tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22827106893318539382024-03-13T11:10:11.677-07:00Fussy Hen at the LibraryFussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-74373513322095066232012-03-29T15:45:00.000-07:002012-03-29T15:45:57.911-07:00Flannel Friday - Pigs wanna flyA couple years ago when I started doing storytimes, Chris LeMieux taught me the flannel board song, Eight Piggies in a Row. You can hear the song on Raffi's cd, <u>Everything Grows</u>. Raffi only sings the first verse. Chris learned the song from Sally Chilson, our youth services coordinator, and after adapting it for her needs passed it on to me. <br />
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I put up the eight piggies. These are from <u>Pigs love Pancakes</u> by Anika Denise. I just photocopied a pig that I liked from the book and used it as my outline. Details are drawn with fabric paint.<br />
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You have the children count the pigs by ones and twos before you sing the rhyme and between each verse. </div>
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Eight Piggies in a Row<br />
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There were eight piggies in a row<br />
There were eight piggies in a row<br />
Did they dance? No No. Did they sing? No No.<br />
BUT two of them though they could fly. (Throw the last two pigs behind the flannel board )<br />
That left six piggies in a row.<br />
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There were six piggies in a row<br />
There were six piggies in a row<br />
Did they laugh? No No. Did they Cry? No No. <br />
But two of them thought they could fly. (Throw last two pigs behind the flannel board)<br />
That left four piggies in a row.<br />
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There were four piggies in a row<br />
There were four piggies in a row<br />
Did they dance? No No. Did they sing? No No.<br />
BUT two of them thought they could fly. (throw them)<br />
That left two piggies in a row.<br />
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There were two piggies in a row<br />
There were two piggies in a row<br />
Did they laugh? No No. Did they cry? No No.<br />
But these two piggies thought they could fly. (Throw them)<br />
That left no piggies in a row.<br />
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I also have used this song for a guinea pigs storytime. I just used a guinea pig clip art from the internet, colored them and backed them with felt to make pairs. <br />
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The kids love it when I throw the two piggies that think they can fly over the back of the flannel board.Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-77146344505880269612012-03-28T12:54:00.001-07:002012-03-28T12:54:48.078-07:00Bulletin Board - Spring - BunniesTime to change the bulletin boards for another season. I made some big ( 30 inches high and 40 inches wide) bunnies ala Nancy Tafuri and added some freehand carrots. I threw in a few purple carrots as well as orange ones. <br />
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For my super large wall, I used a couple of drawings from <u>Bunnies Picnic</u> by Lezli Evans, the illustrations are by Kay Chorao. I had to add books for the bunnies to be reading. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">The last time I did a Dogs storytime, I had great success with the B-I-N-G-O flannels I made following Miss Mary Liberry’s post. You can find it <a href="http://missmaryliberry.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/feltboard-flannelboard-whatchamacallit-that-thing-you-stick-stuff-on/">here.</a> This week my storytime theme was Cats. I was looking through all my saved cat rhymes and songs and there it was…</span></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">I Know A Cat</span></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> - sung to "Bingo" </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">I know a cat with perky ears,<br />And kitty is her name-o.<br />K-I-T-T-Y, K-I-T-T-Y, K-I-T-T-Y,<br />And Kitty is her name-o. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">When she is happy, she will purrrrrr</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">And kitty is her name-o</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">And Kitty is her name-o</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;"> And Kitty is her name-0</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Then I went to my stash of old cat calendars. Some of them were from the 90’s. I had to reject some cute cat pictures because they were too large. The hardest part was free-handing the letters. I ended up adding a couple pieces of Velcro, because the pictures were slick and the flannel that showed around the pictures was not enough to hold the piece up when the pictures were turned to the back. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">You just turn over another letter for each verse in the song. Instead of clapping, we “Meow”ed once for each cat showing. The kids especially liked the cat with the pizza. