s:



Gotta Move for Ages 2-5:

Summer Reading 2013: Dig Into Reading Ideas

Shared on an Ohio Librarians Listserv: http://www.library.ohio.gov/youthservices/youth_services_listserv

Rock and Mineral Kit that fits in with the SR theme (http://www.cslpreads.org/) this year.


Looks like price is just shipping and handling ... unless someone wants to pick one up in person in Columbus ...

Info on kit: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/22338/Default.aspx

Link to order form: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/geosurvey/tabid/7116/Default.aspx

ALSO, here is where I am compiling Summer Reading 2013: Dig into Reading ideas.  Make sure you access the link in the newest version of whatever internet browser you use:  http://sprng.me/hait5

Tree Programs for Preschoolers

Tree for Me (Storytelling Pieces)

Images are taken from Microsoft Clipart or Britannica Image Quest Database (http://quest.eb.com/) where pictures can be used for non-commercial, educational use.  Otherwise, a website citation accompanies them.

Gotta Move: Trees

New Book Look Ppt

KSU Book Look 2012 from Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County

Cicada Outreach Program

Waddaleeatcha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh4W2My5dVE&list=UUzw0eB9H2fJqn-rI7Id-iQg&index=2&feature=plcp

Waddaleeatcha Slap knees twice, clap twice
Waddaleeatcha Double scissor cross hands left over right, right over left
Doodleydoo Right hand touches right shoulder, nose, lands on left shoulder
Doodleydoo Left hand touches left shoulder, nose, lands on right shoulder
(Repeat)

Simplest song there isn't much to it
All ya gotta do is doodley doo it
I like the rest but the part I like the best goes
Doodley doodley doo
Quack! Quack!

Draw and Tell: "Cicada" using Singing Fingers App
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCYA7N-vdZA

Listened to different Cicadas songs from The Songs of Insects by Lang Elliott; Wil Hershberger

Showed some pictures and highlighted facts from Cicadas!: Strange and Wonderful by Mr. Laurence Pringle and Meryl Henderson

Insect Parts 1 (http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/bugs.html)
(tune: Head, Shoulders Knees and Toes)
Head, thorax abdomen, six legs
Head, thorax abdomen, six legs
And eyes and ears and antennae
Head, thorax abdomen, six legs

Point to the appropriate parts on your body for each of the insect parts. Put up index fingers and waggle them for antenna, and put three fingers out on each side for 6 legs!!

Showed a dead Cicada that I had found on my porch!  (The inspiration for the program!!!)

Technology and Temple Grandin

First, let me say that in order to type this and all new posts, I have to access my blog in Google Chrome ... time to find a new way to share online ... How can I move the content of this blog into something more appealing and accessible?  I've tried a wiki but didn't like that it was purely text oriented ... Anyway ...

So I'm reading Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery



And I was disappointed that a freshman college Agriculture Production student working at http://www.malabarfarm.org/ for the summer hadn't yet heard about Temple Grandin.

Not only am I inspired by Temple's intelligence, passion, and work ... I am inspired by the Teachers that encouraged her interests and who fueled her passion in science.

Bugs Bugs Bugs Sign

Not sure why the text "Bugs, Bugs, Bugs" isn't showing the full mottled brown color ...

MicroHike from PowerKids Life Science Database

Here is a scan of the printout I made of the PowerKids Life Science Database's "MicroHike" which I referenced in the I Spy: Near and Far family program : http://librarieslearnlead.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-spy-near-and-far.html

I feel that sharing this scan is within the fair use and educational copyright clauses.





I wonder if it would still have been within copyright if I gave a copy of this handout and a piece of string to the the families as their "take-away" item ... ?

I Spy: Near and Far

I'm a little frustrated that Google Docs has made its older version unavailable.  (The older version allowed me to grab the embed code from my uploaded PDFs' "Properties".)  As far as I can work out, there's no simple way to embed an uploaded document.  (It's a different story if one uses Google to create the document in the first place.)  So I grabbed an embed code from somewhere on the net.  I'd like to display the code here, but I don't know how to display the code without the computer thinking I want it to follow through with the command.  Contact me if you'd like the embed code.

