by Leah Langby | May 31, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Here’s the next installment in the continuing series of ideas from The Wakanheza Project™. From The Wakanheza Project Agency and Community Organizing Guide:Culture:Many things make up a person’s culture, including language, religion, food, art, music,...
by Leah Langby | May 27, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo credit: flickr.com by thejbirdThe Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) has developed an Early Literacy manual to go with the One World Many Stories theme. It includes programming for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. It is available right here: ....
by Leah Langby | May 16, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
From The Wakanheza Project™ Agency Business and Community Organizing Guide:”Principle 1: Judgment. We make judgments every day to help us make decisions. When we see a person who is struggling and we make assumptions and judgements abotu who they are and why...
by Leah Langby | May 11, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Last week, 3 IFLS-area librarians and I went to Sun Prairie for further training in the Wakanheza Project™. The Wakanheza Project™ is an initiative/concept started by the Ramsey County Public Health Department as a community-level primary prevention approach to...
by Leah Langby | May 10, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Every once in a while it seems like a good idea to post a conglomeration of unrelated cool things I’ve gleaned from list-servs, notes from IFLS librarians, newsletters, etc. So here goes!Hollis Helmeci, library director in Ladysmith and self-proclaimed SkippyJon...
by Leah Langby | May 6, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
Hooray for Christy at Pepin for sending in some photos and ideas just when we needed them! Doesn’t this look fun? You don’t have to be a large library to have a successful toddler program. If you need help with coming up with ideas, please contact...
by Leah Langby | Apr 29, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
We had an interesting idea swap today in Bloomer, complete with a guest appearance via Skype (from London!) by Dr. Rebekah Willett. Dr. Willett, soon to be a professor at the School for Library and Information Studies at UW-Madison, has research interest in children...
by Leah Langby | Apr 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
I keep finding titles that are related to this year’s theme–maybe you can figure out a way to use them in your programs this summer!Storytime choices:Yum! Yuck! A Foldout Book of People Sounds. By Linda Sue Park and Julia Durango, illustrated by Sue Rama....
by Leah Langby | Apr 27, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
I was going to give you another list of books to consider using for your summer library program, but I started in on the Queen of Water and realized it needed its very own post.Queen of Water by Laura Resau and Maria Virginia Farinango. Delacorte, 2011.(grades...
by Leah Langby | Apr 21, 2011 | Keeping Up With Kids
There is so much out there to help you do a terrific Summer Library Program. Lately, a few books and one movie caught my eye. I thought they would be fun to feature in a display or use in some other way during your Summer Library Program. Not meant to be...