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">The last verse, where we sing fifteen meows in a row, I personally thought was hilarious. It was another hit. I love this job. </span></span></div>Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-82015521660356755352012-03-06T12:02:00.000-08:002012-03-06T12:02:22.657-08:00Displays - Spring time flowers<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">She credits Martha Stewart with the idea. If you want to make your own, here is the link to Martha’s instructions. <span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/268927/cupcake-paper-carnations" title="http://www.marthastewart.com/268927/cupcake-paper-carnations"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.marthastewart.com/268927/cupcake-paper-carnations</span></a> </span></span></span></div>
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I made a flannel for One Two Buckle My Shoe.<br />
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I got the door and hen patterns from <a href="http://www.kizclub.com/">www.kizclub.com/</a> The door is from <u>Where's Spot</u> and the hen is from <u>Barnyard Banter</u>. The shoe I just freehanded after looking at pictures on the internet. When I was a kid, I learned the rhyme as "shut the door" but "knock on the door" is better so you can open the door and see the bear say "Hi."<br />
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We did the rhyme as an action rhyme twice, then I put up the flannels as we said the rhyme. I put the nine on the board upside down and many of the kids knew that was a six and I had to turn it around. I then counted down from Hen to take the flannels off. The kids thought that was hilarious, hen, ten, nine, sticks, eight....<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Nine ten, a big fat hen. (put your hands in your armpits and flap your wings and cluck)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>Hello Toes Hello Feet</u> by Ann Whitford Paul</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>Whose Nose and Toes</u> by John Butler</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>Whose Shoes</u> by Margaret Miller</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;">Preschool books:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>Dog in Boots</u> by Greg Gormly</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>Holly's Red Boots</u> by Francesca Chessa</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>Centipede's 100 Shoes</u> by Tony Ross</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>Which Shoes would you Choose</u> by Rosenthal</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>Whose Shoes</u> by Margaret Miller</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;">We did the action rhyme: <a href="http://storytimekatie.com/songs-rhymes/master-list/#O">Old Shoes New Shoes</a>. Thanks to Katie at Storytime Katie for the idea! The kids wondered why I was asking their names and got so excited when I used them in the rhyme. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;">I also sang the Charlotte Diamond song: "I Have Shoes and I Can Walk" with the preschoolers. When I heard her in concert last week, she said it was a new song. I don't see it on her webpage yet, but you can watch for it <a href="http://www.charlottediamond.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=33">here</a>.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span> </div>
<br />Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-82174431137951294352012-02-28T08:54:00.003-08:002012-02-28T08:55:46.683-08:00Concert Review - Charlotte DiamondFriday night I got to see Charlotte Diamond in Concert at Spokane Falls Community College. She was in town to do a workshop the next day. It was a sweet deal for only five dollars. I regularly sing her - I am a Pizza - before afterschool programs during that figgetty time after everyone is seated and the program still won't start for six minutes. I haven't used any other of her songs yet.<br />
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There were at least 400 in the audience, in a mix of parents, educators, and kids, ranging from infants to tweens. And they were very enthusiastic. <br />
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Charlotte did a fantastic job of keeping everyone involved. And she had great crowd control. She periodically sent a mob of little ones from the base of the stage with a "Go back to your seats, go back to your seats", and then into the next number. To acheive quiet when she needed it, she had everyone go "Shhhh", again "Shhhh" and then into the next number. <br />
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Charlotte signs (American Sign Language) many of her songs and teaches the sign before she begins. She had parents take out their keys and shake them to make the sound of rain. She donned not only a banana hat but also a fish hat and dog ears. Apparently folks in the workshop the next day were going to get to make their own dog ears. I was very envious. <br />