Graphic Novel, Squish the Super Amoeba ... and Peggy Paramecium

Speaking of graphic novels ... I recently read Squish: Super Amoeba, the first volume in a new series by the creators of well-known Babymouse.  I LOVED the humor (don't forget to watch the face change on Squish's hat!), the successful use of panels versus no panels, and the incorporation of the micro and simple organisims I learned about in middle school.  I also love the labeling in this graphic novel.  For example, below you'll see that Principal Planarian gets a stamped name as well as an arrow with further information.

I'm a little obsessed with Peggy (Paramecium) and wish I could have the original illustration of these two pages:  

I also love the following "running" late to school action scene ... Reminds me of my recent "great exercise" in the airport.  Perhaps I need to adopt a little more of Peggy's postive attitude ...

It'd be awesome to do a "Squish the Super Amoeba and Science" program ... You could show videos like this one ... a "real" interpretation of Peggy running!

Or this video about planarian regeneration from Exploratorium's Microscope Imaging Station: http://www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station/research/planaria/story_planaria1.php  

Preschool Visit: Nature Stories (30 min)

A local preschool (almost five and six year olds) experienced a nature walk on the way to the library today.  I supported their learning by providing a nature/pond life inspired storytime.  (We have a small pond/wetlands area behind the library.)

We started with The Dandelion Seed by Joseph Patrick Anthony.  While I read, “Dandelion Seed” from Sing and Learn about Science by Ilene Follman and Helen Jackson played in the background.  The song played through two times.

Then, we talked about how objects look different when we look at them up close and when we look at them from far away.  We explored A Closer Look by Mary McCarthy and followed that with Big Bugs! Giant Creepy Crawly Pop-Ups by Keith Faulkner.  Big Bugs allowed the children to guess which bug was being described before I surprised them with the pop-up illustration.

Little Green Frogs by Frances Barry was equally entertaining.  The slightly repetitive text allowed for a bit of audience participation and the unfolding pages were suprising and unique.

Our last story was the newer picturebook The Croaky Pokey! by Ethan Long.  We got on our feet and moved and grooved, but stopped to carefully look at the picture when I slurped and smacked my lips.  Me: "(Slurp. Smack!) What happened?"  Kids: "The fly got away!"

Before the last activity, I did an impromptu interaction with

The frog would "ribbit" to tell me he was hungry.  (He hadn't caught the fly in Croaky Pokey, you know ...) We'd listen for the fly (puppet makes "buzz" sound), watch frog catch it with his tongue, and then the puppet would burp.  The kids LOVED it!  We had to repeat a few times, until Mr. Frog was too full to eat anymore...

We ended the visit by looking at some photographs of a snapping turtle (from Grzimek's Animal Life database and Britannica Online) and by performing the following action rhyme.  (I learned this from a colleague, so I do not know the original source.):

SNAPPING TURTLE
(Snap OR place bottom of palms together and clap hands like a mouth.)
Snap! Snap! Snap!
He snaps in the morning
He snaps at night
He snaps at the bugs
As he takes each bite
He snaps so much
He's quite a sight
Snap! Snap! Snap!

As they exited, I let them touch a real snapping turtle shell.  (Compliments of another colleague.)

Preschoolers: Water, Water Everywhere

An Earth Day influenced storytime ... If the embedded programming handout does not display below, visit the upper right hand corner of this blog: http://librarieslearnlead.blogspot.com/. Under "Youth Services Programs and Resources," choose "Preschool, ages 4 and 5."  Then choose (2011 4) Water, Water Everywhere (Narrative).pdf

A colleague suggested putting a coloring sheet on the other side of the programming handout to encourage the caregivers to take it home.  I thought it was a great idea!

Gotta Move: Eggs-travaganza

Again, I'm making a change ... to only market one early literacy tip per program and on the handout.  Note that I am not referencing Easter eggs, but rather focusing on kinds of eggs -- what can hatch from them and what they can look like (naturally) or their properties (e.g. fragile).

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Toddlers: I Spy Eggs (Print Awareness)

I'm again changing the look of my programming handout.  I'm not associating an early literacy tip with each activity.  Instead I'm including only one to three tips so as not to overwhelm the caregiver.

Note that I am not referencing Easter eggs, but rather focusing on kinds of eggs -- what can hatch from them and what they can look like (naturally).

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