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She did a new song, "I have shoes and I can walk", which will fit into this week's storytime perfectly. She also did a fish song that I had never heard. She did this with cutouts of the fish, octopus, shark etc. As each animal is eaten it is put in a pocket at the back of the larger anima. I am definitely going to investigate this one further. She also sang "I am a bubble" to the tune of "I am a Pizza" <br />
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The audience knew her songs and loved them. She had the parents and kids hugging to "Four Hugs a Day" and had them dancing in the aisles to a rousing rendition of "La Bamba". <br />
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Here is Charlotte's website: <a href="http://www.charlottediamond.com/">http://www.charlottediamond.com/</a> And you can probably find many of her cd's at your library. And if you ever get the chance to see her in person, go for it.Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-70657712804382273292012-02-21T08:53:00.000-08:002012-02-24T07:34:18.604-08:00Wall Displays - Polar BearsI change my wall displays four times a year. I have a long section above the children's audio/visual shelving that is around forty inches high, so my main pieces usually measure 30 inches high and up to 40 inches wide. I make five to seven pieces. I tend to have the pieces facing left toward the picture book area, with one piece looking the other way for visual interest. I get my ideas from (copyright-free) clipart and children's books. We have an old fashioned overhead projector to enlarge my drawings. Our main branch downtown has a photocopier that can make transparencies, but I've found it faster and easier to just trace or draw on the transparency sheet. Here are my polar bears for this winter. I had to add a different head to the skating bear to get them to be more uniform and added ear muffs and a scarf to the sledding bear. The snowflakes were made by staff over the years.<br />
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Here is a picture of poor Cleo. She lost an eye while getting some rough love after my Tuesday storytimes. Despite my heart palpitations, it doesn't appear that anyone actually consumed her eye. I thought a patch looked better than the empty eye socket for the Thursday storytimes. <br />
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Action Rhyme: Open them shut them<br />
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Book: <u>How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You </u>by Jane Yolen<br />
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Rhyme: Wiggle Fingers<br />
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Book: <u>All Kinds of Kisses</u> by Nancy Tafuri. This is a new book by my all time favorite author/illustrator. It was perfect for this storytime. As I showed each picture, I asked, "What is this Animal?", read the text, then had everyone say the animal sound with me.<br />
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Rhyme: Tommy Thumbs Up<br />
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Book: <u>I love you big as the world</u> by David Van Buren<br />
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Rhyme: Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear - I always do more colors than just red. <br />
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Flannel Board: Five Little Valentines - I didn't make the flannel hearts, it is one of the sets that were here when I started the job. I can find the rhyme everywhere but could not identify the maker or source for the hearts.<br />
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I especially like the fox face. We counted the valentines together and then I asked, What shape are these valentines? Are they square? Are they round? Of course, they knew they were heart shape. That led into..<br />
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Song: There's a little wheel a-turning in my heart - This is a tradtional folk song, but I learned it from Laurie Berkner's Buzz Buzz CD. I demo all the kids' parts: twirling hands, clapping, stomping, barking, snoring, HONKING, then sing the song. I've done this song many times and the kids will often ask for it if there are a few minutes to wait before storytime starts. <br />
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Pop-Up Books - <u>Stop Kissing Me</u> by Ethan Long and <u>If you're Happy and You know </u>it by David Carter.<br />
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Closing Rhyme - My hands say thank you<br />
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Greeting and opening song: Good Morning to you<br />
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Opening rhyme: Open them Shut them<br />
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Book: <u>Slugs in Love</u> by Susan Pearson<br />
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Action Rhyme: Teddy Bear Teddy Bear<br />
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Book: <u>Smitten </u>by David Gordon<br />
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Action Rhyme: Head and Shoulders<br />
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Book: I ended up reading <u>Do you still Love me</u> by Charlotte Midleton at the Tuesday session and <u>Katie Loves the Kittens</u> by John Himmelman at the Thursday session. I enjoy acting out Katie's excitement and her unsuccessful attempts to suppress it as I read the book and it always gets a laugh.<br />
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Song: Skinnamarink<br />
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Book: <u>Cat and Mouse</u> by Schoenherr - The kids and adults really enjoy the cat's expressions in this book.<br />
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Flannel board: Five Little Valentines<br />
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Song: There's a little wheel turning in my heart<br />
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Pop-up Book: <u>Stop Kissing Me</u> by Ethan Long. If you have not seen this pop-up, I really recommend it. The duck keeps kissing the pink poodle who thinks the slobbery kisses are yuck. There is a button to push to get a smooch sound. I really ham this one up when I read it and put in lots more smooches. The kids usually start calling out - push the button, push the button. <br />
Pop - Book: If you're happy and you know it<br />
Closing Rhyme - My hands say thank you.<br />
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We don't do crafts as part of our storytimes, but I have a stack of leftover flyers from last summer's Summer Reading Program. I printed out coloring pages on the blank backside of the flyers, a simple heart for the toddlers and a more complicated valentine design for the preschoolers. And lastly, everyone gets a hand stamp of a red heart. ( I use non-toxic, child safe washable ink pads and last week, for the first time to my knowledge, was told by a mom that her infant had had a reaction to it)<br />
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Yes, I did mean to say infant. I get a real mix of ages at both storytimes. <br />
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Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed here are my own, and not my employer's. <br />
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<br />Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-8196879184354333792012-02-03T12:24:00.000-08:002012-02-24T07:35:53.230-08:00Flannel FridayI do a twenty minute toddler storytime for kids 18 months to three years and a half hour preschool storytime for kids three to five every Tuesday and Thursday. I wanted to share my recent Lunar New Year storytime.<br />
I was inspired to make some Chinese lanterns from the pictures in the Oriental Trading Company catalog, but I could not find a five Chinese Lanterns rhyme. I ended up adapting a rhyme I found on Amazon. <br />
Five Chinese Lanterns (tune: I'm a little tea pot)<br />
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One Chinese lantern shining bright<br />
Use it to light your way at night<br />
If it's really dark, just light one more<br />
That's what Chinese lanterns are for.<br />
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Two Chinese lanterns...<br />
Three Chinese lanterns...<br />
Four Chinese lanterns...<br />
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Five Chinese lanterns shining bright<br />
Use them to light your way at night<br />
Lanterns help celebrate Chinese New Year<br />
Gung Hay Fat Choy! Gung Hay Fat Choy!<br />
[adapted by Susanne Miller]<br />
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I used a 3 oz dixie cup to cut out circles for the lanterns and just eyeballed the hexagonal lanterns. I added little rectangles of felt at the top and bottom with the bottom piece cut into a fringe. Then a small loop of felt at the top and added stripes and Chinese characters with fabric paint. (again from the ads in the Oriental Trading Company catalog)<br />
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For the toddlers I read:</div>
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Bringing in the New Year by Grace Lin</div>
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My first Chinese New Year by Karen Katz</div>
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This Next New Year by Janet Wong</div>
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Red is a dragon by Roseanne Thong</div>
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We also learned the Nancy Stewart song, Gung Hay Fat Choy. This was difficult for me because I could not get the tune to stay in my head and had to play the music to sing along. The song with words and an instrumental version are on Stewart's cd, Songs of the Month Vols 1 & 2. I had thought it might be too difficult for the kids, but all they really got into it. Our circ crew let me know that some were actually humming it afterwards while they checked out their books!<br />
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Disclaimer: The opinions expressed on this site are my own and do not necessarily represent the vies of Spokane Public Library.</div>Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-79467624138530058902012-02-01T12:42:00.000-08:002012-02-24T07:36:11.247-08:00Baby LapsitsI got the opportunity to observe a baby lapsit on Monday. I was a half hour early because the library's website had the time posted as 10 am instead of 10:30. The first thing I noticed was that kids with moms who had also come too early looked to me like toddlers. [After the rest arrived, I noted there was a full range of baby ages with many being very ambulatory] Kathryn, the youth librarian, was very gracious and took the time to answer my questions. She had a table display of board books ready for check out and a large colorful poster explaining the Early Literacy Goals along with handouts of the rhymes she uses. She started with five minutes of blowing bubbles. The kids loved this. She played music during the bubble blowing. Kathryn then greeted the group and pointed out the board books, the kleenex and the sink area. Kathryn used a stuffed elephant for her baby. She said she changes which stuffed animal she uses each week. The opening song was the More we get together. The song was shortened and the babies were rocked first forward and back and then side to side. Kathryn then read three board books, alternating with a rhyme. The rhymes were repeated twice. She gave one literacy hint : that reading books would help the children develop narrative skills. She then turned the music back on and brought out a box of toys (rattles, teething toys, a phone)for the children to play with. She pointed out that the toys are cleaned (with chlorox spray cleaner) between each session. The books and rhymes lasted eight minutes. The playtime went 20 minutes. Kathryn stayed in the room the entire time.<br />
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Disclaimer: The opinions expressed on this site are my own and do not necessarily represent the vies of Spokane Public Library.Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-65726857198841543552007-12-22T11:55:00.000-08:002007-12-22T12:19:38.798-08:00Week 8 - Web2.0 AwardsI took a look at a couple of the short list of Web2.0 winners. Lulu is a self-publishing site. You can upload content and then have your book, brochure, calendar published. The calculator lets you pick the binding, size, color or black&white, number of pages and number of copies and then gives you the manufacturing costs, so you can determine the selling price. I like knowing about this site because we often get questions on self-publishing from authors. I can see some fundraising applications for the library also, ...calendars of Fuller treasures? <br /> Another interesting site is Be Green Now. This let me calculate my carbon footprint and gave tips for reducing or offsetting my use of hydrocarbons.Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-91970793133329533102007-12-21T14:43:00.001-08:002007-12-21T14:46:37.413-08:00Week 8 - Posting from Zoho Writer<BR >Zoho Writer would be a great way to collaborate on a book or article. I see many familiar icons to MSWord. The template library looks like it will be useful.Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-45550046699850390902007-12-21T12:34:00.000-08:002007-12-21T13:03:54.584-08:00Week 7 - WikisWikis have tremendous library application. At SCLD, we had a pathfinder notebook (I was responsible for several topics)that was updated at most twice a year. With a wiki, those kind of subject guides can be continually updated and expanded. <br /> Another really useful application would be for individuals on committees to add their thoughts, information found, responses between meetings. <br /> Since I live halfway between the Lakeside and Loon Lake Libraries, I'm impressed with the Stevens County Rural Library District Wiki because it is for the entire county. They are really taking a leading role in the community with this.Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-18134407092796054702007-12-18T15:06:00.000-08:002007-12-19T16:49:57.073-08:00Week 6 -Technorati tags, Library 2.0My Technorati search results for Learning 2.0 (with a space): <br /> 2,702 in Blog posts<br /> 1,252 in tags<br /> 810 in Blog directory<br /><br /> Learning2.0 (without a space):<br /> 488 in Blog posts<br /> 510 in tags<br /> 149 in the Blog directory<br /><br /> I read the Away from Icebergs article with interest. Having been in libraries for some time, I have seen these icebergs often. As a Vertical File (remember them?) maintainer, I helped create a "Just in case" collection of brochures that somebody might need for something sometime, and kept them for years. As a reference collection and adult nonfiction weeder, I kept many a non-circing book because it had merit and somebody would need it someday. Those days are long gone! I weeded that vertical file into nothing. Those books are no longer catching dust on library shelves. If someone needs that bit of information, I have the skills and resources to find it for them.<br /> "Relying on user education" Wasn't this another way of guaranteeing librarians were needed - as teachers of the intricate, sometimes arcane ways of retrieving an item or information. No one is going to take the time to learn our way to get something they already know how to get from the net. We have to set up what we're selling so they can get it the way they already know. And I totally agree that proprietary rights conflict with easy access. <br /> "Make them come to us" Customers had to come to the library physically to get our product.(There was phone reference and outreach of course) I can see having as much as possible accessible in as many ways as possible. However we can also continue to create space that people WANT to come to by having meeting space, access to technology for those who can't afford it, a Child Safe place and adult, teen and juvenile programs.<br /> SPL is plunging into Library2.0! This SPL2.0 exercise is raising staff awareness and skills. Much of what we offer is available from anywhere (some with those pesky proprietary hurdles) We are streamlining our paper collections. We are asking the public what they want and responding to the input we are given.Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-57069336447641125622007-12-15T15:11:00.000-08:002007-12-15T15:36:49.623-08:00Week 6 - DeliciousI can see quite a bit of utility to Delicious for the librarian who works in more than one location. When I worked at SCLD, I could be at two or three service desks at Valley, at Argonne and Moran Prairie all in the same week and every Favorites(or Bookmarks)was different. There is nothing better than getting a repeat question and having a perfect website to answer it at hand. Especially if the answer was hard to find the first time, I'd bookmark the site, but not always be on the right computer when I got the question for the second time.Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-13509103889839505552007-12-15T11:04:00.000-08:002007-12-15T11:30:34.301-08:00Week 5 - RollyoI see a great deal of usefulness in this customized search engine. There are often good sites that are lost because they are several pages down on the results list. I wouldn't have to remember the best sites I used to answer questions that are asked periodically.<br /> I created a searchroll for herb farm info.<br /><br /><div style='margin: 10px; text-align: center; width: 160px;'><form action='http://www.rollyo.com/search.html'><fieldset id='searchboxset' style='margin: 0 0 10px 0 !important; padding: 4px 0 0 0 !important; height: 62px; width: 160px; border: none;'><input type='text' size='30' style='background: #fff; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #000; font-weight: normal; float: left; width: 108px; height: 14px; margin: 3px 0 4px 0px !important; font-size: 13px !important; vertical-align: middle;' name='q' value="" /><input type='image' src='http://rollyo.com/remote/btn-togo-search-ph2.png' alt='Go' style='margin: 2px 0 0 3px !important; float: left; border: none;' /> <br /><select id='rolls' name='sid' style='float: left; width: 158px; margin: 0 0 2px 0 !important; font-size: 12px;'><option value='334494' selected='selected'>Select Search Engine...</option><option value='334494'>Fussy Hen at the Library</option><option value='web'>Search The Web</option></select> <input type='hidden' name='togo-v' value='1' /><div id='about' style='font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px;'><div style='float: left;'>Powered by <a href='http://www.rollyo.com/' style='color: #C00;'>Rollyo</a></div></div></fieldset></form></div>Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-36661366422459190432007-12-14T14:46:00.000-08:002007-12-14T14:51:31.416-08:00Week 5 - I love LibraryThingLibraryThing is great. I've thought about making a list of books in my home library, but who has the time. And I can see connecting with folks that are reading the same books. How fun.<br />I want to add a LibraryThing widget to my blog, but where am I supposed to paste the code?<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.librarything.com/jswidget.php?reporton=FussyHen&show=random&header=1&num=3&covers=medium&text=all&onlycovers=1&tag=alltags&css=1&style=4&version=1"><br /></script>Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-58437248352493960772007-12-13T13:09:00.000-08:002008-12-08T13:58:29.807-08:00Week 5 - Image generators<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_h3RdzLhsLOo/R2GkLQQdywI/AAAAAAAAAAM/_o54VNv1CL4/s1600-h/gen_boutons.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143572762683362050" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_h3RdzLhsLOo/R2GkLQQdywI/AAAAAAAAAAM/_o54VNv1CL4/s320/gen_boutons.png" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Well, I tried to find the worth of my blog <a href="http://tools.cuborojo.com/valorblog/">http://tools.cuborojo.com/valorblog/</a> and only got that my blog doesn't exist. So then I tried the Tibetan name generator. <a href="http://www.chine-informations.com/langues/en/?/mods/prenoms-tibetains/">http://www.chine-informations.com/langues/en/?/mods/prenoms-tibetains/</a> but is didn't seem to be working today. So to the upper right you see my name (Susanne not Fussy Hen) in Chinese. <a href="http://www.chinesetools.eu/names/">http://www.chinesetools.eu/names/</a></div><div> </div><div>I may also use the calendar generator in the future, <a href="http://www.freephotocalendar.net/free-printable-photo-calendar.php">http://www.freephotocalendar.net/free-printable-photo-calendar.php</a> once I get some sheep and chicken photos taken. </div>Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-15551020013008333682007-12-13T12:28:00.000-08:002007-12-13T13:02:10.025-08:00Week 4 - TechnoratiI found Technorati really interesting. It keeps track of what is being blogged about in real time. Three times an hour, it checks current news stories and blog responses to those new stories. It gives a rating to how much blog attention is being given to a news story. The site seems very complex to me and I had to do a bit of clicking, looking and thinking to see when I was getting the actual news story and when I was getting the reaction to it. I ended up reading some blogs (about current entertainment) that were crude and rude and just short of profane.<br />I started thinking this was a real waste of my time. Then I followed the story about the mammoth tusks that had been pelleted by meteorite fragments (either 13000 or 40+000 years ago) and one of the commenting bloggers had a blog listed in his blogroll that I liked so much that I added it to my bloglines. Cocktail Party Physics.Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-57406662556351382362007-12-08T13:32:00.001-08:002007-12-08T13:32:33.227-08:00wichtel-013<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/revoluzzza/2039598009/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2172/2039598009_0e62e2384c_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/revoluzzza/2039598009/">wichtel-013</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/revoluzzza/">revoluzzza</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>Got off on a tangent on flicker and I couldn't resist these little guys.</p>Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-75214574073272925842007-12-08T10:28:00.000-08:002007-12-08T11:34:24.759-08:00Week 3 - Sociability vs Privacy and Follow the MoneyEarlier this week, the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, issued an apology to Facebook users for not initially giving them an option to opt out of Beacon, an advertising program that tracks users online purchases and reports those purchases to their Facebook designated friends. The theory here is that - if your friend buys an item, you'll want to buy it also. This prompted enough of an outcry [Hey! Now my wife knows I bought that diamond jewelry! Of course, it was for her.]<br /> This is a perfect example of the looming loss of individual privacy as we become part of the expanding internet social network. [In order to get this far on SPL2.0, I have had to get a Google account and a Yahoo account. I am more out there than I have ever been before.] In order to be social, to make friends, we have to give of ourselves, share history, share feelings, thoughts. I've gotten carried away in conversations in the past and later wished I hadn't shared that embarassing incident. If I tell my online blog, it won't be just one person who knows about it.<br /> And why do people want to know my private information? To be my friend? I think not. They want to make money off me. Mark Zuckerberg says Beacon is a warm fuzzy way for friends to get trusted product recommendations from their friends. But Beacon is really a income generating (and BIG income) advertising tool. Other people just want my credit card numbers so they can buy those recommended products.<br /> And we are moving to never being asked if we want to participate, only [hopefully] to be given a chance to opt out after we are enrolled. What next? When voting, will we have to <strong>un</strong>check the boxes of the preferred candidates if we <strong>don't</strong> want to vote for them.Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-84944425251704077102007-12-07T14:01:00.001-08:002007-12-07T14:01:22.763-08:00Successful (with Monica's help) posting of a flickr photo<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/visbeek/467578939/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/467578939_c4eb0a6584_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/visbeek/467578939/">One tulip on higher ground.</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/visbeek/">Bēn</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>This photo by Ben is taken in the Netherlands. I also grow tulips in Deer Park.</p>Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2282710689331853938.post-47389300321611326542007-12-06T13:27:00.000-08:002007-12-06T13:36:40.064-08:00Flickr is efficientI just saw Monica's photos from Marilyn's retirement party. I can see that she saved time and trouble by loading her photos once to Flickr, instead of attaching them to a number of emails. And she was able to limit viewing to a select group.Fussy Henhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136462881827438358noreply@blogger.com0